A)  THE MAIN OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY TO BE PURSUED:

1. To undertake educational, research and development activities and facilitate designing and technology transfers in the field of information and communication technologies and other disciplines like biotechnology, nano-technology and other emerging knowledge fields and to act as an international research centre in these areas.

2. To establish a national and international network of people, projects and laboratories dedicated to bringing the benefits of the most advanced information and communication technologies, other allied disciplines and emerging knowledge fields to the common man and the needy people.

3. To facilitate establishing pilot plants and production facilities for application of sciences and technology in the field of information and communication technologies, other allied disciplines and emerging knowledge fields to facilitate and verify inventions and to facilitate the deployment of innovations that would benefit the common people.

4. To cooperate and work with other educational and research institutions, industry, non-governmental organizations, governments, other multilateral agencies in India and abroad and most importantly with ordinary people and to reach innovations and research benefits to all parts of India especially the village economy and rural areas.

5. To foster creativity and research skills and combine these abilities with entrepreneurship by facilitating technical know-how transfers and technology transfers to enable and implement sustainable culturally appropriate solutions for the people.

6. To engage in solution-finding for the global challenges of poverty, lack of literacy, poor health standards to create employment opportunities.

7. To encourage micro-entrepreneurship by enabling research and development and deployment of information and communication technologies or other current and future technologies including electronics, biotechnology, nano-technology and emerging knowledge fields.

B. THE OBJECTS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF MAIN OBJECTS ARE :

8. To bridge the gap of digital divide by developing low cost gadgets, inventions, state of the art and future products and to facilitate creation of infrastructure and services affordable to the common man, thereby deepening and increasing the level of technical absorption by the rural economy to facilitate the social and economic upliftment of the common man and the overall social and economic development of the economy.

9. To advance charitable, scientific and educational purposes by promoting innovative research, development and education in the arts and sciences including multi-media, information and communication technologies, digital commerce and e-governance.

10. To foster the development of creative minds for the digital age for the benefit of India, the Indian sub-continent, Asia and the world.

11. To generate and develop intellectual property in multi-media, information and communication technologies, future technologies including electronics, bio-technology, nano-technology, other emerging knowledge fields and to make the same available in India, the Indian sub-continent, Asia and the world.

12. To develop responses to the technical and global challenges facing Asia and to find simple solutions and responses in the common languages of the region India and to apply such solutions and product innovations in the local language in the setting of the local culture and tradition of the common people of Asia.

13. To develop and work around village-level field projects, supported by research for technology development to engage in public and private partnerships to foster such objectives to adopt villages to demonstrate and implement the output and products of the research, design, development, technology transfer and other activities of the company and to undertake or license technology transfers and vendor development activities.

14. To create a sustainable presence of the company all over India and to develop sustainable or viable businesses that are capable of providing high quality services to the common people.

15. To initiate and categories regional efforts on the framework of a few core projects to define the academic, industrial and village collaborations and to help invent and create the infrastructure (communications, policy, education, industrial, intellectual etc.) needed to make these projects successful, viable or commercial and to replicate the same or similar new projects.

16. To undertake nation-wide, mass-awareness programmes to : (1) familiarize people with the potential of information and communication technologies innovation and processes to harness such advancements to improve their lives; (2) to identify policy change requirements; and (3) to support changes to the village infrastructure

17. To create employment opportunities in India in the field of multi-media, information and communication technologies, other current and future technologies including electronics, bio-technology, nano-technology and other emerging knowledge fields.

18. To undertake academic programmes and involve students and researchers from Indian and abroad, where research efforts would be associated with existing academic programmes, adding hands-on project-based research processes and specialized degree curricula.

19. To work closely with multilateral agencies such as World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Organisations, G-8, G-15, DOT-force Commonwealth, OECD, UNICT and other United Nations organizations, multilateral, national and international agencies for the purpose of implementing the objectives of the company.

