Harjinder Kaur Talwar - MSME National Board Member

Harjinder Kaur Talwar, appointed as the National Board Member of MSME, is the only woman entrepreneur in India in intelligent traffic solutions.  Co-Chair, Empowering the Greater 50, FICCI, National Past President of FLO, Harjinder is a self made woman. She founded the company Comvision  (India) Pvt. Ltd. in 1995 with a humble start. Currently with 150+ employees and 4 offices across India, she stands tall as the only business woman, into the specific arena of intelligent traffic / transport solutions. Today Comvision is CMM level3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO/IEC 20000- 1:2011 certified medium sized business organization.

Having a computer science degree, and guided by her  father who won National Award, she took upon the challenge to change the way Govt. services were given to a citizen and gave a concept of multiple services of different Govt. depts. under one roof to India. Her first such project “TWINS” implemented in Hyderabad in 1999 redefined the way Govt to citizen(G2C) services were delivered. The model was thus replicated PAN India by many other Govt. departments and these govt. departments soon adopted the concept of integrated multiple services under one roof. TWINS was also showcased to the then US President “H.E. Bill Clinton” during his maiden visit to India.

As she grew in business her company additionally went on to specialize in the road sector and today has strategic partnerships with world leaders in technologically advanced solutions in specific areas of intelligent traffic & Transport. Comvision has strategic partnerships with world leaders like SWARCO (the swaroksi group company), TOMTOM (Backbone of Google map) and SAP (world’s largest ERP solutions company). With her domain knowledge of Indian business and best of technology integration, her company has become a name to reckon with in the technology implementation in road sector as well.

Some of the notable contributions of Comvision are as under:

• Implementation of RFID based electronic toll collection technology for India, integrating with the central clearing house of NPCI and payment settlement system across banks for toll lanes in India.
• A few major Highways in the country are running with her solutions. Some of them are Delhi Agra Highway, Gurgaon- Faridabad Toll road and Hosur Krishnagiri Toll road near Bangalore.
• Currently her company is implementing Smart City projects in many states. Notable areas of work are:
• Smart Garbage collection solution
• Optimization and intelligence of traffic signals with respect to traffic in corridors o Planning traffic in city, working in partnership with traffic police in various cities in real time traffic information
• Knowledge management and tools to streamline the traffic with the help of history data analysis.

 Feathers in her cap

• Founded the YFLO chapter of Hyderabad. (YOUNG WOMEN WING OF FICCI) in 2006
• IWEC AWARD (International Woman Entrepreneurial Challenge) coveted in South Africa in October’2010.
• FICCIFLO award 2013 for outstanding achiever
• Being a successful business woman, she was invited at S&P Capital IQ (McGraw Hill Financial) and WINS and was asked to speak about her journey in business on July 30, 2013.
• Mauritius Government: Invited by Mauritius Government in year 2004, to showcase work done by her organization. She was a keynote speaker at the conference which they organized for their officers.
• National FLO President 2019-20
• Co-Chairman, Empowering the Greater 50, FICCI,
• National Board Member of MSME

Social Initiatives:

• Jewel of Delhi – Swachh Abhiyaan: Nominated by BJP President-Delhi to spread Prime Minister’s Initiative of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’ as a campaign for cleaner India for next 5 years.
• Advisor- Good health foundation-Hyderabad, an NGO: The NGO is well known in Hyderabad for health services. She is the advisor for IT services.