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Digitizing India has the potential to reduce bureaucratic hurdles in starting and running businesses in India. Making interfaces more customer friendly [eTax Filing and eCash disbursement], introducing and publicizing penal action and consolidating data across platforms will make governing India easier and possibly a lot cheaper. More important, the data that is generated needs to be made public in a format that can be understood by humans and machines: High-quality data coupled with in-depth analysis can lead to significantly improved outcomes.

Getting the hardware, software and bandwidth in place
An important element of the digital revolution will be the ability of the common man to access it. (1) Hardware availability, (2) bandwidth constraints and (3) user charges remain prominent constraints even as the Government has begun to address some of these issues. India plans to install a

The Central Government is doing a direct Cash Transfer into the hands of the Poor Indian Citizens using UIDAI based Aadhar Payment Gateways / Biometric Payment systems / ATM. The key problem areas that we identified through our interactions with block-level and district-level officials, a few recipients, and BCs
are as follows,

Frequent connectivity issues – There were days when the BC was unable to consummate even a single transaction due to lack of connectivity.

Authentication failure – Another common complaint was failure of fingerprint authentication. Field officials gave examples of some recipients who were not able to verify their

There was big debate recently on the phenomenon of reshoring, i.e. reversing the offshoring / outsourcing decisions of the past many years in IT / BPO Services. The fact is the reshoring debate is more political than economic. While increasing labour
costs in offshore locations have taken away a reasonable portion of cost advantages, they are still significant.

India’s market share in the global IT services market is still less than 10%. Indian companies’ penetration in Europe is especially low and this market has been growing faster for them. While Indian companies are moving up the value chain to offset the commoditization of traditional service lines, projects are

Geometric’s subsidiary – Geometric Americas, has partnered with Hawk Ridge Systems, the number 1 worldwide SolidWorks reseller of 3D CAD Systems, whereby the latter will resell CAMWorks, the first SolidWorks CAM solution that provides state-of-the art machining capabilities seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks.

Launched in 1997, CAMWorks is the leading solids-based CNC programming solution designed to operate in SolidWorks, and the first to offer parametric, knowledge-based machining capabilities with full tool path associativity to the solid model.

Geometric is a specialist in the domain of

Infosys has received a subpoena from a Grand Jury in the US District Court (DC) for the Eastern District of Texas. The subpoena requires Infosys to provide documents and records related to its sponsorships for and uses of B1 visas.

You should recall that Senator Grassley had, in a letter to DoS and DHS (April 14, 2011), questioned the “B-1 in lieu of H-1B” policy, stating that it may be misused to evade the H-1B visa cap, referencing the Palmer vs. Infosys case.