Digital Kumbh Museum to be Established in Arail, Prayagraj

The Digital Kumbh Museum is set to be established in Arail, Prayagraj, ahead of the 2025 Maha Kumbh.

This museum aims to be a major attraction for religious tourism, showcasing the glory and ancient heritage of Sanatan Dharma. Visitors will learn about sages, seers, and the traditions of Kumbh and Maha Kumbh through various exhibits.

The museum will use digital screens and holograms across 14 galleries to showcase the history and significance of the Kumbh Mela, providing an immersive experience for pilgrims.

The museum will feature light and sound shows, cultural programs, and will be designed in a unique shape, possibly resembling a lotus bud or a Kumbh Kalash.

The project is expected to cost around INR 200 crore and will include facilities like parking, a pond, an exhibition hall, and a handicraft village.

The Digital Kumbh Museum in Arail is expected to be completed before the 2025 Maha Kumbh. The project is currently in the planning and development stages, with a significant focus on ensuring it is ready to welcome visitors in time for the grand event.

Govt Launching Groundbreaking Digital Platform BHASKAR for Indian Startup Ecosystem

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is set to launch a new digital platform called BHASKAR (Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry) to revolutionize India's startup ecosystem.

BHASKAR aims provide an all-encompassing, one-stop digital platform that addresses the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and investors alike.

The platform aims to centralize, streamline, and enhance collaboration among key stakeholders, including startups, investors, mentors, service providers, and government bodies.

By serving as a centralized registry, BHASKAR will enable seamless access to a wide array of resources, tools, and knowledge that will help fuel the entrepreneurial journey from ideation to execution.

Key features of BHASKAR include:

• Networking and Collaboration: Bridging the gap between startups, investors, mentors, and other stakeholders for seamless interaction across sectors.
• Centralized Access to Resources: Providing immediate access to critical tools and knowledge, enabling faster decision-making and efficient scaling.
• Personalized Identification: Assigning unique BHASKAR IDs to each stakeholder for personalized interactions and tailored experiences.
• Enhanced Discoverability: Powerful search features to easily locate relevant resources, collaborators, and opportunities.

This initiative aligns with the Government of India’s vision to transform India into a global leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The BHASKAR platform will offer a wide range of resources to support the startup ecosystem in India. Here are some key resources you can expect:

1. Funding Opportunities: Information on various funding options, including venture capital, angel investors, government grants, and loans.

2. Mentorship Programs: Access to experienced mentors across different industries to guide startups through their growth journey.

3. Networking Events: Details about upcoming events, workshops, and conferences to facilitate networking and collaboration.

4. Legal and Regulatory Support: Guidance on compliance, intellectual property rights, and other legal aspects crucial for startups.

5. Market Insights: Data and analytics on market trends, consumer behavior, and industry performance to help startups make informed decisions.

6. Training and Development: Courses and workshops on essential skills like business management, marketing, and technology.

7. Service Providers: Listings of service providers offering essential services such as accounting, marketing, and IT support.

8. Success Stories and Case Studies: Inspirational stories and case studies of successful startups to motivate and educate new entrepreneurs.

These resources aim to create a supportive environment for startups to thrive and scale efficiently.

With the launch of BHASKAR, the Government of India is reinforcing its commitment to making India a leader in global innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.

BHASKAR website – https://www.startupindia.gov.in/bhaskar

Tata Motors Launches Digital Marketplace for Its Entire Range of Commercial Vehicles

Tata Motors launches Fleet Verse, a digital marketplace for its entire range of commercial vehicles

Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicles manufacturer, has recently announced the launch of Tata Motors Fleet Verse – a comprehensive and innovative digital marketplace for Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles. The platform offers features like new vehicle discovery, configuration, acquisition, financing, and is future-proofed to include a range of additional services and features, making Fleet Verse a one-stop digital destination for all commercial vehicle needs.

Built on five key pillars, Fleet Verse is designed to consolidate all aspects of commercial vehicle ownership onto a single platform. The Smart Search Vehicle Discovery, enriched with advanced semantic search features allows users to explore Tata Motors’ full range of commercial vehicles of 900+ models and 3000+ variants.

With Product Configurator, users can key in their business needs, application, and choices to get the most appropriate vehicle recommendation. The 3D Visualizer offers an immersive experience to view vehicle exteriors and interiors in realistic detail. With Vehicle Online Finance, Fleet Verse partners with major financiers to offer fast and smooth finance applications and approvals. Finally, the Vehicle Online Booking feature enables users to book their desired vehicles in a few easy clicks and get prioritized fulfillment, simplifying the acquisition process.

Launching the Fleet Verse platform, Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Head – Digital Business, Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles, said, With the launch of Fleet Verse, we are setting a new benchmark in the commercial vehicle industry by providing customers with an all-encompassing digital platform. We aim to streamline the commercial vehicle ownership experience, ensuring it’s fast, intelligent, safe, and reliable. This initiative underscores our commitment to innovation and enriched customer excellence, driving growth and convenience for both dealers and customers through digitalized value chains. We are excited to bring this transformative experience to our customers and look forward to continuously enhance the platform with new features and capabilities.”

