Abbott To Upgrade 75 Primary Health Centres Across India, Providing Quality, Accessible Care To 2.5 Million People

* Abbott has partnered with Americares India Foundation to upgrade 75 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) to Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) across nine states in India

Sixteen PHCs have already been upgraded 

* This will benefit over 2.5 million people annually across Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and Jharkhand

 Global healthcare company Abbott has committed to upgrading 75 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) to Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) across nine States in India in partnership with Americares India Foundation, a health-focused relief and development organization. The HWC program, supported by an Abbott grant of about Rs 200 million (U.S.$2.4 million), will serve over 2.5 million people from under-resourced communities every year. These centres are vital to support the government’s Ayushman Bharat initiative, advancing access to affordable, quality healthcare equitably across the population.

The HWC program is part of Abbott’s commitment to further its global sustainability priority of innovating for access and affordability in health. Currently, Abbott and Americares have upgraded 16 PHCs across Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as part of its first phase, serving over 500,000 people. They plan to upgrade the remaining 59 PHCs across the four mentioned states along with Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand by early 2024.

HWCs strengthen India’s primary healthcare system to advance access to care and support local communities. This also will support and tackle immense health threats and lessen the country’s burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which account for roughly 61% of all deaths in India.[i]

The initiative has three core objectives – to upgrade local PHCs to HWCs, drive capacity building for healthcare workers, and improve community awareness around NCDs and infectious diseases. By expanding access to services across prevention, treatment and care, low-income populations can benefit from improved awareness of health and wellness, greater access and timely care, leading to better health outcomes.

Jasraj Virdi, Global Citizenship and Sustainability Director, Abbott, said, “In line with our 2030 Global Sustainability Plan, we intend to expand affordable access to healthcare by delivering innovative, decentralized models of care that advance prevention and early diagnosis, and provide quality treatment and care. Strengthening local health centres to be well equipped to meet community healthcare needs is a step in this direction. And these centres will also play an integral role in supporting the government’s health initiatives to ensure the delivery of quality primary healthcare that is affordable, equitable and sustainable.”

Shripad Desai, MD & Country Director, Americares India Foundation, commented, “Upgrading primary health centres to promote holistic health and wellness is critical today to support India’s Ayushman Bharat initiative and help improve healthcare delivery. Working with Abbott, we aim to continue shaping the future of quality healthcare and community building across the country.”

Strengthening holistic care and infrastructure with PHC upgradation efforts

PHCs often serve as the first point of contact for local communities within the nation’s health system. Upgradation to HWCs helps these centres better serve people’s healthcare needs throughout their lifetime. Upgradation efforts enhance reproductive, maternal and neonatal health service readiness.

Other key focus areas include NCD and infectious disease screening and management, emergency medical services, ophthalmology, disabled friendly services, and more. This ensures greater attention to holistic and preventive care. Abbott also aims to promote community-wide health-seeking behaviours like early diagnosis and treatment alongside lifestyle measures by improving awareness around key communicable and infectious diseases, and providing access to quality healthcare infrastructure.

The program will provide essential medical instruments including ECG machines and equipment for maternal, neonatal, respiratory and eye care, and will strengthen key infrastructure and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions. This includes enhancing access to safe drinking water and separate, clean toilets for males and females. WASH interventions are critical to safeguard the health of communities and prevent further infections.

Abbott and Americares India Foundation are also providing access to on-site training and capacity building for healthcare workers, village health sanitation, nutrition committee (VHNSC) members and Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers on health and safety practices, including NCDs and infectious diseases.

Overall, this initiative can advance access to healthcare, provide and optimize needed resources, and help lessen the burden on healthcare facilities at the secondary and tertiary levels.

About Americares India Foundation

Americares India Foundation is a public charitable trust, registered in 2006. Americares India is a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-changing health programs, medicine and medical supplies. When disaster, poverty, disease, or policy causes health crises, we deliver medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to a trusted network of NGOs, hospitals and health care providers across India. We also create and support programs that increase capacity, improve quality and provide access to health care for underprivileged populations across India.

