Nitin Gadkari launches kalculate software to help SMEs

Make in India concept is gathering initiatives from across the country. OpenLx is one of them which recently came up with open source accounting software to create an ease of work for SMEs and SOHOs.

Transport minister Nitin Gadkari launched software KBD ( Kalculate business desktop),  that will assist business users to do their Accounting-Inventory-Sales-Purchase in an affordable way and called for converting knowledge into economy. The software-Kalculate Business Desktop (KBD) is built on Linux platform that complies with the government's new Open-Source policy.

Speaking at a function organized to launch the software, Gadkari mooted for information technology and bio-technology for India's future and said Narendra Modi's government 'Make in India' initiative, along with Made in India, would make the country ''Number one'' in the world.

He stressed the need to lessen dependence on imports and encourage exports and convert knowledge into wealth.

“We being an Indian company always looked forward to manufacture products in our country which will be exported with vision to create Indian products as renowned products across the world. Creating IT products in our country will create infrastructure and create jobs. Indian technological innovations will push future towards progress” said Sudhir Gandotra, CEO of OpenLX.

“Business users will be able to avail benefits of secure (Virus-free), friendly (Graphical User Interface), affordable software by combining the power of Openlx Linux with Kalculate Business Accounting software” added Sudhir Gandotra.

KBD gives user a standard-based Accounting-Inventory-Sales-Purchase in India by an Indian company that comes bundled with Operating System, Office and Internet Suite, Graphics and Multimedia tools, Utilities and a lot more that normal business users will find a boon for legalizing their desktops with affordable software.

Focused at SMEs that cannot afford high cost of software and is forced to pirate, KBD is a solution that helps SMEs to legalize their software use without having to pay heavy penalties or high cost software. The total cost of business software for the company will come down to Rs 9,999 by using KBD.

The United News of India Chairman said the news agency would, from now on, start using Linux software which was ''100 per cent swadeshi and would help bankers, accountants and all such professionals. Describing Gadkari as a 'Man with Midas touch', he said he hoped that the software launched by the minister would be a great help in the 'Make in India' initiative of the Prime Minister.

In that context, developing a software which will reduce dependence on imports and encouraging exports was the government's future thinking. Listing out various initiatives taken by his ministry, Gadkari mentioned that lack of knowledge was the biggest problem and called for developing self-confidence.

''Gyan, Vigyan and Tantra Vigyan are important for the country's progress. We can become number one but we have to have that self confidence,'' he said.