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‘Digital India’ to transform country: Ravishankar Prasad

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raviMumbai:Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravishankar Prasad on Monday said the ‘Digital India’ initiative will transform the country into a digital society and a knowledge economy.

With the demand for electronic hardware expected to rise rapidly to $400 billion by 2020, India has the potential to become an electronic manufacturing hub.

The central government has taken many initiatives to promote electronics hardware manufacturing and its policy on the same has received an encourage response, he said.

Prasad was speaking at a seminar on electronics and information technology as part of the ongoing ‘Make In India Week’.

With a view to make India a manufacturing hub for mobile handsets, Prasad said the differential excise duty dispensation will promote indigenous manufacture of mobile phones.

“The government is targeting to achieve net zero imports of electronics by 2020 by creating a level playing field and providing an enabling environment,” Prasad said.

He said electronics has immense strategic importance even in defence and security applications besides delivering essential services.

Inviting global firms to invest in India’s electronics manufacturing sector, he pointed out that a robust policy system was in place in the country to enable this.

Later, Prasad also launched the Electronics Development Fund (EDF), formulated as a ‘Fund of Funds’ to participate in ‘Daughter Funds’ which will provide risk capital to companies new technologies in electronics, nano-electronics and IT.

The EDF is housed by CANBANK Venture Capital Fund, and the ‘Daughter Funds’ will promote innovation, research and development and product development within India in specified fields of electronics, nano-electronics and IT.

While the core focus would be to develop domestic design capabilities, it will also support acquisition of foreign companies and technologies for products imported in India in large volumes.

The EDF will enrich the intellectual property in the country and also encourage more entrepreneurs towards product and technology development.

 

 

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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