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August 05, 2002
Rolta bags US contracts of over Rs. 30 crore
For IT-enabled GIS Services to Utility companies
Mumbai, 5 August 2002: Rolta International Inc. (RUS), the US-based subsidiary of Rolta India Limited, India's premier IT solutions and services provider, has recently been awarded contracts exceeding Rs. 30 crore to provide IT-enabled GIS services to various utility companies in the USA spread across North Carolina, Midwest US, Northwest US and New York State. These utilities serve more than 1.7 million customers.
Rolta will use its unique processes and offshore (Mumbai-based) facilities to convert records and create digital models of water, wastewater, gas and electric facilities. Rolta will also generate digital maps of the underlying land base & re-project the existing land base to match higher accuracy digital image data. These projects are to be executed over the next 12 to 18 months.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. K. K. Singh, Managing Director and Chairman, Rolta India Ltd. said, "These significant contracts are a further endorsement of Rolta's expertise in serving water, gas, telecom and electric utilities. Utilities provide the critical backbone for a Nation's prosperity and continuity and we are proud of this opportunity to be a part of this effort for one of the most advanced nations of the world." He further added, "The knowledge gained by us in these projects will be invaluable for our team to add to our expertise & for replication elsewhere in the future."
Company Background: Rolta is an Indian multinational organization well equipped to provide knowledge-based software & IT-enabled services to customers across the world. By judiciously combining resources from worldwide facilities, Rolta is able to meet customer needs cost- effectively. Since 1982, Rolta has been a pioneer in computer graphics, mapping and engineering software and has consistently been ranked as India's #1 CAD/CAM/GIS solution provider. Rolta is amongst the top Geo-Engineering software conversion service vendors worldwide and is a leading end-to-end provider of eBusiness solutions and services. Rolta was recently named amongst the best 200 companies worldwide by Forbes Global (companies with sales up to US$ 500 million).
For additional information
Mr. Aloke Chakrabarti,
Director - Operations,
Telephone: 832 6666 / 826 2222 Extn. 2801,
Fax: 8365992
E-mail: aloke@rolta.com
