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Lockdown constraints amid second wave of Covid-19 a downside risk for electricity demand: ICRA

Lockdown constraints amid second wave of Covid-19 a downside risk for electricity demand: ICRA

Interview

PARTNER

( CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENTS AND ENGINEERING CO. )

MANOJ SHARMA

1. How has this year been for CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENTS? What are the differences that you see in the market in pre & post lockdown period?
 
This year has been average for Cambridge Instruments.Like other industries we too have suffered due to lockdown and disruption in supply chain has hampered our production.The cost of raw materials and components are rising day by day but it is not possible to hike rate of our end products.Things are tough but however we have managed the situation to best possible effort.Pre- lockdown things were coming to normal but sudden second wave of Vividh and price hike in petroleum and metal product have hit our progress to some extent.
 
2. How is CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENTS playing a major role in ensuring safety of the consumers from electrical hazards? Is there any new addition in your products’?
 
Cambridge Instrument s is manufacturing Test and measuring instruments for maintenance and trouble shooting of failures in power projects and power distribution and generations.By providing reliable, accurate and durable Test and measuring instruments we are playing a  major role in ensuring safety of consumers from electrical hazards.Our instruments like Insulation Testers,Earth Resistance Testers,High voltage breakdown Test set, Transformer oil insulation test set ,Relay test set,Micro (contact resistance ) ohm meter,Phase sequence indicator, power analyser etc.  are all important in diagonising the fault in electrical set up and equipments to avoid breakdown.
We are planning for automatic microprocessor android based advance level instruments .
 
3. How are you exactly contributing to the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ mission?
 
We are manufacturing almost all our product on indigenously made part .
All our products are in-house designed and enhancement of performance of our products are carried out in house.We are trying to use as much indian made components as possible to accomplish "ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT" mission.
 
4. How is CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENTS business shaping up?
 
Cambridge Instruments is shaping up very well.
 
5. How has the electrical industry evolved in India? 
 
 Electrical industries are evolving in satisfactorily in India.With the help of better policies of government in present and hope for best policies in future electrical industry is shaping well in India.
 
6. How are government policies influencing the power &energy sector? 
 
Present govt. Policies are favouring the power and energy sector but still much more effort is required particularly on economic front industries need boosting to overcome particularly bad patches last and present year due to Covid.
Prices of raw materials and petro/ diesel needed to be controlled to bring back normalcy to boost our electrical industries which further will influence our power and energy sector.
 
7. What are your plans for upcoming years?
 
We are planning to develop world class electrical diagnostic instruments to keep pace with latest development world wide and also to enter diversified sector of electrical industries.