The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is the\r\n country\'s oldest apex chamber. It brings in actionable insights to strengthen the\r\n Indian ecosystem, leveraging its network of more than 4,50,000 members, of which\r\n MSMEs represent a large segment. With a strong presence in states, and key cities\r\n globally, ASSOCHAM also has more than 400 associations, federations and regional\r\n chambers in its fold.
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Aligned with the vision of creating a New India, ASSOCHAM works as a conduit\r\n between the industry and the Government. The Chamber is an agile and forwardlooking institution, leading various initiatives to enhance the global\r\n competitiveness of the Indian industry, while strengthening the domestic\r\n ecosystem.
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With more than 100 national and regional sector councils, ASSOCHAM is an\r\n impactful representative of the Indian industry. These Councils are led by wellknown industry leaders, academicians, economists and independent professionals.\r\n The Chamber focuses on aligning critical needs and interests of the industry with\r\n the growth aspirations of the nation.
\r\n\r\nASSOCHAM is driving four strategic priorities - Sustainability, Empowerment,\r\n Entrepreneurship and Digitisation. The Chamber believes that affirmative action in\r\n these areas would help drive an inclusive and sustainable socio-economic growth\r\n for the country.
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ASSOCHAM is working hand in hand with the government, regulators and national\r\n and international think tanks to contribute to the policy making process and share\r\n vital feedback on implementation of decisions of far-reaching consequences.\r\n In line with its focus on being future-ready, the Chamber is building a strong\r\n network of knowledge architects. Thus, ASSOCHAM is all set to redefine the\r\n dynamics of growth and development in the technology-driven \'Knowledge-Based\r\n Economy. The Chamber aims to empower stakeholders in the Indian economy by\r\n inculcating knowledge that will be the catalyst of growth in the dynamic global\r\n environment.
\r\nThe Chamber also supports civil society through citizenship programmes, to drive\r\n inclusive development. ASSOCHAM\'s member network leads initiatives in various\r\n segments such as empowerment, healthcare, education and skilling, hygiene,\r\n affirmative action, road safety, livelihood, life skills, sustainability, to name a\r\n few.
', 'aboutus-header.jpg', 'assets/images/our-legacy.jpg', 'Chronicling evolution of the chamber posits the advantage of stating at the outset,\r\n the schematic unfolding of the tapestry of events that eventually concluded in\r\n contrasting interests federating into a coalition of mercantile consolidation.
\r\n\r\nAgainst this backdrop, the birth of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India\r\n and Ceylon in 1920 was more than an event - it marked the culmination of a historical\r\n process reflecting an age of tumultuous change, a logical, sequential development\r\n of the coming together of associations primarily representative of British commercial\r\n interests in different parts of the country. While the seed of such a formalised\r\n structure was evidently sown by the Calcutta Trades Association, as British trading\r\n interests tried to weave themselves into a body, on the lines of the more\r\n sophisticated business chambers back home, the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, duly\r\n supported by Madras and Bombay chambers, was the prime moving force in the\r\n establishment of first-ever apex chamber in India.
\r\n\r\nThe industrialization pattern then obtaining under the British largely influenced the\r\n need for collective protection of local business interests along with the mounting\r\n inevitability of restructuring neglected sectors and concurrently promoting\r\n entrepreneurship. The Chamber movement mirrors a paradox where British\r\n manufacturers saw in India a captive market for their goods but the British Indian\r\n manufacturers found such move emaciating their growth. Calcutta being the seat of\r\n govermnment from where functioned the Legislative Council conferred on Bengal\r\n Chamber legitimate proximity gains for interface and enunciation of its needs.\r\n Expansion of the representative character of the Council by the new law, that\r\n amended the Indian Councils Act in 1909, prompted the Bombay and Bengal\r\n Chambers to seek allotment of representative membership in the Council.
\r\n\r\nThe parallel growth of industries had a direct deportment on the chambers. The\r\n indigo, tea, jute, cotton textile industry, coal, thermal power generation and the\r\n growth of engineering units with British and Indian interests defined the expansion\r\n of converging interests. The partition of Bengal in the year 1905 not only gently\r\n catalyzed emergence of a cohesive political opposition but also lent the first impetus\r\n to conceiving an all-India entity when the captains of industry from the provinces,\r\n Ceylon and Burma discussed the necessity of national bonding. Twelve years later,\r\n at another such gathering again in Calcutta, in the wake of post-war scenario, the\r\n inspiration for a national business organisation was cemented specifically in\r\n response to the integration of economic policy into an all-India pattern, an enlarging\r\n corpus of legislation, the rapid growth of Indian business, a sharper spirit of trade\r\n rivalry, as well as the mobilization of important Indian industrial financial support\r\n for political purposes. The idea of an all-India organisation was certainly prompted\r\n by the lessons of the war but the transfer of capital to New Delhi in 1911\r\n circumscribed the possibility to continue to profitably lobby with the Government\r\n primarily on the Bengal Chamber\'s strength.
\r\n\r\nASSOCHAM\'s maiden conference opened at the Royal Exchange, Calcutta, on\r\n Thursday, January 8, 1920, at three in the afternoon. Lord Chelmsford inaugurated\r\n it with the Governor of Bengal, the Earl of Ronaldshay anon, in the presence of the\r\n commercial and official elite.
\r\n\r\nASSOCHAM was more than a chamber for its members; it served as stimulant to other\r\n business groups to close ranks. Primarily, it inspired the \'Indian\' sector, which looked\r\n at ASSOCHAM as an example of British business interests lobbying on a national scale\r\n and creating the wherewithal for smooth progress.
\r\n\r\nAssociation of Chambers of Commerce of India and Ceylon started with 13 Chambers\r\n as its original members. These were Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Bombay \r\n Chamber of Commerce, Burma Chamber of Commerce, Ceylon Chamber of\r\n Commerce, Chittagong Chamber of Commerce, Cochin Chamber of Commerce,\r\n Cocanada Chamber of Commerce, Karachi Chamber of Commerce, Madras Chamber\r\n of Commerce, Narayangang Chamber of Commerce, Punjab Chamber of Commerce,\r\n Tuticorin Chamber of Commerce and Upper India Chamber of Commerce. PHD\r\n Chamber of Commerce Industry (PHDCCI), working since 1905, joined ASSOCHAM as\r\n its promoter chamber in the year 1922. The Indian Merchants\' Chamber, Bombay,\r\n then in its eightieth year, joined ASSOCHAM as one of its promoter chambers in 1987.
\r\nIn the same year, the new articles of the Association for ASSOCHAM were worked\r\n out and the membership structure of the Chamber was categorized into Promoter\r\n Chambers, Patron Members, Ordinary Members and Corporate Associates. For the\r\n first time ASSOCHAM also opened itself up for overseas membership. Besides, the\r\n managing committee reconstituted to have a President, Senior Vice President, and\r\n Vice President and three deputy Presidents, to be advised by forty-member apex\r\n advisory body. Not only large industry and trade but also small and medium industrial\r\n enterprises, engaged in agriculture and transport, as well as professional bodies and\r\n several new industry associations entered ASSOCHAM\'s fold.
', 'ASSOCHAM-Brochure.pdf', 'ASSOCHAM initiated its endeavour of value creation for the industry in 1920. Built\r\n on the vision of nation-building, ASSOCHAM has been a part of the politicaleconomic history of India.
\r\nWith a rich heritage of being led by stalwarts of independent India, like JRD Tata,\r\n Nani Palkhivala, H.P. Nanda, L.M. Thapar, A.N. Haksar and Raunaq Singh, among\r\n others, the ASSOCHAM has displayed the ability to transform itself to cater to the\r\n contemporary Corporate India. The Chamber has emerged as the \'Knowledge\r\n Chamber\', leveraging India\'s strength across sectors in the knowledge-led global\r\n economy.
\r\nASSOCHAM had its roots in the Bengal Chamber, a strident and influential voice\r\n supporting trade interests in British India in the late 19th-early 20th century.\r\n Constituted in 1853, the Bengal Chamber in turn owes its parentage to the\r\n Calcutta Chamber, which is believed to have taken shape in 1833.
\r\nASSOCHAM was more than a chamber for its members; it served as stimulant to\r\n other business groups to close ranks. Primarily, it inspired the \'Indian\' sector,\r\n which looked at ASSOCHAM as an example of British business interests lobbying on\r\n a national scale and creating the wherewithal for smooth progress.\r\n ASSOCHAM had as its original members 13 Chambers: of Bengal, Bombay. Burma,\r\n Ceylon. Chittagong, Cochin. Cocanada, Karachi, Madras, Narayangang, Punjab.\r\n Tuticorin, and Upper India. The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.\r\n functional since 1905, joined ASSOCHAM as its Promoter Chamber in 1922. In 1987,\r\n the Indian Merchants\' Chamber, Bombay, then in its 80th year, too joined as a\r\n Promoter Chamber.
\r\nASSOCHAM\'s membership structure was also designed in the same year, to have\r\n Promoter Chambers. Patron Members, Ordinary Members, and Corporate\r\n Associates. Not only large industry and trade but also small and medium industrial \r\n enterprises, engaged in agriculture and transport, and professional bodies and\r\n several new industry associations entered ASSOCHAM\'s fold.
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Hence, it was apt for ASSOCHAM to take lead in promoting the use of smart technologies in Healthcare, Agriculture, BFSI, Transportation, BFSI Solutions, Education & MSMEs, that's how SMARTecIndia Initiative was first organized in 2020, and became a successful global platform witnessing impressive participation of leaders from government and industry, stakeholders from domestic and international markets and enthusiasts of smart technologies.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe SMARTecIndia Initiative 2021 will Features
\r\n\r\n The SMARTecIndia Initiative is a unique Digital platform that has reached out to maximum target\r\n audience all over the world to showcase, reward, recognize and celebrate the world of smart\r\n technologies and how they are making our lives and businesses smarter and simpler.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The SMARTecIndia Initiative is a unique Digital platform that has reached out to maximum target audience all over the world to showcase, reward, recognize and celebrate the world of smart technologies and how they are making our lives and businesses smarter and simpler.\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM SMARTecIndia Initiative also hosts Annual Innovators' Excellence Awards on our flagship platform EnnovateIndia to celebrate the unique zeal of innovations of the entrepreneurs and leaders from all industry sectors. The winners of the 1st Edition of ASSOCHAM Innovators Excellence Awards included names like Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, Tech Mahindra Foundation, CESC Ltd and many others\r\n
\r\n ', 'Registration', 'https://www.smartecindia.in', 'banner.jpg', 'The-Smartec-India-Initiative-2021', 1, 0, '2021-12-03', '2021-12-15', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (2, 'ASSOCHAM Webinar on Marketing in B2B Business _20 August 2021', 'The challenging times are posing a quintessential question to businesses - What should be and could....', 'The challenging times are posing a quintessential question to businesses - What should be and could bethe role of Marketing in revival of business growth? A question that must be answered emphatically in therealm of B2B marketing too. The thinking should cover not just fuelling short-term sales linked growth butalso long-term brand building and achieving a balance.
\r\nIn view of the above, ASSOCHAM National Council on Branding and Marketing is organizing a webinaron “Marketing in B2B Business” on 20th August 2021 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm. The webinar would coverexperience-based insights and approaches to building reputation, building lasting customer relationshipsand growing revenues through Business2Human marketing in a B2B world.
\r\nTOPICS TO BE COVERED
\r\n• Marketing as a growth driver• Building B2B brand• Marketing as owners of CX• Customer Relationships
\r\n• Marketing as a growth driver• Building B2B brand• Marketing as owners of CX• Customer Relationships
\r\n• Marketing as a growth driver• Building B2B brand• Marketing as owners of CX• Customer Relationships
\r\n• Marketing as a growth driver• Building B2B brand• Marketing as owners of CX• Customer Relationships
\r\nSPEAKER PROFILE:
\r\nShri GovindaRaj Avasarala, Head Enterprise Marketing, Vodafone Idea Ltd.
\r\nGovindaRaj is an inspiring business leader with proven expertise in strategic delivery, brand building,B2B Marketing, Digital and Product Management. Currently, he heads Marketing for Vi Business,enterprise unit of Vodafone Idea Limited. As a member of core team, he recently spearheaded thelaunch of Vi, a unified brand of Vodafone and Idea. Beyond brand building, strategic marketing andDigital Marketing are core to his portfolio–C level engagement, Advisory boards, Account BasedMarketing (ABM), content marketing and social marketing. He is most passionate about designing andchampioning customer centric marketing programs with sharp focus on revenues and lastingrelationships.
\r\nGovind has over 19 years of experience having worked with startups, consulting firm and global ICTcompanies such as Siemens, Deloitte, Microland and IMImobile. In his stint with Vodafone India, hebuilt significant expertise in managing product P&L and building high performance teams. Govind hasled large scale Digital transformation programs and has been an integral part of integration programbetween Vodafone and Idea.
\r\n ', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3hWdIDc', 'forth3.jpg', 'ASSOCHAM-Webinar-on-Marketing-in-B2B-Business-20-August-2021', 1, 0, '2021-08-20', '2021-08-20', '3:00 PM', '4:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (3, 'Corporate Governance Symposium-Series 2', '', '\r\nThe financial stress posed by Covid-19 pandemic and its rippling effects have prompted organisations torethink how they govern and manage risk and especially, w.r.t. the newer ones which have unprecedentlydisrupted the systems and internal control. The situation has also reinforced a need for a robust riskmanagement framework for identification of internal and external risks faced by the both listed and unlistedentities. The risks are including financial, operational, sectoral, sustainability (ESG related risks),information, cyber security or any other type of risk. In order to respond to the risk exposures in a timelymanner, the board’s function to oversee the risk management policy and framework require necessarychanges in working practices and organizational arrangements. The key is to take an agile approach tobusiness continuity and broader risk management. Hence, there is a need to review the current risk appetiteframework with the board and senior management in order to understand the impact on the company’scurrent risk profile.
\r\nThe strategic role of Risk Management Committee (RMC) is very much crucial to ensure that theorganization is taking the appropriate measures to achieve prudent balance between risk and reward inboth ongoing and new business activities. RMC assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversightresponsibilities regarding the risk appetite of the entity, it’s risk management and compliance framework,as well as governance structure that supports the vision and long-term sustainability.
\r\nIn view of emerging trends in the practices of risk management committee as well as challenges being facedby them in implementing and monitoring the risk management plan and strengthening the overall corporategovernance frameworks in the organizations, ASSOCHAM is organizing the Corporate GovernanceSymposium - Series 2 on “Effective Risk Management Committee”. The conference will be deliberated byeminent speakers and participants from the government, regulators, corporate governance practitioners,directors on board of corporates, chartered accountants, company secretaries, CFOs, legal heads,compliance heads, among others.
', 'Registration', 'https://forms.gle/EYsNPkDnXFKugMPz6', 'Corporate Governance Symposium-Series 2_26th August 2021.jpg', 'corporate-governance-symposium', 1, 0, '2021-08-26', '2021-08-26', '03:00 PM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (4, 'ASSOCHAM IP BOOTCAMP-Masterclass Serires with PCTE group of institutes', 'India has a proud history of Nalanda and Takshila Universities, so we already had the\r\n intellectual property inherited within our culture.', 'India has a proud history of Nalanda and Takshila Universities, so we already had the intellectual property inherited within our culture. Although India is currently the third largest startup ecosystem in the world still India is ranked low on a global intellectual property index as both filing and commercialization of patents are low in the country. There is sufficient talent in the country and young innovators are constantly innovating under the guidance of their mentors, but they are unaware of the system of filing for patents & IP rights.
\r\nHence to overcome the current limitations in our innovation ecosystem, a systematic holistic effort, ASSOCHAM IP BOOTCAMP under the theme Nurturing Young Innovators, Incubators and Entrepreneurs, planning to organize a series of webinars that will create appropriate awareness regarding the need, mechanism, and methodology involved in filing IP in India and globally. The objective of the series is to recognize, facilitate and felicitate the Intellectual property, innovations, and best practices in HEIs. The idea is to make young minds curious about IP and teach them to respect it.
\r\nIn view of the above, ASSOCHAM National Council on IPR is organizing a webinar on “ASSOCHAM IP BOOTCAMP – Masterclass with PCTE Group of Institutes” on 20th August 2021 at 11:30am - 1:00pm. The webinar would cover incentivisation of the innovation with the help of Intellectual Property Rights especially focussed on to the challenges faced in Pharmaceutical Sector.
\r\nTOPICS TO BE COVERED
\r\n• Various types of IP rights
• Revenue generation with IPRs
• Patent filing for Pharmaceutical Products & Processes
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) had been implemented with a view to consolidating\r\n Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws and addressing NPA issues affecting the economy and over the\r\n past few years, the code has helped improve the governance framework, the result of which\r\n has been the improvement in India\'s Ease of Doing Business ranking. Recently hon\'ble Supreme\r\n Court has taken landmark decision to allow lenders initiate insolvency proceedings against\r\n personal guarantors, who are usually promoters of big business houses, along with the stressed\r\n corporate entities for whom they gave guarantee. As per the apex court there was an \\\"intrinsic\r\n connection\\\" between personal guarantors and their corporate debtors.
\r\n\r\n he Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 aims to provide an efficient\r\n alternative insolvency resolution framework for corporate persons classified as Micro, Small\r\n and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) under the Code, for ensuring quicker, cost-effective and\r\n value maximizing outcomes for all the stakeholders for the core revival of MSMEs.
\r\n\r\n Key Areas Of Discussion:-
\r\n●Creditability Of Resolution Professionals.
\r\n●Timeliness Of IBC Resolution Settlement- Reasons For Delay.
\r\n●Extension Of Pre- Pack Insolvency For All Not Only MSMEs.
\r\n●Should Role Of RP Be Given To Firms.
\r\n●Insolvency & Bankruptcy of Individual Personal Guarantors- Prospective Recovery.
\r\nIn this connection, on behalf of the ASSOCHAM, we cordially invite you for as an Eminent\r\nSpeaker to address the ASSOCHAM National E-Summit Series on Insolences & Bankruptcy Code \r\nand Valuation \"A Comprehensive Relook To Revamp Of IBC\" scheduled to be held on Saturday,\r\n28th\r\n August 2021 in Webex Format from 11:00 AM onwards and request for nominal financial\r\nsupport for the same
\r\nWe sincerely hope that you will consider our request favourably and send one-line\r\n confirmation for the same.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3fLxBeP', 'ibc-cover.png', 'National-E-Summit-Series', 1, 0, '2021-08-28', '2021-08-28', '', '', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (6, 'Reimagining Education Post COVID 19 ', 'ASSOCHAM National Council on Education and Careerwill Information Centre\r\n Pvt. Ltd', 'Dear Sir/Madam,
\r\nMalnutrition continues to be one of India\'s major problems and is a leading risk factor of death in\r\n children younger than 5 years accounting for 68.2% deaths, according to the Global Nutrition Report,\r\n 2020. UNICEF predicts 3 lakhs children may die in India over the next six months due to reductions in\r\n routine health service coverage levels and an increase in child wasting, based on a recent report in\r\n Lancet research.
\r\nMalnutrition was still an epidemic in India, particularly for children, even before the pandemic struck.\r\n Covid-19 presents a danger of further slowing down decades of progress made in the area of decreasing\r\n malnutrition. An already poor health system is weakened by the burden of the pandemic. Disrupted\r\n routine public health program, food stocks struggle, loss of revenues has had adverse effects on the\r\n health of children and their already precarious nutritional state.
\r\nIn reducing the risk of diseases, nutrition plays a key role. The lack of good nutrition or lowmicronutrient diet results in malnutrition that is preventing child growth, brain and physical\r\n development. Several government initiatives such as the Acute Malnutrition Community Management,\r\n POSHAN Abhiyan have helped to boost child nutritional status in India by offering a low cost of staples\r\n in the PDS and mid-day meal services.
\r\nIn light of the above, ASSOCHAM is organizing a Webinar to address Severe Acute Malnutrition on\r\n August 12, 2021.
\r\nThe webinar will be aimed at creating nutrition awareness- educating the masses on the importance of\r\n basic nutrition and how it will help sustain good health, carrying out nutrition campaign to assess the\r\n nutritional status of the children and understanding proper nutrition interventions for SAM and MAM \r\n children. It will also provide a platform for the industry and government to come together and discuss\r\n the current status of SAM in the country and ways to overcome it.
\r\n❖ An e-certificate will be provided to all the attendees after completion of the event
', '', '', 'Flyer (11).jpg', 'Reimagining-Education-Post-COVID-19', 1, 0, '2021-08-12', '2021-08-12', '3.00 p.m', '3.00 p.m', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (7, 'ASSOCHAM\'s Center of Excellence for Tribal Entrepreneurship Development ', 'Under the aegis of this initiative, we are organizing a Virtual Conference on Leveraging Heritage\r\n of Tribal Communities to recognize the contributions of tribal community toward Atmanirbhar Bharat', '\r\n Under the aegis of this initiative, we are organizing a Virtual Conference on Leveraging Heritage\r\nof Tribal Communities to recognize the contributions of tribal community towards\r\nAtmanirbhar Bharat with the following objectives:
\r\n\r\n ●To showcase tribes of India for building resilient communities
\r\n●Enhancing the entrepreneurial capabilities of our master artisans in promoting and\r\n sustaining the identity and value.
\r\n●Tribal entrepreneurs as vehicles that catalyse employment and create self-reliance
\r\nThe virtual conference will be beneficial for Tribals, Handicraft Exporters and Entrepreneurs,\r\n Apparel Exporters and Entrepreneurs, Agricultural Exporters and Entrepreneurs, Prospective\r\n Entrepreneurs, NGOs, Consultants, Students, Social Workers and many more.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/2WgNqTG', 'Banner 360x259px assocham.jpg', 'assocham-center-of-excellence-for-tribal-entrepreneurship-development', 1, 1, '2021-08-28', '2021-08-28', '', '', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (8, '60 Hours online Certificate Program on GST Laws', 'ASSOCHAM Centre of Excellence on Education and Skill in collaboration with Suveeksha Eduskills and\r\n Manav Rachna International University are organizing 60 hours online certification program on\r\n Goods and Services Tax (GST).', 'ASSOCHAM Centre of Excellence on Education and Skill in collaboration with Suveeksha Eduskills and Manav Rachna International University are organizing 60 hours online certification program on Goods and Services Tax (GST). The course is designed to take you through the legal provisions under GST and their applicability. Knowledge of all the sessions will be imparted by Senior Advocates,Chartered Accountants and learned GST experts and Academicians.
', 'Registration', ': https://pages.razorpay.com/pl_HnwviEmzZwjiFq/view', 'Banner 360x259px assocham.jpg', '60-Hours-online-Certificate-Program-on-GST-Laws', 1, 0, '2021-09-03', '2021-10-06', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (9, 'Journey of A brand', '', 'Ever wondered what goes behind the making of a great brand? How are some of the most iconic brands born? What led to the making of the most memorable ads?
\r\nBranding is often considered an art with exceptional creative minds delivering outstanding campaigns. But is there also a science to the process? What are the strategic steps that precede the making of a great brand and a great campaign?
\r\nTo unravel some of these questions, ASSOCHAM National Council on Branding & Marketing is organizing a webinar on \\\"Journey of a Brand\\\" on 16th September 2021 at 12 noon.
