ECIL bags DSIR award for R&D

In a significant recognition of its efforts in the research and development, Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) has been chosen for the DSIR National Award for 'R & D efforts in the Industry' by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, in the Computer Software category 2002 "�2003

The award was presented today G P Srivastava, the chairman and managing director of ECIL, by Bachi Singh Rawat, the union minister of state for science and technology, at in the inaugural session of the 17th National conference on In-house R & D in Industry organised at FICCI Golden Jubilee Auditorium, New Delhi.

Commenting on the award, Srivastava said in a release that, "ECIL has played a pioneering role in the computer industry in the country and had many firsts to its credit in IT. Since very beginning ECIL's main focus has been utilization of information technology for improvement in productivity, commercial data processing, process control, defence and other real time applications including the products like Electronic Voting Machines."