Indian Telephone Industries Limited

ITI Limited, earlier known as Indian Telephone Industries Limited, is a central public sector undertaking in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India. It was founded in 1948 as a departmental factory, incorporated as a public company in 1950 and today has six manufacturing facilities at Bangalore, Naini, Mankapur, Raebareli, Palakkad and Srinagar which produce a range of switching, transmission, access and subscriber premises equipment.[10] It is headquartered at Bangalore. It has multi-locational electronic assembly and mechanical manufacturing facilities, countrywide marketing and customer support centers and in-house R&D for absorption of technology, indigenous development of products for in-house manufacturing. It produces GSM mobile equipment at its Mankapur and Raebareli facilities.[11] These two facilities supply more than nine million lines per annum to both domestic as well as foreign markets. The Palakkad unit is responsible for data handling with assembly and personalization of smart cards and electronic manufacturing facilities for PCB's, HDPE Pipe, Smart Energy Meters, Micro PC under Smart City Mission etc. It also produces Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipments such as network management systems, encryption and networking for internet connectivity, and secure communications networks and equipment for the defence. The company has 1608 employees as on June 1, 2024.[12] On 01-10-2020, ITI Limited signed a contract with Defence to implement ₹7,796 crore ASCON Phase-IV project.[13]

ITI Limited
Native name
आई टी आई लिमिटेड
FormerlyIndian Telephone Industries Limited (1948–1994)
Company typeCentral Public Sector Undertaking
BSE523610
NSEITI
Industry
Founded12 October 1948 (Corporate Status: 25 January 1950)
Headquarters,
Number of locations
6 manufacturing units in India
  • Bangalore (1948)[1]
  • Srinagar* (1969) *ITI Skill Development Center[2]
  • Naini (1971)[3]
  • Raebareli (1973)[4]
  • Palakkad (1976)[5]
  • Mankapur (1983)[6]
Key people
Revenue1,860.73 crore (US$220 million) (2022) [7]
121.06 crore (US$15 million) (2022) [7]
Total assetsIncrease9,576.95 crore (US$1.1 billion) (2022) [7]
Total equityIncrease2,620.47 crore (US$310 million) (2022) [7]
OwnerDepartment of Telecommunications , Ministry of Communications , Government of India[8]
Number of employees
1608 (June 1, 2024) [9]

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