\r\nTopics To be Covered-
\r\n1. Branding Process
\r\n2. Brand Key
\r\n3. Case Study of a Successful Textile brand
\r\nSpeaker Profile
\r\nShruti Agrawal, Head of Marketing & Ecommerce for Domestic Textiles Business, Aditya Birla Group
\r\nShruti Agrawal, AVP, Aditya Birla Group is a passionate marketer and has worked across sales, strategy, marketing functions over the last 11 years. A graduate from LSR Delhi and IIM Kolkata
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3AHtpEK', 'Banner 360x259px assocham.jpg', 'Journey-of-A-brand', 1, 0, '2021-08-16', '2021-08-16', '12.00 p.m', '12.00 p.m', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (10, 'Xelerate North: Accelerating the growth momentum for holistic development', '', 'The Northern region of India forms a large part of the country, both in terms of area as well as its population. In recent years, most states in northern India have outperformed India’s national average in terms of GDP. ASSOCHAM has been working to drive economic growth in the region through various state chapters under the aegis of the Northern Region Development Council. Our focus areas include Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh.
\r\nGiven the abundance of natural resources in these states, they offer a wide range of trade and industrial opportunities. Additionally, a skilled workforce and a large consumer market make these attractive investment destinations across sectors. The key sectors driving growth in the region include agriculture and food processing, textiles, ESDM, auto and auto components, electric mobility, infrastructure development, renewable energy, tourism, real estate, logistics, equipment machinery, IT & ITeS, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and education.
\r\nThe Northern region is currently focused on infrastructure development to support a balanced model of socio-economic growth, wherein states and UTs build manufacturing and services ecosystems to transition from a largely agrarian economy. Such shift in focus has helped the region witness significant economic growth and foreign investment inflow over the past few decades. As the country works towards becoming Atmanirbhar, the Northern region is also focused on creating an enabling business environment that makes Indian businesses globally competitive.
\r\nGoing forward, the region’s growth and investments would be facilitated by continuous support from the Government, reduction in compliance burden, implementation of more business-friendly policies, and improvement in ease of doing business.
\r\nASSOCHAM is organizing its flagship event, Xelerate North 2021, a virtual summit to showcase business and investment opportunities in the region. The event will bring together leaders from the Government and private sector to:
\r\n• Create a roadmap for accelerating the growth momentum
\r\n•Promote Northern states as preferred investment destinations
\r\n• Discuss state/UT level opportunities across sectors
\r\n• Identify interventions that can enable enhanced investments across focus sectors
\r\n• Bring together policymakers to deliberate opportunities for holistic development
\r\n• Encourage ideation of technology adoption to facilitate innovation
\r\nA wide variety of the projects undertaken by the various state governments, such as station redevelopments, roads and highways, or private industrial parks in several districts, are being implemented under the public-private participation (PPP) model. Further, state governments have invited private participation to develop major infrastructure projects such as roads and highways, power, agriculture, sports, etc. This presents a lucrative opportunity for the private sector firms to benefit from the boom in infrastructure development in many north Indian states.
\r\nThe Summit would include state-specific sessions, wherein the panellists from Public and Private sectors showcase the opportunity of growth across industries and deliberate interventions which will go a long way in attracting more investments. Additionally, it would showcase an immersive session with policymakers in the State to discuss the roadmap for the future. This session would lay the foundation for public and private sectors working collaboratively to achieve economic growth and enhance the global competitiveness of the regional industry. Xelerate North 2021 would also include an exclusive Membership Meet with the Chamber’s Presidium.
', 'Registration', 'https://www.xeleratenorth.in', '1631247898-Banner.jpg', 'xelerate-north-accelerating-the-growth-momentum-for-holistic-development', 1, 0, '2021-09-17', '2021-09-17', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (11, 'Illness to Wellness - Non-Communicable Diseases: \"The New Health Challenges For Odisha\"', '', '\r\nNon-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of adult mortality and morbidity worldwide. In India, NCDs burden is growing at an alarming rate. There are empirical studies depicting that air pollution is one of the biggest contributors for rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, obesity as well as with issues pertaining to digestive tract, and heart in urban India. This has come to the fore during the pandemic. The mortality rate among those suffering from NCD\'s has been recorded at 60 per cent during the pandemic. These studies further highlight that two-third Indians with non-communicable diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) & heart strokes are highly prevalent in the age group of 26 to 59 years. Furthermore, diabetes & hypertension are more prevalent among people above 35 years of age. Lifestyle or behaviour risk is the topmost factors followed by hereditary characteristics, and rest is environmental exposure or occupational factors associated with an increase occurrence of a particular disease or other health conditions.
\r\nThe prevalence of NCDs is alarmingly higher than the national average in some specific regions of India including, Odisha. The paramount objectives of this programs are to prevent, control, and manage such critical NCDs through cascading public awareness about early diagnosis and adopting healthy lifestyle changes, and eventually to address the healthcare issues concerning prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of such non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
\r\nIn view of above, under Illness to Wellness campaign, ASSOCHAMis organizing a Webinar on Illness to Wellness - Non-Communicable Diseases: “The New Health Challenges For Odisha” scheduled on Tuesday, 14th September, 2021, from 3.00 PM To 4.00 PM.
\r\nKeeping in mind the relevance of the topic, we are immensely pleased to cordially invite you to attend this highly significant and very timely webinar
\r\nPrior registration is mandatory. We shall appreciate your kind consideration and an early registration for the program.
\r\nAfter registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing information and details about joining the webinar.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3yopeMy', '1631253688-illness-to-wellness.jpg', 'illness-to-wellness-non-communicable-diseases-the-new-health-challenges-for-odisha', 1, 0, '2021-09-14', '2021-09-14', '03:00 PM', '04:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (12, 'Empowering Preventive Healthcare', 'Cancer has attracted considerable attention in recent years , given an increasing incidence in selected\r\n populations over the past three decades the discovery of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection as the\r\n driver of the increase, as opposed to the traditional risk factors such as tobacco (smoking and chewing)\r\n and alcohol.', 'Cancer has attracted considerable attention in recent years , given an increasing incidence in selected populations over the past three decades the discovery of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection as the driver of the increase, as opposed to the traditional risk factors such as tobacco (smoking and chewing) and alcohol.
\r\nAccording to WHO 110 countries have introduced HPV into their national routine immunization schedules, with 10 new introductions planned by the end of 2021.
\r\nSystematic reviews attribute low rates of HPV vaccination coverage to a multitude of factors, such as limited parental knowledge and awareness of the HPV vaccine, lack of a provider recommendation, and concerns about the side effects and efficacy of the vaccine.
\r\nWorld Health Organisation has recommended that sexually naive girls and girls between the ages of nine and 13 years be vaccinated against HPV. The problem is the lack of awareness, nobody has heard about it. Only a few know about cervical cancer and even less know that it is a preventable disease.
\r\nEven the ones, who have cervical cancer and know it is preventable, don\'t want to go for treatment, so we lose many in the treatment cycle. HPV vaccination in a country like India is one of the most important things that we can do to address the issue of cancer.
\r\nTo address this very important subject where the theme would focus on topics like lack of HPV vaccine awareness/information, misinformation about HPV, lack of communication, financial issues relating to uptake, demographic/perceived and social norms. ASSOCHAM is bringing a series of scientific and purpose-driven conversations that raise awareness of the women cancers especially HPV related diseases and cancers and the need for HPV vaccines as a critical part of preventive health with CFI as knowledge partner.
\r\nThe second session of this important series is scheduled to be held on September 08, 2021 at 5 PM (IST).
\r\nThe session will also go live on ASSOCHAM Facebook Page - https://m.facebook.com/ASSOCHAM4Ind/?tsid=0.5125099357078726&source=result
', 'Registration', 'https://assochamindia.webex.com/assochamindia/onstage/g.php?MTID=e3ff29b98ee12e2401da2e62ae48cc7ab', 'Flyerempowerprevent.png', 'empowering-preventive-healthcare', 1, 0, '2021-09-08', '2021-09-08', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (13, 'Nation Nutrition Week Webinar on Illness to Wellness: \"Nutritious and Balanced Diet: Key To Success\"', '', '\r\nThe nutritious and balanced diet plays the highly significant role in promoting the health and wellbeing of a human being. It improves the quality of life, as poor diet might cause morbidity and/or severe illnesses. Now, the diet related diseases, cutting across all age groups and sections of the society, needs to be taken seriously. A healthy diet helps to protect against Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer and other medical conditions. On the contrary, unhealthy diet and sedentary life are potential risks to health.
\r\nSince early childhood, healthy diet practices foster healthy growth and improves cognitive development and may have long term health benefits such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing NCDs later in life. National Nutrition Week is celebrated each year from 1st to 7th September to enhance the nutritional practice awareness among the community people at large to get optimum benefits from proper nutritious food to make a “healthy Nation”.
\r\nThus, the need of hour is to involve multi-pronged strategy to build awareness on preventive and promotive healthcare through healthy habits, balanced diet, the importance of eating right and at the right time, regular exercises with comprehensive approach. Now, it’s high time to realise how utmost important is to be healthy through lifestyle intervention .
\r\nIn view of above, to disseminate wisdom about nutritious food, balanced diet and to promote healthy living with focus on wellness and preventive health, ASSOCHAM, under Illness to Wellness campaign, is organizing a Webinar on “Nutritious and Balanced Diet: Key To Success” scheduled on Tuesday, 7th September 2021 from 11.00 AM To 12.30 PM.
\r\nKeeping in mind the relevance of the topic, we are immensely pleased to cordially invite you to attend this highly significant and very timely webinar.
\r\nPrior registration is mandatory. We shall appreciate your kind consideration and an early registration for the program. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing information and details about joining the webinar. We look forward to your valuable participation.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3mNhCRS', 'nationalnutritionbannereventdetail.png', 'nation-nutrition-week-webinar-on-illness-to-wellness-nutritious-and-balanced-diet-key-to-success', 1, 0, '2021-09-07', '2021-09-07', '11:00 AM', '12:30 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (14, 'National E-Summit Cyber Insurance \"Reinvigorating The Future For Bridging The Gap\"', '', 'Cyber Insurance is designed to help businesses hedge against potential cybercrime including Ransomware, Malware and Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. It is a specialty lines insurance product intended to protect businesses, and individuals providing services for such businesses, from Internet-based risks, and more generally from risks relating to information technology infrastructure, information privacy, information governance liability, and activities related thereto. Risks of this nature are typically excluded from traditional commercial general liability policies or at least are not specifically defined in traditional insurance products.
\r\nHowever, Cyber risk is steadily increasing. Security/Data breaches affect millions of records a year and reports of breaches continue to rise at a dramatic rate. The introduction of viruses and unauthorized access are well known examples. Also, the typical Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy provides protection against claims of bodily injury or property damage for which your business may be liable. The Commercial General Liability insurance covers a wide range of Liability loss exposures faced by most organisations; it is the foundation for most organisations’ Liability insurance programs.
\r\nThe Chief Guests for the National E-summit on Cyber Insurance is T.L Alamelu Member, (Non-Life) Insurance regulatory and Development authority of India & the Special address will be given by Shri Saurabh Mishra, Joint secretary, Ministry of Finance, GOI.
\r\nKey Areas of Discussion:-
\r\n• Cyber Security & Commercial General Liability (CGL) Insurance
• New Growth Opportunities & New Risks For The Cyber Insurance Industry.
• Empirical Analysis of Cyber Insurance Sector vis-à-vis Coronavirus
• Reshaping Catastrophe Risks & Insured Values.
• Automated risk assessment and monitoring.
• Cyber risk Audit, Cyber risk Modelling & Cyber risk Reinsurance
Ever wondered what goes behind the making of a great brand? How are some of the most iconic brands born? What led to the making of the most memorable ads?
\r\nBranding is often considered an art with exceptional creative minds delivering outstanding campaigns. But is there also a science to the process? What are the strategic steps that precede the making of a great brand and a great campaign?
\r\nTo unravel some of these questions, ASSOCHAM National Council on Branding & Marketing is organizing a webinar on “Journey of a Brand” on 16th September 2021 at 12 noon.
\r\nTopics To be Covered
\r\n1. Branding Process
2. Brand Key
3. Case Study of a Successful Textile brand
Speaker Profile
\r\nMs Shruti Agrawal, Head of Marketing & Ecommerce for Domestic Textiles Business, Aditya Birla Group
\r\nShruti Agrawal, AVP, Aditya Birla Group is a passionate marketer and has worked across sales, strategy, marketing functions over the last 11 years. A graduate from LSR Delhi and IIM Kolkata.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3AHtpEK', 'Flyerjoureybrand.png', 'assocham-webinar-on-journey-of-a-brand', 1, 0, '2021-09-16', '2021-09-16', '12:00 PM', '12:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (16, 'ASSOCHAM Fintech Conclave', 'India is now presented with a unique opportunity to expedite technology adoption, an\r\n area where consistent efforts made over the past few years have yielded significant\r\n benefits amidst the pandemic.', '\r\nIndia is now presented with a unique opportunity to expedite technology adoption, an area where consistent efforts made over the past few years have yielded significant benefits amidst the pandemic. With the Government of India’s flagship Digital India Programme, the adoption of digital payments and enabling a seamless payment experience has played a crucial role in realizing the vision of a digitally empowered economy.
\r\nASSOCHAM strongly supports the landmark announcement during the Union budget to earmark ₹1,500 crores for a scheme to incentivize digital payments to boost digital transactions further. India has distinctive comparative strengths in areas like Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, etc. The growth of FinTech, or the designing and provisioning of financial services by using new technological innovations, is one of the most significant developments in the financial sector in the past decade. FinTech can play a vital role in increasing access to finance and promoting the growth of MSMEs in the country.
\r\nKeeping in mind the developments in the digital payment industry, ASSOCHAM is organising the 2 nd edition of the Annual Fintech & Digital Payments Conclave & Awards on a Virtual Platform on Wednesday 8th September 2021. This conclave and award ceremony aims to recognize organizations and promote best practices in the digital payment space. The Conclave will provide a platform to Senior officials from the government, Fintech and Digital Payment players, Banks, enablers, and other enabling financial institutions in India to come together and deliberate on the future of Digital Payments in the country.
\r\nOn behalf of ASSOCHAM, we cordially invite you to attend this Conclave as our “Guest”. We request you to please register on the below link to get then joining link. There is no registration fee to attend this Conclave.
', 'Registration', 'https://assochamindia.webex.com/assochamindia/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebed783dfc48199248741ff06e3783d78', 'Flyerfintechconclave.JPG', 'assocham-fintech-conclave', 1, 0, '2021-09-08', '2021-09-08', '09:30 AM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (17, 'ASSOCHAM's\r\n Capacity Building Series\r\n Atmanirbhar Bharat', '', 'As we are aware that a clarion call for Atmanirbhar Bharat has been given by Hon’ble Prime Minister. This has envisaged as a great opportunity to strengthen Brand India which is endowed with unmatched talent that is able to outperform competition given a level playing field.\r\nTime is opportune for all the organizations to light on focused promotion strategies like ‘Make in India’ and thus benefit Indian economy and mark their presence globally. However, current statistics shows that only 2% of the total employees in India have completed skills development training.
\r\nEmphasizing on the importance of skill development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also opined that skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling of people needs to be expedited as there is going to be a huge demand for this due to fast-changing technology. Skill development of the new generation is a national need and is the foundation of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
\r\nSensing the need for skill development for the young population, it is imperative to build proper infrastructure for the same. Providing basic utilities like electricity and health care is important, irrespective of these institutions being public, private or public-private partnerships. It is also important to identify the gaps in the current education and skill development system so that the young generation can better identify the need of the industry and their consumers and devote their time to enhance those skill which will be of better service to the society. Practical and industry exposure is the key to understand the industry requirement, better cater to it and become more self-reliant.
\r\nAgainst this background, ASSOCHAM is organizing this Capacity Building series on “ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT, Moving Towards Self Reliant India”, Knowledge Session with Shri Gurcharan Das, Author, Thought Leader and Ex-CEO & MD, P&G India.
\r\nThe objective of the session is to be a source of motivation and inspiration for the students and youth to enhance their skills and driving them to become more self-reliant (Atmanirbhar).
\r\nAn e-certificate will be provided to all the attendees after completion of the event.
', '', '', 'FLYER(_1 (1).PNG', 'assocham-s-capacity-building-series-atmanirbhar-bharat', 1, 0, '2021-08-26', '2021-08-26', '03:00 PM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (18, 'Webinar on Redefining Role of Intermediaries in Capital Market', '', ' \r\nIndia is one of the fastest growing wealth management markets in the world and is expected to be fourth largest private wealth market globally by 2028. The capital markets are always seen as a reflection of the economic health and growth of a country. Today, the Indian capital markets truly reflect one of the fastestgrowing economies in the world. For speedy economic development, adequate capital formation is necessary, and the capital market has a crucial significance to capital formation. Capital market serves as a crucial link between saving and investment process as it transfers money from savers to entrepreneurial borrowers. Intermediaries occupy an indispensable and pivotal space in today’s capital market. While some trade dealings may involve only a single intermediary entity, more complex transactions comprise networks and chains of intermediaries at different levels. Thus, market intermediaries operate as the bridge between capital providers and capital seekers
\r\n \r\nIntermediaries possess professional expertise and play a promotional role in organising a perfect match between the supply and demand for capital in the market. SEBI provide for regulatory requirements in respect of registration, obligations and responsibilities, inspection and enforcement of various types of capital market intermediaries such as broker dealers, clearing members, depository participants, investment bankers, portfolio managers, investment advisers, custodians, credit rating agencies, debenture trustees and account aggregators.
\r\nWith the growing number of market participants, the role of intermediaries have become more prominent and essential for building the ecosystem of capital markets as they are service providers and are an integral part of the capital market. Further, with the rapid increase in the number of participants, the number of intermediaries have also increased in the Indian capital market. Therefore, with a view to discussing various important issues of intermediaries in the capital market, ASSOCHAM is organising a Webinar on Redefining Role of Intermediaries on 9th September, 2021 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
\r\nIn view of the importance of the subject, we are glad to invite you to attend the Webinar at 4:30 P.M. on 9th September, 2021.
', '', '', 'webinar-redefining-9-sept.jpg', 'webinar-on-redefining-role-of-intermediaries-in-capital-market', 1, 0, '2021-09-09', '2021-09-09', '04:30 PM', '06:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (19, 'Virtual Conference on Leveraging Heritage of Tribal Communities', 'ASSOCHAM\\'s Center of Excellence for Tribal Entrepreneurship development is working on\r\n a Program titled Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Programme\r\n ', 'ASSOCHAM’s Center of Excellence for Tribal Entrepreneurship development is working on a Program titled Tribal Entrepreneurship Development ProgrammeUnder the aegis of this initiative, we are organizing a Virtual Conference on Leveraging Heritage of Tribal Communities to recognize the contributions of tribal community towards Atmanirbhar Bharat with the following objectives:Eminent Speakers:
\r\n❖ Dr. Biswajit Saha, Director- Training & Skill Education, C.B.S.E.
\r\n❖ Rakesh Yadav, Co-Founder, Careerwill Information Centre Pvt. Ltd.
\r\n❖ Dr. Niyati Chitkara, Director, Chitkara International School, Panchkula & Chandigarh
\r\n❖ Dr. Shauli Mukherjee, Director- School of Education & Dean Student Affairs, Adamas University, Kolkata
\r\n❖ Dr. Rajan Gautam, Director, Bhagwan Mahavir International School, Surat
\r\n❖ Satyendra Tiwari, Vice President, Careerwill Information Centre Pvt. Ltd.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/37NpiLd', 'Flyer (8).jpg', 'webinar-on-reimagining-education-post-covid-19-need-to-democratize-education', 1, 0, '2021-08-26', '2021-08-26', '11:30 AM', '11:30 AM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (21, 'Webinar on Severe Acute Malnutrition', 'Malnutrition continues to be one of India's major problems and is a leading risk factor of death in\r\n children younger than 5 years accounting for 68.2% deaths, according to the Global Nutrition Report,\r\n 2020.', '\r\n
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\r\n
Dear Sir/Madam,
Malnutrition continues to be one of India’s major problems and is a leading risk factor of death in children younger than 5 years accounting for 68.2% deaths, according to the Global Nutrition Report, 2020. UNICEF predicts 3 lakhs children may die in India over the next six months due to reductions in routine health service coverage levels and an increase in child wasting, based on a recent report in Lancet research.
\r\nMalnutrition was still an epidemic in India, particularly for children, even before the pandemic struck. Covid-19 presents a danger of further slowing down decades of progress made in the area of decreasing malnutrition. An already poor health system is weakened by the burden of the pandemic. Disrupted routine public health program, food stocks struggle, loss of revenues has had adverse effects on the health of children and their already precarious nutritional state.
\r\nIn reducing the risk of diseases, nutrition plays a key role. The lack of good nutrition or lowmicronutrient diet results in malnutrition that is preventing child growth, brain and physical development. Several government initiatives such as theAcute Malnutrition Community Management, POSHAN Abhiyan have helped to boost child nutritional status in India by offering a low cost of staples in the PDS and mid-day meal services.
\r\nIn light of the above, ASSOCHAM is organizing a Webinar to address Severe Acute Malnutrition on August 12, 2021.
\r\nThe webinar will be aimed at creating nutrition awareness- educating the masses on the importance of basic nutrition and how it will help sustain good health, carrying out nutrition campaign to assess the nutritional status of the children and understanding proper nutrition interventions for SAM and MAM
\r\nchildren. It will also provide a platform for the industry and government to come together and discuss the current status of SAM in the country and ways to overcome it.
\r\n\r\n
India is now presented with a unique opportunity to expedite technology adoption, an area where consistent efforts made over the past few years have yielded significant benefits amidst the pandemic. With the Government of India’s flagship Digital India Programme, the adoption of digital payments and enabling a seamless payment experience has played a crucial role in realizing the vision of a digitally empowered economy.
\r\nASSOCHAM strongly supports the landmark announcement during the Union budget to earmark ₹1,500 crores for a scheme to incentivize digital payments to boost digital transactions further. India has distinctive comparative strengths in areas like Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, etc. The growth of FinTech, or the designing and provisioning of financial services by using new technological innovations, is one of the most significant developments in the financial sector in the past decade. FinTech can play a vital role in increasing access to finance and promoting the growth of MSMEs in the country.
\r\nKeeping in mind the developments in the digital payment industry, ASSOCHAM is organising the 2 nd edition of the Annual Fintech & Digital Payments Conclave & Awards on a Virtual Platform on Wednesday 8th September 2021. This conclave and award ceremony aims to recognize organizations and promote best practices in the digital payment space. The Conclave will provide a platform to Senior officials from the government, Fintech and Digital Payment players, Banks, enablers, and other enabling financial institutions in India to come together and deliberate on the future of Digital Payments in the country.
\r\n\r\n
The objective of the WorkVision 2021 being organised with Aon as knowledge partner on 29&30 July 2021 is to examine the changes in HR transformation post COVID -19 and beyond. Before this unprecedented Pandemic, the term ‘future of work’ was nebulous, intangible, hard to measure, rife with buzzwords and yet void of an end date. As we imagine a path towards recovery, organizations must identify critical job roles that will help them navigate through uncertainty and the long-term implications of having a remote and dispersed workforce.
\r\nThe need of the hour is to explore the concept of change and what it means for corporate India the workforce and hence, the custodians of people policy, Human Resources. HR will play an important role in long-term planning. Leaders need to think beyond cost-containment exercises and consider transformational changes to the ways of working afforded by this opportunity. HR can help develop a thoughtful and targeted approach that optimizes people costs while also positioning organizations to come out of this crisis stronger.
