Alekh Tiwari, Associate Director, KPMG, commented “the Indian IT hardware industry can look forward to making a substantial impact by taking some of the steps such as bringing down the hardware cost by 43 percent with the help of government subsidies, reducing the total cost of ownership of a PC and broadband solution, providing income tax exemption to individuals against PC purchase, and promoting the purchase of PCs amongst specific segments like students and households with annual income below 5 lakh.”

The session was followed by a panel discussion on “Large Procurement and e-governance.” This session was deliberated by M N Vidyashankar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary (Retd.), Govt. of Karnataka along with S Rajendran, Chief Marketing Officer, Acer and Ramprasad Srinivasan, Director, MNC Business, Intel.

Another panel discussion on “MSME–the potential growth stimulator” was deliberated by M S Mokashi, CEO and Chief Advisor, TECSOK, Govt. of Karnataka, Rahul Gupta, MAIT SME Chapter and Dhanavanti Jain, President, Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka.

Venkat Kedlaya, Chairman, Southern Region MAIT on behalf of the Indian IT industry, thanked the Government of Karnataka for giving the hardware sector the impetus for growth

Dinesh Gundu Rao, Hon’ble Minister for Food & Civil Supplies, Govt. of Karnataka pledged support from the Government by embarking on a stable policy regime, he advocated that an encouraging ecosystem will boost Karnataka and pave way for global competitiveness in the hardware manufacturing.

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