Move to rejuvenate ITI units

NEW DELHI: The chairperson of the National Advisory Council, Sonia Gandhi, will inaugurate the mobile equipment manufacturing facility set up by the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), on Wednesday at Rae Bareli in U.P.

Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Rahul Gandhi, M.P and Etienne Fouques, President-Mobile, Alcatel will also be present at the occasion, ITI said in a press release.

The three million-line GSM equipment manufacturing facility in Rae Bareli is backed by a strong technology transfer agreement between ITI and Alcatel, France. ITI Rae Bareli is the second plant of the ITI (after Mankapur) where the manufacturing facility has been set up under the revival plan of ITI for which the Government has approved a financial package of approximately Rs. 1000 crore.

The Rae Bareli unit will also produce Roof top Towers, Shelters, and Power plants. The indigenous mobile equipments presently manufactured by ITI, besides meeting the requirement of domestic needs will also have the potential for overseas market, particularly in SAARC and Afro-Asian countries. ITI has plans to explore export market in line with its technology provider.

To rejuvenate its units ITI Bangalore will manufacture CDMA infrastructure equipment and CDMA handset, ITI Palakkad will fabricate the next-generation network products while ITI Naini will manufacture optical range of products.