Millennium a Delhi-based
manufacturer of Millennium brand of computer
has partnered with the Delhi Government for its recently launched
Gyan Jyoti Scheme. Under this scheme, it will provide PCs to
Government employees by institutional arrangement with Bank
of India.
Gyan Jyoti is
a three-month long scheme and will be running in seven states
including Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh
and J&K. The soft loan scheme is an inter-organizational
arrangement between Bank Of India and technology developer-Intel.
Under this Gyan Jyoti or Government Assisted PCs Program (GAPP)
scheme, Millennium brand of PCs (desktops) will be supplied
to Delhi and NCR-based government offices employees, including
class I-IV at a "subsidized price,” informed Varinder
Singh Jawanda, MD of Millennium.
He also added that that there would be a discount of 10-15%
than open market PCs pricing. Varinder expects to sell 60% of
these PCs to eighty to one lakh population of Delhi government
employees.
He further informed, “Currently the Millennium's
dedicated seven-member team including marketing and sales members
along with the outsource agency are aggressively concentrating
at the awareness and visibility of the Gyan Jyoti program. It
is through various road shows, in-house seminars and exhibition
at government offices.” The Millennium
sales team will be available at Delhi Government office complexes
and at residential places to explain and promote the scheme.
Under the scheme, Millennium will be providing
VSNL broadband facility for initial 30-days on the procurement.
The extensive dealer network that the company has will provide
the service support and backup to those employees opting for
Millennium desktops. Service engineers are
placed with dealers and to provide easy installation and service
assistance.
Millennium is talking to printers companies,
which will be bundled, with these PCs as per the employee's
requirement. These PCs are designed with special configurations
at a reasonable pricing as per the employees' designation.
Varinder also added that if any government employee wants
to buy laptops, then talks are on to get the final approval
from Intel and Delhi Government to fulfill the demand for
the same.
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