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Eggoz Nutrition develops “Pragati Poultry Model” to support farmers and egg industry

New Delhi: Eggoz Nutrition, one of India’s leading egg brands, has brought a new-age egg farming business model, “Pragati Poultry Model”, into the egg layer sector with the aim of encouraging a healthy egg industry and paving the way for small farmers to begin their venture in this industry without countering any obstacles.

Through Pragati Poultry Model, Eggozaims to simplify egg farming in India. It will assist farmers who want to start a farm but do not have adequate financial and technical support. Eggoz claims that they will offer them comprehensive assistance and instruction on operating the farm successfully.

According to Mr AbhishekNegi, Co-founder of Eggoz, “Usually, the investment required to setup a farm of 10k birds is close to INR 1Cr, and it is not feasible for small scale farmers to pump in such investments. We have introduced a small scale model for farmers with an investment budget of 3-4 lakhs only. We have work with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ICICI Foundation to bring capital to interested farmers.”

“For a new farmer, we provide them complete hand-holding and training on how to run the farm. Since Feed is not available in small quantities in last mile for small farmers, we supply feed to all our farmers and provide them purchase guarantee of all the egg produce. Herein Farmers do not face any hassles related to working capital which are solved by us” Uttam Kumar, co-founder of Eggoz added.

While inquiring about the other key benefits of Pragati Poultry Model to farmer, Aditya Singh, Co-founder Eggoz, said, “We buy the entire produce giving them assurance of money and pay digitally directly to their bank accounts. We also help them with pullets – birds that start laying eggs from day one.We track the entire process through Pragati Farmer App and IOT devices to monitor bird health and feed control. Our doctor team visits them regularly to tackle any problems.”

Through a fully supported integration approach, Eggoz Nutrition works directly with farmers, guaranteeing that only natural herbal feed is fed to the birds and utilising IoT and tech platforms. Farmers that work with Eggoz make has high as two times better bottom line compared to industry standards.

Eggoz claims that they never compromise with the quality standards and deliver eggs that are safer and healthier because of the eleven tests they go through.

“The motive behind this business model, the “Pragati Poultry Model”, is to promote and produce higher-quality eggs while simultaneously contributing to the improvement of our farmer’s livelihoods. We feel that this business model will increase egg production in India, assisting in the promotion of healthy egg production while also providing more job opportunities for farmers,” explained by Negi.

Bhumika Group organises Channel Partner’s Meet at Urban Square Galleria Mall

Reputed real estate developer Bhumika Group hosted a channel partners’ meet at its Alwar-based commercial project, Urban Square Galleria Mall. The event was held to discuss exclusive growth & Franchise opportunities with attractive offers with the partners.

Over 100+ people registered their presence at the channel partner meeting. They were welcomed with customary tea and snacks. The meeting was met with a positive response, resulting in the possibilities of new-tie ups and growth associations.

Mr Uddhav Poddar, MD, Bhumika Group, “We were ecstatic to welcome our guests at the channel partner meeting to deliberate on the prospects of future mutual growth opportunities and partnerships. The people who attended the event were positive and growth-oriented. We will announce if anything eventuates.”

Bhumika Group is a trusted and bankable name in the real estate sector. Urban Square Galleria Mall is Alwar’s most extensive food and entertainment zone, spread over 1 lakh sq. ft. consisting of a wide range of retail shops, food court, restaurants, multiplex and entertainment zone. It is emerging as the best investment opportunity in Alwar, with many leading brands associated with it. Bhumika Group recently announced a tie-up with a retail market brand, Necessity 83, at its Urban Square Galleria Mall. The retail chain has taken up 10,000 sq ft in the mall, a prominent addition to the list of brands that have acquired space in the project. While the group has also signed up with top brands like INOX, Numero Uno, etc to shape the best enthralling experience for its customers.

Urban Square Galleria Mall is a joint venture of Bhumika Group and Trehan Group that aims at providing a world-class holistic experience to visitors.

DCB Bank inaugurates 25 Rainwater Recharge Wells in Bengaluru

Bengaluru (Jalahalli), 28 April 2022: DCB Bank today inaugurated and symbolically marked the commencement of a sustainability project of 25 Rainwater Recharge Wells (RRWs) in conjunction with India Cares Foundation. The inauguration was presided over by Mr Rafiq Somani – Director, Board of Directors, DCB Bank Ltd. Commencing at Jalahalli, the pilot project will eventually be expanded edto other parts of Bengaluru.