\r\nSessions :
\r\n• Preparing for the future
\r\n• Emergence of the Gig Talent Economy
\r\n• The Art of Scaling Up
\r\n• Using Assessments to “Hire Right”
\r\n• Leveraging Technology in HR
\r\n• Unlocking Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
', '', '', 'WorkVision 2021 HR in the New Normal & Beyond', 'workvision-2021-hr-in-the-new-normal-beyond', 1, 0, '2021-07-29', '2021-07-31', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (24, 'Women Oncology and Care', 'Non-communicable diseases including cancer are emerging as major public health\r\n problems in India. These diseases are lifestyle related, have a long latent period and\r\n needs specialised infrastructure and human resource for treatment. Cancer is affecting\r\n women more than men.', 'Non-communicable diseases including cancer are emerging as major public health problems in India. These diseases are lifestyle related, have a long latent period and needs specialised infrastructure and human resource for treatment. Cancer is affecting women more than men. Women are most affected by breast, cervix uteri, ovary, lip/oral cavity, and colorectal cancer. Breast cancer alone makes up 27.7% of the total cancer cases in women, followed by cervix uteri (16.5%) and ovarian cancer (6.2%).
\r\nWomen are custodians of family health, playing a critical role in maintaining the health and well-being of their communities. In other words, healthy women will ensure healthy families, healthy communities and a healthy nation. It is alarming that awareness levels of women related cancers is low among the general population and even the medical professionals. Despite the established benefits of screening, coverage in India is low for women.
\r\nIt is crucial to address the growing incidence of cancer among women with a sense of urgency with emphasis on prevention, awareness, timely diagnosis, effective treatment and palliative care.
\r\nIn view of the above ASSOCHAM with Narayana Health is organising a timely webinar on Women Oncology and Care schedule for Friday, July 23, 2021 at 4 PM.
', '', '', 'Women Oncology and Care.png', 'women-oncology-and-care', 1, 0, '2021-07-23', '2021-09-23', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (25, 'Webinar\r\n PLI Scheme on Pharmaceuticals & White Goods - ACs\r\n and LED Lights', 'We are pleased to inform you that ASSOCHAM is organizing a webinar on "PLI\r\n Scheme on Pharmaceuticals & White Goods - ACs and LED Lights" jointly\r\n with Nangia Andersen LLP on 2nd July 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm.', 'We are pleased to inform you that ASSOCHAM is organizing a webinar on “PLI Scheme on Pharmaceuticals & White Goods – ACs and LED Lights” jointly with Nangia Andersen LLP on 2nd July 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm.
\r\nThe Government of India under its Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative aims to boost domestic manufacturing through introduction of Production Linked Incentives (PLI) Schemes in 10 ‘Champion’ sector that have been identified as drivers of manufacturing growth in India. The schemes provide incentives to companies for enhancing their domestic manufacturing apart from focusing on reducing import bills and improving the cost competitiveness of local goods.
\r\nKey Objective: There are different timelines for submission of applications to the respective ministry or department online. This will be followed by the disbursement process involving verification of the claim, approval of the disbursement, and the final disbursement. The webinar will guide the participants on the eligibility, selection and disbursement criteria under the following PLI Schemes:
\r\n• Pharmaceuticals
\r\n• White Goods – ACs and LED lights
\r\nEminent Speakers:
\r\n1. Rakesh Nangia, Founder & Chairman, Nangia Andersen India Pvt Ltd – Opening & Closing remarks
\r\n2. Nischal S Arora, Partner, Nangia Andersen LLP
\r\n3. Mayank Arora, Director, Nangia Andersen LLP
', '', '', 'PLI Scheme on Pharmaceuticals & White Goods.jpg', 'webinar-pli-scheme-on-pharmaceuticals-white-goods-acs-and-led-lights', 1, 0, '2021-07-02', '2021-07-02', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (26, 'National E-ConclaveThe business of banking is changing rapidly. Products and services rendered and built on disruptive technologies are increasingly being placed in the hands of end customers and the behaviours of banks are changing in terms of customer convenience, transparency, pricing and customer service. As costumers’ behaviours and expectations change, so do the business and operational models. Every part of the banking value chain from what consumers can avail and expect in terms of banking services can now be accessed by a non-banking service provider through its technological prowess and agile and lean business models. Under these models, retail and small and medium enterprises (SME) banking services are primarily delivered through the internet or other forms of electronic channels instead of physical branches. These non-banking service providers are called neobanks and they are challenging the present status of traditional banks, by offering lower cost models and hyper-distinctive customer-centric service and experiences.
\r\nA digital bank and a neobank aren’t quite the same, even though they appear to be based on the mobile-first approach and emphasis on digital operating models. While the terms are sometimes used mutually, digital banks are often the online-only subsidiary of an established and regulated player in the banking sector, A neobank, on the other hand, exists solely online without any physical branches and independently or in partnership with traditional banks. This enables them to navigate and comply with the regulatory environment. The chief Guests for the Event is Shri Subash Chandra Garg, Former Finance secretary, Govt of India.
', '', '', 'National E-Conclave.jpg', 'national-e-conclave-neo-banking', 1, 0, '2021-09-17', '2021-09-17', '03:00 PM', '05:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (27, 'India Smart Datacentres & Cloud Infrastructure Summit 2021', '', 'The growth prospects of India’s Data center industry have led to approx. USD 400 mn M&A deals over and above the organic investments by operators during 2020.The demand for data centers has increased as cloud adoption and digitization has grown. But to meet this rising demand, India will require a huge investment in data center and cloud infrastructure over the next three years. Demand is likely to ramp up further due to the imminent rollout of 5G, increasing usage of IoT-enabled devices, data localization and cloud adoption. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, businesses are looking to adopt cloud servers and surging cloud applications will make it imperative for businesses to have a reliable and secure IT infrastructure, where data can be stored and processed effectively.
\r\nData Centers are the backbone of a digital revolution. The Government of India’s proposed Draft Data Center Policy aims to make India a ‘Global Data Center’. This will provide long-term funds for investments in the sector. Various state governments have also been providing incentives to industry players for setting up data center parks. The synergy of technology, legislation, demand, and investments is expected to usher in an era of high growth for India’s DC industry in coming years.
\r\nASSOCHAM, the oldest and apex Chamber of India, has a dedicated National Council on Data Centers. The Council is working extensively with the central and State Governments for creating platform for industry to discuss on legal, policy & regulatory enablers that are essential to develop the digital infrastructure, promote future investments in datacenter industry & strengthen Datacenter & cloud business in India.
\r\nWe are pleased to inform you that the 2nd Edition of “INDIA SMART DATACENTRES & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT 2021” is being organized with Theme “Making India a Global Data Hub” on Wednesday, 29th September 2021 from 10:00 am - 03:00 pm.
', 'Registration', '//assochamindia.webex.com/assochamindia/onstage/g.php?MTID=e996cd15cc0b8dc795b6216602b8990b6', 'DATACENTRES & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT 2021.jpg', '2nd-assocham-annual-india-smart-datacentres-cloud-infrastructure-summit-2021', 1, 0, '2021-09-29', '2021-09-29', '10:00 AM', '03:15 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (28, '2nd National E-Conclave on Productive Use Of Financial Resources_\"Roadmap For Economic Rebound\"', '', 'Indians are resilient, they navigated the first wave of Covid-19 successfully, and they will deal with the challenge of the second and subsequent waves successfully. However, that does not gainsay from the fact that the economic effects of the pandemic have been very significant. Individuals, households, small businesses, large corporates and government have all been impacted albeit in differing ways. Timely action by the government and the central bank have blunted most of the ill effects of the pandemic, thus far. However, the longer the pandemicand the associated conditions therewith - persist, the greater the strain on the financial position of all the constituents of the economy.
\r\nThe crisis - as with all such events - has shown us new opportunities as well. The digital revolution that was creeping on to us, has now been speeded up manifold. Businesses such as FMCG- unlikely beneficiaries of this revolution - have also learnt to adapt and use this technology to serve their customers. This represent a microcosm of India\'s entrepreneurial energy - from industrial equipment to capital goods - every industry is adapting to conserve resources, stay relevant and grow.
\r\nHowever, to emerge from this situation stronger requires government and business to work together. The creation of a nurturing environment, where businesses can thrive, is a principal goal of governments. The maximisation of the potential created by a beneficent government, the duty of the businesses in that economy. To achieve this, we need constant dialogue between the various stakeholders: government, businesses, regulators and others so that our precious resources be they money, talent, enabling policy frameworks etc. are used to maximise the economic output of the country, and consequently, the maximisation of general wellbeing.
\r\nKey Areas of Discussion:-
\r\nIn this connection, on behalf of the ASSOCHAM Department of Banking & Financial Services, we would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to attend this timely and meaningful discussion.
\r\n\r\n ', '', '', '2nd National E-Conclave.jpg', '2nd-national-e-conclave-on-productive-use-of-financial-resources-roadmap-for-economic-rebound', 1, 0, '2021-07-29', '2021-07-29', '11:00 AM', '02:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (29, 'ASSOCHAM Masterclass on ISO 22316 - Organizational Resilience: The Need of the Hour', '', '
Last year in March 2020, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India called for Business Continuity Plans to mitigate the losses caused by the pandemic of COVID19. Even before this pandemic, organizations across the globe have been regularly impacted by various unforeseen natural, political, manmade, and accidental crisis situations which greatly impact the business operations.
\r\n \r\nISO 22316 defines Organizational Resilience as the “Ability of an organization to absorb and adapt in a changing environment to enable it to deliver its objectives and to survive and prosper.”
\r\n \r\nIn this regard, ASSOCHAM invites you to a Complimentary Masterclass on ISO 22316: Organizational Resilience: The Need of the Hour on Saturday, 3rd July 2021.
\r\n \r\nThe Masterclass will help your organization by:
\r\n \r\nOur Expert: Daman Dev Sood, FBCI, FBCS, CBCI, IEEE Ambassador is an International Resilience Trainer & Consultant. He holds over 7500 hours of training/ teaching experience. Has served various companies, in various industry sectors in over 20 countries as trainer/ consultant/ auditor. Daman is an international speaker of repute, and an author. He has won multiple national and global awards. He has spent over 35 years in the industry, and over 16 years in Resilience (Organizational Resilience, BCM, Risk Management, Crisis Management etc.) domain.
\r\n \r\n ', '', '', 'ASSOCHAM Masterclass .jpg', 'assocham-masterclass-on-iso-22316-organizational-resilience-the-need-of-the-hour', 1, 0, '2021-07-03', '2021-07-03', '4 PM ', '6 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (30, 'ASSOCHAM Southern Region CSR And Sustainability Committee Presents MasterclassDue Diligence of Implementing Agencies', '', 'We are pleased to inform you that ASSOCHAM Southern region CSR and Sustainability committee is organizing series of Masterclass session from July to September 2021. This masterclass combines the power of learning and experiences from experts in key areas of CSR laws, Fundraising, Marketing for the Social Sector and Learnings from a Case Study.
\r\nAs we begin with our second session on CSR Law (Amendments) & Due diligence of implementing agencies – an interactive workshop for NGOs on developing a more powerful presence which covers the following aspects as part of the program.
\r\n \r\nThe audit committees play a pivotal role for an effective corporate governance. The approval of audit committees to financial and non-financial data is in core for internal control, regulatory compliances, and risk management. The consistent growth of EVA in the long-term is the outcome of unquestionable ethics which is witnessed by the impetus in conducive changes that enable an entity to be an exemplar of a highly responsible corporate citizen. On the other hand, the instances of corporate financial scams and frauds have legal and penal implications to promoters as well as auditors and such fundamental crisis discourages and prevents several stakeholders from taking investment risks and the practices of members of the audit committee also undergo scanning alongside several other challenges.
\r\nThe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a variety of business, financial and operating issues, and challenges to the organizations. The audit committees have an enhanced responsibility to balance the priorities unlike their routine way of doing practices in the past. This is in the context of the oversight role of the audit committees that the fundamental rights of stakeholders should be on verge of strategic agendas and that global best practices co-evolving with the severity of pandemic would only empower the audit committees to combat the new challenges and risks.
\r\nIn view of emerging trends in the practices of audit committees as well as challenges being faced by them towards protecting the interests and rights of shareholders and strengthening the overall corporate governance frameworks in the organizations, ASSOCHAM is organizing the Virtual Symposium on “Effective Audit Committee Ensuring Governance”.
\r\nThe conference will be deliberated by eminent speakers and participants from the government, regulators, corporate governance practitioners, directors on board of corporates, company secretaries, CFOs, legal heads, compliance heads, among others.
\r\n ', '', '', 'ASSOCHAM-Virtual-Corporate.jpeg', 'assocham-virtual-corporate-governance-symposium-on-effective-audit-committee', 1, 0, '2021-07-14', '2021-07-14', '03:00 PM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (32, 'ASSOCHAM\'s Hydrogen Policy Study_ An interactive Session with Shri Amitabh Kant CEO NITI Aayog ', '', '\r\nThe Government of India has set up Hydrogen Mission under the aegis of MNRE with an objective to define India’s role and commitment towards energy transition. While India has set a path for enhancing energy security for its increasing requirements, though in an environment friendly manner. The Government of India has set targets across cleaner fuels including natural gas, bio fuels, renewable energy, such that green fuels contribute to higher proportion of total energy requirements by 2030. Hydrogen can be a game changer for India, as it can create a strong alignment between the economy’s energy needs, energy security and environment with several enablers already in place.
\r\nHydrogen is an excellent energy carrier with the highest energy content per unit mass among other fuels and it provides immense opportunity to achieve the emission reduction targets especially in hard to abate Industrial sectors. The usage of Hydrogen in oil refining and transportation sector is well known for desulphurization, meeting BSVI standards, and reducing CO2 emissions. The recent mandate to allow use of H-CNG (18% mix of hydrogen) in CNG engines for transportation as clean fuels has been taken to reduce emission levels. Oil refineries are planning to set up pilot hydrogen units. Further, green hydrogen as a substitute to grey hydrogen can help India achieve its emission reduction targets effectively.
\r\nA strong policy perspective is required to achieve the goal. ASSOCHAM took lead and initiated captioned Hydrogen Policy Study, early this year. The ASSOCHAM study deals with cross ministerial demand and supply issues and recommendations. ASSOCHAM will share findings and recommendations with NITI Aayog, MNRE, MoRTH, MoPNG and MoCF.
', '', '', 'ASSOCHSMs HydrogenPolicy.png', 'hydrogen-policy-study', 1, 0, '2021-07-15', '2021-07-15', '', '', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (33, 'ASSOCHAM\'s Virtual Session on Millets 2021: Status & Way Forward', '', '\r\nMillets can be the wonder crop providing food, nutrition and livelihood security, beating the adverse effects of climate change. Millets are group of small, grained cereal food crops which are highly tolerant to drought and other extreme weather conditions and are grown with low chemical inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides.
\r\nThey have various qualities that makes its importance in today’s food value chain and are popularly known as Nutri-cereals as they provide most of the nutrients required for normal functioning of human body. Millets are nutritionally superior to rice and wheat as they contain a high number of proteins, dietary fibers, iron, zinc, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin B, and essential amino acids. The essential amino acid profile of the millet protein is better than various cereals such as maize.
\r\nThe production in country is comparatively low. India currently has around 14 million hectares of land under millets cultivation These areas include Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Production of millets is around 14 million tons a year with Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Karnataka leading in millet farming.
\r\nDespite high potential, the crop has not been given high importance. In spite of the superior quality of millets, only pearl millet has been prioritized as crop of choice for iron biofortification in India. Therefore, vast potential exists to utilize the minor millets for biofortification.
\r\nThe session will focus on the status and Challenges. The discussions will invite views on policy interventions required to promote the production of millets crops in India and increasing its area under cultivation and lastly the role of all stakeholder viz research institutes, farmers / growers, Government: Central and State, Industry: seed, stage, distribution and Processing food Industry.
\r\n', '', '', 'ASSOCHAM Virtual Corporate.png', 'assocham-s-virtual-session-on-millets-2021-status-way-forward', 1, 0, '2021-07-09', '2021-07-09', '11:00 AM', '11:00 AM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (34, 'Cross-border Trade (Imports and Exports) Incentives and Facilitations under Indian Customs', '', '\r\n
In view of the recent legislative changes, focus on “Tax Incentives and opportunities” is imperative. These may be equally relevant for the manufacturing sector especially in-keeping with the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative of Government of India.
\r\nTo explore the key developments in international trade, facilitation programs under Indian Customs and discuss the topical issues concerning incentives for international trade, ASSOCHAM is hosting a webinar titled Cross-border Trade (Imports and Exports) Incentives and Facilitations under Indian Customs on Tuesday 27th July 2021.
\r\nThe webinar aims at deliberating the significant schemes concerning international (cross border) trade, facilitation programs under the Indian Customs law on topical issues concerning incentives and opportunities in international trade.
\r\nThe panel will be highlighting the manifold schemes pertaining to international trade and help offset infrastructural inefficiencies and associated costs involved in the export of goods. Some of the relevant schemes that will be discussed include
\r\n \r\nAnd other key FTP benefits.
\r\nThe expert panel will comprise of Senior Customs officials from the Government of India, corporate leaders and knowledge partners Dhruva Associates.
', '', '', 'cross border .jpeg', 'cross-border-trade-imports-and-exports-incentives-and-facilitations-under-indian-customs', 1, 0, '2021-07-27', '2021-07-27', '3:00 PM', '5:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (35, 'E-Conclave on 4 years of GST', '', '\r\nThe GST has gone through significant changes since its implementation in 2017. Every new legislation takes time to evolve and stabilise. The GST law also seems to be evolving more through notifications and circulars. ASSOCHAM appreciates the efforts of the Government to ease the GST processes over a period of time by simplifying filing of registration application, return filing process, e-way bill, e-invoicing etc. The Government also announced several relief measures in the past 18 months to cater to the taxpayers affected by the countrywide lockdown in this pandemic situation. The industry and tax professionals will have to learn to adapt to frequent changes in tax positions and associated processes.
\r\nTherefore, ASSOCHAM is organizing an E - Conclave on 4 years of GST on 9th July 2021 at 3.00 pm to discuss the key developments under GST regime and suggest the best practices that industry should adopt during & post COVID-19.
\r\nISSUES TO BE COVERED:
\r\nINVITED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INCLUDES:
\r\nOTHERS EMINIENT EXPERTS INCLUDES:
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', '', '', 'E-Conclave.jpg', 'e-conclave-on-4-years-of-gst', 1, 0, '2021-07-09', '2021-07-09', '03:00 PM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (36, 'ASSOCHAM SAP - Global Bharat Webinar', '', '\r\n
As India enters Unlock 5.0, we are slowly seeing signs of recovery in the Indian economy. However, its complete recovery and aspiration to become future-ready mainly depends on how fast the MSME sector reinvents itself to become globally competitive!
\r\nASSOCHAM in partnership with SAP is proud to announce the launch of Global Bharat Program for the members to help them become globally competitive by producing world-class products and offering them at competitive rates to global customers.
\r\n\r\n
', '', '', 'Banner Bharat.jpg', 'assocham-sap-global-bharat-webinar', 1, 0, '2021-08-05', '2021-08-05', '03:00 PM', '04:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (37, 'National Conference onManipur Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions', '', '\r\n
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Rural logistics development is an important part of the modernization of the agriculture sector, which is essential for enhancing the living standards of rural residents. Agriculture logistics is critical for ensuring the produce reach the destinations and the true value is obtained for the farmers. India is the country with the second-largest tribal population in the world. Almost one hundred million people of the country are a part of the tribal population. Efficient logistics systems in rural tribal areas shall enable unimpeded distribution channels for agricultural inputs and products and manufactured consumer goods to and from rural areas and promote the development of the agriculture sector. In this regard ASSOCHAM is hosting a virtual meet on 17th of July 2021 in partnership with NABARD Manipur. On this occasion an ASSOCHAM study shall be released.
\r\nJoin us as take discussions on current Logistic scenario and bridging the Gap
\r\nThe Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) had been implemented with a view to consolidating Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws and addressing NPA issues affecting the economy and over the past few years, the code has helped improve the governance framework, the result of which has been the improvement in India’s Ease of Doing Business ranking. Recently hon’ble Supreme Court has taken landmark decision to allow lenders initiate insolvency proceedings against personal guarantors, who are usually promoters of big business houses, along with the stressed corporate entities for whom they gave guarantee. As per the apex court there was an “intrinsic connection” between personal guarantors and their corporate debtors.
\r\nThe Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 aims to provide an efficient alternative insolvency resolution framework for corporate persons classified as Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) under the Code, for ensuring quicker, cost-effective and value maximizing outcomes for all the stakeholders for the core revival of MSMEs.
\r\nWe would like to inform you that CRISIL has confirmed as Knowledge Partner for this initiative.
\r\nKeeping the view of the above the ASSOCHAM National Council for Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code & Valuation is organizing series of programmes on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code & Valuation on the following.
\r\nIn this connection, on behalf of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code and Valuation we would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you as an Eminent Speaker for this timely and meaningful series of discussion and request your esteemed organization to kindly extend nominal financial support as per enclosed flyer for the ASSOCHAM National E-Summit Series on Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code and Valuation.
', '', '', 'E-submit series.png', 'national-e-summit-seriesinsolvency-bankruptcy-code-and-valuation-pre-packaged-process-for-stressed-msmes', 1, 0, '2021-08-06', '2021-08-06', '11:00 AM', '01:00 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (39, 'National Webinar onParadigm Shift on Agri Inputs:Challenges and A way Forward', '', '\r\nThe last few years have been towards strengthening the foundations, for accelerated agriculture growth and the Government's pledge of “doubling farmers’ income. The Agri-input sector industry has been posting impressive growth annually, slightly disrupted owing to Covid. As we are expecting the Global Population to reach USD 9 Billion by 2050 this would require twice the food to be produced from the constant land area. This certainly requires innovative thinking to enhance productivity and ensure sustainability. More production from less land can be accomplished only with the combination of Quality Seeds, Quality Inputs & Farm Practices.
\r\nWhat is required now is to unleash the full potential of agriculture with a paradigm shift in public-private partnership and the spirit of cooperative federalism. Crop productivity, quality seeds and value chain linkages will be a challenge in the future with the increasing population and hence demand for more productive harvest and collaboration in the value chain. There is a need for technological intervention, new business models and greater engagement of key players.
\r\nIn this regard, ASSOCHAM is hosting the webinar “Paradigm Shift on Agri Inputs: Challenges and a Way Forward\\\" on 1 July 2021 from 3 pm onwards to engage stakeholders to develop linkages to identify and prioritize the challenges and develop strategies to support the stakeholders.
\r\nConsidering the significance of the program for agriculture sector, we invite you to join the webinar.
\r\nIndia continues to address ongoing COVID 19 crisis and at the same time needs to be vigilant for security reasons and well prepared for exigencies including natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, forest-fire, floods). Drones or the UAVs have the ability to play a key role in combating these by providing services such as disinfecting contaminated areas, managing crowds and delivering medical supplies at no-time at remote and difficult to reach destinations, owing to geographical conditions. They empower response teams to map areas and conduct risk and damage assessment promptly, locate victims in real-time, enable faster and safer search and rescue operations thereby minimizing loss of lives.
\r\nThe Government of India has notified Draft UAS/ Drone Rules 2021 and has requested industry inputs on various provisions there in. The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is pleased to organise a virtual panel deliberation on captioned subject on Friday 30th July, 2021 from 12:00 to 01:30 pm. Where representatives from the Government, Government Agencies, Industry associated with UAV/Drone Manufacturing companies and the Startups will deliberate on various related issues. The Industry inputs will be submitted to Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt of India.
\r\nTopics for Discussions:
', '', '', 'panelDeligation.jpg', 'panel-deliberation-on-draft-uas-drones-rules-2021', 1, 0, '2021-07-30', '2021-07-30', '12:00 PM', '01:30 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (41, 'Virtual Session on\"Delhi Healthcare System\" Preparedness to combat 3rd wave of Covid-19', '', '\r\n
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pital\'s healthcare system has been one of its biggest strengths and to provide best healthcare facilities to population in Delhi, Government has worked on four-tier system including Mohalla clinics, polyclinics, secondary care hospitals and tertiary care hospitals to prove all possible measures to create accessible, affordable and quality model of health care delivery system in National Capital which was appreciated Nationally and Globally as well. But the second wave of Covid pandemic has left a major strain on the healthcare system of the country including shortage of liquid medical oxygen due to unanticipated demand, and lack of cryogenic tankers.