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About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. In India, Abbott was established in 1910, and is one of the country's oldest and most admired healthcare companies. With over 12,000 employees in the country, Abbott in India is helping to meet the healthcare needs of consumers, patients and doctors throughout urban and rural India.

Minda Corporation Announces Technology License Agreement With LocoNav India For Telematics Software

Minda Corporation Limited (referred to as “Minda Corp” or the “Company”; NSE: MINDACORP, BSE: 538962), the flagship company of Spark Minda group announced Technology License Agreement (TLA) with LocoNav for white-labelling of Telematics Software for both Web & Android/iOS platforms on November 21, 2022.

Spark Minda will integrate LocoNav developed software with its inhouse developed telematic devices to provide OEMs with a complete solution. This exclusive collaboration will enable Spark Minda to be ahead of technology curve with customised solutions to suit Indian OEM’s.

As part of the alliance, LocoNav will be the technology partner for telematic systems to Spark Minda and shall provide with white labelled software. LocoNav would also assist Spark Minda in software customizations and other support from time to time and provide mobile application user interface.

Commenting on the TLA, Mr. Aakash Minda, Executive Director – Minda Corporation said, Connectivity of vehicles is one of the major trends in the automotive industry and a complete telematics solution lies at the heart of this mega trend. We at Spark Minda have taken a step forward to provide Indian OEMs with locally developed telematics solutions (using locally made hardware and software), which would ensure 24*7 connectivity of the vehicles. We believe the partnership with LocoNav will help us strengthen our existing relationship with the leading OEMs by integrating LocoNav’s proprietary telematics software into Spark Minda devices making us “a complete mobility solution provider”. This will also help us expand our product portfolio with existing customers and acquire new customers.”

Founded in 2015, LocoNav is an AI-driven full-stack technology company of Indian origin which provides its customers with telematics software, subscriptions and telematics devices including but not limited to global positioning system devices, dashcam devices and fuel sensor devices. The company holds expertise in integrated vehicle management with aim to make smooth fleet operations accessible to every business.

Commenting on the TLA, Mr. Shridhar Gupta, Co-founder of LocoNav said, “We firmly believe that LocoNav software solutions and Spark Minda’s expertise in manufacturing Telematics devices will bring in significant synergies for both the companies, making us a preferred choice for integrated Telematics services, especially suited for Indian markets. Spark Minda’s decades-long relationships with all the major OEMs and LocoNav’s deep software expertise, will help in quicker scale-up for the association. This partnership would be beneficial to all stakeholders in the Indian automotive industry”.  

The partnership is an excellent example of the potential of collaborations to drive the connected mobility ecosystem in India.

About Minda Corporation (BSE:538962; NSE: MINDACORP)

Minda Corporation is one of the leading automotive component manufacturing companies in India with a pan-India presence and significant international footprint. The Company was incorporated in 1985. Minda Corporation is the flagship company of Spark Minda, which was part of the erstwhile Minda Group. The Company has a diversified product portfolio that encompasses Mechatronics; Information and Connected Systems and Plastic and Interior for auto OEMs. These products cater to 2/3 wheelers, passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, off-roaders and after-market. The Company has a diversified customer base including Indian and global original equipment manufacturers and Tier-1 customers.

For assimilating the latest technologies, Minda Corporation has a dedicated R&D facility and collaborations with the pioneers and leaders of the automobile industry. This has provided Minda Corporation with the cutting-edge in product design and technology to meet strict international quality standards.

IRC 2022 Organized By Indian Rubber institute Was Held On November 24, 2022 At Hotel Sheraton Grande, Bengaluru

* The theme of the conference “Sustainable Technology Innovation and Mobility”.

