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Friday, February 14, 2020

Central Electronics Ltd (CEL) on sale.


CEL is for sale.
PRELIMINARY INFORMATION MEMORANDUM (PIM) AND INVITATION OF EXPRESSION OFINTEREST (EOI) FOR  PROPOSED STRATEGIC DISINVESTMENT OF 100% SHAREHOLDING  OF  CENTRAL ELECTRONICS LIMITED (CEL) HELD BY  THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA  THROUGH  DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (DSIR),  MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (With transfer of management control) is placed on web. Last date 16-3-2020.
CEL is pioneer in the country in the field of Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) with the distinction of having developed India’s first Solar cell in 1977 and first Solar panel in 1978 as well as commissioning India’s first solar plant in 1992. More recently, it has developed and manufactured the first crystalline flexible solar panel specially for use on the passenger train roofs in 2015. Its solar products have been qualified to International Standards IEC 61215/61730. CEL developed India’s first indigenous axle-counter in 1980’s in collaboration with IIT Delhi and Railway Design and Standards Organizations (RDSO) and has subsequently developed digital axle counters. Currently the range of RDSO approved products for railway sector includes Universal Axle Counter, Single Section Digital Axle Counter – 710P, High Availability Single Section Digital Axle Counter-720P, and Multi-Section Digital Axle Counter -730. CEL is the Pioneer in manufacturing of different types of PZT elements, in India, since 1976. CEL manufactures various grade of Piezo-ceramics elements for low power as well as high power application including PZT-5A, PZT-5H, PZT-5J for low power applications and PZT-4, PZT-8 for high power applications. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH14 PIM FORDISINVESTMENT OF 100% EQUITY SHAREHOLDING OF CELCEL is one of the very few companies, worldwide, that have pioneered the production of the ferrite phase shifters for C- and X- bands developed in collaboration with DRDO. CEL is the only manufacturer of phase shifters in the country and has developed various production facilities for meeting the bulk demand of the phase shifters.
As on 31st March 2019, CEL’s paid up capital is Rs. 69.22 crores and Net Worth is Rs. 75.99 crores. Land asset is 2,41,614 Square yards industrial   Area, Sahibabad   Ghaziabad-201010 (UP). Tangible Assets are valued at 34Crore and revenue 240 crores. CEL has a state of the art module manufacturing line having installed capacity of 38MW (10MW in manual line and 28 MW in automated line) and is known for its high quality modules. CEL is manufacturer of some of the oldest functioning modules in the country. Solar Photovoltaic Modules are manufactured using Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells.
Liabilities including commitments are around 100 crores.





Thursday, February 06, 2020

FDI in R&D in India-Reji K. Joseph, Biswajit Dhar & Akoijam Amitkumar Singh

How much foreign direct investment is taking place in R&D in India? 
MNCs using Indian talent for research but innovation comes out of development in other countries!!!
Is DSIR recognition relevant?

Interesting aspects highlighed in this paper.
1.RDFDI inflows into India during the period of analysis (2004-16)  was Rs. 54862.6 Mn. This constitutes 0.4 per cent of total FDI inflows into India.
2. RDFDI was concentrated in four sectors—ICT, natural sciences and engineering (NSE), pharmaceuticals and clinical research, which accounted for more than 80 per cent of total RDFDI.
3. Only one‐fourth of RDFDI has come to DSIR recognised firms. None of the firms in the ICT sector, which received the maximum RDFDI inflows, has DSIR recognised in‐house R&D units.
4.The share of FDI companies in corporate sector R&D is only 3 per cent.
5. Data collected from USPTO on number of patents granted in which India is an inventor country and assignee country shows that there is a growing trend of companies based in foreign countries taking patent on the outputs of R&D conducted in India. Since 2002, there has been a steady decline in the share of India based inventions receiving India as the assignee country status. Of late, only 15 per cent of the patents granted by USPTO in which India is mentioned as an inventor country, having India as the assignee country; this share was 58 per cent in 2002.