Mr. N. Sivashanmugam, Chief Financial Officer, SPEL has been invited to join the ICT Panel in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

CII is a non-government organization, led and managed by industry. Founded over 108 years ago, it is India's premier business association, with a direct membership of over 4800 companies from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs and indirect membership of over 50,000 companies from 253 national and regional sectoral associations. CII serves as a reference point for Indian Industry and the international business community and plays a proactive role in India's development process. It has 41 offices in India, 15 overseas in Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Japan, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, UK, USA and institutional partnerships with 216 counterpart organisations in 94 countries.

The ICT Panel serves as the reference point to the Tamil Nadu State Council of CII on designing a roadmap to enhance the Competitiveness of ICT industry. This year the panel intends to focus on Enhancing the ICT Skills in Tamil Nadu & promoting TN as a hub for Electronics & Communication.

Mr. N. Sivashanmugam will represent the Electronic Hardware Manufacturing in general and Semiconductor Industry in particular. SPEL is India’s first & only Semiconductor IC assembly & Test facility in India and has been growing successfully over the past few years.