Mr. Ashwin D Gowda, IRS, currently working as Managing Director, Karnataka Skill Development Corporation, Govt of Karnataka, inaugurated the event. Mr. Gowda in his inaugural speech, stressed the importance of adapting Sustainable methodology in all our spheres of operation and offered all the support on behalf of Karnataka Govt.

The Guests of Honour were Dr.Raghupati Singhania, Chairman & Managing Director of JK Tyre & Industries Ltd and Dr. D. Sawar Dhanania Chairman, Rubber Board of India. Dr.Ashutosh Sharma Former Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India, President, Indian National Science Academy.

Other dignitaries who joined the Conference were Dr. James Eddy, Chairman ACS Rubber Division, Dr.Mathew Thornton, Secretary-General -International Rubber Conference Organisation, Dr.R Mukhopadhyay Chairman, IRI , Mr. V K Misra, Vice Chairman IRI, Mr. PK Mohamed, Chief Convenor and past chairman of IRI, Mr. KJ Janakar- Conference Convenor and Mr. Mehul Patel- Director ACS.

Mr. VK Misra welcomed the dignitaries to the dais and all delegates present in the conference and explained the importance of such conference in India when India is growing at a fastest rate to make 5 trillion economy by 2027. He also emphasized on the theme, particularly Sustainability and mobility, Such conference becomes even more critical where technology required to continuously enhance this field is shared and discussed and thus  meeting the desired objective.

Mr. PK Mohamed Chief convenor gave complete account of the conference and exposition. Before the conference, committee organized 3 workshop which were attended by 170 people. Workshop were organized on Mixing Technology, Speciality rubber and Advanced Tyre and Vehicle Technology.

A total of 120 papers were presented in the Conference, which included 51 % participation from abroad. It is worthwhile to note that there are technical presentations from 20 countries other than India. There were 111 booths specially dedicated for Rubber Industry. With the support of the academic institutions and the IRCO governing council, IRI has organized three innovative programs to encourage the students and create interest in them in rubber science and technology. The program were named Inspire, Explore, and Implement. The program, Inspire, is meant to encourage school students, and create interest in the field of rubber technology. Forty school students are invited to the conference venue on the third day of the conference to show them exposition and interact with senior members of the Indian rubber institute. The program, explore is meant for college students who are studying rubber technology courses in India. Forty of them are provided with all facilities to attend the conference and exposition and interact with all eminent personalities in the field of rubber research, manufacturing, and technology. This program may be useful for them to identify the areas of research that they can peruse during the further course of study. . The third program named, Implement is meant for student who is undergoing studies in advanced courses and doing research. They are provided with facilities to present their work through oral and poster presentations. A panel of four experts will judge the student papers and IRCO will facilitate student awards.

Dr.R Mukhopadhyay, Chairman IRI and President of IRMRA, highlighted the importance of skilled manpower, especially in the rubber sector to make India as a hub of Rubber product manufacturing capability and export to the world. In this direction IRI Is working to establish the first unique Centre Of Excellence  for rubber and allied Industry at JSS STU Campus Mysuru, Karnataka and it will the modal centre of technology development for MSME Rubber sector including the organized sector.

Dr. Raghupati Singhania Chairman and Special guest of Honour was very appreciative of the efforts put in by Scientist and Technologist in the field of rubber industry to have brought the technology level to the current highly competitive situation and also requested to continue this quest. He was very elaborate regarding the India Industry and the capability of the industry to compete world over with the products manufactured in India, He also explained  the growth of radialization of CV industry in India and the continued efforts required in this field to stay globally competitive. He also touched upon their challenges in the Global arena and thus even further need for strengthen R&D efforts for science and technology of the globally competitive products manufactured in India thus moving towards ATMA Nirbhar Bharat.

Dr.D. Sawar Dhanania Chairman, Rubber Board of India was very explicit in terms of the demand and growth of natural rubber in India and therefore the efforts required to nurture the development in this field. He expressed, and suggested joint efforts required in this field. He was very happy to participate in this International Conference and expressed his appreciation for the topics being covered.

