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Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee

New Delhi, Oct. 14 The Government may rope in hardware association MAIT (Manufacturers Association for Information Technology) to undertake a comprehensive study that would project the manpower skill-set demand and supply in electronics hardware manufacturing space, including IT hardware, consumer electronics, components and strategic electronics.

Electronics hardware has been identified by the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) as a thrust area and, as such, the sector is expected to generate a direct employment of 7 million and indirect employment of 14 million professionals by 2015.

Much of India’s success in positioning itself as a preferred destination for electronics hardware manufacturing would depend on the level of manpower preparedness.

“To meet the requirements, we have to look at issues such as manpower preparedness and skill-sets, be it at the shop-floor or marketing functions.

The study would identify the areas where there would be a massive manpower requirement both on manufacturing and maintenance services,” a source said, adding that the study would take 12-14 weeks to be completed. The initiative is being spearheaded by IT Department.

The study would take up eight upcoming manufacturing clusters in the country including Delhi-NCR, Chennai-Pondicherry belt, Pune-Nashik-Mumbai belt, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Hyderabad and also look at the availability of educational infrastructure.

When contacted, the MAIT Executive Director, Mr Vinnie Mehta, said: “Manpower will be the key to eco-system development in the country, especially at a time when the country is looking at the electronics hardware manufacturing in a big way.” According to ISA-Frost & Sullivan estimate, the consumption of electronic equipment in India would rise to $363 billion by 2015 from $28.2 billion in 2005 at a compounded annual growth rate of 29.8 per cent.

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