\r\nGoing forward, each state’s administration needs to make preparation for the predictable third wave by strengthening their health infrastructure including special ICUs and emergency rooms for children who are yet to be vaccinated to manage and mitigating the impact at macro and micro levels.
\r\n
In view of the above, ASSOCHAM Central Region Development Council (CRDC) is organizing a Virtual Session on “Delhi Healthcare System” Preparedness to combat 3rd wave of Covid-19 on 5th August 2021 at 2.30pm to discuss about the preparedness of Delhi Government for minimizing the impact of pandemic as per needs and resources and progress of the vaccination drive.
We are pleased to inform that Shri Satyendar Jain, Hon’ble Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of NCT of Delhi has confirmed his participation as the chief Guest at the above session.
\r\n \r\nOther Speakers
\r\n \r\nKindly forward this mail to your colleagues who may be interested in attending –registration is free and open to anyone with an interest in above subjected theme.
', '', '', 'Flyer Delhi Healthcare System .jpg', 'virtual-session-on-delhi-healthcare-system-preparedness-to-combat-3rd-wave-of-covid-19', 1, 0, '2021-08-05', '2021-08-05', '02:30 PM', '02:30 PM', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (42, 'Virtual Summit and Awards on NUTRACEUTICALS', '', '\r\n\r\n
The world has witnessed a more than recent trend shifts towards attaining a truly healthy lifestyle. To aid the people in their efforts, there was a huge influx of a unique range of nutraceutical products in the market. These products drove away from pharmaceutical solutions, towards a more natural one.
\r\n \r\nBurgeoning middle class, high disposal incomes and an increased awareness of health issues have resulted in a trend toward self-medication. People are looking to nutraceuticals—dietary supplements, functional foods, traditional medicines, etc.—for disease prevention, wellness, and performance enhancement.
\r\nGrowth of the nutraceuticals market in India can largely be attributed to increased affluence, lifestyle diseases and a change in the consumer perception and mindset. Increase in awareness about extra supplements among consumers, increasing health consciousness and rising healthcare costs are also aiding the growth of the nutraceuticals market.
\r\nMore than 80% of physicians agree that responsible use of nutraceuticals and OTC supplements can reduce the burden on the healthcare system and effectively manage minor ailments.
\r\nIn this view, ASSOCHAM is organising an illuminating Virtual Summit and Awards on NUTRACEUTICALS -The Frontline of Consumers Health which will focus on Nutraceuticals, Dietary Supplements, OTC and various other topical subjects.
', '', '', 'virtual summit.jpg', 'virtual-summit-and-awards-on-nutraceuticals', 1, 0, '2021-08-05', '2021-08-05', '', '', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (43, 'ASSOCHAM in Association With Wadhwani Foundation Bringing Hospital Cohort Program -\r\n TransformHealth', '', '\r\nASSOCHAM in association with Wadhwani Foundation is bringing first-of-its-kind hospital cohort \r\n program - TransformHealth. We aim to facilitate connections, foster collaborations, and help \r\n hospitals drive sustainable improvements.
\r\nThis program is aimed at providing comprehensive and holistic support to the hospitals on topics of \r\n relevance at no cost. It will be a great opportunity for the hospital CXOs to analyse and understand \r\n the health of their business and identify key areas of improvement.\r\n The program is designed in a manner that the hospitals can benefit and become more efficient, \r\n productive, and profitable through experience, exposure
\r\nPro-bono offerings
\r\n●Panel discussions and outcome-based expert sessions on relevant topics
\r\n●KPI-driven business analysis and transformation assistance
\r\n●Technology & digital health support through test-bed program
\r\n●Access to AI-based knowledge platform with 3-6 months of advisory support
\r\n●Employee skilling and training through learning management system
\r\n●Networking with industry experts, peers, and innovative vendors
\r\n●Peer-to-peer learning
\r\n●Product and innovator showcase
\r\nEligibility criteria
\r\n●Willingness to adopt, test and validate digital/technology-led solutions
\r\n●Employee size of more than 100
\r\n●Annual revenue exceeding 22 Cr. INR
\r\n●Demonstrated use of technology to improve operations
\r\n●Strong founder and management team
\r\nThe programme will start on September 21, 2021 with target cohort size of 15 hospitals on first come, \r\n first serve basis
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3jSjI0L', 'Flyer (2).jpg', 'ASSOCHAM-in-association-with-Wadhwani-Foundation-bringing-Hospital-Cohort-Program-TransformHealth', 1, 0, '2021-09-21', '2021-09-21', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (44, 'Webinar On Food Can Heal', '', '\r\nHealthy food is the medicine we give our bodies every day. The proverbial saying \'You are \r\n what you eat\' is the notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food. It can't cure \r\n what ails you, but certain foods have the power to soothe symptoms and give your body a \r\n boost when you have specific illnesses or injuries.
\r\nEating well helps one to heal faster and fight infection. During healing the body needs more \r\n calories, protein, fluid, vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc. The best source of these nutrients is \r\n food. If anyone is not eating enough healthy food, he / she may need to take a supplement.
\r\nWith many of us turning to antibiotics and flu remedies at the merest hint of a sneeze, we \r\n could be exposing our bodies to all sorts of side-effects as well as building immunity to their \r\n beneficial effects. Luckily, there are many ways to heal your body without hitting the medicine \r\n cupboard.
\r\n●In view of this, ASSOCHAM is organising a webinar for encouraging people for taking back \r\n power over their health and well-being in tangible ways and in learning a lifestyle that is going \r\n to be more helpful to keep them out of the pharmacy.
', '', '', 'Flyer_1302 x 677.jpg', 'Webinar-on-Food-can-Heal', 1, 0, '2021-09-18', '2021-09-18', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (45, 'Webinar on Illness to Wellness:\"Graceful Ageing\"on World Alzheimer\'s Day', '', '\r\nNeurodegenerative disorders are one of the major public health problems and leads to \r\n psychological as well as economic burden on the caregivers and nation. The World Health \r\n Organization (WHO) estimates that 15 percent of the world's population are mentally disabled \r\n with dementia, memory loss, anxiety, and stress related disorders. Dementia is one of the \r\n leading contributors of disability in the elderly among all the neuropsychiatric conditions.
\r\nAlzheimer disease, the most common cause of dementia among older adults, is a brain disorder \r\n that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually, the ability to carry out the \r\n simplest tasks. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning and behavioral abilities, and it \r\n adversely impacts person's daily life and activities. Dementia ranges from the mild to the most \r\n severe stage. The causes and stages of dementia (Alzheimer\'s disease) varies from person to \r\n person. Beyond genetics, there are numerous other factors involving health, environment, and \r\n lifestyle diseases
\r\nIndia is currently undergoing through demographic transition phase wherein the aged \r\n population is rapidly growing. Mental health conditions of elderly play a significant role in their \r\n morbidity and premature mortality. In India, 5 out of every 100 elderly people have dementia \r\n and many more are at high risk. The nutritious diet, physical activities, social engagements, and \r\n mentally stimulating pursuits have all been associated with helping people to stay healthy as \r\n they are ageing and it might also help reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
\r\nWith the objectives to cascade and raise awareness about Alzheimer and other forms of \r\n dementia and related mental disorders and to disseminate knowledge and wisdom to promote \r\n healthy living with focus on prevention and wellness of such diseases, ASSOCHAM, under \r\n ILLNESS TO WELLNESS campaign, is organizing a Webinar on \'\'Graceful Ageing\'\' scheduled on \r\n World Alzheimer's Day, Tuesday, 21st September 2021, from 11:00 AM To 12:30 PM.
\r\nKeeping in mind the relevance of the topic, we are immensely pleased to cordially invite you \r\n to attend this highly significant and very timely webinar.
\r\nPrior registration is mandatory. We shall appreciate your kind consideration and an early \r\n registration for the program. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing \r\n information and details about joining the webinar.
', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/3z9wdJJ', 'BANNER 1302 X 677.jpg', 'Webinar-on-ILLNESS-TO-WELLNESS-Graceful-Ageing-on-World-Alzheimer-Day', 1, 0, '2021-09-21', '2021-09-21', '11.00 AM', '12.30 PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (46, 'Corporate Governance Symposium-Series 2', '', 'The financial stress posed by Covid-19 pandemic and its rippling effects have prompted organisations torethink how they govern and manage risk and especially, w.r.t. the newer ones which have unprecedentlydisrupted the systems and internal control. The situation has also reinforced a need for a robust riskmanagement framework for identification of internal and external risks faced by the both listed and unlistedentities. The risks are including financial, operational, sectoral, sustainability (ESG related risks),information, cyber security or any other type of risk. In order to respond to the risk exposures in a timelymanner, the board’s function to oversee the risk management policy and framework require necessarychanges in working practices and organizational arrangements. The key is to take an agile approach tobusiness continuity and broader risk management. Hence, there is a need to review the current risk appetiteframework with the board and senior management in order to understand the impact on the company’scurrent risk profile. \r\nThe strategic role of Risk Management Committee (RMC) is very much crucial to ensure that theorganization is taking the appropriate measures to achieve prudent balance between risk and reward inboth ongoing and new business activities. RMC assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversightresponsibilities regarding the risk appetite of the entity, it’s risk management and compliance framework,as well as governance structure that supports the vision and long-term sustainability.
\r\nIn view of emerging trends in the practices of risk management committee as well as challenges being facedby them in implementing and monitoring the risk management plan and strengthening the overall corporategovernance frameworks in the organizations, ASSOCHAM is organizing the Corporate GovernanceSymposium - Series 2 on “Effective Risk Management Committee”. The conference will be deliberated byeminent speakers and participants from the government, regulators, corporate governance practitioners,directors on board of corporates, chartered accountants, company secretaries, CFOs, legal heads,compliance heads, among others.
', 'Registration', 'https://forms.gle/EYsNPkDnXFKugMPz6', 'forth4event.jpg', 'corporate-governance-symposium', 1, 1, '2021-08-26', '2021-08-26', '03:00 PM', '03:00 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (47, 'WorkVision 2021: HR in the New Normal & Beyond', '\r\n The objective of the WorkVision 2021 being organised with Aon as knowledge partner on 29&30 July 2021 is to examine the changes in HR transformation post COVID -19 and beyond.', 'WorkVision 2021: HR in the New Normal & Beyond
\r\nThe objective of the WorkVision 2021 being organised with Aon as knowledge partner on 29&30 July 2021 is to examine the changes in HR transformation post COVID -19 and beyond. Before this unprecedented Pandemic, the term 'future of work' was nebulous, intangible, hard to measure, rife with buzzwords and yet void of an end date. As we imagine a path towards recovery, organizations must identify critical job roles that will help them navigate through uncertainty and the long-term implications of having a remote and dispersed workforce.
\r\n \r\nThe need of the hour is to explore the concept of change and what it means for corporate India the workforce and hence, the custodians of people policy, Human Resources. HR will play an important role in long-term planning. Leaders need to think beyond cost-containment exercises and consider transformational changes to the ways of working afforded by this opportunity. HR can help develop a thoughtful and targeted approach that optimizes people costs while also positioning organizations to come out of this crisis stronger.
\r\n \r\nSessions :
\r\n• Preparing for the future
\r\n• Emergence of the Gig Talent Economy
\r\n• The Art of Scaling Up
\r\n• Using Assessments to \\"Hire Right"\\
\r\n• Leveraging Technology in HR
\r\n• Unlocking Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
', '', '', 'workvision2021.jpg', 'WorkVision-2021-HR-in-the-New-Normal-Beyond', 1, 0, '2021-07-29', '2021-07-31', '', '', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (48, 'A Multidisciplinary Conclave on "Adolescent and Childhood Obesity"', '', '\r\n
ASSOCHAM in association with Institute of Minimal Access Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi is organizing a multidisciplinary mega conclave on “Adolescent and Childhood Obesity” on Saturday, October 16, 2021, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
\r\nObesity is now a pandemic affecting increasing numbers of adolescents (>12-21 years of age) and children (5-12 years of age) in India. The COVID-19 pandemic and successive lockdowns have had a deleterious effect on physical activity and lifestyles with the potential to worsen obesity. We seek to clarify this cause-and-effect relationship by the following brief survey. The survey is completely anonymous and can be taken by adolescents or the parents of adolescents / children. Please DO NOT mention any personal / confidential information or contact information (e.g., e-mail addresses / mobile or phone numbers) in this survey form.
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As we are aware that a clarion call for Atmanirbhar Bharat has been given by Hon'ble Prime Minister. This has envisaged as a great opportunity to strengthen Brand India which is endowed with unmatched talent that is able to outperform competition given a level playing field.
\r\n\r\nTime is opportune for all the organizations to light on focused promotion strategies like 'Make in India' and thus benefit Indian economy and mark their presence globally. However, current statistics shows that only 2% of the total employees in India have completed skills development training.
\r\n \r\nEmphasizing on the importance of skill development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also opined that skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling of people needs to be expedited as there is going to be a huge demand for this due to fast-changing technology. Skill development of the new generation is a national need and is the foundation of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
\r\n \r\nPreparing for a job in the marketing world tomorrow will be vastly different than it is today. While the basics of marketing may be the same, the digital marketing skills and tools need to be analysed, created, and implemented in marketing campaigns continue to evolve at breakneck speed.
\r\n \r\n74% of marketing executives recognize that marketing organizations face a critical talent shortage due to a lack of digital skills. In other words, there's a huge gap in what they need to know and what they actually know. This represents a huge opportunity. Mastering the skills now will prepare you for that future.
\r\n \r\nAfter the successful completion of the Part 1, ASSOCHAM is organizing the Capacity Building series "Knowledge Session on Digital Marketing Part 2: Effective Usage of Digital Media on Friday, September 24, 2021, 11 AM onwards.
\r\n \r\nThe objective of the session is to be a source of motivation and inspiration for the students and youth to enhance their skills and driving them to become more self-reliant (Atmanirbhar).
\r\n \r\nAn e-certificate will be provided to all the attendees after completion of the event.
\r\n ', '', '', 'Banner 1302 x 677_24 Sep.jpg', 'Knowledge Session on Digital Marketing Part 2: Effective Usage of Digital Media', 1, 0, '2021-09-24', '2021-09-24', '11:00 AM', '11:00 AM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (50, 'Webinar on Dil Maange More-Healthy Heart for a Healthy Long Life', 'Globally, cardio-vascular diseases and heart strokes including non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are collectively responsible for mounting proportion of all disabilities,', 'Globally, cardio-vascular diseases and heart strokes including non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are collectively responsible for mounting proportion of all disabilities, mortalities, and even pre- matured deaths of people before reaching 70 years of age. Theseproblems more often occurs in low-and middle-income countries.
\r\nHeart Diseases occurs when plaque develops in the arteries and blood vessels that lead of the heart. This blocks important nutrients and oxygen from reaching our heart. Plaque is a waxy substance made up of cholesterol, fatty molecules, and minerals.
\r\nIn India, the non-communicable diseases are rising at an alarming rate.The epidemic of NCDs poses devastating health consequences for individuals, families, and communities, and threatens to overall health systems. Low physical activity, (especially during and post COVID-19 pandemic), imbalanced dietand unhealthy diet pattern are major attributes for the rise of NCDs.The socio-economic cost associated with these NCDs are exorbitantly high and thus it is imperative to prevent, control and manage thecritical disease.
\r\nA healthy heart with appropriate timely care will strongly prevents from all viruses and infections especially COVID–19. It is important for cardiac patients to take control of their lifestyle habits and motivate behavioral changes as a positive move.
\r\nWith the objectives to cascade awareness and disseminate knowledge about prevention and management of heart wellness and to promote healthy life, ASSOCHAM, under ILLNESS TO WELLNESS campaign, is organizing a Webinar on “DilMaange More- Healthy Heart for a Healthy Long Life” scheduled on the eve of “World Heart Day”, Tuesday, 28thSeptember, 2021, from 3.00 PM To 4.30 PM.
\r\nKeeping in mind the relevance of the topic ASSOCHAM,we are immensely pleased to cordially invite you to attend this highly significant and very timely webinar.
\r\nPrior registration is mandatory. We shall appreciate your kind consideration and an early registration for the program.After registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing information and details about joining the webinar.
\r\nParticipants may send their questions on sandeep.jain@assocham.com in advance.
\r\nWe look forward to your valuable participation.
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Energy security and the transitioning to thriving low carbon economy is critical for a growing nation like India. Blending locally produced ethanol with petrol will help India strengthen its energy security and enable local enterprises & farmers to participate in the energy economy and helps in reducing vehicular emissions. Inspired by the National Biofuel Policy, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, have been taken steps for Ethanol blended petrol (EBP) program where oil marketing companies will sell blended petrol with 20% ethanol till 2025. To increase indigenous production of ethanol, oil companies have planned 11 mega ethanol refineries with an estimated investment of 7500 crores in the states where there is a shortage. This will increase the total distillation capacity by 150 crore liters per annum.
\r\nIndia’s revolutionary steps towards achieving a gas-based economy like Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) in which clean and green fuel like Compressed Biogas (CBG) will be generated by using organic waste. These projects will help in saving foreign currencies spent on purchase of crude oil, generate employment and promote Make in India.
\r\nHowever, non-availability of sufficient feedstock, increasing ethanol refineries in North-East region, hazardous weather, inter-state logistics norms, marketing infrastructure are some of the issues concerning development of ethanol-based economy.
\r\nTo discuss the above issues and challenges industry is facing in achieving target of E20 by 2025
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More than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from “hidden hunger,” wherein they fail to obtain enough micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) from the foods they eat. In addition to that, the COVID-19 pandemic is undermining nutrition across the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. It is estimated that COVID-19 will result in an additional 2.6 million chronically malnourished children by 2022, reversing the decreasing curve for the first time in three decades.
\r\nIt is also pertinent to note that Indian diets are typically dominated by staples such as rice and wheat, with limited dietary diversification toward micronutrient-rich foods like fruits, vegetables, and animal source foods. Introduction of biofortified staples into the food system can help improve diets considerably. In fact, biofortification is highly cost-effective can be a key food-based approach to tackle malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency, especially among low-income families who cannot afford high-value foods. By this process, the nutrient density of food crops is increased without sacrificing any characteristic
\r\nOur Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji also endorses biofortification as an effective technique to address widespread micronutrient deficiency which primarily targets low-income smallholder farming families. No single intervention will address all micronutrient deficiencies, and biofortification complements existing interventions, such as supplementation and industrial food fortification. Thus, strong policy support from the government and partnerships would further increase the adoption and acceptance of biofortified crops.
\r\nAgainst this backdrop, ASSOCHAM is organizing a Webinar on Biofortification: A path to Sustainable Nutrition on October 1, 2021, 2 PM IST onward in association with HarvestPlus & GAIN.
\r\nThe session will focus on the significance of biofortification in fighting hidden hunger, creating awareness about biofortified crops currently available, understanding the relationship between biofortification and other methods of food enrichment, and understanding the agricultural benefits of biofortified crops.
\r\nOn behalf of ASSOCHAM, we cordially invite you to kindly attend this timely and meaningful Webinar as our \\\"Guest\\\". In case you are unavailable to attend, request to please feel free to nominate colleagues for the same.
\r\nAn e-certificate will be provided to all the attendees after completion of the event.
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ASSOCHAM is leading apex chamber of the country and derives its strength from 4.5 lac\r\n corporate and 300 trade association and has presence in 30 plus nations. In our 101 years of\r\n journey, we have been the voice of the industry and as we move towards a new world post covid\r\n we commit ASSOCHAM is hosting the webinar to engage stakeholders to develop linkages to\r\n identify and prioritize the challenges and develop strategies to support the stakeholders.\r\n Financing is critical for the success of Entrepreneurs, SMEs. The funding requirements of\r\n business are diverse, ranging from meeting the requirement of working capital to new machinery\r\n to business expansion, etc. There exist a large pool of financially underserved individuals and\r\n micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.\r\n In changed business environment one of the key elements needed for the country to reach its full\r\n economic potential is to provide access to finance for SME Sector. In this regard we propose to\r\n host Lenders - Borrowers Meet for MSMEs, Women Entrepreneurs & Young Aspirants, on 1st\r\n October 2021.
\r\nHighlights of the meet are -
\r\n Conventional and Non Conventional Funding methods || Capital Market for Fund Raising ||\r\n Government Schemes || Digital Platforms for funding and much more.
The first in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit was held in Washington D.C. on September 24th, 2021, in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan were hosted by U.S. President Joseph R. Biden at the White House.
\r\nThe Quadrilateral or “Quad” is a strategic, non-military alliance between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. The dialogue was initiated in 2007 based on a shared vision of security and prosperity in a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific. Since 2017, the Quad partnership has evolved significantly into a multifaceted partnership aimed to foster practical cooperation on a panorama of contemporary global issues.
\r\nAgainst this backdrop, ASSOCHAM is organising a virtual Panel Discussion on September 30, 2021, to deliberate upon the key takeaways and economic implication within the Quad.
\r\nThe Panel Discussion aims to:
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Who should attend?
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Jharkhand is one of the richest areas in the whole country, rich in minerals deposit and forests. The region has huge reserve of coal, iron ore, mica, bauxite and limestones and considerable reserves of copper, chromite, asbestos, kyanite, china clay, manganese, dolomite, uranium etc.
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The value of minerals extracted in Jharkhand in 2004-2005 was Rs 5,760 crore- approximately eight per cent of the total value of mineral production of the country. The state is a larger producer of fuel minerals and accounts for 10 per cent of their total value in the country. Coal contributes the most -92- 93 per cent- to the total revenues from mining received by the Jharkhand government, iron ore accounts for another two to three per cent. Jharkhand receives the maximum mining royalty among the coal-producing states of India.
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Since its formation, the Jharkhand government has been laying the red carpet for industrial investment by offering sops.
\r\nThe Jharkhand government has granted 524 leases for mining various major minerals-206 of which have been granted for coal alone. In addition, 2,717 leases covering an area of 8,426 ha have been granted for extracting minor minerals in the state.
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In the name of national interest,the Jharkhand area is witnessing a gigantic industrialization and development process for the development of industries within the state and its contribution to the country as a whole. The impact on the allied industries to the mining sector have been in accordance with the foundation and strengthening of the state and industry.
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There is a need to maximize the opportunities and minimize the conflicts and hassles in the process. Keeping this in view, ASSOCHAM is organizing “Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Jharkhand: The Nucleus of Mining Hub”, Impact on Allied Industries in Thursday, 30th September, 2021 at 11 AM
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You will appreciate that an event of this magnitude will be difficult to manage without support of your organization. Your involvement and support would indeed make a great difference and we therefore humbly request you to give this initiative a big boost.
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\r\nWith an aim to enhance the health and well-being of young people, ASSOCHAM and MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership: India are partnering to organize a thought-provoking webinar Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of India’s Young People: Challenges and Opportunities” on Friday, 24th September 2021 at 11.00 AM to 12.30 PM the eve of the ‘World Contraceptive Day’.
\r\nThe ‘World Contraceptive Day’ aims to improve awareness of all contraceptive methods available and to enable young people to make informed choices on their sexual and reproductive health. This webinar will feature a distinguished panel who will deliberate on existing market constraints that impede access to contraception as well as emerging opportunities that could be leveraged.