Dr. Ashuthosh Sharma, who is the founder of National Science and Technology policy for the next 5 years  in his keynote address, explained the importance of innovation and invention in India context and stressed the need for creating Indigenous knowledge, people development, infrastructure development to make india self-sufficient in different industry. He also stressed that scientist and engineers continually work towards development of eco-friendly material for circular economy, sustainability, and necessity of collaborative research.

Mr. James Eddy, chairman ACS, expressed his satisfaction of working with Indian Rubber Institute for the last several years and is looking forward to more cooperation with IRI to make use of their knowledge bank, training program, conferences and publications.

Dr.Matthew Thornton Secretary-General -International Rubber Conference Organisation - explained about IRCO Organization and also awarded IRCO Medals for the outstanding contribution in Rubber Science and Technology to Dr.R. Mukhopadhyay Chairman IRI and Mr. P K Mohammed(Chief Convenor and Past chairman of IRI)

Mr. KJ Janakar(Conference Convenor)  made the vote of thanks to all the dignitaries who attended the function.

UMED-Maharashtra SRLM Signs MOU With Women’s World Banking And MetLife Foundation For BC Sakhi Program In Maharashtra

~ Women’s World Banking will provide technical and policy advisory support to UMED-SRLM

~ Under this partnership 5,000 BC Sakhis will be identified and trained across the state and will create a pathway to bring 25,000 BC Sakhis into the banking and livelihoods programs

The Government of Maharashtra signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Women’s World Banking, with funding support from MetLife Foundation, to operationalize and strengthen 5,000 SHG women to become Business Correspondent (BC) Sakhis. BC Sakhis will provide banking services at the last mile in rural areas of Maharashtra. This effort is to achieve the vision of ‘One Gram Panchayat (GP) One BC Sakhi’ under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). 

Under this MOU, Women’s World Banking will provide technical and policy advisory support to UMED to operationalize the BC Sakhis in Maharashtra. This will include identification and recruitment of BC Sakhis, designing training, mentoring, and supervision framework to make them bank-ready; serve as a liaison with supply-side stakeholders like financial institutions and corporate BCs and designing replicable and scalable strategies and policies for the Government to make BC Sakhi a sustainable and viable model. UMED will be able to scale this program to 15,000 BC Sakhis in the first phase and then to a total of 25,000 for the entire state by 2025-26. 

Speaking at the event Dr. Hemant Vasekar, (I.A.S.), Chief Executive Officer, Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission said, “Rural Maharashtra has a vibrant SHGs ecosystem that has strong women who contribute to the state's economy. It is critical that they have bank accounts, save regularly, and adopt other social security products and services for their financial empowerment and resilience. The creation of this cadre of women agents placed in every Gram Panchayat will ensure that the low-income customers, particularly women, will have access to a relationship-oriented agent from their own community and hence positively impact their uptake of formal financial services.” 

Mr. Parmeshwar Raut, Chief Operating Officer, Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission, said, “Women's World Banking's experience and expertise in designing for women's financial inclusion will help UMED create a scalable pathway and vibrant movement of about 25,000 BC Sakhis, who in turn could financially empower millions of low-income women in Maharashtra. Further, the intervention will help women adopt digital financing and improve their credit and transaction history, which will ultimately increase their ability to access affordable loans and be eligible for other digital financial services. I would also like to thank MetLife Foundation for partnering with Maharashtra SRLM for this noble intervention.” Mr. Dhanwant Mali, Under Secretary of the Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission was present at the event as well. 

Kalpana Ajayan, Regional Head-South Asia, Women’s World Banking, said, “Low-income women manage their money through a variety of methods including informal loans and savings. BC Sakhis can play this pivotal role to ensure more low-income women in Maharashtra have access to financial safety nets like government payments, savings, and insurance to help them mitigate, cope with, and recover from shocks and stresses without compromising future welfare. We are proud to associate with UMED-Maharashtra Rural Livelihood Mission to strengthen the capacities of BC Sakhis, help them increase their own incomes, and help build a “cash-light” SHG ecosystem in rural Maharashtra. We will draw upon our women-centered design approach and experiences from our work with various Public Sector Banks.”  

