By SNV Sudhir
As a breather, the Society for Applied Microwave Electronic
Engineering and Research (SAMEER), which comes under the purview of the
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has decided to set up
its campus in Vizag with an initial investment of Rs 80 crore.
SAMEER was set up as an autonomous R&D laboratory at
Mumbai, under the then department of electronics, Government of India, with a
broad mandate to undertake R&D work in the areas of microwave engineering
and electromagnetic engineering technology.
SAMEER has facilities in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. It has
decided to set up its second facility in south India at Vizag. The R&D
facility will also provide employment for technicians and engineers.
According to informed sources in the state Information
Technology and Communications (IT&C), the Government of India enterprise
had applied to the APIIC to provide 50 acres of land recently to set up its
campus.
The SAMEER Vizag campus is likely to come up on the lines of
its Chennai facility, which serves Indian and global industries in applied
research and development, design consultancy, testing and training with the
state-of-the-art infrastructure.
“Over 50 per cent of the work and business for this company
comes from the defence industry and navy here. We are confident that this
will create more employment and provide a big boost for new units in the
proposed ITIR and electronic manufacturing clusters (EMC) at Vizag. We
hope SAMEER investments will lead to more investments in our city, especially
after the sanction of 24/7 operations of our airport and an international
convention and science centre,” said RITPA and Vizag Development Council (VDC)
vice-president O. Naresh Kumar.
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