{"id":2148,"date":"2016-07-14T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T12:05:12","slug":"cisco-readies-plan-to-set-up-manufacturing-plant-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/14\/cisco-readies-plan-to-set-up-manufacturing-plant-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco readies plan to set up manufacturing plant in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/14\/cisco-readies-plan-to-set-up-manufacturing-plant-in-india\/jpg-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3142 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jpg-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jpg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jpg.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Technology major Cisco is working on a plan to establish a manufacturing facility in India and is in talks with the government for the same, a top official of the company has said.<\/p>\n<p>Terming India as one of its &#8220;best bases&#8221;, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the company is &#8220;very actively involved in India across the board&#8221; and working on a broader base from digitisation to smart cities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He was interacting with reporters at the Cisco Live 2016 annual conference\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<p>On expansion plans in India, Robbins said, &#8220;&#8230; Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very committed to manufacturing. We worked through a business case and&#8230; presented to him that&#8230; That was fantastic and we have been moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the company is moving forward on various healthcare and security initiatives, with a lot happening on the digital cities front.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco is engaged in over 15 smart cities projects in the country. The company is also working with Andhra Pradesh government for rolling out Bharat Net.<\/p>\n<p>The company views India as one of the best bases and is focusing a lot on education as well, Robbins added.<\/p>\n<p>The country is home to Cisco&#8217;s second-largest site, which has about 11,000 employees. It is offering education to 24,000 students spread across 47 schools.<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/53187492.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/53187492.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology major Cisco is working on a plan to establish a manufacturing facility in India and is in talks with the government for the same, a top official of the company has said. Terming India as one of its &#8220;best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/14\/cisco-readies-plan-to-set-up-manufacturing-plant-in-india\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,493,5],"tags":[589,833,797,298,291,462,292,313],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-corporate-services","category-economy-business-updates-corporate-affairs","category-india-international-corporate-updates","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-chuck-robbins","tag-cisco","tag-ease-of-doing-business","tag-make-in-india","tag-narendra-modi","tag-smart-cities","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}