The Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) is organising a mega ICT Expo in Mysore in February 2015, with electronics manufacturing as the larger theme.

Speaking to BusinessLine at CeBIT India, Anwar Shirpurwala, Executive Director, MAIT, said: “I see great potential for Mysore in emerging as the next big destination for ICT in India. The idea is to make more destinations popular for electronics manufacturing around the country.”

Support to States, SMEs

The ICT Expo will invite all the States to participate with provisions for State pavilions and also provide a platform for small and medium enterprises to showcase their capabilities.

Stating that electronics manufacturing in India is very fragmented and typically spread across Delhi-NCR, Puducherry, Sriperumbudur, Uttarakhand and Goa, Shirpurwala said: “The ICT Expo will provide great visibility to SMEs that have the capacity to solve some big problems with their innovative solutions. SMEs should know that they have a great role to play in the new Government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative and we want to play the facilitator’s role in getting SMEs to be a part of that initiative.”

MAIT has 100 member-companies of which 40 are SMEs. The industry body aims to add 1,000 SMEs to its member list over the next 12 months.

It has conducted five SME conclaves in Bangalore, Noida, Pune, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad and is conducting the next two in Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai, in November and December.

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