Hyderabad, Oct 29 (PTI) Telangana's IT Minister K TRama Rao today requested Union Minister of State forCommunications Manoj Sinha to hold the India Telecom Summit2018 in Hyderabad as the state government plans to announce anindustrial park dedicated to telecom manufacturing.
The state's Department of Information Technology,Electronics & Communications (ITE&C) has introduced aprogressive and business-friendly IT Policy in 2016 followedby nine sub-sector policies, for promotion of electronicspromotion, IoT, data centres, among others Rao said in aletter addressed to Sinha.
"Owing to our proactive policies and stable politicalenvironment, we are seeing immense traction for R&D andmanufacturing of electronics and IT products in the State,"Rao, also called as KTR said.
Under the BharatNet project, Telangana government hasdecided to follow the 'State Led Implementation Model' withTelangana Fiber Grid for layout of optical fibre with an aimto connect each and every home in the state to very high speedbroadband, he said, adding, this will create a very big marketfor telecommunication equipment in the state.
Telangana has created one of the largest workforce inthe electronics sector through Telangana Academy for Skill andKnowledge (TASK), Rao said.
"We would like to use this opportunity to showcase theregion's readiness to host telecom equipment manufacturing inthe sector and host the India Telecom Summit 2018 inHyderabad, under the guidance of your Ministry, anytime inmonths of January-March of 2018," Rao requested.
"We plan to announce an industrial park dedicated totelecom manufacturing along with industry specific subsidiesand incentives. This summit will help the industry leaders toexchange ideas to create a roadmap for accelerating R&D andmanufacturing growth across the telecom and ICT sector," hesaid.
The Telangana government shall strive to gatherparticipation from more than 500 prominent key industryfigures, experts and professionals including heads ofregulatory authorities, chairmen and CEOs of leadingcommunications service providers like Reliance, Airtel,Vodafone among others and industry influencers like TRAI,ACTO, TEMA, the minister said in the letter. PTI VVKRMT.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.