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turing as well in industry 4.0 . dont want to go into too much detail here, but also in remote

power management, where again customers can monitor the consumption and health of the low voltage feeders , particularly industrial ustomer

sitting remotely for the entire plant and for multiple plants that they have . And here we have been able

to help customers improve the availability, reduce maintenance time and manpower and improve the power quality. So, there' quite lot

of such kind of projects, huge interest that has come up in the last six to eight months, very large pipeline of sim ilar projects where customers across multiple market verticals are now engaging with us to find solutions to their specific problems. Let me now hand over to Daniel to go into the financial highlights . Daniel, over to you. Dr. Daniel Spindler Thank you, Sunil. Good morning to everyone. Also thank you to everyone for joining us today to discuss our first half and second quarter results for Siemens Limited India financial year 2. Just to recall our financial yea range is from October 1st to September 3th. Page 6 of 1 Overall, am very pleased that we deliver ed another outstanding performance and here my sincere thanks goes to all colleagues at Siemens India for all their dedication despite the harsh pandemic conditions. Let me start with some general comments before going later into the financial details. So, rom an Indian macro perspective, it is clearly visible that industrial recovery continued, which was obvious in key verticals as machine building, manuf acturing, chemicals, also pharma , we heard it. Still would like to mention that part of the strong rebound overgrowth in our industries is still due to some catch up effects. Interestingly, think we also had GDP growth for the first quarter for financi al year 2 in India stands at 1.6% of the 0.4% previous quarter and overall, we observe contraction in GDP for India for the ful