\r\nEnsuring a well-functioning market where young people get access to a method of their choice at a price that they can afford necessities addressing market constraints that impede access. ASSOCHAM hosts the secretariat of the Condom Alliance and is committed to engaging with various market actors to improve the health of contraceptive market while serving the cause of safeguarding the health of India’s growing young population.
\r\nThe US Agency for International Development’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project, led by Jhpiego, has the goal of supporting young people realize their full potential by making informed & responsible decisions for their health & well-being. We hope the combined efforts of both entities that this webinar will herald will result in a well-functioning and dynamic market that serves young people by diversifying the method mix in the country and increase market performance across all FP methods.
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The industry is glad that the Government has given a massive push to economy by allocating about $1.4 Trillion for infrastructure to be invested until 2025.The highways sector in India has been at the forefront of performance and innovation and the government has successfully rolled out several projects to speed up the construction of roads in the country by renewing interest of private developers. Since infrastructure plays a key role in economic development, there is need for vibrant infrastructure to accelerate the economy. The National Infrastructure Pipeline set up by the government unveils the infrastructure projects across various states.
\r\n\r\n The clarion call of'Atmanirbhar Bharat'\r\n has enthused the citizens and industry with a hope that India's growth momentum will be revived soon. We are of firm belief that there is need to revive the business confidence for attracting more and more Investors from all over the world. Though the Government has taken measures through various incentives to attract private investment and foreign direct investment in the sector, there is need for further initiatives on ease of doing business in Roads and Highways sector to attract significant investor interest. While there are ample opportunities for investment in roads and highways, there are challenges too.
\r\n\r\n Therefore, to discuss various aspects of private investment in this sector, ASSOCHAM is organizing a 'Webinar on Ease of Business for Driving Investment in Road and Highways Sector on September 22 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon'ble Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Government of India has confirmed to be the Chief Guest at the webinar.
\r\n\r\n\r\n We are glad to invite you to attend the webinar and also request you to kindly nominate your colleagues to participate in the same.
', 'Registration', 'https://assochamindia.webex.com/assochamindia/onstage/g.php?MTID=e72657e6d308b269e2877f5c73e680d19', 'bannera.jpg', 'Webinar-on-Ease-of-Business-for-Driving- Investment-in-Roads-and-Highways-Sector', 1, 0, '2021-09-22', '2021-09-22', '5:30 PM', '6:30 PM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (58, 'Corporate Governance Symposium Series 3', 'The success of corporate governance is dependent not only on strict laws, regulations, codes, and policies but also on people and their strategic approach for change adoption who derive the corporate boards', 'The success of corporate governance is dependent not only on strict laws, regulations, codes, and policies but also on people and their strategic approach for change adoption who derive the corporate boards. The constitution, as per Section 178(1) to (4) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Regulation 19 of SEBI (LODR) Regulation, 2015 lay down guidelines for the roles and responsibilities of the nomination & remuneration committee (NRC).
\r\n\r\nThe concept of diversity and inclusion in the boards is encouraged whereas, recent past instances of several boards upon becoming their failure have faced criticism for lack of sagacity and skills and hence, the effectiveness of fellow corporate boards is also questioned. The global COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for a holistic view of governance responsibilities, encompassing not just financial metrics but a wide range of corporate impacts. The pandemic and its potential impact on the economy has created a variety of issues and challenges in front of the NRC and as they have a difficult balance to strike between retaining, rewarding and incentivizing senior executives to lead organisations and ensuring pay outcomes are aligned with investors and other stakeholders.\r\n
\r\n \r\n \r\nIn view of emerging trends in the practices of NRC as well as challenges being faced by them in framing, implementing, and oversighting of the policies and role in strengthening the overall corporate governance frameworks in the organizations, ASSOCHAM is organizing the Virtual Symposium on Corporate Governance Symposium - Series 3 "Effective Nomination and Remuneration Committee on 21st October 2021. \r\n
\r\n \r\n \r\nThe conference will be deliberated by eminent speakers and participants from the government, regulators, corporate governance practitioners, directors on board of corporates, chartered accountants, company secretaries, CFOs, legal heads, compliance heads, among others.\r\n
\r\nWe take this opportunity to invite your esteemed organization to join us as a partner and nominate the experts as speakers, and delegates to attend the conference.
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', 'Registration', 'https://bit.ly/2Y3ZcCl', 'LeadershipSession.jpg', 'Leadership-Session-with-Accomplished-Women', 1, 0, '2021-10-08', '2021-10-08', '11:00 AM', '11:00 AM', 0, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:06', '2021-10-27 04:21:06'), (60, 'Webinar on Non Communicable Diseases The New Health Challenges For West Bengal', 'Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of adult mortality and morbidity worldwide.In India, NCDs burden is growing at an alarming rate', 'Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of adult mortality and morbidity worldwide.In India, NCDs burden is growing at an alarming rate.There are empirical studies depicting that air pollution is one of the biggest contributors for rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, obesity as well as with issues pertaining to digestive tract, and heart in urban India. This has come to the fore during the pandemic. The mortality rate among those suffering from NCD`s has been recorded at 60 per cent during the pandemic.These studies further highlightthat two-third Indians with non-communicable diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) & heart strokes are highly prevalent inthe age group of 26 to 59 years. Furthermore, diabetes & hypertension are more prevalent among people above 35 years of age. Lifestyle or behaviour risk is the topmost factors followed by hereditary characteristics, and rest is environmental exposure or occupational factors associated with an increase occurrence of a particular diseaseor other health conditions.
\r\nThe prevalence of NCDs is quite higher than the national average in some specific regions of India including,West Bengal.
\r\nIn view of above, under ILLNESS TO WELLNESS campaign, ASSOCHAM is organizing a Webinar on Non-Communicable Diseases: "The New Health Challenges For West Bengal" scheduled on Thursday, 7th October, 2021, from 3.00 PM To 4.00 PM.
\r\n EMINENT SPEAKERS\r\nA good business environment is a pre-requisite for the economic growth of a nation. A country like India which is among the fastest developing countries in the world, has the potential to surpass the leading countries in terms of business, requires huge public procurement for its growing needs. Public procurement is an integral part of governance and financial management system of any country and it accounts for a substantial amount of global and national expenditure. Across the countries, public procurement accounts for about 15 percent of the GDP and in India its estimates are around 25% of GDP.
\r\nThe public procurement process in India is quite complex given the federal framework for public service delivery. The constitutional arrangements across the Union and State governments, autonomous and statutory bodies, public sector undertakings and the local governments demand a broad range of requirements for providing public services. The system in India has become more complex as the country does not have a comprehensive public procurement law guiding the procurement activities. The Government of India has emphasized e-procurement as a tool for enhancing transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the public procurement. Further, the situation like ongoing pandemic requires relaxing norms for procurement of services by the Government.
\r\nThe range of industries involved in public procurement is, therefore, as wide as what a government needs to function properly and to deliver public services to its citizens. Public procurement laws and regulations and their implementation in practice can encourage competition by increasing suppliers\' confidence in the integrity and efficiency of the procurement process. The Government of India has put in place rules for public procurement preference to make in India.
\r\nTherefore, with a view to understanding and clarifying certain rules and regulations for expediting the Government procurement and for capacity enhancement, ASSOCHAM is organizing a Webinar on `Ease of Doing Business in Government Procurement` from 3:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. on October 08, 2021. The Webinar will be attended by a large number of stakeholders from various government and private organizations.
\r\nWe are glad to invite you to attend the Webinar and also nominate your colleagues to participate in the same
\r\n \r\n \r\nFollowing are the Speakers:
\r\nDisseminating intellectual property knowledge among innovators is crucial for encouraging creativity and entrepreneurship, leading to an overall improvement of the innovations generated in the country. Qualcomm and the National Law University Delhi (NLUD) have collaborated with the Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India to create the L2PRO IP e-learning platform. ASSOCHAM IPR Department is supporting L2PRO for outreach and capacity building amongst innovators, entrepreneurs, and small and medium industries (SMEs).
\r\n\r\nIn view of immense importance of the initiative, ASSOCHAM is organizing a webinar on \"Unleashing the Potential of Copyrights for Startups\" on 12th October 2021 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm with the objective to make startups & SMEs aware of the importance of copyrights.
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\r\nOver the years, industry leaders have shown that innovative ideas can produce ground breaking results when face with challenges. The pandemic outbreak was no exception. However, pandemic has brought a new sense of urgency to innovative efforts, ideas and provided a unique opportunity to bring in renovation of innovation in organizations.
\r\n \r\nThe call for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat by our Hon`ble Prime Minister could be achieved if our country punches above its weight class & compete to address key socio-economic challenges being faced. India has moved up two positions up to 46th rank on the global innovation index recently. The country has been constantly making progress on the innovation index from 2015 when it was ranked 81st on the list. In 2020, India entered the top 50 on the list.
\r\n \r\nIndia can bring a paradigm shift and can be in the top 25 countries in the next global index rankings if it continues to make consistent progress.
\r\n \r\nTaking a step forward&in a bid to contribute to the agenda of making India as the true Innovation Nation, ASSOCHAM is organizing 2nd edition of Innovators’ Excellence Awards 2021 during SMARecIndia 2021on December 03, 2021 to celebrate, reward and recognize the unique and inspiring contributions of innovators from various industry sectors and focuses on varied aspects to stimulate, initiate, and inspire interactions and aspirations to reinvent India as an Innovation Nation.
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AWARD NOMINATION FEES
Rs 30,000(inclusive of GST) per nomination
\r\nSpecial discount for start-up
(Any submissions made later than November 26, 2021 will not be accepted and the company would not be qualifying for the screening)
COVID-19 is having an immense effect on global economic growth. A recent report from the World Bank estimates that the global economy could contract by between 5% and 8% in 2020, pushing 71-100 million people below the international poverty line of US$1.90 per day.
\r\nA related problem is the impact of the pandemic on employment and income across many sectors. One of these sectors is the higher education sector where thousands of students have been pursuing their education to earn a living and improve their way of life, apart from their contribution to national development and the economy.
\r\nUnemployment
As in other parts of the developing world, unemployment is a serious challenge in India. Currently, nearly 22% of those who attend post-secondary education are unemployed. Several state governments have been compelled to clamp lockdown around April this year in different modes and schedules to contain the onrushing pandemic. Almost all the commercial establishments, industrial units, transport systems, school colleges even government offices except emergency services, have come under lockdown. Though good results have started coming in due to these lockdowns, on the other hand, the industries have started bleeding.
According to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the unemployment rate will be around 12% at the end of May 2021 which translates into a loss of job by 1 crore people during the period due to the 2nd wave of corona pandemic. He also said that income of 97% households have declined since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. The unemployment rate stands at 12.4%, urban 15.1% and rural 11.2% on 3rd June 2021. We noted that small towns and rural areas were not very affected by COVID 19 pandemic last year. But during the 2nd wave, it has split over these areas also affecting employment situation. The manufacturing and engineering sectors have largely been affected by the lockdown during the 2nd wave. The index of actual hiring has come down from 132 in July-September, 2020 to 60 in January-March, 2021. Though the automotive and FMCG sectors in tier-2 cities have performed poorly, the recruitment situation in IT, Outsource, Technology, E-commerce, Pharma and Health Care sectors in metro and tier-1 cities have started showing some improvements. CIEL, has said that though the companies have the intent to hire in tier 2-3 cities, they have not been able to actually hire due to the spread of pandemic to these markets also. According to him, the gap between the intent of hiring and the actual hiring in these markets is 50%.
\r\nTo discuss critical issues that is “Ease of Doing Business-Discussing the Impact of Covid19 Scenario on Revenue and Employment Generation” the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), the knowledge architect of the corporate India, is organising a virtual meet on 13th Oct’21 (11 am, 13th October’21) in an online/virtual session.
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\r\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought this fast-moving world to a standstill and colossally impacted almost all aspects everyone’s life especially routine physical or fitness activities and resulted into severe physical or mental (or psychological) health and fitness. The nutritious and balanced diet, regular exercises and physical activities plays the highly significant role in promoting the health and wellbeing of a human being. It improves the quality of life as poor diet might cause morbidity and/or severe illnesses. However, it has often overlooked. Now, the importance of health and fitness cutting across all age groups and sections of the society needs to be taken on utmost priority.
\r\nWith these objectives to cascade awareness and disseminate wisdom on fitness through regular physical activities, nutritious food and healthy lifestyle to promote and make fitness an integral part of daily lives, ASSOCHAM, under ILLNESS TO WELLNESS campaign, is organizing a Webinar on “Health and Fitness: Key To Success” scheduled on Monday, 18th October 2021, from 11:00 AM To 12.30 PM.
\r\nKeeping in mind the relevance of the topic ASSOCHAM, we are immensely pleased to cordially invite you to attend this highly significant and very timely webinar.
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Key Areas of Discussion:-
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We look forward for your kind and early confirmation on the ASSOCHAM invitation at your earliest convenience.
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\r\nLucknow- R.I.S.E. is a mission aiming at raising Lucknow City on a Global Platform. It is to promote Lucknow city towards sustainable and resilient growth through Comprehensive Development in terms of Physical, Institutional, Social and Economic infrastructure of the city.
\r\nLucknow Development Authority has been given the responsibility by UP State Government to develop a VISION for the positive overall growth of Lucknow City. The development will be based on principles of a Sustainable city as Livability, Competitiveness, Bankability and Good governance.
In association with LDA, UP State Council, ASSOCHAM would like to invite you, as being part of various fields to share and voice your opinions and suggestions at the Hybrid session on “Government policies and strategy for Integrated Infrastructure Plan: Capital city Lucknow” to be held on 23rd October,2021 from 3:00PM to 6:30PM at LDA Conference Hall, Address: LDA, Pradhikaran Bhawan , Vipin Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow UP, followed by Hi-tea/coffee.
As an individual of the city, if we want our voices to be heard and our issues to be addressed on city level, this is the time to grab the opportunity!! The “Lucknowites” are going to play the role of Primary Participatory body in making Lucknow a Global and Liveable city. And YOU will be the VOICES of LUCKNOW CITIZENS
The session would involve:
\r\nIdentification of Broad Direction of DEVELOPMENT OF LUCKNOW CITY
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\r\n \r\nConsidering the important of the Subject, ASSOCHAM National Council on Branding & Marketing is organising a webinar on “Managing Customer Engagement and Loyalty through Artificial Intelligence/ Machine learning (AI/ ML)” on 26th October 2021 at 3:00pm. The webinar will highlight the role of AI/ML in improvement of customer experience and customer engagement.
\r\n \r\nTopics to be covered:
\r\nSpeaker Profile:
\r\n \r\nMs. Surbhi Garg, Business Engagement Lead – Consumer and Commercial Analytics, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
\r\n \r\nShe is associated with Dr Reddy`s as an Analytics and Data Science leader. Here, she is responsible for envisaging innovative use cases and implementing strategic solutions that utilize advanced analytics, ML, and technologies to solve real-world business problems in commercial analytics space to drive incremental revenue and value for branded markets like Russia, South Africa, Brazil, China etc.
\r\n \r\nBeing AI/ML partitioner, she has gained almost 14 years of experience including 8 years with Mu Sigma in the US in strategic business research and planning, commercial marketing and sales analytics, and decision sciences.
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\r\nHighlights
\r\nThe Annual Meet of educationists, business leaders, subject experts, decision makers, influencers, social impact investors and much more.
\r\nWho Should Attend
\r\nSchools, Colleges, Universities, vocational education and training , Preschools, Study Abroad Advisors, Faculty (Teachers, Lecturers, Researchers, Professors, Head of Department, Deans), Vice-Chancellors, Chancellors, College and University Presidents, Policy Makers and Stakeholders, Govt. Representatives, Non-governmental Organization staff and private providers, Franchise, Owners, etc.
\r\nAs an educational institution may we humbly request you to kindly nominate your institution as an applicant for Education Excellence Awards within 28th October, 2021.
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\r\n \r\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the most significant technology of our era. With techniques like machine learning (ML), we can now build systems that are capable of improving their own performance by learning from data over time. Tech players rapidly moved into the AI space and have redesigned existing products as well as engineered new ones so as to embed AI within them, with the aim of catering to the diverse requirements of industries.
\r\n \r\nASSOCHAM believes that national initiatives will immensely benefit from adoption of the AI Technology. To promote the concept and to broadbase the usage of AI, ASSOCHAM has started the series its annual Summit in 2017.
\r\n \r\nThrough these Summits, we will try to examine the areas across industries where the AI continuum could be applicable, as well as a robust AI policy framework that needs to touch upon the social, economic and ethical considerations of a well-governed society. These efforts will foster a balanced environment in India for innovation and leadership in AI.
\r\n \r\nASSOCHAM is organising the 5h Annual Conclave as a part of this Series on 27th October 2021 from 10:00 am onwards.
\r\n \r\nWe are pleased to inform you that Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon`ble Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India has kindly confirmed as the \"Chief Guest\" to this Conclave.
Key Speakers:
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Hon`ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Planning, & Union Minister of State, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
\r\n \r\nAbout Event
\r\n \r\nWe are pleased to invite you to the celebration of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav that Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India along with The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is organizing by way of National Virtual Summit on \"S/HE: Inspiring Change: Contributing to Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth\" on October 27, 2021.
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The summit aims to discuss & deliberate on topical subject and issues pertaining to Sustainable Growth Agenda and seeks to inspire the stakeholders from the talks of eminent personalities who have set-out benchmarks in their respective professions.
Key Areas of Panel Discussion:
\r\nIn this regard, we take this opportunity to invite your participation and to nominate delegates to attend the conference.
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\r\nSession Moderator - Dr. Akhilesh Saurikhia, Director - TAS, Ernst & Young LLP
\r\nInvited Speakers:
\r\n• Shri. Gaurav Gupta, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Commerce and Industries, \r\n Government of Karnataka
\r\n• Smt. Gunjan Krishna, IAS, Commissioner for Industrial Development & Director - Department of \r\n I&C, Government of Karnataka
\r\n• Dr. N. Shivashankar, IAS, CEO, Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB)
\r\n• Chandrima Sinha, Vice President, Invest India
\r\n• Soumitra Bhattacharya, President, Bosch Group in India & MD, Bosch Limited
\r\n• Salil Gupte, President, Boeing India & Vice President, Boeing International
\r\n• Mahesh Kapri, Managing Director GE BEL & GM, GE Healthcare
\r\n• R K Misra,
Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM Karnataka Development Council and Founder director, \r\n Center for Smart cities.\r\n• Uma S Nair, Regional Director - Southern region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the panellists and welcomed the participants and partners to the program.
\r\nShri. R K Misra - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members. \r\n Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease of doing \r\n business in the State of Karnataka. He said that the New Industrial Policy 2020-25 will help the Global and \r\n Domestic Investors in the State.
\r\nShri. Jagadish Shettar - Welcomed the dignitaries present at the webinar, Industrialists, Industry \r\n Association President, Gaurav Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary - Commerce and Industries, Gunjan \r\n Krishna Commissioner Industrial Development and Director of Industries and Commerce, Dr N. \r\n Shivashankara, IAS, CEO, KIADB, Soumitra Bhattacharya, President Bosch Group in India & MD, Bosch Ltd \r\n Chandrima Sinha, Vice President, Invest India, Senior officers from Govt. of India & Govt. of Karnataka, \r\n Media friends and all the participants.
\r\n• India has emerged as one of the most attractive destinations for investments and doing business.
\r\n• India has jumped 79 positions from 142nd (2014) to 63rd (2019) in \'World Bank\'s Ease of Doing \r\n Business Ranking 2020\'.
\r\n• Karnataka is the home to India\'s Silicon Valley; it is a leader in sectors such as Information \r\n Technology, Information Technology enabled Services, Machine Tools, Aerospace, Biotechnology, \r\n and Engineering Design.
\r\n• I am happy to share that Karnataka State is the leader in the Ease of Doing business. Its businessfriendly environment, transparent process and simplified government rules and regulations have \r\n made it easier not just for large companies but also for MSME\'s and Start-ups.
\r\n• Government of Karnataka comes out with industrial policies at regular intervals of five years to \r\n ensure a well-balanced, sustainable and inclusive industrial development.
\r\n• Last industrial policy was brought out in 2014. Since then, many changes have happened, and new \r\n opportunities have emerged, particularly in manufacturing and manufacturing-related service \r\n industries including smart manufacturing, customization, collaborative production etc.
\r\n• The focus of the New Industrial Policy 2020-25 is to exploit Karnataka\'s industrial prowess, create \r\n an enabling environment, develop infrastructure, and provide equitable opportunities for the \r\n people of the state, particularly in industrially backward districts Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities & ensuring \r\n inclusive development of investment within the state.
\r\nEase Of Doing Business: Karnataka Focused:
\r\n• The Karnataka government also launched the Affidavit Based Clearance Scheme, also known as \r\n ABC Scheme, to facilitate and attract investment in the state.
\r\n• The newly launched scheme is part of the recently promulgated the Karnataka Industries \r\n (Facilitation) (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 to facilitate manufacturing industries and enterprises \r\n in the state.
\r\n• The new scheme\'s objective is to simplify regulations, reduce procedural requirements and create \r\n a conducive investment environment. The Ease of Doing Business is an essential indicator of the \r\n investment-friendly business climate in the country. Improvements in the ease of doing business \r\n will enable faster future growth of the state economy.
\r\n• The State Government has implemented an Affidavit Based Clearance (ABC) scheme to facilitate \r\n smooth business. The project aims to simplify establishing industries through the selfproclamation deed, covering a range of selected business services from various departments. This \r\n will help to streamline business processes and provide a conducive environment for investment.
\r\n• Priority Sector: For the first time in India, Karnataka has embarked on a manufacturing businessoriented incentive system to ensure balanced industrial development of the state.
\r\n• The policy aims to encourage large and medium industries by providing incentives to all sectors. \r\n The objective is to provide infrastructure and credit facilities, skills development training and \r\n technical support for industries across the state.
\r\n• Numerous initiatives have been made in this new industrial policy to create Narendra Modiji\'s \r\n dream \\"Self-Nirbhara India"\\, which is expected to attract investment from both domestic and \r\n multinational industries.
\r\n• I want to thank you for creating this incredible platform and would like to assure all investors that \r\n my government will provide full support for any businesses in the state.<.p>\r\n
Shri. Gaurav Gupta, IAS - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel \r\n members. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease \r\n of doing business in the State of Karnataka. He said that as the Karnataka state is the entrepreneurial \r\n capital of India also start-up capital of India, where State has ranked number 1 in the innovation sector recent announcement made the Central government.
\r\nHe has stressed about past 12 month that the State Government has announced several incentives to the \r\n policy landscape changes and make more convenient for investors to choose Karnataka as the destination.
\r\nHe also spoke about the new Industrial Policy 2020-25 ensures that State remains the most attractive \r\n destination for investment and the policy will develop Karnataka's industrial landscape in a holistic \r\n manner mad ensure well-balanced, sustainable and inclusive industrial development thought the State. \r\n The new industrial policy focuses on utilization of Karnataka's industrial infrastructure, create an \r\n investment enabling environment and provide equitable opportunities for the people of the State.
\r\nThis new policy provides immense opportunities for growth and innovation in the industrial sector of \r\n Karnataka, the State Government works towards to give bog boost to the ongoing industrial development \r\n in the State, also policy made in view of investor centric approach to build a prosperous Karnataka and \r\n create large-scale employment opportunities and committed to bringing ease of regulatory compliance \r\n for business.
\r\nThe Government has also started an ambitious program on reforms in partnership with departments and \r\n various stakeholders to make it more convenient start and operate the in the State. The policy has \r\n identified thrust areas to create an ecosystem for an inclusive and sustainable development trajectory in \r\n the state and aims to boost large and medium scale industries by introducing various incentives across \r\n the sectors.
