India to share with South Africa railway communications, affordable broadband for masses |
RailTel Corporation of India Ltd (RailTel), a Mini Ratna CPSE under Ministry of Railways, Government of India has in April 2024 signed a Tripartite MOU with InoviTel (PTY) LTD and Tsiko Africa Energy & Infrastructure for Tsiko Group to cooperate and collaborate on projects so as to bring Indian technology, innovation and products to South Africa and the adjoining region and explore opportunities in Telecom, Railways and other IT/ICT businesses in South Africa. The scope of this MOU covers activation and commercialisation of dark fibre along the Railway lines and High voltage Transmission lines in South Africa. It also covers Railway Signal & Telecommunication solutions, Digital twin Modelling of Railway assets for predictive maintenance and Traffic simulation, OFC based Distributed Acoustic System (DAS) etc. for public and private Rail operators within South Africa, connectivity solution to SA connect/Railway and private business fibre network operators, IT/ICT/Digitalization Solutions for Digital Transformation of South Africa.
The MoU was signed on 24.04.2024 at Pretoria, South Africa in the presence of Sh. Prabhat Kumar, High Commissioner of India to South Africa and Sh. Mahesh Kumar, Consul General of India, Johannesburg. Sh. Parag Kumar Goyal, Principal Executive Director /Enterprise Business, RailTel exchanged the MOU with Chief Executive Officer InoviTel (PTY) LTD Mr Lavine Singh and Chief Executive Officer Tsiko Africa Energy and Infrastructure (Pty) Ltd. Mr Pragasen Naidoo.
RailTel is excited to collaborate with South African partners Tsiko Group to undertake significant projects in South Africa, said Parag Kumar Goyal, Executive Director of RailTel. RailTel Chairman and Managing Director Sanjai Kumar had expressed keen desire to bring Indian technology, innovative solutions and expertise along with skill development to catalyse the growth and development in relevant sectors of South Africa.
Dr Kinesh Pather, Chairman of the Tsiko Group, said the MoU marked a proud step by his group to expand collaboration with a major state owned enterprise from India. Dr Pather and Anand Moodliar, Director of Tsiko Group, are prominent Indian Diaspora community and business leaders. Pather and Moodliar said they are keen to leverage recently founded the South African Indo-Afro Business Association (SAIBA) to boost bilateral commerce and trade and also empower Indo-Afro businesses in South Africa.
Munish Gupta, Chairman of PIO Services Pvt Ltd., a well known global Diaspora leader as well as media and social entrepreneur, has been instrumental in carving out the partnership between RailTel and the Tsiko Group. Gupta thanked governments on both sides for catalyzing and supporting cross border partnerships.
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