Soft launch of Open Challenge Program-1 and Centre of Entrepreneurship on Industry 4.0, Kalpataru
Atul Bhatt, CMD, RINL , Chief Mentor (Kalpataru)
and Arvind Kumar, Director General, STPI (Software Technology Park of India)
and Chairman STPINEXT did the soft launching of the prestigious Centre of
Entrepreneurship (CoE) on Industry 4.0 (Kalpataru) and OCP-1 (Open Challenge
program-1) virtually, today.
In the first phase of this activity, RINL shared
few problem statements (challenges pertaining to RINL’s production area) which
are available in the website (https:\\Kalpataru.stpi.in) and through this OCP program the start-ups will be selected to work in
Kalpataru Project. .
In his keynote address, Arvind Kumar expressed
that in this CoE all the domains of Engineering with the knowledge of
Artificial Intelligence are required as against the common notion of only
Computer Science and related graduates to work on Industry 4.0. Further he
mentioned that Kalapatru will be the mother of all 20 STPI CoEs across India
and it will drive all other CoEs.
Atul Bhatt, CMD, RINL while delivering his
address, said that MeitY (Ministry of Electronics & Information
Technology), STPI and RINL consortium will go a long way in nurturing the
startups in implementing the Industry 4.0 in RINL, other PSUs of Vizag and
other Steel Industries in India. He further stressed that RINL is committed to
help in nurturing startups as per the Government of India policy of Atma
Nirbhar Bharat and take the benefit in solving the Problems / Challenges of
RINL. Atul Bhatt requested all the major industries in Visakhapatnam such as
NTPC, HPCL, BARC, HSY, Port Trust, BHEL also to utilize the services of
Kalpatartu in getting their problems resolved. “Collaborative work of all other
industries in this direction will benefit India in early implementation of
Industry 4.0”, Atul Bhatt added.
Keshav R Murugesh, CEO, WNS group and Co-chief
Mentor, Kalpataru, Prof PVGD Prasad Reddy, Vice Chancellor Andhra University
and directors of RINL also graced this occasion.
The welcome address was delivered by Dr