cent india is one of the important markets for osram by sheer growth population and infrastructure globally 50 per cent of cars are fitted with osram lights and in india 65 per cent of passenger vehicles are fitted with osram lights in india we are participating in the governments ujjala programme or the street lighting programme recently we have been awarded close to an euro67 million contract by eesl the energy efficiency company of the government where about 35 million street lights are being converted into leds is osram eyeing a joint venture with continental for boosting its auto lighting solutions matt it is just on the interest side nothing has happened so far it is one of the opportunities that we are looking at on the inorganic side are you planning to expand the distributorships in india avinder we have close to 100 distributors in india for the auto replacement market and for other trade channels we have 250 dealers there is no new capex on the horizon gst has affected it how much was your business impacted by gst avinder gst is a wonderful initiative with tax simplification teething problems will get solved our own business was not affected in a negative manner and customers have taken it positively we were businessready on the first day itself by shobha mathur etauto published on nov 1 2017 at 0809 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app osram lighting electric vehicles led xenon technology avinder singh matt hillenbrand eesl philips homenewsindustryleds will be 710 times more efficient in evs