Opportunities
Rolta's operations are spread across the world with firm roots in India. The company has a dominating presence in the vast home market, enabling it to hone its skills and gain remarkable success in executing large turnkey projects across the world.
To sustain India's strong GDP growth, investments in India's infrastructure are expected to exceed US $ 1 Trillion in the midterm.
Geospatial technology and data will be required and play an important role for development, especially in sectors such as, airports, ports, highways, bridges, town planning, municipal, environmental, utility distribution, etc. With its leadership position in the Geospatial segment, Rolta is very well positioned to address this large opportunity.
Both, conventional power generation and refining capacities are expected to double in the next decade, in India.
Additionally, it is envisaged that almost 40,000 MW of power generation capacity will be added through nuclear energy in India. This is expected to result in investments of over US $ 60 Billion over the next decade. Rolta is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the huge opportunities in this sector, by leveraging its well-established presence and the JV it has with The Shaw Group. The Shaw Group is a world leader in nuclear power and is executing multiple projects to maintain and build nuclear power plants in US and China. They also have a strategic stake in Westinghouse - a world leader in manufacturing nuclear reactors.
The Indian Defense and Homeland Security sector has emerged amongst the top spenders worldwide and its expected CAPEX over the next 5 years is estimated at US $ 50 Billion. Rolta is now addressing huge opportunities arising from the key modernization programs of the Indian Armed Forces, such as; Battlefield Management Systems, Tactical Communication Systems and the Digital Soldier System programs.
Rolta's dominant position in the market combined with the strengths of its Joint Venture with Thales puts it in an extremely unique position to address these strategic programs.
A major focus of the Ministry of Defense is the identification of local industries for indigenized production, and with the award of Industrial Licenses to Rolta, for manufacturing defense equipments, necessary steps are being taken to move forward in addressing additional opportunities, especially for sophisticated equipments and systems in Maritime, Aerospace, Electronic Warfare, Optronics and Communications.
For the global markets, outsourcing of IT services from India is expected to cross US $ 100 Billion by 2011, while outsourcing of Engineering Services is expected to cross US $ 60 Billion by 2020.
Rolta's global footprint and track record along with its capable off-shoring model gives it a unique positioning in this large market.
The Company is today very well positioned to capitalize on the vast opportunities available both in the Indian and international markets, due to its solid foundation in terms of an established track record, empowered people, domain knowledge, exceptional IPRs, world-class infrastructure, enduring partnerships and healthy financials.
Rolta's pipeline of opportunities is growing and its achievements have positioned the Company at the threshold of a new growth era.
