GE India
Faces of the Future: Meet 3 People Making a Difference at GE India as It Celebrates 120 Years of Innovation
When India faced growing electric power needs at the start of the 20th century, it turned to GE. The company was still young — founded by Thomas Edison less than ten years earlier — but already it was proving itself a leader in technology and innovation. GE partnered with the state of Mysore in southern India to build a hydroelectric dam at Shivanasamudra Falls, which began generating power in 1902. It was the first hydroelectric dam in all of Asia, and the first of hundreds of power generation projects of all kinds that GE and the people of India would go on to build together.
Healthcare
Blueprint For The World: New GE Factory Embraces Diversity, Fuels Growth
When she was a little girl growing up in India, Dhanalakshmi Nagaraju wanted to know how things work. “I was always fascinated by cars and machines and by the science behind them,” she says. “I wanted to learn more.” Nagaraju went on to study engineering, and last year she landed a job as a manufacturing process engineer at a new Wipro GE factory making some of the latest medical imaging equipment. “It was a greenfield project, and there were a lot of things we had to learn quickly,” she says. “We had to build the plant, set up new production lines and hire and train workers.
women's day
Changing The Balance: GE Looks To Add Gender Diversity To A New Factory In India
Over the past few decades, Bangalore has established itself as India’s innovation hub and the country’s own take on the Silicon Valley. But these days, progress here goes beyond technology and software; it’s addressing global hot issues like diversity, equality and inclusion.