BWI: Canon India Announces Strategic E-Governance Initiative for Rajasthan

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Source: Canon
Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:49 AM IST (06:19 AM GMT)
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Canon India Announces Strategic E-Governance Initiative for Rajasthan
Partners with NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL) to take forward the "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan CTS 2010" for the Rajasthan Council of Elementary Education Project

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, August 19, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Canon India Private Limited, India's No 1. Complete Digital Imaging Company today announces strategic initiatives in the field of education. Canon India along with its channel partner M/s NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL), will be working in partnership with the Government of Rajasthan, Education council to roll out the "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan CTS 2010." This initiative combines Canon's technical supremacy and NETSPIDER's know-how skills to contribute to this project undertaken by the Government of Rajasthan.

Canon India will be providing the automated document feeder (ADF) scanners for the Rajasthan Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan CTS-2010 project. The initiative aims to create a database of the demographic attributes, education status, out of school children status and many such minute details of every child in Rajasthan. This is for the first time in Rajasthan that the government has taken the initiative to provide basic education to the children from birth to the age of 14. In the year 2006, such a large scale scanning and ICR project was initiated by Govt of Orissa, which won the Prime Minister's award for public excellence. This project proved that it was possible to visualize the Digitization technology in action and not only in demo centers. This project is a replication of the same but in much less time. This project involves scanning around 3 crore forms in just a month's time.

M/s NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL) will utilize Canon's high speed document scanning solution integrated with NIIL's DIMS® & Forms Processing solution to provide one-stop solution to transform paper documents into database for effective information sharing and reports generation of various types as required by Govt. of India. The tedious task like collection of forms from districts in Rajasthan, applying ICR solution and creation of database can be easily managed. M/s NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL) will be the end-to-end solution provider for Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan implemented by Govt. of Rajasthan.

Mr. Puneet Datta, Assistant Director- BIS, Canon India said, "We are very happy to partner with NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL) for this exciting project as it will help us create valuable mindshare and thought leadership for our e-governance initiative that Canon plans to roll out in the near future. Education is the right of every child and we feel that aligning with this project will help us play a vital role in improving the socio-economic condition of the nation."

Samir Dhingra, CEO, NETSPIDER INDIA said, "Our involvement with Canon in this project is a part of an extensive outreach programme. Together, we will enable great management and efficient work to make "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan CTS-2010" project a huge success. This association is a strong push towards uplifting Indian Society and educating the future generations."

Canon in India

Canon India closed H1 2010 revenues with 56% growth and is set to touch Rs 1200 crores during the calendar year 2010 which will be a 43% growth over 2009. Revenues in 2009 was 840 crores, which is a 27% growth over 2008. Canon focuses on multiple market segments of consumer, B2B, Govt & Commercial.

Canon's product portfolio extends over a vast variety of photocopiers, multi-functional peripherals, fax-machines, printers, scanners, All-in-ones, digital cameras, camcorders and multi media projectors, cable id printers, semi conductors and card printers.

Canon India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd., a world leader in imaging technologies. Set up in 1997, Canon India markets over 140 comprehensive range of sophisticated contemporary digital imaging. The company today has offices in seven cities, warehouses in 13 cities across India and employs over 800 people. Canon has over 380 primary channel partners 13 National Retail Chain partners, over 4000 secondary retail points including 270 National Retail Chain store partners & 33 Canon Care Centers. Canon products are available in over 400 towns in India.

About NETSPIDER INDIA (NIIL)

NETSPIDER Infotech India Ltd. provides end-to-end Document Imaging & Management Solutions for various international companies and distributes it through Channel Partners. The Infotech specializes in executing time bound Large Scale Scanning, ICR (Automated forms Processing) and RMS (Records Management) projects both onsite and offsite.

It specializes in executing time bound Large Scale Scanning, ICR (Automated Forms Processing) and RMS (Records Management) projects both onsite and offsite. NETSPIDER INDIA is also value added distributors of Intelligent Recognition and Form Processing solutions, SDKs and Document Scanners to ensure that its customers get the best technology at affordable cost. NETSPIDER INDIA uses its domain expertise and technology from various international principals to guarantee customers end to end solutions right from document generation to physical and electronic document storage and retrieval. Efforts have been made to select the products from various international companies and distribute it through Channel Partners. Companies like ABBYY, Canon, Pericom, QMS, Pegasus Imaging, Systran Soft, Promt, Microform, I2S, Entensys and many more.


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