Plans to introduce a New Portable Range of Light Towers for India and MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region, 12 units can be accommodated in a 40 feet container.

Amit Paul Singh, General Manager – Business Development, ASKA Equipments Ltd

Infrastructure sector is a key driver for the Indian economy. The sector is highly responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys intense focus from Government for initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world class infrastructure in the country. Infrastructure sector includes power, bridges, dams, roads and urban infrastructure development.

In 2016, India jumped 19 places in World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2016, to rank 35th amongst 160 countries. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, invested Rs 14,916 crore (US$ 2.32 billion) for the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North East (SARDP-NE) and Rs 4,095 crore (US$ 635.6 million) for the National Highway (original) over the past two years to improve the road infrastructure in India’s north eastern region.

Amit Paul Singh, General Manager – Business Development, ASKA Equipments Ltd, says, “We plan to introduce a New Portable Range of Light Towers for India and MENA region, 12 units can be accommodated in a 40 feet container.”

Unique features
Very compact, vertical mast model with high intensity LED flood lights, fuel efficient, very portable with ease of portability and transportation and reduced storage space required by equipment rental companies.

Advantages of Aska’s Mobile Light Tower
• Any Mobile Light Towers has three vital components and in case of ASKA, they are:
lAlternator: (Linz, Italy, totally brushless, ideally requires zero maintenance)
lDedicated Intelligent Light Tower Controller: (designed in UK), which takes care of controlling all vital parameters resulting in error free operations with minimum down time. Hence more cost effective by incurring low maintenance cost.
lEngine: (model No.3 TNV76-GGEA from Yanmar, Japan), 8.2KW, 11HP, 3 cylinder engine having least vibrations and most fuel efficient in the class.

• Aska Equipments Ltd. is into the business of Mobile Light Towers (MLTs) for more than 30 years. More than 30 years of experience PAN India brand credibility for Mobile Light Towers.
• Aska has its own service staff available Pan India also Aska has service tie-ups with Yanmar, hence providing dual (Yanmar and Aska) service support system.
• Optimal inventory of both Indian & imported spare parts.
• Aska follows stringent quality control procedures at our production plant.
• All reputed branded components are used for manufacturing the MLTs after carrying out in house series of quality tests.

Target market
Indian sub continent and MENA regions are ASKA target markets, Singh informs. He adds, “Government initiatives attracting major focus to target Indian market: The Road Transport and Highways Ministry has invested around Rs 3.17 trillion (US$ 47.7 billion), while the Shipping Ministry has invested around Rs 80,000 crores (US$ 12.0 billion) in the past two and a half years for building world class highways and shipping infrastructure in the country.”

The Government of India is expected to invest highly in the infrastructure sector, mainly highways, renewable energy and urban transport, prior to the general elections in 2019.A total of 6,604 km out of the 15,000 km of target set for national highways in 2016-17 has been constructed by the end of February 2017, according to the Minister of State for Road, Transport and Highways and Government of India.

The company plans to accomplish the immediate need of the infrastructure and construction industry: Very compact, portable, bulk transportable and very fuel efficient vertical mast LED Light Towers.

Part and Parcel of DNA for India’s Development Story
• Ready to provide lighting solution support in contracts awarded under the smart cities mission.
• ASKA is ready to provide lighting solution support to the projects of Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the new development works at Lucknow, Deoghar, Rajkot, and Allahabad airports to improve the airport infrastructure in the country and is also
ready to help with lighting solutions for the development of a Greenfield airport at Hirasar, Rajkot, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India.
• ASKA is eager in facilitating with lighting solutions to the organizations who will accomplishing Government of India’s, 352 affordable housing projects worth
Rs 38,000 crores (US$ 5.9 billion) in 53 cities across 17 states for building over 200,000 houses
costing Rs 18 lakh (US$ 27,948) per house on average.
• ASKA is looking forward to be an active contributor for India’s national highway network is expected to cover 50,000 kilometers by 2019, with around 20,000 km of works scheduled for completion in the next couple of years, according to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

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