In an online statement made by Mr. Ashish K Srivastava, MD & CEO, PNB MetLife he commented, “As more women agents have support to become successful entrepreneurs, they will be able to provide affordable banking services at the last mile. MetLife Foundation is proud to partner with the Government of Maharashtra and Women’s World Banking, in this initiative that will not only benefit women entrepreneurs, but also millions of low-income customers who will now be able to access affordable, high quality and targeted digital financial services at their doorsteps.”

Under the DAY-NRLM, BC Sakhis will work as representatives of leading banks and corporate business Correspondents (CBCs) in the county to provide much-needed doorstep banking services such as account creation, cash in-cash out services, micro-insurance, pension, and various other services to a million underserved women from low-income backgrounds and Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in the State of Maharashtra. Being a banking agent will also be a source of livelihood for the BC Sakhis.

In India, Women’s World Banking has been operational for over three years and has partnered directly with financial service providers including small finance, public sector, and payment banks — to design women-centered products and improve product penetration within low-income women segments like Jan-Dhan and SHGs.

UMED Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MSRLM) was launched as an independent society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, to implement NRLM in the state. The mandate of the mission is to reach out to 45 lakh rural poor households of Maharashtra and engage in ways to pull them out of poverty. UMED employs diverse strategies towards poverty eradication, which include social mobilization, institution building, convergence, and resource block strategy through promotion and scaling up of homegrown and other models and partnerships.

About Women’s World Banking: Women’s World Banking designs and invests in financial solutions, institutions, and policy environments in emerging markets to create greater economic stability and prosperity for women, their families, and their communities. With a Global Network reach of 61 financial services providers in 34 countries serving more than 136 million women clients, Women’s World Banking drives impact through its scalable, market-driven solutions; gender lens private equity fund; and leadership and diversity programs. womensworldbanking.org.

“UMED”- The Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MSRLM) was launched in 2011 under the aegis of the DAY-NRLM. The objective of the Mission is to reduce rural poverty in Maharashtra by creating and strengthening community-based institutions, which would function as pathways to sustainable livelihoods of the poor. The Mission is being implemented in 351 blocks in 34 districts in the State of Maharashtra. To learn more visit?www.umed.in

“MetLife Foundation” - At MetLife Foundation, we are committed to driving inclusive economic mobility for underserved and underrepresented communities around the world. We collaborate with nonprofit organizations and provide grants aligned to three strategic focus areas – economic inclusion, financial health and resilient communities – while engaging MetLife employee volunteers to help drive impact. MetLife Foundation was established in 1976 to continue MetLife’s long tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. Since 1976, MetLife Foundation has contributed over $900 million to strengthen communities where MetLife has a presence. To learn more about MetLife Foundation, visit www.MetLife.org.

“PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited” - PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited (PNB MetLife), one of the leading life insurance companies in India (Source – CRISIL), has as its shareholders MetLife International Holdings LLC. (MIHL), Punjab National Bank Limited (PNB), M. Pallonji and Company Private Limited Jammu & Kashmir Bank Limited (JKB), and other private investors, with MIHL and PNB being the majority shareholders. https://www.pnbmetlife.com/

iXie Unveils New Brand Identity Marking Its Expansion Into End-To-End Game Development Services

iXie, the gaming division of Indium Software unveiled its new brand identity, including a change in the logo, visual identity and a new website. The new brand marks the launch of iXie’s end-to-end game development studio, offering a wide range of gaming services to top video game companies across the globe.

