{"id":18961,"date":"2014-06-12T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T07:06:02","slug":"2-electronic-clusters-coming-up-in-trivandrum-and-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/2-electronic-clusters-coming-up-in-trivandrum-and-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Electronic Clusters coming up in Trivandrum and Kochi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong><\/em> If all goes well, two electronics manufacturing clusters will be setup in Kerala &#8211; one in Trivandrum and the other in Kochi. The proposed electronics manufacturing clusters will be focusing on developing medical devices and related equipments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"New Agency for Road Development works, Underpasses at Karamana, Pravachambalam Says Collector Biju Prabhakar\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/new-agency-for-trivandrum-road-development-biju-prabhakar\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Agency for Road Development works, Underpasses at Karamana, Pravachambalam Says Collector Biju Prabhakar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"This is what happens when the public sees a woman abusing a man.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/videos\/this-is-what-happens-when-the-public-sees-a-woman-abusing-a-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is what happens when the public sees a woman abusing a man.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The proposal for setting up electronics manufacturing clusters in Kerala gained momentum when electronic industry representatives and semiconductor associations in the country submitted a proposal to set up an independent &#8216;<strong>Electronic Commission&#8217;<\/strong> (similar to the Telecom Commission) before the Union IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Electronic Commission serve as a one-stop-shop, which will address all matters relating to the electronic design and manufacturing sector and will play a key role in tackling all hurdles this industry is facing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The proposed commission would also provide the legup to hasten the progress of electronic clusters being set up in different parts of India.<\/p>\n<p>During November last year, Kerala was given an in-principal approval from the department of electronics and information technology to set up electronic parks. After the central department gets the final approval, the state government will prepare a DPR of the project which will require an investment of at least Rs 5000 million.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>At least 10 electronics manufacturing clusters are likely to materialise in the country within the year.<\/strong> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/deity.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">DeitY<\/a> (Department of electronics and information technology) has given in-principle nod for the electronic cluster in Odissa and there is a proposal to set up a cluster in Delhi. A detailed project report (DPR) for the Pune cluster is getting ready, the DPR for the Mysore cluster is awaiting nod from the Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: If all goes well, two electronics manufacturing clusters will be setup in Kerala &#8211; one in Trivandrum and the other in Kochi. The proposed electronics manufacturing clusters will be focusing on developing medical devices and related equipments. New Agency for Road Development works, Underpasses at Karamana, Pravachambalam Says Collector Biju Prabhakar This is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}