\r\nSmt. Gunjan Krishna, IAS - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel \r\n members. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease \r\n of doing business in the State of Karnataka. She said about the principals of Karnataka State policies, as \r\n the State is pioneer is E-governance in the Country.
\r\nShe suggested to come up with new set of directives for as the priority sector. The State government has \r\n recently announced affidavit based clearance which helps to ensure initial approval to ground the project.\r\n Said about the single window clearance system, as there is been plenty of system in place, the Department \r\n is working on imagining the system to streamline the process and have initiated an outside approach \r\n which is based on the requirement of the investors to help in getting the necessary approvals in one place.
\r\nThe Industries is working closely with key industry players such as Bosch, GE Healthcare, Boeing and many \r\n more private industries to create a series of workshops to understand the current requirements in \r\n partnership the Public and Private partnership to build the imagining the State as Investor centric.
\r\nSaid about the compliance by looking at better service on ease of doing business in the State, many of the \r\n laws have been accommodated long back, need to ensure that changes can be made. The Department is \r\n been organising series of meetings with various department focused meetings to address regulatory \r\n compliance burden in the State and look the improving the ease of doing business in the State.
\r\nDr. N. Shivashankar, IAS - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel \r\n members. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease \r\n of doing business in the State of Karnataka. He said that the key objective of the KIADB is to acquire the \r\n industrial lands and allocate the lands in the State.
\r\nThere is been developments in the plug and play system for allocate the industrial lands and investors also \r\n the Department of Industries have taken several initiatives to ease the business activity in the State, such \r\n as quick review of proposals, cost, time of production these are the few key initiatives taken at KIADB.
\r\nThere is also a directive from DPIIT and Invest India on creating plug and play model to create a platform \r\n with all information available on website and established about 20 plus industrial parks in the State. \r\n Keeping in mind this key criteria of EODB in the State will help the investors buy and industrial land and \r\n allows them to start the activity in 15 days.
\r\nHe said that in an effort to boost Karnataka's industrial and innovation capability, the State government \r\n has identified nine districts to foster innovation and product diversification.
\r\nThis initiative has been already implemented in various districts include Kalaburgi for manufacturing of \r\n solar power goods, Chitradurga for manufacturing of LED lights, Hassan for manufacturing of sanitary \r\n goods, Koppal for manufacturing of mechanised toys, Mysuru for ICB manufacturing unit, Ballari for textile \r\n industry, Chikkaballapur for mobile phone components, Tumkur for sports and fitness goods and Bidar for \r\n manufacture of agricultural implements.
\r\nIn order to achieve the objective of recreating manufacturing and boosting job development across the \r\n State, the government has set up vision groups for each of the identified groups comprising of industry \r\n leaders and experts. He said that with these initiatives and several support from the State Government in \r\n plug and play system in the State will reach new heights in attracting global investors.
\r\nChandrima Sinha - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel \r\n members. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease \r\n of doing business in the State of Karnataka.
\r\nShe said, as the national investment promotion and facilitation agency, Invest India focuses on sectorspecific investor targeting and development of new partnerships to enable sustainable investments in \r\n India. In addition to a core team that focuses on sustainable investments, Invest India also partners with \r\n substantial investment promotion agencies and multilateral organizations. Invest India also actively works \r\n with several Indian states to build capacity as well as bring in global best practices in investment targeting, \r\n promotion and facilitation areas.
\r\nShe said about the investment ranking had concerted efforts at various levels of Central and State \r\n Governments in terms of ease of doing business ranking, were able to position ourselves in a span of 5 \r\n years come to a position 6 to 3.
\r\nShe was happy to share that the India has moved up in the Global Competitive Index ranking from 71 in \r\n 2014 to 43. In terms of Innovation in the country is Karnataka is the hub of Innovation. One of the key \r\n initiative improve the IPR rule and regulations that allows the investors gain the confidence and help to \r\n move up the innovation ranking in the global innovation index ranking.
\r\nSaid many set of single window system have been setup in country at State and Central level and resulted \r\n taking lot of time in seeking approvals, in effort to ease the time of approval at the central level the agency \r\n have created a national single window system were helps in ease of seeking approvals and helps in connecting a various levels of departments in one place also in maintaining as central repository of all the \r\n licence and regulations in the Country.
\r\nSoumitra Bhattacharya - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel \r\n members. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease \r\n of doing business in the State of Karnataka. He was happy to share that 99 years of Bosch in India and 69 \r\n years for Bosch Make in India and Karnataka.
\r\nHe said the Single widow clearance at the Central Government is working on setting up a Single Window \r\n System for clearances and approvals of industry in the country. Despite the presence of several IT \r\n platforms for investing in India such as in departments of the Government of India and State Single \r\n Window Clearances, investors need to visit multiple platforms to gather information and obtain \r\n clearances from different stakeholders. To address this, the creation of a centralized Investment \r\n Clearance Cell which would provide end-to-end facilitation support, including pre-investment advisory, \r\n information related to land banks; and facilitating clearances at Central and State level was proposed and \r\n the same is also a Budget Announcement 2020-21.
\r\nMake in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. Our 'Make in India' has to be \r\n different from China's in the sense that we have to do a 'jugalbandi' of our IT skills that exist and our \r\n evolving manufacturing skills and become intelligent manufacturers. This is a whole new area, and we \r\n have to come up with ideas as to how the landscape of regulation and incentives can change in order to \r\n create this kind of Jugalbandi. We need to fix the supply chain issues to make the Jugalbandi a possibility.
\r\nSalil Gupte - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members. \r\n Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease of doing \r\n business in the State of Karnataka.
\r\nHe was happy to share that the India is a land of opportunities and the manufacturing hub of Boeing India \r\n is based out of Karnataka with the work force of 3000 and 7000 plus from the 250 plus supplier side. \r\n Boeing does import the material worth of about 7000 crore to the Boeing Global and other Entities which \r\n is in line to the vision of Hon'ble Prime Minister \\"Make in India"\\ and \\"Make for the World"\\.
\r\nHe mentioned about the 4 key areas from Boeing are - Responsibility, Courage, Innovation and Flexibility. \r\n He said that Boeing India has procured a 43 acre land and investing about 250 million dollars in the State \r\n of Karnataka. He thanked the DPIIT, Government of Karnataka, IAS officers in supporting the investment \r\n and approvals to invest. Also stressed that the connectivity to Devanahalli area is very critical to build the \r\n world class service in the aerospace sector.
\r\nHe pointed out that COVID-19 was one of the biggest hit for the civil aviation industry and created \r\n opportunity work closely with Government of India of the goods transportation across the country. Boeing \r\n India is working closely with Government on developing various protocols and preparedness for the next \r\n such crises. He also appreciated the effort of the Government of Karnataka for the aero show took place \r\n recently in Karnataka.
\r\nThe topic innovation is all about developing skills and help them maximize their productivity. Boeing India \r\n worked closely for differently abled training programs and happy see their productivity in joint partnership \r\n with Local MSME's in Karnataka. He said to recognize such talents and include the diversion as one of the practice in the training programs.
\r\nMahesh Kapri - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members. \r\n Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the ease of doing \r\n business in the State of Karnataka.
\r\nHe is heading the ASSOCHAM Medical Equipment committee at National level, shared the efforts and \r\n activity took place during the COVID-19 and Post COVID-19. The committee activity focuses in addressing
\r\nThe local issues and liaison with respective departments and to align the work in line to Aatma Nirbhar \r\n Bharat in Med Tech sector. GE Healthcare presence on Karnataka and Ease of doing business began in \r\n 1902 with Hydro power project in Shivanasamudra.
\r\nHe was happy share the presence of GE Healthcare in Karnataka with close 200 million dollars investment \r\n and 8000 employees across Karnataka. Have partnered with many global companies such as Wirpo, BEL, \r\n HAL and IISc and more than 1000 local MSMEs and suppliers and major manufacturing plants are based \r\n out of Karnataka.
\r\nFocused on addressing the local maternal deaths, heart devices, trauma patients and all aspects of patient \r\n care and so much changed in recent days and seen the most accelerated transformation and growth after \r\n COVID-19. He as was happy to share the intensive work done in COVID days in terms of availability of \r\n medical supplies, rapid diagnosis and surveillances.
\r\nThe landscape healthcare industry in India are large and global companies build the technology and \r\n partner with local SMEs to supply to the local community. The definite focus is to have global integrated \r\n supply chain with dependency with local SMEs to address the issues and challenges and government of \r\n India and Karnataka has supported the unprecedented demand supply chain and to move the supply \r\n materials and deliver the materials to 100 of local suppliers to meet the community requirement.
\r\nR K Misra - Thanked all the fellow panellists and ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share \r\n the perspective about the ease of doing business in the State of Karnataka and rendered the closing \r\n remarks.
\r\nKey Findings, Key Insights of this Program
\r\n• Series of workshops to understand the current requirements in partnership the Public and Private \r\n partnership to build the imagining the State as Investor centric.
\r\n• The sector specific industrial land availability, plug and play system and affidavit based approval \r\n in the State for Domestic and Global Investors.
\r\n• Build the world class connectivity to Devanahalli area to felicitate the aerospace sector.
\r\n• Work closely with differently abled and strengthen their skills and some incentives practice to \r\n train them for future jobs
\r\n• Explore partnership with local MSME's to create the opportunity and employment in the State.
\r\n• Centralized investment agency cell to help the investors such as providing end-to-end facilitation
\r\n support, including pre-investment advisory, information related to land banks\r\n• Create a PPP model to empower the local MSME's
\r\n• Create an awareness program on Digital Governance and educate the corporate, industry and \r\n larger community on various services of State Government.
\r\n• Larger corporates to come forward and adopt local ITI's to empower the future generation with \r\n future ready jobs.
\r\n• The new Industrial policy will help the Capital incentive to attract the investment in manufacturing \r\n sector such as I4.0 and R&D in the State.
\r\n• Associated skill availability for manufacturing sector in the State.
\r\n• To ensure the availability of sufficient funds as for skills training and other partnerships
\r\n• Dual Education system to be inducted in the State helps in creating mixture of Syllabus and on the \r\n job training.
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\r\n• Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary to IT E & C Department, Government of Telangana
\r\n• Smt. K. Ratna Prabha, IAS (Retd), Chairperson, Karnataka Skill Development Authority, \r\n Government of Karnataka
\r\n
• Dr. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice President, India Technology Hub, Mastercard
\r\n• Akilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India
\r\n• Sudeepta Banerjee, Co-Founder- Raise to Pi.Org and Advisor Partnerships & ProgramsSikshana Foundation
\r\n• Rekha Kumari, Head - Programs, Kaushalya Foundation, SOAS University of London
\r\n• Rumi Mallick Mitra, Leader, Strategy & New Initiatives, IBM Corporate Social Responsibility, \r\n IBM
\r\n• Annapoorna Swarup, Founder and CEO - Emotionalytics and Co.\r\n
• Smitha Thumbikkat, Associate Director, Delivery Excellence and Data Engineering, Brillio
\r\n• Abhishek Ranjan, Chairperson - ASSOCHAM Karnataka CSR Committee
\r\n• Uma S Nair, Regional Director - Southern region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nUPSKILLING GIRLS IN STEM FOR TECHNOLOGY LED INCLUSIVE GROWTH
\r\nASSOCHAM in partnership with Brillio organized the webinar on Upskilling girls in STEM on Feb 10th, \r\n 2021 to discuss the policies, best practices, and challenges around STEM education for girls in India.
\r\nUma S Nair, Regional Director, Southern Region, ASSOCHAM, welcomed the dignitaries and the \r\n gathering. She highlighted that Government initiatives like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Digital India, etc. \r\n have positively impacted the Gender Parity Index and there are increased trends of girl children \r\n enrolment in primary and secondary schools. Also, the Digital solutions consumers have increased and \r\n girls are not enabled to embrace and pursue STEM Education. The core problem still exists \r\n unaddressed.
\r\nAbhishek Ranjan, Global Head, Sustainability & D&I, Brillio, spoke about the challenges faced and \r\n the need for a road map in STEM for Girls. He said that there are cultural issues and infrastructure \r\n issues at school levels.
\r\nThe first Panel discussion was on \\"Up-Skilling Girls in STEM -Tech bridge. A leadership perspective,"\\\r\n moderated by Smitha Thumbikkat, Associate Director, Brillio. Introducing the speakers, Smitha spoke \r\n about the need for nurturing the mindset of girls to achieve more for the inclusive sustainable growth. \r\n Smt. Rathna Prabha, IAS (Retd.) Chairperson Karnataka Skill Development Authority shared that \r\n during her school days, only one girl in her class took science and now she sees a lot of doctors and \r\n engineers. 30% reservation in the state, 25% of reservation in IITs and IIMs has helped girls to place \r\n themselves in science fields.
\r\nShe spoke about the need for the safety of women and girl children and the importance of developing \r\n a conducive environment for girls. She emphasized the need for sensitizing the parents, train the \r\n teachers for STEM Education. There must be a convergence of programs both by Govt and corporates \r\n should work together and there is a need of evaluating what has been done and what needs to be \r\n done.
\r\nJayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal secretary of ITE&C, Govt. of Telangana said we need to have a Life \r\n cycle approach to encourage girl child in all walks of life without discrimination. He mentioned that \r\n the girl child ratio drops in science, post-high school. In Telangana, the Girls in Tech program is \r\n introduced in the early stage- 9\r\n th and 10th. Career guidance intervention is provided to girls and new \r\n generational skills like AI, Big data, Machine learning short courses have been provided and \r\n encouraged girls. Next is to support women by creating a community of women under It umbrella- a \r\n forum has been created called 'Cyberabad security council'. Free shuttle -women exclusive busses are \r\n provided. Women entrepreneurs are provided support through 'WeHub'- an exclusive incubator for \r\n women startups. He shared that the initial results of the initiatives are good and they want to scale \r\n the model. We have to keep track of numbers and also the qualitative indicators have to be \r\n methodically tracked.
\r\nAkilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids- shared examples of what \r\n Hitachi ABB Power grids are doing through CSR for women in engineering and manufacturing \r\n programs for the community and for the employees to guide how they can enter heavy engineering \r\n field. They also follow a life cycle approach to support the girl child to develop the interest and see \r\n how she can enter heavy engineering.
\r\nDr. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice president, India Technology Hub, MasterCard spoke about \r\n Mastercard's investments in STEM education. Mastercard has introduced critical topics like Digital \r\n convergence, Cryptology, False detection, cybersecurity, AI, Big data Analytics, ML, coding to be \r\n future-ready. 8 to 12yrs age girl children interact with employees who are the mentors and \r\n understand how technology is applied in the payment industry. She mentioned that partnership with \r\n global and national level non-profit agencies is needed to scale the programs to reach millions of girl \r\n children and train the teachers. Employee volunteering is critical to the application of STEM- develop \r\n curriculum and interact with the girl child.
\r\nThe second Panel discussion was on \\"Enabling Holistic Growth in Upskilling Girls in STEM - Post \r\n Pandemic."\\ This session was moderated by Sudeepta Banerjee, co-founder RaisetpPi.org & Advisor,\r\n Shikshana Foundation said it is even though things are improving it is no closer to equality so needs a \r\n lot more to be done.
\r\nRekha Kumari, Head Programs, Kaushalya Foundation- shared the challenges faced in the field \r\n and access to education has been a very big differentiator, lack of role models, workplace gender \r\n norms & issues, migrations, etc. Due to these factors, female labor participation is going down and we\r\n need to work with a collaborative approach with necessary structural and policy changes.
\r\nAnnapurna Swarup, CEO & Founder, Emotionanalytics & Co. Most of the classes are onlinemobile/TV. Shared the reasons for the low female ratio in STEM -there is no infrastructure and children \r\n go for domestic help. As we go up the careers, they get married and enter parenthood and hence they \r\n drop out for family care. We need an ecosystem to support girls continuously. Should have the nearby \r\n role models and need the change of mindset through emotional intelligence skills.
\r\nRumi Mallick Mitra, leader- Strategy & CSR, IBM shared that being pioneers in gender equality, \r\n DEI is not a stand-alone agenda at IBM but it is inbuilt in the day to day business with strong policies \r\n backup.
\r\nTo conclude, the webinar was attended by100 + participants. There is a need for the consolidation of \r\n efforts and have the lifecycle approach to support the girls and replicate across states. Create interest \r\n and awareness, encourage people to participate more. A lot of girls are not able to migrate to cities \r\n for the Tech job in cities. We need to enhance communication and employability skills for girls. Socialemotional learnings should be brought into the curriculum and policy level changes are required to \r\n retain women on the job.
\r\nDr. Meghana Shashidhar, Brillio rendered the vote of thanks to the gathering.
\r\nKEY FINDINGS, KEY INSIGHTS OF THIS PROGRAM
\r\nCovid & online learning mode has made access to education even more difficult for girls from \r\n the underprivileged segments of the society. There are not enough devices available with the \r\n families and the male child is prioritized when it comes to sharing the devices. So, there is an \r\n immediate need to address this challenge. Unless girls get access to education first, they \r\n won\'t be able to venture into STEM.
\r\nCareer awareness about STEM fields and showing off role models through community \r\n outreach is extremely important. Now, these role models need to be someone whom these \r\n girls can relate to not someone like Kalpana Chawla. They need to be the ones from similar \r\n families or communities that these girls belong to.
\r\nempower women by also changing the mindset of men in the community. Spread awareness \r\n in young boys about how life changes for good when the women of the community work and \r\n get paid well.
\r\nCorporates need to create robust follow-up mechanisms to track how the girls are doing after \r\n the intervention and provide an end-to-end support to the ones already in the program and \r\n ensure their journey is complete rather than running behind numbers.
', '', '', 'upskillinggirls1.jpg', 'UPSKILLING-Girls-IN-STEM-FIELDS-FOR-TECHNOLOGY-LED-INCLUSIVE-GROWTH', 1, 0, '2021-02-10', '2021-02-10', '11.00 a.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (74, 'NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COLD CHAIN\r\n The cold chain industry is seen as an emerging and fast growing business sector in India.\r\nConsidering the current issue of food shortage and food security in India, cold chain facilities\r\nwill play an important role in the country. According to report by Emerson Climate\r\nTechnologies India*, every year fresh produce worth INR 133 billion are thrown away\r\nbecause of the country\'s lack of adequate cold storage and transport facilities. However, this\r\nsector has witnessed a considerable growth in the last decade and is expected to have\r\nfurther improvement in growth rate in the years to come. \r\n
\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n The role of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India is instrumental in\r\ndevelopment of cold chain infrastructure in India and is implementing scheme for its\r\npromotion. Other departments such as National Centre for Cold‐chain Development (NCCD),\r\nNABARD, National Horticulture Board (NHB) and State Governments are also taking\r\ninitiatives for the development of cold chain industry in India. This will enable industry to\r\nadopt better and more efficient technologies to ensure year‐round availability of perishable\r\nfood products and reasonable prices to the consumers but also equitable distribution to\r\nother parts of the country. India's cold chain sector is a combination of surface storage and\r\nrefrigerated transport. The industry has been growing at a CAGR of 20% for the last three\r\nyears. The cold chain market in India is anticipated to reach Rs 624 billion (UC$13 billion) by\r\n2017, according to 2014 estimates. Currently, India has 6,300 cold storage facilities unevenly\r\nspread across the country, with an installed capacity of 30.11 million metric tonne. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Latest technology used world over in cold chain sector, is making inroads in India. And with\r\nthe government sanctioning new cold chain projects in the recent past, the demand for\r\nmore efficient cold storages is going to increase in the future. Hence, with further support\r\nfrom government, new players are going to enter India and a platform is required where\r\nthese latest know how, equipment's and infra facilities gets noticed and new players are\r\nmade aware of. \r\n
\r\n\r\n To address this subject matter of national importance, ASSOCHAM proposes "National\r\nConference & on Cold Chain - Technology, Convergence and Capacity Building" on 23rd\r\nAugust 2018 at Bengaluru. The Conference will focus on the areas like latest technology in\r\nthe sector, creation of the cold chain infrastructure, statutory clearances required from the\r\nstate government, role of clean energy, and linking all these activities with market.\r\n
\r\nInaugural Session
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| \r\n 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs \r\n | \r\n \r\n Inaugural Session \r\n | \r\n |
| \r\n 10.00 Hrs \r\n | \r\n \r\n Lighting of Lamp & Felicitations \r\n | \r\n |
| \r\n \r\n | \r\n \r\n Welcome Address \r\n | \r\n \r\n Shri S Sampatharaman, Chairman , ASSOCHAM Karnataka Council \r\n | \r\n
| \r\n \r\n | \r\n\r\n Special Address \r\n | \r\n \r\n Rajeev Krishnan, Managing Director & CEO, SPAR India/Max Hypermarkets - Landmark Group( Sent) \r\n | \r\n
| \r\n \r\n | \r\n \r\n Special Address \r\n | \r\n \r\n ShriDr.Changappa,Former Vice Chancellor,UAS,Bangalore& National Professor of ICAR \r\n | \r\n
| \r\n \r\n | \r\n \r\n Chief Guest \r\n | \r\n \r\n ShriShivashankara Reddy,Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture, Government of Karnataka \r\n | \r\n
| \r\n 1055-11.00 Hrs \r\n | \r\n \r\n Vote of Thanks \r\n | \r\n \r\n ShriSampatharaman, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Karnataka Council \r\n | \r\n
\r\n ASSOCHAM Southern region presents
\r\n Webinar on
\r\n .Collaborate and Co-Create a CSR ecosystem for - Challenges ahead
\r\n 21ST MAY 2020 from 03:00PM To 05:00 PM
\r\n
\r\n Moderated by:\r\n
. Abhishek Ranjan, \r\n Director - Sustainability, Brillio\r\n
Speakers:
\r\n\r\n . BV Naidu, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Karnataka State council and Founder & Chairman, THE\r\n GAIN (Global Accelerator for Innovation Network)
\r\n\r\n. Vishal Bhardwaj, Group Head - CSR - Dalmia Bharat Limited & CEO- Dalmia Bharat\r\n Foundation
\r\n\r\n. Ashwini Saxena, Chief Executive Officer, JSW Foundation
\r\n\r\n. Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy, Co-Founder and CEO, Sattva Consulting
\r\n\r\n. A Narayana Prasad - Associate Professor and OSD to Department of Collegiate and Technical
\r\n\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the panellists and the participants and partners to the program.
\r\n\r\nBV Naidu - Welcomed all participating in this very important topic of co-creating the CSR ecosystem\r\n as you all know it is indeed of need and we need to strengthen the overall ecosystem and processes in\r\n our country to be more effective so I think the panel here was an excellent panel and Abhishek Ranjan\r\n from Brillio in fact when I wanted to start this CSR as one of the council\'s under the ASSOCHAM, the my\r\n first meeting with Abhishek and he has the complete knowledge to the CSR and its policies and the\r\n processes etc. He pulled in the right expert\\'s people like Vishal Bharadwaj, Ashwini Saxena, Krishna\r\n Murthy, Deepak Prabhu and Narayana Prasad of DCTE.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Bring all the people together to discuss on this important you know the topic of the CSR and I told him\r\n only three things appreciate there are three important
\r\n\r\n 1. Can we create a CSR index for Karnataka?
