Adding another feather to its cap, the IT and Electronics department of UP is going to set up a centre of excellence (CoE) in Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) for products based on Li-ion cells.
Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma who holds the IT and Electronics portfolio, said the centre of excellence would provide crucial technical inputs to start-ups and MSMEs for production of mass market electronics accessories up to prototype stage.
“Besides, the state government would be able to nominate diploma and ITI certificate holders, and BSc, MSc in electronics degree holders as certification engineers, thereby creating enormous employment opportunities,” he said.
Underlining the importance of the centre of excellence, Additional Chief Secretary (IT and Electronics) Alok Kumar said that the state’s electronics policy provided for setting up of centres of excellence as world-class infrastructure for enabling research, innovation and entrepreneurship in electronics system design and manufacturing, skill development (ESDM) industry.
“In view of availability of a well-established necessary ecosystem at Noida, Indian Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) proposed the setting up of a product based Li-ion cells (post cell) centre of excellence in Noida. This has been approved in-principle and work on its establishment would commence as soon as the sanction is received from the Government of India,” he said.
Kumar said that the government would set up three centres of excellence in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and industrial associations.
The UP government would bear 25 percent of the cost, while 75 per cent of the cost would be borne by the Government of India and industrial associations.
“Once operational, these centres will boost high-end manufacturing of Li-ion cell based products, such as battery monitoring system for electric vehicles, solar system battery pack, GPS navigation system, ticket vending machines for trains and buses, power banks, bluetooth speakers, chargers, wireless chargers, smart lighting systems, radio, UPS system and routers,” he said.
“The new centre will aid in building an excellent ecosystem for designing and development hub for power banks and Indian mobile handsets in Uttar Pradesh, which is a major mobile phone manufacturing hub in India,” Kumar said.