IPCA seeks government help.BANGALORE, INDIA -- With nearly Rs. 1,500 crore n. 1. Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000) s>. Noun 1. crore - the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million worth of PCBs being imported annually into India, the Indian Printed Circuit Association (IPCA IPCA Índice Nacional de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo (Brazil) IPCA Internet Parallel Computing Archive IPCA Instituto Politecnico do Cavado E do Ave (Portugal) IPCA Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts ) is seeking support from the government to create a substantial manufacturing base here to bridge the demand-supply situation. At the inauguration INAUGURATION. This word was applied by the Romans to the ceremony of dedicating some temple, or raising some man to the priesthood, after the augurs had been consulted. It was afterwards applied to the installation (q.v. of the IPCA Expo 2006, IPCA president Mukund L. Shah Shah is a Persian term for a monarch (ruler) that has been adopted in many other languages. This term is a Post Islamic Revolution term for monarchs in Iran which is replaced by valie faghih or Supreme Leader. said the demand for PCBs and other allied products was Rs. 2,800 crore. He said it has become necessary to develop a globally competitive Indian PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. industry and business. The Indian market for electronic products had been growing at a rate of 30% per annum Per annum Yearly. and it is projected to exceed $75 billion by 2010 and $150 billion by 2015 from the present $25 billion. Shah said the expected growth offered an excellent opportunity for the PCB industry in India to become an international hub. India has been gaining in stature stature /sta·ture/ (stach´ur) the height or tallness of a person standing.stat´ural stat·ure n. The height of a person. stature the height of an animal in the standing position. with regard to quality of the PCB industry, backed by strong research and development capabilities. He believes the PCB industry should step up its scale of operation to meet the demanding national and international standards and the government had to support the industry. To meet the demand-supply gap, an investment of over Rs. 1,500 crore is required now and Rs. 1,000 crore every year for the next five years. Though the Indian PCB industry produces international quality products, the Chinese have been pricing their products 5% to 10% lower than Indian products. India imports mostly from China. IPCA secretary general R. Chellappa urged the Government to provide land for the IPCA to put up a permanent office in Bangalore, a major city for manufacture of electronics products. Inaugurating the expo, Minister for Science and Technology Ramachandra Gowda acknowledged that information technology, electronics, biotechnology, etc., had the potential to generate not just revenues but also employment and the government would support such investments. To the specific request of the association for a building, Gowda said that the proposal would be put up before the chief minister. |
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