\r\n 2. NGO effective rating of the implementing of CSR activities
\r\n 3. Complied report\r\n
\r\n He said, looks at the more from the economic point of view as you all know Karnataka GDP is 250 billion\r\n dollars with a per capita income of around 3000 dollars but for this COVID, we have been growing much\r\n more than 8 percent and we even touch their own 11 percent couple of years back and our exports are\r\n around sixty eight billion dollars out of which IT alone is a 50 billion dollars and our services industry\r\n contribution is 68 percent whereas the industry and manufacturing is 23 percent and agriculture is 7.8\r\n percent but still our per capita is not spread to the rural areas it is concentrated in urban areas Bangalore \r\n alone contributes to more than 50% of the GDP how do we how can we make our rural below the poverty\r\n line and below the bottom of the pyramid citizens more effective and contribute and you\'ll also become\r\n part of our GDP the only way that can be done is either through the government or through the CSR\r\n programs.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Abhishek Ranjan - Thanked the Chairman for setting the context for the webinar and thanked\r\n ASSOCHAM and for hosting this online summit to share the State perspectives about the CSR Ecosystem.\r\n it\'s time for action we cannot wait for another few weeks or months before we start actually doing\r\n something and the times of need. I think we need to be creative and more innovative and that\'s what the\r\n mandate was then how the collaboration platform for CSR plus NGO can be created through the switch\r\n and cannot occur umbrella that was the first initiative we have taken.
\r\n\r\n\r\n I think this is our first attempt to do that or the second thing we are looking at this time when NGOs, if\r\n you remember the first week of COVID 19 the government, the media story and only when you can\r\n probably remember is the nonprofits NGOs who are on the ground helping people they only and of course\r\n the frontline, medical and police. I think this is time for us as a community to help induce this is a time\r\n when none of lot of challenges we are going to take that we are also looking at CSR in takes in a long term.\r\n We also have to help us with all the impact you know investment happening in an article and what\'s the\r\n way forward and under third the last piece what we want the work is a strong collaboration with\r\n government so that you know we can all work towards the initiatives and also kind of help demonstrate\r\n to them, these are some of the programs we have thought, we will discuss it more in the collaboration at\r\n the stage when we come to the panel discussion.
\r\n\r\n\r\n A Narayana Prasad - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the Government Colleges\r\n viewpoints to the participants. He said nearly 430 first grade colleges nearly 3 to 4 lakh students from\r\n B.Sc. BCA, BBM, B.Com and nearly 100 polytechnic colleges are having the PG courses nearly more than 1\r\n lakh students are being graduated every year from the Karnataka Government colleges.
\r\n\r\n\r\n He said that Help Educate- A DCTE Corporate Outreach program has been initiated to collaborate with\r\n Industry partners with the objectives of i) E2E Education to Employment to train & equip students to\r\n be employable; ii) use of Technology in Education; iii) Assessing & Improvising Teaching & Learning; iv)\r\n conducting Faculty Development Programs; v) designing curriculum that addresses Industry needs and vi)\r\n to fill Infrastructure & Equipment gaps in Government Higher Education Institutions.
\r\n\r\n\r\n We call upon the Corporates in Karnataka to take part in this initiative & supplement the DCTE’s efforts\r\n to bring about Transformational Changes in Higher Education in Karnataka.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Ashwini Saxena - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints to the\r\n participants. It\'s always a pleasure to you know speak when Abhishek is around because he brings in a lot\r\n of passion and a lot of insight. I think this covert challenge has posed a many unprecedented challenge\r\n none of us exactly you know what does it entail and you know how do we handle this situation how would \r\n we been handling the aftermath of this whole challenge. I think that\'s where you know the creative juices\r\n and the innovativeness of all of us put together as the constituents of the society is going to become more\r\n and more important.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The whole idea of collaborating for the sake of the communities becomes a very relevant and I would say\r\n important topic. I\'m not going to numbers as a responsible corporate. I think it\'s all here for people to\r\n witness with all humility we\'ve been trying to are to a bit reaching out to communities in the best ways\r\n possible. We are a small little part in the entire system and therefore the more the better and as much as\r\n we can collaborate. I think it is going to add value the overall value would be increased then we will be\r\n worth discussing and contemplating where exactly do we stand today if I if I look from the concept. I think\r\n if we look around at this moment planet has taken care of itself because thanks to the lockdown.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Vishal Bhardwaj - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints to the\r\n participants. In fact, in addition to that you know since we\'ve since we make ethanol had a sugar mills, we\r\n have also started to manufacture sanitizer in our class to assist the government. As much as we put in\r\n these challenging times as concerned, we of course stop destruction reverse migration that is happening\r\n and pressure that these communities were facing so response to that industry. We also started to supply\r\n rations and medicines to communities around us we also do care of.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints\r\n to the participants. A field we won\'t be around such passionate professionals in the CSR ecosystem. We\r\n are seeing the CSR pre-covid itself was predominantly you know focused on fewer issues and fewer\r\n geographies you know if you look at Karnataka itself between Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru rural is\r\n about 30 percent of CSR was spent but others 50 60 was not clearly reported but the smaller districts but\r\n you know very little of the CSR money coming into in the State.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Over the past four years the CSR spend just over 5,000 crores and literally less than 1% has gone to one\r\n of these districts in any form at all. The second thing is the issues also you know interestingly Karnataka is\r\n one state where education obviously across the country had been a big priority of it and you know\r\n environment sustainability surprisingly comes second in Karnataka and healthcare comes third which is\r\n very different from how its kind of spent in other parts of the you know ecosystem. I think to have an\r\n approach where be a lot more inclusive.
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\r\n "Modernization in Indian healthcare ecosystem"
\r\n Strategies, way forward and preparedness for pandemics
\r\n 19th January 2021 | 11:00 AM to 01:00PM
\r\n Session notes\r\n Invited speakers -
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\r\n 1. Shri. Jawaid Akhtar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Department of Health &\r\n Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka
\r\n\r\n\r\n .Dr. Padma Srivastava, Director, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences\r\n (NIMHANS), Bengaluru
\r\n\r\n3. Mahesh Kapri, Managing Director GE BEL & General Manager Supply Chain, GE Healthcare\r\n India
\r\n\r\n\r\n 4. Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals Group
\r\n\r\n\r\n 5. Dr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj, VP - Research & Policy, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
\r\n\r\n\r\n 6. Dr. Hardik J Pandya - Assistant Professor - Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian\r\n Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
\r\n\r\n\r\n 7. Dr. Nikhil Agarwal, CEO, FIRST - Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology
\r\n\r\n\r\n 8. Dr. Venkatachalapathy, President, Indian Medical Association, Karnataka Branch
\r\n\r\n\r\n 9. Uma S Nair, Regional director - Southern region, ASSOCHAM
\r\n\r\n\r\n Uma S Nair - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program\r\n and said Lessons that we learnt from Pandemic, Modernization of Indian Healthcare Ecosystem is need of\r\n the hour and to face future pandemic. To deliberate on the subject theme, we at ASSOCHAM Southern\r\n region office is hosting this webinar on Modernization in Indian Healthcare Ecosystem partnership with\r\n Wipro GE Healthcare as Platinum Partner.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Shri. Jawaid Akhtar, IAS - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said that Karnataka\r\n is known to be a center of hi-tech industry, contributing significantly to the country\'s revenues from\r\n information technology, biotechnology, ESDM, aerospace and other technology sectors. Today healthcare\r\n industry in India comprises of hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical\r\n tourism, health insurance and medical equipment. Growing incidence of lifestyle diseases, rising demand\r\n for affordable healthcare delivery systems due to the increasing healthcare costs, technological\r\n advancements, the emergence of telemedicine, rapid health insurance penetration and government\r\n initiatives like e-health together with tax benefits and incentives are driving healthcare market in India.
\r\n\r\n\r\n In recent years, medical researchers are talking about the latest terms of healthcare industry such as IOT\r\n in healthcare, e-health, m-health, app-based diagnosis, online ambulance booking, big data analytics on\r\n the EMRs, promoting generic drugs, and so on.
\r\nIn India healthcare industry is projected to reach $372 bn by 2022. The industry is growing at a tremendous\r\n pace owing to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private\r\n players.
\r\nIn Karnataka, the policy of trace, track, test, treat and technology (5T) was pioneered by Karnataka to fight\r\n the pandemic. During an interaction through the video conferencing, the Prime Minister of India,\r\n Narendra Modi, appreciated the state\'s efforts in combating the COVID-19 spread and steps taken to\r\n unlock the economy with the gradual relaxation of the extended lockdown norms. The centre has asked\r\n the other states to adopt these best practices to their local context and replicate them for better\r\n management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
\r\n\r\n Karnataka is moving towards an Inclusive Healthcare Karnataka has been using information technology\r\n effectively. The state has also been a pioneer in government supported health insurance schemes\r\n introduced by the Central and State Government. With a clear objective of taking quality healthcare to\r\n the doorsteps of the citizens, Karnataka has been transforming its healthcare sector with a proactive\r\n approach. Karnataka is among the few pioneering Indian states with a strong track record in the\r\n formulation of health policies.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said The Indian\r\n healthcare scenario presents a spectrum of contrasting landscapes. At one end of the spectrum are the\r\n glitzy steel and glass structures delivering high tech medicare to the well-heeled, mostly urban Indian. At\r\n the other end are the ramshackle outposts in the remote reaches of the "other India" trying desperately\r\n to live up to their identity as health subcenters, waiting to be transformed to shrines of health and\r\n wellness, a story which we will wait to see unfold. With the rapid pace of change currently being\r\n witnessed, this spectrum is likely to widen further, presenting even more complexity in the future.
\r\n\r\n\r\n It is often said that quality, safety and efficacy of a medicine is a must. In keeping with this, Goel, said,\r\n "There are two intertwined issues — one is how to ensure that best quality medicines are produced and\r\n that the integrity of the drug is maintained during the distribution process; second, how it can be ensured\r\n that quality medicines are affordable, so that they can be accessed when needed. The first issue requires\r\n strengthening of quality standards and their strict implementation so that there are no two different\r\n quality of drugs — one for the developed regulated market, and the other, for the Indian market. To\r\n address the second issue, it is important to make quality generic drugs available to patients. Government\r\n and some startups have taken steps in this direction by opening a chain of retail pharmacies which\r\n dispense only quality generic drugs at a fraction of the cost."
\r\n India is currently experiencing a digital revolution. Healthcare too is witnessing a digital transformation.\r\n Leveraging digital technologies can certainly strengthen healthcare delivery in India, opine these experts.\r\n "Digital technologies are driving greater efficiency in healthcare delivery. Electronic Medical Record\r\n (EMR), the digital version of physical medical record, for instance, is playing a crucial role in optimizing\r\n patient care by ensuring continuity and aiding information sharing across caregivers (hospital, diagnostic\r\n lab, pharmacy, etc). It replicates existing processes digitally with different degrees of automation,
\r\n reasonable process optimization and operational management information system (MIS), which\r\n otherwise is labor-intensive and prone to human error.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Dr. Padma Srivastava - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said the impact of\r\n digital technology and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-driven change will scale up.\r\n Technology giants are locked in a trillion-dollar battle to win share in the public cloud and to retain\r\n consumer mindshare and engagement. As a result, they are investing billions of R&D dollars into their\r\n platforms to create services easily usable across a range of customers and for a range of applications (for\r\n example, predictive analytics) that accelerate innovation.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The Indian government's 'Make in India' initiative is encouraging domestic manufacture of medical\r\n devices and helping lower the prices patients pay for products such as stents and implants, which in the\r\n past were imported. At the same time, in India the policy environment and regulators need to\r\n accommodate technological interventions such as the growth of online pharmacies with the requisite\r\n controls in place, according to the panelists. Health care innovation in India could serve as a global model\r\n for a shift from treating the sick to preventive care and wellness, given the size of its underserved populations.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Health care has the potential to lead to economic growth and to provide employment, but it also is a\r\n crucial sector in terms of protecting the health and the wealth of the nation
\r\n\r\n\r\n Mahesh Kapri - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said Medical technology\r\n is one industry where change is the only constant and the pandemic has presented the perfect\r\n opportunity for innovations in the industry to be brought forth. The country\'s medtech industry is\r\n currently at crossroads owing to the global crisis. With that as a backdrop, let us take a look at how the\r\n pandemic has fast-tracked the growth of the Indian medtech industry.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The pandemic brought with it countless restrictions and supply chains across the world took a major hit,\r\n adversely impacting the import and export of critical medical equipment. As a consequence, the medical\r\n industry was confronted with innumerable challenges since a majority of healthcare facilities relied on\r\n imported medical equipment to provide adequate care to patients, paving the way for the industry to\r\n realise the importance of home-grown products.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The Covid-19 pandemic situation was initially challenging in India with a dense population and highly\r\n import dependent Indian medical devices sector. Pushing the Indian medical devices sector to become\r\n self-reliant or Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Government of India through its flagship "Make in India" initiative\r\n relied heavily on the Indian manufacturers to meet the surged demand of essential healthcare equipment
.\r\n\r\n\r\n The Prime Minister's call for Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), is just the right step for our domestic\r\n manufacturing. A self-reliant India would mean the country reducing its dependence on imports by\r\n focusing on 'Make in India'. Self-reliance means strengthening the country\'s competitive power in the\r\n long run. The natural evolution of any economy has been from an agricultural state to an industrialized\r\n nation to further becoming a service dominated nation. Atmanirbhar Bharat can help us regain the lost\r\n ground of industrialisation.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The MedTech industry is also highly import dependent on other countries for raw materials and now is\r\n the right time to challenge this arrangement, as companies are looking for alternative manufacturing\r\n hubs. India could be their preferred choice, provided we are able to offer a conducive environment. A\r\n conducive business climate with simplified land and labor laws, better infrastructure and logistics, and\r\n single window clearances can enable India to develop a robust manufacturing ecosystem. This will also\r\n help attract foreign capital, latest technology, create jobs and boost our exports. Skill and Scale should be\r\n the primary focus to be both quality and cost competitive and serve a global customer base. Huge scope\r\n exists in MedTech sector, not only to be self-reliant but also capture a considerable share of the global\r\n supply chain.
\r\n\r\nDr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said National\r\n Digital Health Mission (NDHM), which is based on the National Digital Health Blueprint (NHDB) prepared\r\n by the Ministry of Health Family Welfare (MoHFW) panel to create a framework for the National Health\r\n Stack (NHS) proposed in 2018 by the National Institution for Transformation of India (NITI) Aayog. The\r\n NHS is essentially a set of core building blocks to be \'built as a common public good\' that helps avoid\r\n duplication of efforts and achieves convergence among the IT systems of the diverse stakeholders such as\r\n the Governments, the Payers, the Providers, and the Citizens.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The mission envisages the creation of few core digital systems which are built to support timely access to\r\n safe, affordable healthcare for all citizens and will accelerate the country\'s progress towards Universal\r\n Health Coverage (UHC). The suite of digital systems consists of Health ID, DigiDoctor, Health Facility\r\n Registry (HFR), Personal Health Records, e-Pharmacy, and Telemedicine. Similar to the other healthcare\r\n programs announced by the Government, NDHM will also be rolled out in phases.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for approximately 41 million deaths each year; 15 million of\r\n these deaths are considered premature (before the age of 70 years) and over 85% occur in low- and\r\n middle-income countries. In India, NCDs contribute to 62% of total deaths; of particular concern are\r\n preventable premature deaths, which account for a staggering 48% of the overall mortality. The leading\r\n causes of NCD mortality in 2016 were cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers,\r\n diabetes, and urogenital, blood and endocrine diseases. Findings from the India state-level Disease Burden\r\n Initiative reveal dramatic increases in disability-adjusted life year rates between 1990 and 2016 for two\r\n specific NCDs - diabetes and ischemic heart disease. The high prevalence of major risk factors, such as\r\n tobacco use, harmful consumption of alcohol, poor diet and physical inactivity, are contributing to the\r\n rising burden of NCDs. If the four major NCDs (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory\r\n disease and cancer) are left unaddressed, they could cost India approximately US$ 3.55 trillion in\r\n economic losses by 2030.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Dr. Nikhil Agarwal - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said India is one of the\r\n fast-rising economic power in the world today. The status of development in sectors of IT and industry\r\n are hiking at a swift pace. With the abundance of human resource India has caught the attention of the\r\n world with their amazing performance in these sectors. The high density of population in India is also\r\n having a high percentage of youth population making a seamlessly working work machine producing\r\n products and projects that can possibly alter the functioning of technology and industry in the future.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Medical research comes as a necessary development as more people are present in the country. The\r\n overall development of any country is measured based on the overall lifestyle of the people. Health care\r\n is one of the important factors that is taken into account while assessing the development of a nation.\r\n Medical research in India is pioneered by various public and private organizations rigorously working to\r\n increase the standard of health care in the country. The improvement of life expectancy of every citizen\r\n in the country is highly dependent on the development of advanced medical research producing faster,\r\n cheaper and effective methods of treatments to provide the patients with.
\r\n\r\nWith advancements in the field of biotechnology and bio-engineering, there are chances of developing\r\n new drugs and new diagnostic methods and tools that can help in making the process of medical\r\n development faster in India.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Dr. Hardik J Pandya - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and was happy to share\r\n that a ventilator can be a life-saver for patients whose lungs are damaged by the COVID-19 infection. But\r\n India, like all countries grappling with this pandemic. IISc is built a prototype of an electro-mechanical\r\n ventilator from scratch and using only components made in India, based on the guidelines issued by the\r\n regulatory agency.
\r\n\r\n\r\n A paradigm shift is anticipated from volume-based care (fee-for-service healthcare, being independent of\r\n the service quality) to value-based care (healthcare providers are charged based on patients' health\r\n outcomes). Stakeholders in the Indian healthcare ecosystem are focusing on leveraging healthcare apps\r\n to make up for the inadequacies in healthcare infrastructure.Increasing focus on patient-centric care,\r\n emergence of advanced technologies, and changing business models have played a crucial role in driving\r\n the healthcare apps market in India.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Digital transformation in the country, coupled with substantial support from the government, has fueled\r\n the growth of the healthcare apps market in India. The increase in digital reach in the country has been\r\n replicated by a swift growth in the number of mobile subscribers and Internet users in the country.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The health data generated from healthcare apps can be leveraged by AI and machine learning algorithms\r\n and used to identify people with potential health risks. Further, an AI-based app can detect patients' faces\r\n through a visual recognition system and assist in disease management. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)\r\n has the potential to develop innovative apps, which connect to beacons placed across hospitals and aid\r\n indoor navigation within hospitals
.\r\n\r\n\r\n Ashutosh Shrotriya - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and was happy to share\r\n that, the health insurance industry in India is the fastest growing segment in the non-life insurance sector.\r\n The market witnessed a robust double-digit growth of 24% in FY 17, with a market share of 24%, in the\r\n entire non-life insurance sector. It has been the fastest growing market segment, registering a CAGR of\r\n 23%, for the past 10 years. This phenomenal growth may be attributed to the liberalization of the\r\n economy and growing general awareness among the public on healthcare.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The health insurance industry is at an embryonic stage, with roughly 25% of the population under its\r\n coverage. There exists a huge potential for growth and penetration of health insurance to a larger\r\n population. The way insurance is being underwritten in today's world is fast changing. And feeding this\r\n massive data revolution is your and my digital footprint. Whether it is ordering food online through mobile\r\n apps or paying for it through mobile wallets, or even hailing a taxi online, we are leaving behind a valuable\r\n trail of information every minute of our lives
\r\n\r\n\r\n And it is this data that is being mined and analyzed by various organizations and institutions to eliminate\r\n risk, improve their efficiency, make their services more cutting-edge, and offer better products to us.\r\n While insurance companies once relied on historical data for actuarial calculations and risk management,\r\n they now draw upon data sources that are updated by the second. This enables them to be more\r\n responsive in an increasingly volatile risk environment. Thus, real-time data has become central to any\r\n kind of risk underwriting, and one who has access to this data enjoys plenty of advantages over his peers\r\n and is in a better position to underwrite risk.
\r\n\r\n\r\n The future looks promising for the life insurance industry with several changes in regulatory framework\r\n which will lead to further change in the way the industry conducts its business and engages with its\r\n customers. The overall insurance industry is expected to reach US$ 280 billion by the end of 2020. Life\r\n insurance industry in the country is expected to increase by 14-15% annually for the next three to five\r\n years. The scope of IoT in Indian insurance market continues to go beyond telematics and customer risk\r\n assessment.\r\n ****
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\r\n\r\nBC Patil - Thank you. Good Moring all
\r\n\r\nUma Nair - On behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to extend my gratitude to each \r\n and everybody who had given their valuable time for this session. So thank you \r\n very much. I would also like to extend my thanks to NABARD who has in fact \r\n come and collaborated for this particular session. Thank you sir, thank you very \r\n much. We also have one more banking partner, The Karnataka Bank which is \r\n also come on to the board as the banking partner. So now let's move on to the \r\n session, I would like to welcome all the dignities and also our honorable minister \r\n for this webinar from ASSOCHAM. Before we move on to the session I would like \r\n to introduce Dr. Suresh who is the chairmen for agriculture committee for \r\n ASSOCHAM. Dr. Suresh, it's over to you.
\r\n\r\nDr. Suresh - Thank you ma'am. Good Moring everybody. Covid has affected all \r\n over the world and agriculture and food processing are the same kind. Those two \r\n are the most important for everybody's life wherein agriculture produce in the \r\n main raw material for most of the food processing. Even though they are two \r\n separate entities, they go hand in hand to produce safe food for us. In food \r\n processing chain, the supply chain management of agriculture food produce is \r\n most important for effective distribution of the food across the world. So during \r\n Covid-19, because of this lockdown, supply chain management is effected \r\n drastically. Wherein we have to appreciate govt. of Karnataka and govt. of India \r\n and especially Karnataka's agricultural department and agricultural invocities. \r\n They have opened a agri-ware room and we have congratulate our agricultural \r\n minister who has travelled across the state throughout the Covid period to help \r\n the farmers and it has helped them a lot to distribute their agriculture products \r\n to the consumers directly. In supply chain, we have two different entities: the \r\n storage and marketing. Our present webinar will revolve around the storage \r\n aspects which helps in reducing post-harvest plasters and the second one is the \r\n marketing which helps in penetrating the markets to a greater extent across the \r\n world to increase the profitability to all stake holders. With these two aspects in
\r\nmind, we thought of organizing this webinar. We are concentrating only on what \r\n has happened in Karnataka. In this webinar we'll find out the possible solutions \r\n for both storage and marketing of the agricultural food products and to have a \r\n smooth supply chain during fighting times like Covid-19. Thank you so much.
\r\n\r\nUma Nair - Thank you very much sir. Now I would like to request our honorable \r\n agriculture minister BC Patil to release a knowledge report. This knowledge \r\n report has come out with the collaboration with NABARD.
\r\n\r\nBC Patil - Thank you ma'am. It is my pleasure to be a part of this webinar \r\n organized by NABARD and ASSOCHAM. I am happy to release knowledge report \r\n of ASSOCHAM and NABARD on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing \r\n industries in the state of Karnataka.
\r\n\r\nUma Nair - Thank you sir. Due to the lockdown, we couldn't send the hard copy \r\n so we thought we would release the soft copy and then we'll distribute the hard \r\n copy. I would like to pass on the floor to the honorable minister of agriculture\r\n BC Patil to deliver the inaugural address. It's over to you sir.
\r\n\r\n(Honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil's speech has been delivered to \r\n the media)
\r\n\r\nUma Nair - Thank you so much sir. Definitely after the program we will come up \r\n with a recommendation and submit it to the honorable minister. Thank you sir \r\n for your valuable time and for coming here and showing your presence to this \r\n particular program and I would like to ask you sir, we have good number of agri \r\n students attending this particular program from different universities, do you \r\n have anything to tell them sir?
\r\n\r\nBC Patil - I would like to tell all the agri students not to depend on jobs of the \r\n govt. They should go to the villages and start farming. So that they can be a \r\n good doctors to the farmers. They can teach, they can make the farmers to know \r\n how technology can be used and how scientific things can be used by the farmers \r\n to develop and produce and doubling the income of the farmers. And now most \r\n of the students are getting in the govt. jobs and I want agri students to be like \r\n doctors to the farmers. In Karnataka 79ABC of revenue act has been amended \r\n and now anybody can go and purchase the land and can start cultivation and \r\n farming. I want young minds, young thoughts, young thinking should duck to \r\n the villagers and start farming. By doing this, Indian economy can boost up and \r\n fulfil our PM's dream.