RRWs are a powerful groundwater management tool that help protect and restore water ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and aquifers. In Bengaluru, RRWs will help control urban flash floods while compensating for the diminished recharge in the water ecosystem through the development, monitoring and revival of shallow unconfined aquifers, which traditionally supplied household water to the city. It will also help move excess salts that accumulate in the root zone to deeper soil layers or into the groundwater system, allowing tree roots to increase water saturation in the groundwater, reducing rainwater runoff.

Since RRWs are dug manually, through this initiative the Bank aims to offer livelihood opportunities to the traditional well-diggers’ community, who are struggling to find regular work that suits their skill capabilities. Each RRW will require at least 3-4 people to construct and manage, providing well-diggers with enough income to sustain their families for a month under this initiative.

Bengaluru has been experiencing chronic groundwater scarcity issues in recent years. Through this project, DCB Bank hopes to help in preserving the city’s natural water sources. RRWs are a simple and powerful symbol that can convey and achieve tangible goals for the city’s rainwater and groundwater management system. The project’s overall goals are to conserve and restore aquatic habitats as well as provide jobs to local well-diggers.

Huawei Holds Forum on Converging Technologies to Facilitate Digital Transformation in Industries

[Shenzhen, China, April 27, 2022] During the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Summit, Huawei held a forum titled “Dive into Industrial Digitalization, Creating New Value Together” to address the challenges of digital transformation faced by different industries, such as mining, electric power, port, and highway. Huawei discussed how to innovate ICT infrastructure and integrate digital technologies with industry scenarios, and work with partners to create value for customers and build a prosperous ecosystem.

Chen Banghua, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, delivered a keynote speech, saying, “Huawei has set up integrated teams to dive into industries and seek technologies for industries, provide ICT products that adapt to scenarios, and converge a wide range of technologies to develop product portfolios and solutions to facilitate digital transformation in industries.”

Chen Banghua, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG, delivered a keynote speech

Industries have entered a new stage of diving into digitalization, which requires digital infrastructure to be highly secure, reliable, and deterministic with efficient data flow and computing. To further facilitate digital transformation of industries and understand customers’ business requirements, Huawei continues to launch new scenario-specific products and solutions through technological innovation.

l Intelligent mining: Huawei innovatively introduces passive optical network technologies to coal mines. At the aggregation layer, passive optical components are used to replace active switches, minimizing the risk of electrical sparks caused by network devices. On the device side, the industry’s first intrinsically safe optical device is launched to build an intrinsically safe industrial optical ring network, improving production efficiency, strengthening safe production and improving the working environment for workers.

l High-speed urban rail: Huawei provides a train-to-ground communication solution powered by its highly reliable Wi-Fi 6 series products. An integrated chassis makes this solution easier to install. It provides up to 1.4 Gbit/s bandwidth and 30 ms latency at 160 km/h, enabling real-time service backhaul and ensuring stable operation of urban rail.

l Massive edge computing: Huawei solutions also help enterprises quickly process data in real time to meet ever-increasing computing requirements. Traditional equipment rooms at the edge use all kinds of software and hardware devices from different vendors, such as UPS, air conditioners, and computing, storage, and network devices and application software, resulting in complex installation, configuration, and O&M. To address this, Huawei builds hyper-converged data center solutions by applying its All-in-One design philosophy. FusionModule uses a cabinet to replace the traditional power converter, UPS, power control module, and air conditioning unit. FusionCube uses a hyper-converged, out-of-the-box module to integrate computing, storage, network, and security functions, which works immediately after power-on, achieving cloud-edge synergy.

At the same time, Huawei converges a wide range of technologies to develop innovative product portfolios such as data centers, campus networks, wide area networks, and digital sites to adapt to industry scenarios.

l Multi-service data center: In online banking, stock trading, and other critical data transactions, in the event of failure in the primary system, it is crucial to ensure fast switchover to backup systems without interrupting services. To address this, Huawei launches the Storage + Optical Connection Coordination solution, which enables storage to quickly detect network jitter, and implements fast I/O handover between the primary and backup systems within 1 second and fast switching of network links within 5 ms. This ensures zero failed transactions in financial services and greatly improves service experience.

l Digital sites for smart highways: With industry-leading 5G wireless and millimeter wave technologies, Huawei innovatively develops a next-generation ultra-long-range high-precision radar, which doubles the detection distance to more than 1000 meters and reduces the number of high-speed sensing pole sites by 50%. In addition, Huawei uses its powerful edge computing platform to develop AI-based sensing engine software that forms an innovative intelligent traffic sensing solution of “radar and video fusion”. This further simplifies radar deployment, achieving automatic positioning and optimization with up to 95% precision.