All transactions on Fleet Verse are rendered through Tata Motors’ extensive pan-India dealership network, using a direct-to-dealer payment ecosystem. Serving as a digital bridge, the platform connects dealerships and financiers directly with customers, streamlining processes from enquiry to vehicle delivery. This enables a transparent, prompt and convenient procurement process for customers and Tata Authorised Dealerships —a true win-win scenario.

Tech Mahindra to Build a Tech Platform for Belgium's Proximus

Tech Mahindra, one of the India’s leading leading providers of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Proximus, Belgium's leading digital services and communications solutions provider. Together, the organizations will design and build a technology platform, ‘Tech Hub’ that will provide next-generation connectivity offerings for business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-business-to-any (B2B2X) segments.

With the new ‘Tech Hub’ platform, consumers and businesses will be able to explore, purchase, and activate the services from Proximus as well as their partner ecosystem with self-service options and take advantage of the range of next-generation digital offerings.

Vikram Nair, President, EMEA Business, Tech Mahindra, said, “As the telecom industry continues to evolve, telcos are finding new ways to reinvent themselves and adopt newer monetization streams. Through this strategic partnership, Tech Mahindra will deliver a future-ready platform that will be instrumental in accelerating Proximus’s ‘Telco to Techco’ journey. The partnership will leverage Tech Mahindra's extensive telecom expertise, 5G capabilities, AI proficiency, and cutting-edge IT services to revolutionize customer experience and drive business growth.”

The ‘Tech Hub’ platform to be built by Tech Mahindra is powered by Comviva BlueMarble. This is a secure, robust, and scalable platform that employs an architecture that is ready to be deployed on cloud.

Antonietta Mastroianni, CDIO, Proximus, said, “We are pleased to partner with Tech Mahindra to build this new innovative platform. At Proximus, we are leading with our superior fiber/ 5G network, that is becoming more software-based and can deliver innovative features ‘as a Service’, eg 5G Slicing. Additionally, we are building strong software assets across the Group. This new platform, the ‘Tech Hub’ will be able to blend these unique assets in new value propositions for our customers, in B2C, B2B and B2B2X. The onboarding, purchasing, and activation will be digital-first and offer a similar experience as the world’s leading cloud platforms.”

Tech Mahindra is a leading provider for communication customers in Europe and is actively engaged with 40+ telcos in the region. In Belgium, Tech Mahindra has established a robust presence since its operations began in the region and is serving customers in the communication, banking, manufacturing, and pharma segments.

Proximus Group (Euronext Brussels: PROX) is a provider of digital services, communication and ICT solutions operating in the Belgian and international markets. Our purpose, ‘Boldly building a connected world that people trust so society blooms’, is our guiding star in delivering delightful communication and entertainment experiences for residential consumers and in enabling next generation digital innovations tailored to businesses.

Proximus aims to build the #1 gigabit network for Belgium, combined with technology assets that enable digital ecosystems, while fostering an engaging culture and empowering ways of working. These exceptional strengths pave the way to deliver long-term value for stakeholders; they allow Proximus to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable digital society, delight customers with an unrivalled experience and achieve profitable growth both locally and internationally.

In Belgium, Proximus’ core products and services are offered under the Proximus, Mobile Vikings and Scarlet brands. The Group is also active in Luxembourg, under the brand names Tango and Telindus Luxembourg, and in the Netherlands through Telindus Netherlands. The Group’s international carrier activities are managed by BICS, a leading international communications enabler, one of the key global voice carriers and the leading provider of mobile data services worldwide. With Telesign, the Group also encompasses a fast-growing leader in authentication and digital identity services, serving the world’s largest internet brands, digital champions and cloud native businesses.

With 11,634 employees, imbued with Proximus' think possible mindset and all engaged to offer a superior customer experience, the Group realized an underlying Group revenue of EUR 5,909 million end-2022.For more information, visit www.proximus.com & www.proximus.be.

Godrej Capital Launches NIRMAAN, a Digital Platform to Help MSMEs Grow their Businesses to their Potential

• Curated platform to provide MSME owners an all-inclusive opportunity to grow their businesses to their potential. 
• Godrej Capital has partnered with trusted brands like Amazon Global Selling, Onsurity, Zolvit, and MSMEx to provide solutions around core challenges faced by MSMEs and will look to enhance its partner network in the near future. 

Godrej Capital, the financial services arm of the Godrej Group, today announced its new digital platform, Nirmaan, to provide MSME owners an all-inclusive opportunity to grow their businesses. Carefully curated, Godrej Capital Nirmaan packs a range of partners that provide services critical to the growth of MSMEs.

The MSMEs in the country today face challenges like limited access to the market and the ability to expand beyond their regional reach, lack of know-how about legal and regulatory compliance requirements, Limited access to technology, hiring and retaining a skilled workforce, and limitation of access to credit. Godrej Capital Nirmaan aims to solve these challenges and provide services under the categories of ''Grow the Business,'' ''Ease Business Operations,'' and ''Transformation through upskilling.''

