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Vol. 1, Issue No. 7, Pages 8
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FLOURISH KNOWLEDGE NETWORKING POWER PROTECTION - Editorial Dear Fitagians,
Greetings!! ots of happening in the month of January. 5th Consecutive annual convention was held at Vadodara on 25th of January. This time the convention was held at Vadodara as an integral part of BITA IT SHOW. FITAG office bearers always insist to have their activities at various places in Gujarat, not being concentrated only on Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar. A detailed coverage of FITAG convention is given in this edition as a special coverage. I would like to quote few very important information shared by Dr. Ajay Kumar in their monthly newsletter. For the information of all the readers, Dr. Ajay Kumar is Jt. Secretary, DeitY and also act as the chied editior of Electronics India e-newletter. He stated in his January edition that Communication and brand building is an important part of the effort to promote India as a destination for electronics system design and manufacturing. Shri Dewang Mehta, the effervescent first President of NASSCOM played that role admirably to put India on the world map in the IT sector. Electronics also needs a Dewang Mehta. Industry associations have an important role to play in this regard. They are our brand ambassadors. They conduct fairs and conferences with both national and international participation. These events are opportunities which should be exploited to the maximum. Government has decided that the Electronics India logo of "Billion Needs Million Chips", be allowed to be used by all those who share the goal of developing the objective of making India a hub for electronics system design and manufacturing. The logo could be the new common insignia for all efforts. It has been decided to mark 2014 as "Made in India" year for electronics. AC Nielsen study, in 2013, found that electronics goods made in India are perceived as those of good quality. Companies manufacturing from India could use this logo to mark their products with this logo. This mark should become the mark of quality, a mark of "Made of India". Readers must be aware of a slow and steady shift into the focus of Government from IT hardware and software to Electronics industry with multiple reasons like reducing the import bills as well as to promote huge level hi-tech electronics within India and in turn establishing India as an alternative resource to countries like CHINA and TAIWAN. In fact skills of CHINA and TAIWAN can be jointly seen here as an added advantage of INDIA. Government of Gujarat has been working after this since long and trying to pull a large chunk of electronic manufacturing industries as well as the ESDM sector. Somehow in Gujarat there has been no promotion of Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC), but there are all chances that Gujarat will become host to India's one and the only FAB in very neat future. So, let us also try and support this mammoth movement of "Electronics India: Billion Needs Million Chips". Air are hotter with winter vanishing and the political development in the country. It looks like a hung parliament once again in INDIA, unless there is a huge sweep by BJP. We, as an industry, are the people who wonder and suffer about the results of elections. Enjoy reading the details about FITAG convention as well as the lead sessions taken during the convention in the form of articles. Presenting you the 7th edition of FITAG TIMES.
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Convention 2014
th consecutive FITAG convention was held on 25th January, 2015 at Vadodara. This time the convention was held at Vadodara with a motive of keeping the venue rotational and not making it stagnant at either Ahmedabad or Vadoddara. Our president Shri Gaurang Vyas was searching for a host and gracefully, Baroda Information Technology Association (BITA) proposed to host the FITAG Convention 2014. BITA had planned their IT Expo from 24th January to 26th January and in between they have proposed to keep FITAG convention on 25th of January at the seminar dome, which was agreed and accepted by FITAG president. FITAG Convention had a theme of "Connecting to
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Converse". Carrying forward the five point agenda of FITAG i.e. Flourish, Knowledge, Networking, Strength & Protection, this new concept of connecting within to converse and gain out of the conversation was the main motive or theme of FITAG Convention 2014. This was the 5th consecutive convention attended by about 125 people from various member associations. Dr. Nitabahen Shah, Director, e-governance, GIL was invited to grace the
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