India Needs Product Focus, Reduce Mobile Tarrifs Says New MoS, IT & Communication
By Cerius Shah - Thu 10 Apr 2008 10:45 PM PST
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the 37 year old Stanford educated Scindia family scion has been appointed Ministry of State for Communications and Information Technology. Besides favouring a further reduction in mobile telecom tariffs, he wants to focus on technology research and product development as well as a new role for post offices, envisioning it as a multipurpose communication center. HT quotes him saying “There is no reason why there cannot be semi-conductor and fab units in India.”
Scindia runs his own investment firm in Mumbai called Scindia Investments Ltd and has his own website at http://www.jyotiraditya.com/.
On a related note, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) had in 2007 deferred a decision to make India its destination for semiconductor manufacturing. Craig Barrett blamed the government for being slow on semiconductor manufacturing proposals. Scindia will be working with A Raja, hopefully Scindia’s past technology affiliations will help provide an impetus to a broadband and 3G rollout.
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