At the Analyst Summit, Huawei shared its industry practices for digital transformation ,such as the Mine Team, Electric Power Digitalization Team, Customs & Port Team, and Smart Road Team. Huawei collaborated with partners to dive into the industries faster and more efficiently, focusing on industrial scenarios to facilitate customers’ digital transformation and achieve win-win results.

The Huawei Global Analyst Summit takes place in Shenzhen from April 26 to 27, 2022. For more information, please visit: https://www.huawei.com/en/events/has2022.

Huawei Releases the Green Development 2030 Report

[Shenzhen, China, April 27, 2022] Huawei released its Green Development 2030 report at the “Green ICT Empowers Green Development forum” in the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2022 (HAS 2022) held in Shenzhen, which was attended by analysts, experts, scholars, and journalists from around the world. Presented by Kevin Zhang, CMO of Huawei’s ICT Infrastructure Business, the report systematically outlines how ICT can empower green development.

Kevin Zhang, CMO of Huawei’s ICT Infrastructure Business, releasing the Green Development 2030 report at HAS 2022

The Green Development 2030 report is the latest in a series of Intelligent World 2030 reports that systematically present Huawei’s outlook on the future, and provide a general blueprint for the ICT industry’s development and how it can contribute to other industries. The report is developed based on the industry insights and best practices Huawei gathered over the years, and supplemented by input from nearly 100 industry experts and more than 30 third-party organizations including policy makers, associations, think tanks, and enterprises.

The Green Development 2030 report focuses on how digitalization and decarbonization can drive green development, as well as potential applications of green ICT in key industries by 2030. Of note are the six outlooks outlined in Green Development 2030 report, namely,

1. Renewables go mainstream

More than 50% of electricity will come from renewable energy. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption will increase to 30%. The global installed capacity of energy storage systems is expected to increase by 20-fold.

2. The industrial sector will go green.

Every 10,000 workers will work with 390 robots.

3. Comprehensive electrification in transportation

There will be 145 million new energy vehicles and 100 million private charging piles worldwide.

4. Future buildings will operate at net-zero carbon.

All new buildings are expected to operate at net-zero carbon by 2030, with all buildings expected to be net-zero carbon by 2050.

5. Green digital infrastructure is becoming a basic requirement.

Digital infrastructure will be 100 times more energy efficient by 2030.

6. Low-carbon living is gaining traction.

The global telemedicine market is expected to increase by over 10-fold. China’s online education is expected to increase by about 23-fold. One billion users will take virtual tours.

The report also explains the three main pathways that future ICT innovation should pursue to empower green development: improving the energy efficiency of digital infrastructure, increasing the share of renewables in electricity generation, and enabling green industries. This will provide insights for green development efforts worldwide.

During his speech at the forum, Zhang said, “Digitalization and decarbonization reinforce each other and jointly drive green development. ICT will be key to both digitalization and decarbonization processes. As a leader in ICT innovation, Huawei is committed to building green ICT infrastructure, accelerating the development of renewable energy, and improving energy savings and emission reductions in a wide range of industries. This is how we hope to promote sustainable development within our society at large.”

The President of Huawei’s SingleRAN Product Line Aaron Jiang also spoke at the forum, explaining Huawei’s practices to build networks with both optimal performance and high energy efficiency, saying, “Huawei’s green 5G solutions are using intelligent technologies to improve the energy efficiency of base stations, and reduce energy consumption across whole networks.”

The forum was attended by a number of industry representatives from the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), China Mobile, State Grid Yancheng Power Supply Company, BYD, etc. They spoke on their organizations’ own roadmaps and best practices for empowering green development with digital technologies.

GeSI CEO Luis Neves said, “ICT has the potential to enable a 20% reduction of global CO2e emissions by 2030, hold emissions at 2015 levels, and effectively decouple economic growth from emissions growth. This means that the impact of ICT solutions is nearly 10 times higher than ICT’s expected footprint in 2030. An assessment of eight economic sectors – mobility & logistics, manufacturing, food, buildings, energy, work & business, health and learning – shows also that ICT could generate over $11 trillion in economic benefits per year by 2030, the equivalent of China’s expected annual GDP in 2015. At present, the potential of digital technologies is far from being fully harnessed. Those potentials can only be achieved through collective action. This is why GeSI is calling for the ICT Industry to work together through the Digital with Purpose Movement.”

