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UshaCom India Limited 

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The reorganization of the Usha Martin group’s software business as Usha Communications Technology (UCT) has led to significant growth in the company’s business. With global focus and the initiatives of the US-based global management team, UCT has been able to establish a presence in the advanced markets in Europe and the United States, in addition to its existing Asian markets. The 100% owned Indian subsidiary of UCT is the Kolkata based Usha COM India Ltd (UIL), which handles the following operations:

• Software product development/professional services operations
• Product research, competitor benchmarking and sales training
• help-desk for supporting existing installations
  

As may be seen from the above, while the business has been reorganised with US-based management and global focus, the Indian operations account for a large part of UCT’s global operations. Product development, client-specific customisation and installation activities are carried out in India by UIL, under the functional supervision of the US management, which is responsible for strategy, business development and marketing.

UCT has placed special emphasis on training of its software development professionals. The company has an in-house training facility at Calcutta under UIT. The Usha Communication Learning Centre puts new employees through a 12-week induction course which include stints at IIT-Chennai (technical aspects), IIM-Calcutta (managerial aspects), and Billing College (a reputed training organisation based at New Jersey, whose course in conducted by UIT in Kolkata). The objective of the course is to train IT graduates into telecom software specialists.

In the year of 2002-03, the exports were valued at Rs. 47.77 crores.

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