20. To work closely with other developing countries and other Asian countries to collaborate and promote the role of technologies especially information and communication technologies for economic development to set up research centres and laboratories affiliated to the company to encourage international exchange of personnel like professors, scholars, researchers and students and to encourage deployment of technologies.

21. To liaise with central, state and local Governments and Government or semi-governmental undertakings and organizations in India and where necessary in other countries for the purpose of evangelism of the role of information and communication technologies for the development and application of technologies for improving the life of the common man, as also for implementing projects and programmes and their funding in the areas relevant to the company’s objects.

22. To undertake services to provide the people with integrated facilities and to provide a one stop shop facility to the people to maximize the benefits arising from the projects, innovations and programmes of the company.

23. To enter into arrangements with other institutions either inside or outside India for the purposes of offering joint courses of study and of engaging jointly in programmes of research consultancy and development work in relation to such matters as the Board of the Company consider appropriate.

24. To provide services and facilities to persons, both Indian and foreign, such as translation of documents, organization of visits, accommodation support in order to facilitate the establishment of business relations, organizing of delegations to other countries and receiving delegations from other countries with a view to furthering and promoting the objects of the company.

25. To enter into any arrangements with Government or semi-Government organizations or undertakings which may seem desirable and to obtain any grants, decrees, powers, rights, licenses, privileges or concessions which may be deemed fit and as would further the promotion of the objects and purposes of the company.

26. To raise funds from individuals, private business, Governmental entities and others who are not members of the Company in India and abroad and to receive grants, gifts, subscriptions, donations or any other financial contribution in case and securities and of any property, either movable or immovable within the country and/or abroad subject to prevailing laws.

27. To subscribe or guarantee money for any national, charitable, benevolent, public object or for any exhibition or to any institution, club, society or fund for the business of the company.

28. To apply for, purchase or otherwise acquire and protect and renew in any part of the world any patents, patent rights, trade marks, copyrights, software, copyrights, designs or any other kind of incorporeal or intellectual property, licenses, concessions and the like, conferring exclusive or non-exclusive or limited rights to use or any secret or other information as to any invention or technology which may seem capable of being used for any of the purposes of the company or the acquisition of which may seem directly or indirectly to benefit the company and to use, exercise, develop or grant licenses in respect thereof.

29. To otherwise turn to account the intellectual property, rights or information acquired by the company and to expend money in experimenting upon testing or improving any such patent, inventions or rights and without prejudice to the generality of the above, any contract or in relation to the supply and sale of any materials, articles or things for or in relation to the construction, execution, carrying out, improvement, management, administration or control of any works and conveniences required for the purpose of carrying out any of the aforesaid business and to undertake, execute, carry out, dispose of or otherwise turn to account such contracts.

30. To acquire from any person, firm or body corporate, whether in India and/or outside India, in the public or private sector, technical information, know-how, secrets, process engineering, manufacturing and operating date, plans, layout and blue prints useful for design, erection, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of the plant and equipment required for any of the business of the company and to acquire any grant or license and other rights and benefits in the foregoing matters and things.

31. To adopt such means of making known the business of the company or in which the company is interested as may seem expedient and in particular by advertising in the press, circulars, publication or books and periodicals, audio and audio-visual media, exhibitions and by granting prizes, rewards and concessions.

32. To acquire, collect, preserve and disseminate statistical or other information in connection with information and communication technologies to maintain libraries and to print, publish, undertake, manage and carry on any newspaper, journal, magazine, pamphlet or other works in connection with or in furtherance of the objects of the company.

33. To establish different categories of business associates of the company by enrolling institutions, organizations, associations, industrial units, trading concerns and individuals to such membership or clients.

34. To subscribe to the membership of any national or international organizations having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the company on such terms and conditions as the company may deem fit. While perusing the above objectives, the company has currently focused on the following application areas:

• Healthcare

• Education including technical and vocational courses

• Empowerment of the disabled
  

• Village livelihood generation
  

The list of projects completed/currently in hand is listed separately.

The company reserves the right to reject or to decide not to pursue any project proposal without assigning any reason to the proposer.