City to soon get testing centre for electronic items

May 03, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:45 am IST - MYSURU:

A world-class testing centre for electronic components and products will be coming up in Mysuru soon.

It will be a Common Facility Centre (CFC) coming up on 1 acre of land at Hebbal in Mysuru at a cost of Rs. 29.53 crore.

Being established under the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) scheme of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Union Ministry of Communications and IT, New Delhi, the testing centre will receive Rs. 21.31 crore as the Central government’s grant-in aid, Rs. 3.49 crore grant from the State government, besides a contribution of Rs. 4.73 crore from the cluster of electronics companies in Mysuru.

Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Mysuru, representatives said that the Centre had sanctioned the centre for Mysuru in response to an application under the EMC scheme by the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industries in Mysuru.

Speaking on behalf of the ESDM cluster in Mysuru, Vishwa Prasad Alva, managing director of Skanray told The Hindu that his company had offered land on its premises for setting up the testing facility.

“The facility will be one-of-a-kind in India. It is a comprehensive testing facility for a range of electronics products,” he said.

The advanced centre will be able to test electronic devices, components as well as end products pertaining to IT hardware, automotive, medical equipment, capital equipment etc.

Officials from the State department of Information and Technology (IT) and Bio Technology (BT) had asked representatives of the electronics cluster in Mysuru for suggestions for setting up a management mechanism for the centre.

Meanwhile, N. Narendra, managing director of Vinyas Innovative Technologies, which is also part of the ESDM cluster, said that the facility will boost the electronics industry in Mysuru and surrounding areas and create jobs.

It will be set up on 1 acre of land at Hebbal in Mysuru at a cost of

Rs. 29.53 crore

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