Global interest for investments in Indian infrastructure is very much alive: Ghulam Zia, Executive Director, Knight Frank at IACC Annual Convention 2018

 Mumbai, September 21, 2018: Indian infrastructure is very much alive in the minds of global players who continue to show keen interest in investing in the sector, said Ghulam Zia, Executive Director, Knight Frank at the Annual Convention of the Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC).

While speaking at the special session on Infrastructure “What India needs to spend over the next decade and how it will be funded”, Zia said that global players are waiting in the wings for the system to evolve and in the recent past various initiatives have been taken in this direction. “For Indian infrastructure to fall in place as far as funding is concerned, the area of concern is government spending and real estate has to be taken out of the system for infrastructure funding to fall in place”, he added.

NN Kumar former Chairman Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust said “ For any infrastructure project to materialize various aspects such as flexibility in timelines set, clear clauses of the termination of contract, syncing with the political setup of the economy for deciding tariffs have to be taken care of”. He felt that the timelines for contractual agreements for various projects should be reduced as there could be various technological changes during long time period.

Before the start of the session, Founder Member of IACC Late Ambalal Kilachand was posthumously felicitated for his contribution to the Indo American trade relations. The citation was received by Tanil Kilachand his son and Chairman Polychem Ltd.

During the special session on Agriculture titled Can India and USA collaborate in Agriculture, Anil Jain Vice Chairman Jain Irrigation said  the technological adoption has been happening in our country since the last decade year has reduced the cost and enhanced he efficiency, taking other things into consideration better productivity will help the farmers in value addition. We have a long road to cover in achieving mechanization for which we need new revolution in Agriculture and that can happen only when we industrialize our Agriculture sector. Together we need to build a sustainable environment for the farmers, he addd.

In the concluding session on How to meet India’s Defence needs, Commodore (Retd) Mukesh Bhargava Head L&T Defence and VS Noronha Vice President Defence and Government Business Tata Motors observed that since past the few years, a change has been witnessed at government to government and business to business level which has defined its own course of action. “We have slowly seen an increase in exports which has resulted in manpower as well as technological migration. We no more procure defence goods from developed countries, but also we are manufacturing and exporting defence goods to other countries” they felt.

About Indo American Chamber of Commerce: 

The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC), established in 1968, is the apex bi-lateral Chamber synergizing India-US Economic Engagement. It was started by Ambassador Chester Bowles along with the then Industry leaders and visionaries like Mr. S L Kirloskar, Mr. Harish Mahindra, Mr. H. P. Nanda, Mr. Ambalal Kilachand, Mr. A. M. M. Arunachalam, Mr. Frederick Fales and Mr. John Oris Sims for enhancing US India Economic Engagement. Today IACC has pan India presence with 2400 members at 12 locations, representing cross section of US and Indian Industry. The major objective of IACC is to promote Indo-American business, trade and economic relations. IACC promotes bilateral trade, investment and technology transfer, facilitates business collaborations, joint ventures, marketing tie-ups and strategic alliances through a set of proactive business-oriented initiatives.

IACC acts as a catalyst for sustainable growth of business between India and the US. In its four decades of existence, IACC has established operational connectivity with a host of business, research and developmental institutions in India and US in order to leverage each other’s capabilities for enhancing Indo-US business relations. The Chamber continuously interacts with the Indian and US Governments, and provides them feedback on bilateral issues relating to trade and investment. In essence, IACC also acts as a forum for its member companies to interact with senior functionaries of both the Governments. IACC member companies are involved in a cross-section of business domains such as manufacturing, engineering, construction, consumer goods, electronics, IT, pharmaceuticals, consulting, travel and tourism, etc.

The geographical spread of IACC is unique as it operates through 12 offices located throughout the country. These are in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Varanasi & Patna.

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June 11, 2013, New Delhi: ZyXEL Communications, a world-class broadband networking company that provides leading Internet solutions for customers ranging from telecommunication service providers, businesses to home users, announced the appointment of Mr Pronob Mukherjee Eastern Region.

Mr Pronob Mukherjee would be concentrating on Eastern India region which will be having West Bengal, North- East, Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh etc. He would be focusing on building company’s image as one of most channel friendly company. ZyXEL presence will be seen through Regional/State distributor focusing on channel business.

Commenting on the appointment, Madhukar Swayambhu as the Sales Head, India & SAARC said, “We are glad that Pronob would guide ZyXEL in the eastern region amongst all the verticals and would try to make ZyXEL as Solution Company in eastern region. We are extremely happy to have him aboard and wish him all the luck and success.”

Under Mukherjee’s guidance ZyXEL’s presence would be seen through Regional/State distributor mainly focusing on channel business. He would also be working on project business working on different horizons including Telecom, Education, Government, Defence, PSU, Corporates, Railways Etc. sectors through system integration partners.

On being appointed as the Regional Head, Mr Pronob Mukherjee said” ZyXEL is professionally managed organisation with clear business focus and goal, it is indeed a pleasure to have an opportunity to be part of the organisation. We are confident to be successful in making our presence and growing business into multi-fold”

He would also make sure that ZyXEL focuses on different marketing activities, participate in channel events, and comes up with their own channel including SI and end customer events, programmes across the region.

Mr Mukherjee was previously associated with IT &T, K.S. Softnet, SAR Silicon, Religare Technova, Unistal and has has more than 18 years of experience in the field of sales and marketing. He has worked in different areas like I.T. product, Services, Solutions with core competence in Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning, Channel management, Key Account Management and Team Management.

ZyXEL Communications Corp.

ZyXEL Communications Corp., founded in 1989, is a world-class networking company providing innovative and reliable Internet solutions. As one of the early modem manufacturers, ZyXEL has gone through transformations in the fast-paced networking industry. Today, ZyXEL is one of the few companies in the world capable of offering complete networking solutions for Telcos, small to medium-sized businesses, and digital home users for a wide range of deployment scenarios. Telco solutions include Central Office Equipments, Customer Premises Equipments, Wired and Wireless Access Network Devices, and Carrier Switches. SMB and Enterprise solutions include Unified Security Gateways, LAN Switches, WLAN, and IP Telephony. Digital Home solutions include Network Connectivity Devices and Multimedia Solutions.

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