After more than a decade of experience in testing different genres of games and performing data analytics for 100+ marquee game companies, across 450+ game titles and 1000+ gaming devices, this announcement marks iXie’s entry into the world of Game Design and Development as a service. iXie’s newly introduced full-stack gaming services include Game Development, Art Production, Game Quality Assurance, and Game Localization.

‘It gives me immense pleasure to announce that iXie is expanding into the gaming-as-a-service market with a holistic game design and development competency. Our services reflect our passion for gaming, deep gaming expertise and proven engineering strength’, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, COO & Head of Gaming at Indium Software said.

"The rebranding represents an evolved iXie, both inside the company and out, with a strategy hyper-focused on the global gaming industry and the rapidly evolving game development landscape. The new brand and website are a visual reflection of the real-world potential of our expanded capabilities, thus creating unprecedented end gamer user experience”, says Mohan Raman, SVP of Marketing, Indium Software.New logo and brand colors: As a prominent representation of the company, people and brand, the new logo is simple, smart and playful. Inspired by the core element of the ‘X’ in Indium’s logo, the X in iXie represents our differentiated value proposition to customers – the X factor, with a cheeky play on the console button. The multitude of fresh colors speaks to the diversity and richness that truly represents the gaming universe and its vast gamer community.

‘With a strong foundation in niche digital engineering capabilities across emerging technologies and extensive gaming services expertise as our two key pillars, our mid to long-term strategic adjacency segues into next-horizon capabilities around web3 and metaverse, with our foray into end-to-end gaming services. Towards this, our new brand reflects who we are today and symbolizes our future’, Karthik Sridossan, EVP & Head of Strategy at Indium said.

About iXie Gaming

Founded in 2011, iXie is a full stack gaming services provider offering Game Development, Game QA, Game Analytics, Art Production and Game Localization. With over 700 gamers onboard, a robust training academy and a leadership team comprising of veterans from the gaming industry, iXie is the trusted game development partner for leading gaming studios. iXie is a division of Indium - a global digital engineering company.

pTron Launches Statement Earbuds With The Most Unique Transparent Charging Case & Movie Mode

* The uniquely designed entertainment-ready earbuds will be available on Amazon at a pocket-friendly price of just 999/- at launch

pTron, the rapidly growing and leading maker of affordable digital lifestyle and audio accessories brand in India, announced the launch of its most uniquely designed true wireless earbuds featuring sleek earbuds packed in an iconic transparent design charging case.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Ameen Khwaja, Founder & CEO, pTron said, “Our statement Bassbuds Nyx is a design and engineering feat unlike any at an unbelievable price point. The product is aesthetically suited for executives and music enthusiasts on the go who are looking to upgrade to gadgets that add to lifestyle and also enjoy exceptional music in a completely new way.”

Design & Comfort

Beautiful to look at and incredibly awe-striking, the charging case features a led display that helps let you know the battery level of the case. With a sleek dual-color design, the earbuds aim at creating an experience that’s as good in the visual department as it is at handling audio. Ergonomically designed and tilted 45 degrees, the earbuds fit snugly into your ear to deliver immersive, balanced audio directly into your head.

Audio & Calls

Made to offer the most immersive sound experience the earbuds feature powerful 10mm drivers that offer balanced bass, mid and treble performance. Behind the scenes, an  advanced chipset that offers 50ms low latency ensures an exceptional movie viewing experience. Calibrated for entertainment & work, the earbuds can be paired with a laptop as well as a smartphone so you can go about your day from either device, whether it’s watching training videos or listening to music while you work, answering calls, or even attending online meetings.

Connectivity & Touch Controls

The pTron Bassbuds Nyx comes with Bluetooth 5.1 for stable connectivity and increased mobility. With responsive touch control, users can access various functions like Answer/Reject calls, volume control, and Play/Pause Music by tapping the touch panel. The earbuds independently connect and transmit to the paired device which allows for either the Left or Right earbud to enter mono mode or stereo mode seamlessly.