Deputy General Manager of China Mobile’s Planning & Construction Department Li Zhongyan spoke about the operator’s newest “C2 + Three Programs” green action plan, which has been updated to meet carbon emissions peak and carbon neutrality goals. The action plan includes an innovative development model that covers three programs (energy saving, clean energy, and industry enablement) and six green initiatives (green networks, green energy consumption, green supply chains, green offices, green enablement, and green culture). He explained, “The ICT industry is the backbone of the digital economy. As such, China Mobile will play a leading role as an ICT operator by working with academia, research institutes, and industry players both upstream and downstream to create greater synergies.” China Mobile plans to cut energy consumption and carbon emissions per unit of telecom services by at least 20%, reduce its own electricity use by more than 40 billion kWh, and enable other industries to cut emissions by more than 1.6 billion tons by the end of the 14th Five-year Plan period, supporting China’s “dual carbon” goals of reaching the carbon emissions peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

Deputy General Manager of State Grid Yancheng Power Supply Company Wang Guoping said, “We are working to make our Yancheng Low-carbon & Smart-energy Innovation Park a smart, near-zero-carbon campus built on multiple new energy sources. As part of our joint innovation with Huawei, we are using digital technologies to develop applications across four domains – multi-energy integration, smart zero-carbon management, efficient operations, and new services – which will help us increase the share of new energy in our energy mix. We are proud to be participating in the Industrial Internet of Energy Demonstration Campus and Industry-Energy Integration Practice Base initiatives with this project and to contribute to China’s carbon peak and neutrality goals”.

Head of ICT Security at BYD’s Information Center Luo Xiaoping also explained how they are using green optical networks to enable smart manufacturing, and green and low carbon operations. He said, “The new energy vehicle market is developing rapidly. As a market leader, we were excited to build a showcase project in our Changzhou base using Huawei’s green and simplified optical technologies. Huawei’s optical network solution supports simplified architecture, high reliability, and ultra-flexibility, and it is enabling efficient transmissions on our production and office networks. This has allowed us to support growing production capacity.”

Closing out his speech, Kevin Zhang reiterated Huawei’s commitment to collaboration and to using green ICT to empower green development, saying that Huawei would work to provide products with higher energy efficiency and lower energy consumption, use bits to manage watts, and shift from carbon footprint to carbon handprint, to drive the green development for the whole world.

Upstox strengthens leadership team with key appointments

Bangalore April 28th, 2022: Upstox, one of India’s largest investment platforms, announced the appointment of three senior executives to the leadership team. The company has hired Sudeep Ralhan as Chief Human Resources Officer, Manoj Agarwal as Head of Compliance and Sriram Krishnan as Vice President – Information Security.

Shrini Viswanath, Co-Founder, Upstox said, “We are thrilled to welcome Sudeep Ralhan, Manoj Agarwal and Sriram Krishnan to the Upstox family. With their unparalleled leadership, expertise and knowledge, they will play pivotal roles that will position Upstox for the next phase of growth.”

Sudeep Ralhan, joining as Chief Human Resources Officer at Upstox, will lead the company’s human resource strategy, driving the scope for expansion, talent acquisition and resource allocation. Under his leadership, Upstox aims to fuel growth through progressive people practices, creating better employee experiences and building a high-performance and inclusive culture. He will be based in Bangalore and will be leading all teams across Talent Acquisition and Human Resources.

Sudeep has over 20 years of experience across all facets of Human Resources, is passionate about diversity and believes in the power of leadership. He has worked with a diverse array of reputed organisations including Accenture, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and Walmart. In his previous stint, he was the Vice President – People at Walmart Global Tech, India, where he led the company’s growth and established a strong talent footprint and brand.

Manoj Agarwal, joining as Head of Compliance & Legal at Upstox, will oversee adherence to all business protocols in addition to liaising between the company and regulatory authorities on all legal matters. He will help build a collaborative and robust business relationship with key policymakers and government agencies to ensure a smooth and ethical business journey. Manoj is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry.

Before joining Upstox, he was the Head of Internal Audit, Legal, Secretarial, and Compliance at Kotak Securities for 18 years and served as the Senior Executive Vice President. Earlier in his career, Manoj has also been associated with Tata Consultancy Services and HDFC Securities.

Sriram Krishnan, joining Upstox as Vice President- Information Security, will be heading the information security portfolio. He will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategic long-term information security roadmap. Sriram has been in the information security domain for more than 16 years and has expertise in strategising, leading, and implementing security initiatives across technology, consulting, and banking industries. He has focused on building solutions and programmes tailored to business needs through a data-driven approach. Prior to joining Upstox, Sriram was the Director – Information Security at Freshworks, leading cyber security initiatives in the organisation.

Upstox currently caters to a customer base of over 9.5 million. As a leading digital investment platform, Upstox offers a number of new features and an intuitive interface that enhances customer experience and promises to make investing simple, stable, seamless and secure.