Devendra Surana, Managing Director of Bhagyanagar India Ltd, has been appointed Chairperson of FICCI Telangana State Council.
He succeeds Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals. Reddy handed over the Chairmanship to Surana on completion of her tenure on Sunday, the apex business organisation said in a statement here today.
Similarly, M Prabhakar Rao, CMD, NSL Group, will be the Chairman, FICCI Andhra Pradesh State Council, it said.
FICCI Telangana and AP State Council, Hyderabad since 2010 was under the leadership of Reddy as Chairperson.
Surana was Co-chair for FICCI Telangana and AP State Council earlier and is the Past President of Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI).
Surana said, "It is a great honour to be Chairperson for FICCI Telangana State Council. I look forward to full support and cooperation from Government, industry and media to ensure that we work together to achieve FICCI's vision 'Industry Voice for Policy change'."
Rao-led NSL Group has diversified interests in the fields of hybrid seeds, sugars, textiles, renewable power and development of IT infrastructure. The Group's combined revenues exceed Rs 6000 crore with operations spread across the country.
"I feel honoured to take the responsibility of leading FICCI in Andhra Pradesh. There are lots of opportunities in the new state needing entrepreneurial involvement and through FICCI, I shall try to contribute in developing the potential in various sectors in the state of Andhra Pradesh. I seek the support in this endeavour from the members of FICCI all across the country," Rao said.
Mr Nirankar Saxena, Senior Director - Centre for
Innovation & Technology Commercialization, FICCI highlighted the proposed incubation centre will be a Technology Transfer Facilitation centre. This is first time ever in India, technologies coming out of DRDO FICCI ATAC program (Accelerated technology assessment and commercialization) program and other defence technologies for civilian application will be incubated at a facility to develop such technologies into market-ready models which will have potential to scale to next level. It will create competitiveness in local economy and also generate employment and wealth.
Father Kinley D'Cruz, Director of Don Bosco College of Engineering stated the Don Bosco along with FICCI intends to utilise the collective experience of the incubation team with support from academic, scientific and entrepreneurial expertise to build world class technology commercialization facilities in Defence related sector.
Mr Len Denton, Director - Government & Industry Relations - IC2 Institute at University of Texas Austin stated that its time to take the innovation from laboratory to last mile. The vision & mission is to integrate innovation with the solution needed.
Riding on the success of various innovation & technology commercialisation programmes especially DRDO FICCI ATAC programme, FICCI partnering with Don Bosco College of Engineering is the outcome of the learning from the DRDO FICCI ATAC program that many of the DRDO technologies from the program can be adopted for non-defence applications also if it goes through a TBI focussing on adopting defence innovation.
