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ET Telecom Awards 2014

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Global has been partnering and presenting the ET Telecom awards for last three years. This year, We started with the Economic Times Knowledge Forum titled “LTE/4G: Next wave of telecom growth in India” at New Delhi in the month of October 2014 and the second one on ““Evolution of Mobile Communications in India” at Bangalore in November 2014 The fourth edition of The Economic Times Telecom Awards presented by the Global Group was held on December 05, 2014 at the Taj Palace, New Delhi.

Global Foundation Education For Peace Convention at Kudal on 19th December 2014

Global Foundation conducted the 1 day convention for Teachers at Kudal on 19th December 2015.

Foundation started second KNOW bus training programme at Z P School Digas, Kudal on 2nd January 2015

The school is a primary school having students from 1st to 7th standard with a strength of 63 students. 30 students of 5th to 7th std was imparted training.

INDUSTRY NEWS

DoT seeks tax holiday for domestic handset makers, lower VAT
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA | New Delhi, 6 January

To rejuvenate mobile phone manufacturing in the country, the department of telecom (DoT) is believed to have sought a 15-year tax holiday on domestic production of handsets and a lower uniform value-added tax rate among other relaxations.

The DoTs investment ceil recommendation, which comes ahead of the Budget next month, is based on input from industry bodies. According to a report by the Indian Cellular Association, mobile phone exports are expected to fall to zero in 2015 from the ?2,i+50 crore estimated in 2014, mainly due to suspension of handset production at Nokia's Chennai plant.

Exports of mobile phones have been declining after touching a peak of 12,000 crore in 2012. Exports crashed by over 70 per cent to ?2,W0 crore from fll,850 crore in 2013.

The DoT has also suggested that finance ministry levy uniform value added tax of four to five per cent compared to 8.8-15 per cent VAT levied across the country. This, if implemented, will lead to reduction of mobile phone prices.

DoT Seeks More Time for Broadband Project Rollout.
Kalyan Parbat - The Economic Times | Hyderabad 05 Jan 2015

Kolkata: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approached the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for a nine-month extension of the national broadband project rollout deadline to December 2016, citing delayed procurement of key devices that will carry voice, data and video signals over a countrywide fibre-optic network at very high speeds. These devices, known as Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) systems, will be used for taking high-speed Internet to remote areas to expand broadband penetration.

The PMO's call for concluding the entire national broadband rollout by March 2016 "is very ambitious as de­livery of GPON systems has only just commenced," said DoT in an internal note to the PMO, a copy of which was seen by ET. The exercise involves laying fibre of a total length of about 6 lakh km.

Apart from delayed supplies of GPON devices, DoT has sought additional time since telecom ducts, that will be used for laying optic fibre cables across India, also remain in short supply, which, in turn, has hit trenching and cable-laying operations. Ducting, trenching and cable laying are the most expensive components of the Rupees 20,100-crore national broadband venture.

The PMO, however, is learnt to be firm about the March 2016 deadline for concluding the national broad­band project as it is positioned as the backbone of the Rupees 1.13 lakh-crore Digi­tal India programme, through which the government aims to deliver e-ser-vices to rural end consumers, which could be homes, schools, hospitals, banks or other institutions. Also, the national broadband rollout is already three years behind schedule and the government is loath to add to this.

In the immediate term, DoT has initiated steps to treble manufacturing capacity of fibre ducts at state-run telecom factories from 2,000 km a month to 6,000 km a month.

In its note to the PMO, DoT has also called for involvement of "more agencies with matching material, machines and other resources" to speed up the national rollout, given "the slow progress of central public sector undertakings" that have been mandated to share ducting, trenching and cable-laying responsibilities. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam, PowerGrid Corp and RailTel have been entrusted with the task in a 70:15:15 ratio.

The new stirrings at DoT come in the aftermath of criticism from the telecom regulator a few months ago about India's dismal broadband penetration and the government's decision to only involve state owned companies to implement the venture.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had also sought industry views on leveraging existing private sector access networks to reduce the cost of boosting rural internet penetration.