Performance & Battery

The Bassbuds Nyx offers up to 9 hours of use on a single charge while the case itself can provide a further 23, for up to 32 hours of listening enjoyment. With a Type C port and the quick charge feature, the earbuds can be completely charged in 1 hour approximately.  The ergonomic and lightweight earbuds are also equipped with IPX4 technology making them sweat and water-resistant which keeps you going be it sweaty workouts or outdoor runs.

Price & Availability

Priced at 1299/-, the uniquely designed Bassbuds Nyx will be available on Amazon India from 24th November at a special launch price of 999/- on 12:00 NOON

Product link:  https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0BC1XY5BL

About pTron:

pTron is a brand owned by Palred Electronics Private Limited which is a subsidiary of Palred Technologies Ltd, a public-listed company on BSE and NSE since 2004. pTron, today, is aspiring to be a global brand pushing boundaries far and wide. Ramping up capacities, opening up new channels of business, and reaching out to consumers in new geographies are all steps being taken to explore new horizons. pTron has sold more than 11 million units until FY22. Growing at the rate of 26% YoY, pTron aims to sell an additional 5 million units in FY23.

Epson Conducts Raids On Sellers Of Counterfeit Ink Bottles And Ribbon Cartridges Across India

* 603 Counterfeit ink bottles and 510 ribbon cartridges were seized in Lucknow, Mumbai and New Delhi during the raids

To curb the sale of counterfeit ink bottles, counterfeit ribbon cartridges and to protect the rights of its customers, Epson’s vigilance team and local police jointly conducted raids on sellers in Lucknow, Mumbai and New Delhi recently. The raids were a result of a swift and well-coordinated action, conducted in October & November 2022. The parties involved in dealing with non-genuine Epson Ink bottles / Ribbon Cartridges were immediately arrested and charged under the prevailing laws with counterfeiting and violating intellectual property rights. The joint raids were conducted in collaboration with Lucknow Police, Mumbai Police and Delhi Police and those involved in stocking and distribution of fake Epson Ink bottles were remanded to judicial custody. Among the products seized during the raids were finished and unfinished Ink bottles, cartridges, packaging material, and numerous sets of labels and holograms. 

About 603 ink bottles and 510 Ribbon Cartridges were seized along with other printing material to manufacture counterfeit Epson ink bottles. Epson has fought aggressively against the counterfeit ink business and has taken actions to curb the sale of counterfeit bottles and ribbon cartridges.

A spokesperson at Epson India, said, “Epson is proud of its commitment to protect the rights of its valued customers. The successful collaboration between Epson and the local police to stop the sale of counterfeit products reflects Epson’s commitment to rooting out this unethical business practice. It shows our commitment to ensure that customers continue to enjoy the quality and reliability Epson products are known for. We will continue to protect our intellectual property rights from those attempting to misuse our patented technology and trademarks.”

Epson regularly conducts raids to curb counterfeit sales. Seiko Epson Corporation will continue to support and collaborate with law enforcement agencies in such raids. The action of Epson’s vigilance team helps protect its interests, defends the business of its authorized dealers, and serves as a deterrent to counterfeit manufacturers and dealers. Non-genuine Inks can impair the performance and reliability of Epson products and the use of such counterfeit products invalidate the manufacturer’s warranty.

About Epson

Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson will become carbon negative and eliminate the use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion.  www.global.epson.com/

About Epson India

Epson India Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in the year 2000. Epson products address the needs of homes, businesses and commercial enterprises as also those of consumers with specialized needs in India. With a commitment to providing products and services that surpass people’s expectations, Epson India today has an enviable reputation for quality and value. Headquartered in Bangalore, the company markets and supports Epson Inkjet Printers, Inkjet All-in-Ones, Point of Sale Printers, 3LCD Projectors, Scanners, Large Format Printers, Textile Printers, Robots and Dot-Matrix Printers. In all of these categories, Epson is either the No. 1 or No. 2 brand in India and growing fast. https://www.epson.co.in/