The Hindu Business Line : ECIL to provide tele-radiology equipment to EMRI

Hyderabad, Feb 20 The Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) will be providing tele-radiology equipment for 108 ambulances being run by Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI).

“This would make a big difference in emergency medicare solutions being extended by EMRI in remote and rural areas,” Mr K.S. Rajasekhara Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of ECIL, told the delegates at ‘Development Convention 2008’ being organised by the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) here on Wednesday.

Referring to the theme of the convention, ‘Rethinking India’s Growth Strategy: Services vs Manufacturing’ Mr Rao said there was a need to increase the offerings of the services sector in the domestic economy.

“In the information technology sector, it is said that only 5 per cent is going to be the domestic economy. There should be a bigger share,” he opined.

Pvt sector role

In his keynote address, Dr Ramesh Chandra Panda, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, said the current high growth rates were being led by the services sector, rather than manufacturing sector.

Observing that there had been a paradigm shift in economic growth, he said while the public sector was making large investments earlier, it was the private corporate sector which had taken a prize seat now.

“The paradigm shifts in the gross domestic product (GDP) growth, its composition and significant variation in per capita income stress the need to reorient plan schemes and priorities for a double digit growth rate of GDP in the forthcoming years,” Mr Panda felt.

Dr T.C.A. Anant, Member-Secretary, Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, said by focusing on higher education and learning, the Nehruvian policies had in fact helped the current growth in services.

Dr R.K.Mishra, Director, IPE, said the three-day meet would focus on various aspects such as growth strategies in the era of globalisation, growth patterns in manufacturing and services sector, infrastructure, agriculture and rural development, among others.

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