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Tuesday
April 5, 2005

Rolta bags prestigious domestic & export GIS projects of over Rs. 200 Crores

Mumbai, April 5, 2005: Rolta India Ltd. has recently bagged significant domestic as well as international GIS projects, with contracts exceeding Rs. 200 Crores. These projects are for meeting the mission critical requirements of customers in diverse segments, like Utilities and Communications (People's Energy - USA), Town Planning (Sacramento Municipality - USA), Public Service/Dispatch Agencies (City Public Service, San Antonio - USA), Photogrammetry (Military Survey Department - Abu Dhabi), Digital Imagery (Ministry of Defense - India) and others.

At various stages of execution, these orders are for high-end and comprehensive GIS & Imaging software applications/development/customization; wide ranging services including Intelligent GIS database creation & updation for planning using Digital Photogrammetry, and special purpose ruggedised Imagery systems.

The company's unique methodology of addressing both the domestic and export markets is paying rich dividends and these orders are a reaffirmation of Rolta's #1 standing in the Geospatial domain in India and amongst the leading organizations in this field worldwide.

Company Background : Rolta is an Indian multinational organization well equipped to provide knowledge-based Software/IT, Engineering and Mapping solutions & services to customers across the world. A leading Public Company with over 1,30,000 shareholders, Rolta has been profitable and consistently paying dividends since its IPO in 1990.

The company has been ranked as India's #1 CAD/CAM/GIS solutions provider for over a decade and is considered amongst the world's top AM/FM/GIS & Photogrammetry services providers. Rolta is the leading provider of Plant Design Automation Solutions in India, and a preferred partner for providing Plant Engineering Design services globally to international giants like The Dow Chemical Company and others. The company has also established a Joint Venture with Stone & Webster Inc, USA, one of the world's foremost engineering companies for addressing large projects, in segments like power, petrochemical, refinery etc. Rolta is one of the top-three Premier Global Service Partners of Computer Associates, worldwide, for IT services in the areas of Enterprise Management, Security and Software Development & Testing.

The company enjoys strong business partnerships with international technology leaders like Intergraph, Z/I Imaging, PTC, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others. By judiciously combining its worldwide resources, including; subsidiaries in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia & Middle East; a network of over 15 full-fledged offices in India; over 3000 professionals; and state-of-the-art infrastructure including global connectivity and software development centers in India & USA, Rolta is able to meet customer needs cost-effectively. The company's quality standards are benchmarked to world-class levels, with top quality certifications such as, BS 7799, ISO 9001:2000 & SEI CMM Level 5.

Ranked by Forbes Global for three years in a row (2001, 2002, 2003) amongst the 200 Best Companies in the world (Sales upto US $ 1 billion), Rolta is one of the only eighteen such companies worldwide. Deloitte has recently ranked the company amongst the fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific.

For additional information

Mr. K. R. Vaidyanathan  
Director - Corporate Sales & Marketing
Rolta India Limited
Telephone: 2832 6666 / 2826 2222 Extn: 1201  
           www.rolta.com