The company has initially partnered with Amazon Global Selling, Onsurity, Zolvit, and MSMEx to help increase the potential market reach, simplify legal and compliance, enhance employee health and welfare, and provide business coaching for small businesses. In addition, while Godrej Capital Nirmaan users get product & pricing offerings at a discounted price point, Godrej Capital customers will be entitled to additional and exclusive pricing benefits.

Furthermore, the flagship platform is the first in the BFSI industry in India. It goes beyond its core lending offering and provides value-added services encompassing business growth opportunities, ease of business, and knowledge and network avenues.

Speaking on the launch, Manish Shah, MD & CEO at Godrej Capital, said, "The Godrej Group has a longstanding commitment to contributing to the growth of the Indian economy, and through Godrej Capital, we are proud to launch Nirmaan, which will enable MSMEs to grow their fullest potential and thus drive economic growth of the country. We have closely studied the growth challenges of MSMEs in the country, and along with the lending services we already provide, with Nirmaan, we can help solve some of those challenges and support the sector's growth."

Godrej Capital is focused on bringing more value-adding services to the platform through strategic partnerships and keeping updated with the challenges that must be solved.

In this initial launch phase, services will be promoted in 30 key markets across India but available in all corners of India.

Godrej Capital has, so far, has disbursed over INR 5300 crores since inception in November 2020 across housing, SME, and MSME loans. In addition, it has expanded its presence across 13 cities in India.

PCI Pharma Services Introduces First-of-its-Kind Digital Platform to Provide Clients with Real-Time Supply Chain Data and Analytics

PCI Pharma Services (PCI), a leading pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical global outsourcing solutions provider today announced the launch of pci | bridge, an innovative digital platform that will give customers immediate visibility into their clinical and commercial supply chain, and provide instantaneous data and insights to inform decision-making. Created using an agile development process whereby key clients collaborated and provided input, PCI built an industry-leading digital interface that delivers greater transparency to clients – saving time and resources to ultimately help bring life-changing therapies to patients faster. The launch of pci | bridge is one of many initiatives that PCI has undertaken to incorporate digital transformation as core to its business strategy.

 

pci | bridge digital platform logo (Photo: Business Wire)

“At PCI, we are always looking to the future and could see the potential that technology and digital systems held for the pharmaceutical supply chain industry,” said Salim Haffar, Chief Executive Officer, PCI Pharma Services. “Twelve months ago, we made the deliberate decision as an organization to invest more in this area, with the goal of enhancing client experiences, digitizing business processes and aligning our IT to scale as we grow. The launch of pci | bridge represents a key milestone achievement in our digital transformation journey. We believe our unique offering will simplify how our clients interact with us and create a leading-edge client experience.”

 

A direct connection between PCI and clients, the platform will make real-time information readily accessible to clients including inventory, production, distribution and shipping data, presented in organized, customizable formats. The platform also features a document repository where electronic paperwork can be stored and accessed in one place, and signatures secured on the platform.

“Having a fully functioning supply chain, whose foundation is built on digitally-enabled capabilities and technologies, means we can be more adept at moving resources, assets and inventory – quickly and effectively,” said Wayne Hull, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, PCI Pharma Services. “We are embracing new technologies at PCI because they improve client experiences, give greater visibility into the supply chain, and provide data insights to optimize efficiencies and mitigate risks.”

The technology behind pci | bridge will closely and very securely integrate PCI’s systems with those of clients so that the supply chain can be easily managed by both parties. One significant advantage is removing manual processes that are often time intensive for both sides.

“Seeking input from multiple customers to understand how we hope to use the platform and previewing iterations with us is invaluable in terms of structuring the tool so it can actually be helpful to our work,” said Wendy Xia, Senior Director, Head of Supply Chain at Agios Pharmaceuticals, a key PCI client who collaborated with the company on pci | bridge. “I am very excited about my team using pci | bridge because I think it will greatly increase productivity and efficiency on both ends.”

“The benefits I see of using pci | bridge is that is that it eliminates the need for clients to constantly reach out to the project teams for updates. Now, we will have that information at our fingertips and can instead focus on the bigger picture with PCI, such as what’s coming next,” added Kevin Gregorczyk, Director, Development Operations at eFFECTOR Therapeutics, another key PCI client who participated in the development process.

Post-launch, PCI will continue to evolve and update pci | bridge features to meet client needs.

To learn more about pci | bridge, click here.

 

About PCI Pharma Services

The global healthcare industry trusts PCI for the drug development solutions that increase their products’ speed to market and opportunities for commercial success. Only PCI brings the proven experience that comes with more than 50 successful product launches a year and over five decades in the healthcare business. Leading technology and continued investment enable us to address global development needs throughout the product life cycle — from Phase I Clinical trials through commercialization and ongoing supply. Our clients view us as an extension of their business and a collaborative partner, with the shared goal of improving patients’ lives. For more information, please visit www.pci.com or follow us on Twitter at @PCI_Social.