\r\n\r\nUma Nair - Thank you very much sir. It was in fact an inspirational words to the \r\n students community as you rightly mentioned, we need to see many youths \r\n going back to the farming community because they are going to be our next \r\n future so need to have students getting into that particular sector to increase \r\n the GDP of our country. So thank you very much for your time sir.
\r\n\r\nBC Patil - One more thing I want to bring it to your kind notice, I want to start \r\n agri tourism for the city people, where the city people, students and most of the \r\n children doesn't know how paddy/rice are formed. They don't know if rice is \r\n coming from paddy. I have already given a suggestion to the educational \r\n minister Suresh Kumar to start agri tourism. Another thing is weekend \r\n farming. All the youngsters and engineers are wasting their time by visiting pubs \r\n and other things. Instead of that, they can visit any village and start weekend \r\n farming.
\r\n\r\n\r\nUma Nair - That's really a good idea sir. I think your words have reached the \r\n audience and we'll see what changes happens in our coming days. Actually \r\n agriculture is the backbone of our country and I think every individual youths \r\n and youngster should focus on that to see that the GDP of our country will grow \r\n on agriculture. Thank you very much for your time sir. Now I would like to move \r\n to the next topic of the day that is the panel discussion. The panel discussion is \r\n about the importance of the storage structure and strengthening of agriculture \r\n and food processing supply chain as rightly mentioned by Dr. Suresh, during \r\n pandemic supply chain was badly affected. ASSOCHAM has been deliberating on \r\n this topic every year including this and Amit Ji is also a part of this. I think \r\n everybody understood that supply chain is very important aspect in the \r\n agricultural food processing when it has to come from the farm to the market \r\n supply chain makes a crucial role in this agricultural food processing industry. I \r\n would not take much of your time, I would like to welcome Rwitwika\r\n Bhattacharya who is the CEO and the founder of Swaniti initiative, who is going \r\n to moderate this entire session. We have Sri. Neeraj Kumar Varma, the CGF \r\n Karnataka regional office NABARD, welcome sir. Sri Amith Vatsyan who is the \r\n partner of agri and social sector advisory Africa India and Middle East from \r\n Earnst&young welcome sir. We have Sri Shivanand Rai who is the general \r\n manager of central warehousing corporation ministry of food and public \r\n distribution system govt. of India and director for Karnataka state warehousing \r\n corporation from ministry of GOK, welcome sir. We have the final speaker Dr. KC \r\n Gummagolmath, he is from institutional management from Hyderabad. So \r\n Rwitwika, the floor is onto you so you can take the discussion forward
\r\n\r\nModerator - Thank you so much for that Uma, that was really a wonderful \r\n introduction really appreciate it. I think it's really wonderful to know that we are \r\n in an ecosystem right now where there is so much social, political, economic will \r\n to strengthen food processing, to strengthen warehousing and to really focus on \r\n the agricultural sector and we see that right from the central govt. down to the \r\n state govt., I think there is so much potential right know to transform the
\r\n\r\nagricultural industry and we see that through the ordnance whether that's an \r\n essential commodity act or whether that's a incredible focus in various states, \r\n Of course including Karnataka o build infrastructural want to take up much of \r\n your time. I do want to briefly mention the intent of the panel today would be to \r\n examine warehousing ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem in different perspective. \r\n So I request each speaker to talk about their backgrounds that they bring in \r\n before Covid and of course the social capital, the political capital that Covid has \r\n built in and the promise that holds. So I would love to start off with Amith ji. \r\n How do you see Covid affecting agro and food processing industry and what are \r\n the other possibilities?
\r\n\r\nAmith Ji - Thank you. Hello everyone. I think we need to look at Covid along \r\n with that also look at Atma Nirbar Bharat Abyan the way govt. has responded. \r\n Covid has caused huge destruction and we know that the supply chain has \r\n disturbed in a major way and also the existing processing unit which were \r\n suffering before Covid and govt. has taken multiple measures but I think along \r\n with that historical modulance which has opened up the space for much better \r\n vertical integration as well as the ordinance within the Karnataka govt. being \r\n able to trade across the area by farmers. To the question which I going to focus \r\n on is that now space have been opened up What would be needed in the \r\n ecosystem to be able to capture the opportunities. So just to say that if we \r\n currently look at Karnataka it is ranked 7th as far as infrastructure is concerned \r\n and it needs additional 2 million metric ton of storage capacity. So if one has to \r\n respond to honorable minister sir vision that there is an opportunity for \r\n processing and there is an aim to increase the number. Along with that both \r\n storage and processing needs to be aligned and later in the conversation I would \r\n also talk about specific type of storages. The other thing which is also important \r\n is that storage of processing and that has been our experience with MOFPI and \r\n with other schemes that it is very important that these storages of processing \r\n are part of larger value chain supply chain integration where at one end farmers \r\n are involved so already multiple stimulus have been announced including the 1 \r\n lakh crore stimulus for the infrastructure. At the other end we have got buyers \r\n and large companies which have been responding to consumers at Karnataka \r\n level or also I believe for Karnataka the big opportunity is looking at national \r\n and very importantly irrational market. To be specific it's Middle East and CIS \r\n markets. All of this cannot be achieved until and unless the missing medal of \r\n storage and infrastructure is put in place otherwise farmers will continue to \r\n produce great stuff. I have been to Bagakot, I have been to many of the areas in \r\n Karnataka and farmers are one of the most entrepreneurs people. They are \r\n producing and that needs to come. That I think is one important piece and one \r\n action that I would like to highlight is that infrastructure needs to be built and \r\n recognized based upon what is being produced. So I would highly recommend a \r\n cluster way of thinking recognizing what are the key areas that the particular \r\n commodities are developing so that the storage and processing is aligned to the \r\n production and aligned to the final demand and agro cluster approach where \r\n FPO's are at the base is going to be critical. The second thing which I think is \r\n absolutely important is that just the way Karnataka earlier lead with electronics
\r\nand investment in IT sector is very important to facilitate the current \r\n connection between the buyers who are coming in and the producers, the FPO's \r\n who are there so digit connection specially in Covid context where physically is \r\n very hard to figure out who is what, who is going to be very important to the \r\n ecosystem. On boarding the third point which I want to make it is about on \r\n boarding the warehouses and supporting private storage which can also be \r\n declared as marketing art specially in the intalent because the private sector will \r\n be able to reach out areas which are accessible but in north Karnataka and in \r\n deep south, it going to be very important to build this type of an analysis. The \r\n last point I want to mention is currently while the processing policy have come \r\n in but Karnataka level policy on FPO which has aligned with the guidelines \r\n which has been released but which answers the state wants to do and also takes \r\n into account the contract farming module so that Karnataka as a comprehensive\r\n will go a long way to respond to how the clusters and the infrastructure is going \r\n to be supported at the bottom. Lastly, this is a particular recommendation I \r\n would like to give, the micro food enterprise scheme has been launched under \r\n MOFPI and its very important and honorable minister in talking in farming \r\n which it's going to be good food entrepreneurship which is supported extensively \r\n as part of ecosystem for farming and along with that is to just to summarize the \r\n strengthening FPO's at the bottom part of the ecosystem building \r\n infrastructures around clusters developing policies to support this and getting \r\n the infrastructure on board where they are going to avail various benefits which \r\n currently govt. is offering going to be crucial to respond to the opportunities \r\n which exist for Karnataka.
\r\n\r\nModerator - Thank you for that. It was very helpful. We are now going to discuss \r\n two threats that you discussed and take that to other panelist. On is to talk \r\n about infrastructure and need to align infrastructure in a better way for optimal \r\n output. To that end I actually wanted to turn towards to Shivanand Rai who \r\n I wanted to identify special experience form the central warehousing perspective \r\n and looking at it from policy and how we can strengthen policy that can help the \r\n larger ecosystem further, what are the policies that you think make sense to \r\n focus on?
\r\n\r\nShivanand Rai - Good morning to all participants and honorable minister BC \r\n Patil sir. It is a great opportunity for me. I can summarize and CWC is around 10 \r\n million tons capacities all over India and Karnataka we are having around 4.5 \r\n metric ton. Karnataka state warehousing corporation is having around 17 lakh \r\n metric ton with the help of NABARD and total food corporation of India is having \r\n around 4 lakh metric ton. Total warehousing that is listed under WDRA so they \r\n see that all warehouses should be scientific senders. All over country it is 1799 \r\n has been registered. So these are the basics and during the lockdown CWC all \r\n over India has handled about 100 lakh metric ton of food ware and 20 lakh \r\n metric ton for public distribution system and in Karnataka 2-3 lakh so is coming \r\n to that further we have container filter essentials and still in this Covid period \r\n the only problem we are facing is labour problem. Otherwise or warehouses are \r\n heading on full capacity so we still want to expand the basic
\r\n\r\nModerators - Thank you for that sir. It was very helpful. Moving the \r\n infrastructure that existed and moving the amount of work that has been done, \r\n one thing Amith Ji mentioned was FPO. About the ecosystem face and then \r\n there is capital which is on the ground and which is executing on these firms. So \r\n Dr. KC I actually want to turn towards you and you had mentioned very success \r\n stories especially in this ecosystem, given there are chance to improve \r\n infrastructure, to improve capacity and there are still incredible stories that you \r\n mention of FPO's in the kind of draft they were doing. Would kind of highlight \r\n those kind of examples?
\r\n\r\nDr. KC Good morning everyone and I congratulate ASSOCHAM for hosting such \r\n an important webinar. Impact of Covid have been quite harsh on other sector \r\n than agriculture sector. The first impact of Indian agriculture is destruction in \r\n supply chain. There was an interstate and inter district transportation ban and \r\n that really disturbed the supply chain and there was a delay in permit thought \r\n agricultural commodities were permitted so there was a delay in transportation. \r\n So these things affected the storage of agricultural commodities and also exports \r\n are effected due to international ban. So overall scenario impact of Covid on \r\n Indian agriculture. Even the other sectors are also badly effected the growth has \r\n been cut down by 20% to 17%. Bu growth in agricultural sector fortunately has \r\n come down by 1% or 2%. So this pandemic can be an opportunity. Here I want to \r\n make one important point. You can leverage ICT for location of storage \r\n structures like in Delhi they launched an app for location of vacant beds. So like \r\n that we can develop an app for the storage sectors. Second important point to \r\n make is we can leverage FPO and we can go for a smaller warehouses instead of \r\n building a big warehouse and again farmers has to take it for a longer distance. \r\n The FPO's can be strengthen by state govt. providing requisite assistance by \r\n having a storage structures. Mentioning the third point to the minister bring \r\n agriculture and line departments into marketing as well. For this policy change \r\n is required we can have a marketing cell in each of the allied sectors because \r\n these people are closely attached with the farmers can sensitize the farmers \r\n about different marketing and various aspects and passage of the two ordinance \r\n by GOI, role of the APMC is confined to that market area beyond that now this \r\n APMC will have a new role by involving in the backward linkages by developing \r\n warehouse, cold storages structures and storages more than anything Karnataka \r\n is having an international institute CFTRI Karnataka govt. can take a advantage \r\n of the institute some technologies can be borrow and transfer to the farmers as \r\n well as the total supply chain. These are the few points, Karnataka is blessed \r\n with all climatic zones so cluster based approach export for domestic marketing \r\n will help a lot.
\r\n\r\nModerate - Minister Sir, would you like to say something?
\r\nsome warehouses into cold storage which is quite essential now a days after the \r\n Covid, we learnt that cold storage is much essential because when the supply \r\n chain demand was less farmers spoiled their vegetables and fruits instead of this
\r\n\r\nthey would have stored in cold storage in Karnataka we have only 32 cold \r\n storages and out of which they couldn't able to store all the things and the \r\n perishable goods were big loss to the Karnataka farming that time. That's why \r\n we look forward for more cold storage that's what essential.
\r\n\r\nModerator - Neeraj Ji, would you like to add something about the govt. initiative \r\n and about the NABARD funding initiative in the agriculture post Covid?
\r\n\r\nNeeraj Ji - Good morning. Thanks for having me in the webinar for ASSOCHAM \r\n organizing this timely webinar topical theme by giving the current Covid-19 \r\n situation and also I must thank our honorable minister BC Patil sir stated as \r\n telling the FPO's should pitch in and the honorable PM giving the importance to \r\n the rural India at the pandemic time by bringing out the three strategic \r\n provisions through ordinance to convert totally into beans and this time will \r\n come the FPO's chance in the rural India. As I was CEO and MD of NABARD two \r\n years back and in Karnataka I drove funding to the FPO's. So out of 400 FPO's \r\n 250 FPO's has been promoted by NABARD and we lend to 40 FPO's and this year \r\n also we going to lend 50 FPO's and also will promote 50-100 the govt. of India \r\n has come up with FPO funds as we have funds we want to fund across India \r\n 10,000 FPO's and also I'm sure the agriculture minister of Karnataka and of \r\n NABARD is there and I'm sure Karnataka will be the leading state in this mission \r\n of FPO's promoting. FPO is key to everything from storage to marketing \r\n aggregation to realization of value and the income FPO is the key. The intention \r\n of GOI by doubling the farmer's income which Dalwai will speak in the next \r\n panel. The next decade will be the FPO's decade GOI announced credit guarantee \r\n fund and also the equity provided to the FPO's as heading the Karnataka \r\n NABARD we will assure with the FPO's in NABARD in guidance and collaboration \r\n with the Karnataka govt. under the leadership of honorable CM and honorable \r\n agriculture minister we will be the leading in funding. For FPO's all kind of \r\n facilities and credit facilities is for storage and pandemic processing localizing \r\n centers the key localilse aggregation at the farmers level is the key. This kind of \r\n FPO's will evolve federation of the FPO's. The GOI Is planning the cluster one \r\n district one cluster and that is also been identified and also we will be having a \r\n meeting with the district level managers of NABARD and tomorrow the GOI \r\n Agriculture Ministry will have the meeting with the DGM's of across the country \r\n and the state with the FPO's and again we will assure from NABARD to the agri \r\n ministry and very shortly we will come out with the action plan going to be in \r\n Karnataka also and this is regarding to FPO and also across the country this will \r\n be a right movement. In pandemic times the farmers need all kind of helps \r\n because the farmers will be the key drivers at this point of time agriculture \r\n sector is the better place than other sectors because they drive the economy of \r\n India also. Another key announcement by NABARD we are going to provide \r\n storage facilities, processing facilities to saturate throughout India to assist and \r\n to lend max 4% and will give the grant for the capacity building. We have \r\n announced and the circular has come and very shortly and this we will do it in \r\n first phase in the year we notice the very first phase and across Karnataka they \r\n are ready along with the FPO's form packs will be there not only FPO's but packs
\r\nare also there. The GOI has announced the agriculture infrastructure fund and \r\n also announced 1 lakh fund for interest of 3% along will the bankers in \r\n Karnataka the NABARD will give the grater boost. These are the schemes from \r\n the FPO's and packs which we are going to convert into multi-services center \r\n and this schemes will be translated very soon we have to come from paper to the \r\n ground and as our honorable minister as he is travelling in the state with his \r\n enthusiasm I am sure today is the starting point from today we are going to \r\n translate all the policies into action and shortly we will do this in collaboration \r\n with the GOK shortly. Thank you
\r\nUma S Nair introduced the esteemed panelists and the moderator to session.
\r\n\r\nDr. Prbhod Halde welcomed the panelists and shared the context about the session. He \r\n stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food processing will gain lot of \r\n importance and opportunity in domestic and international in export sector to work \r\n towards "Atma Nirbhar Bharat".
\r\n\r\nAmit Vatsyayan said the "One Nation and One Market" announced by the PM Modi. \r\n He pointed out that there is a significance opportunity in domestic and international \r\n markets by promoting through marketing bodies such as fruits and vegetables, food \r\n processing and other commodities in Karnataka by harmonizing the quality of food \r\n products and supply chain. The marketing bodies to identify the critical areas and \r\n address them so that the farmers can grow more and produce more. There are there \r\n points f deliberation by (i) commercially engage the aggregators through the dedicated \r\n FPO (ii) The Advisory bodies to understand the market trends and indentify the domestic \r\n and international markets to meet the production and requirement (iii) the Karnataka \r\n State should come up with Agro Export policy and identify the key products and help \r\n the farmers to export more and produce more
\r\n\r\nDr. Ashok Dalwai, IAS said to increase the farmer's income by creating value addition \r\n and help to generate high returns. There are two ways to increase the farmers income \r\n (i) by creating the value addition to the products by increasing the shelf by processing \r\n the food produce (ii) by primary processing of produce and connecting the market and \r\n create a safe environment. He stressed about strengthening the agriculture commodity \r\n sector by helping them reduce the loss of produce and help them to earn more returns. \r\n Also support the farmer by selling every product he grows. The farmer need to focus on \r\n harvesting rather concentrating on fertilizers also produce the agri products as per the \r\n domestic and international standards. The Government of India come up with 2 aspects \r\n to support the farmer community (i) free agri market (ii) strengthen the agri market by \r\n building the muscle of farmers. There is another initiative from Government of India \r\n taken under agriculture marketing with APMC act and separate market place for \r\n farmers to sell their produce, by creating more than one market place helps the farmers \r\n to earn more. He suggested to create a trade zones apart from APMC market place to \r\n meet the demand. The Government of India also announced to support more than \r\n 10,000 FPOs and strengthen them and allocated more than 30,000 crore to strengthen
\r\n\r\nand restructure he cooperative societies to help the farmers. He closed the speech by \r\n saying help farmer to how to produce and teach the technique to produce and connect \r\n with APMC and other markets.
\r\n\r\nDr. K. C. Gummagolmath said to create a harmony between the agri bodies and other \r\n related players in the sector. The said that the current era is to meet the demand driven \r\n market and plan the agri produce. He suggested there are few ways to improve the \r\n produce (i) Contract farming (ii) linking the farmers to retail chain (iii) create online \r\n platform to connect with consumers with selected commodities (iv) the State to look at \r\n implementing the agri export policy (v) implement the best practices if agri business in \r\n food processing sector in the State.
\r\n\r\nJoanna Kane-Potaka said that support the SMEs, as there are more than 6 lakh \r\n SME's in the State. Post covid there will 30% of SME's will be shut if not supported. To \r\n tackle the pandemic she suggested (i) right information about the produce and export \r\n to market (ii) insight of covid hit region and support with goods movement (iii) create \r\n more platform of trade fairs to improvise the farmer's income. She urged to farmer \r\n connect with FPO's and SME's is important and this collaboration will create a platform \r\n to felicitate the farmers. Also said, it is important to help the farmer with quality and \r\n quantity to create consistent supply also provides value to the supply chain.
\r\n\r\nThangam Rammachandran said that Karnataka State is the key producer of rose \r\n onion. We at APEDA work closely with farmer help with export of produce. APEDA invites \r\n other stakeholders join hands to connect from farm level to market. Also encouraged \r\n the sector players to participate in the export promotion and buyer seller meet. The \r\n cluster based export policy will help farmers to produce and meet the demand. There \r\n are various pesticides available in the market; right set of pesticides pre harvest helps \r\n the farmers to produce agri products that meet the global standards. She suggested to \r\n train the farmers on right pesticides for pre harvest, best agriculture practices to yield \r\n more, packaging and marketing. These elements will help farmer to participate in \r\n domestic and global level buyer seller meet. APEDA also works closely with farmer help \r\n with their financial needs to meet the demand and produce agri products.
\r\nKrishna Kumar Joshi concluded the session with closing remarks by picking key \r\n points discussed during the session.
\r\n\r\nThe session was attended by more than 400 participants from various industry, \r\n academia and agri institutions.
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\r\n Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Government of India
- Neelkamal Darbari, IAS, Managing Director SFAC
\r\n Shri.. Tushar Girinath I.A.S, Principal Secretary to Govt., Co-Operation \r\n Dept.,
\r\n Uma S Nair introduced the esteemed panelists and the moderator \r\n to session.
\r\n\r\n Dr. Prbhod Halde welcomed the panelists and shared the context about \r\n the session. He stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food \r\n processing will gain lot of importance and opportunity in domestic and \r\n international in export sector to work towards "Atma Nirbhar Bharat".
\r\n\r\n Amit Vatsyayan said the "One Nation and One Market" announced \r\n by the PM Modi. He pointed out that there is a significance opportunity \r\n in domestic and international markets by promoting through \r\n marketing bodies such as fruits and vegetables, food processing and \r\n other commodities in Karnataka by harmonizing the quality of food \r\n products and supply chain. The marketing bodies to identify the critical
\r\n\r\n areas and address them so that the farmers can grow more and \r\n produce more. There are there points f deliberation by (i) commercially \r\n engage the aggregators through the dedicated FPO (ii) The Advisory \r\n bodies to understand the market trends and indentify the domestic and \r\n international markets to meet the production and requirement (iii) the \r\n Karnataka State should come up with Agro Export policy and identify \r\n the key products and help the farmers to export more and produce \r\n more.
\r\n\r\n Dr. Ashok Dalwai, IAS said to increase the farmer's income by creating \r\n value addition and help to generate high returns. There are two ways \r\n to increase the farmers income (i) by creating the value addition to the \r\n products by increasing the shelf by processing the food produce (ii) by \r\n primary processing of produce and connecting the market and create a \r\n safe environment. He stressed about strengthening the agriculture \r\n commodity sector by helping them reduce the loss of produce and help \r\n them to earn more returns. Also support the farmer by selling every \r\n product he grows. The farmer need to focus on harvesting rather \r\n concentrating on fertilizers also produce the agri products as per the \r\n domestic and international standards. The Government of India come \r\n up with 2 aspects to support the farmer community (i) free agri market \r\n (ii) strengthen the agri market by building the muscle of farmers. There \r\n is another initiative from Government of India taken under agriculture \r\n marketing with APMC act and separate market place for farmers to sell \r\n their produce, by creating more than one market place helps the \r\n farmers to earn more. He suggested to create a trade zones apart from \r\n APMC market place to meet the demand. The Government of India also \r\n announced to support more than 10,000 FPOs and strengthen them \r\n and allocated more than 30,000 crore to strengthen
\r\nand restructure he \r\n cooperative societies to help the farmers. He closed the speech by
\r\nsaying help farmer to how to produce and teach the technique to \r\n produce and connect with APMC and other markets.
\r\n\r\n Dr. K. C. Gummagolmath said to create a harmony between the agri \r\n bodies and other related players in the sector. The said that the current \r\n era is to meet the demand driven market and plan the agri produce. He \r\n suggested there are few ways to improve the produce (i) Contract \r\n farming (ii) linking the farmers to retail chain (iii) create online \r\n platform to connect with consumers with selected commodities (iv) the \r\n State to look at implementing the agri export policy (v) implement the \r\n best practices if agri business in food processing sector in the State.
\r\nJoanna Kane-Potaka said that support the SMEs, as there are more \r\n than 6 lakh SME's in the State. Post covid there will 30% of SME's will \r\n be shut if not supported. To tackle the pandemic she suggested (i) right \r\n information about the produce and export to market (ii) insight of covid \r\n hit region and support with goods movement (iii) create more platform \r\n of trade fairs to improvise the farmer's income. She urged to farmer \r\n connect with FPO's and SME's is important and this collaboration will \r\n create a platform to felicitate the farmers. Also said, it is important to \r\n help the farmer with quality and quantity to create consistent supply \r\n also provides value to the supply chain.
\r\n\r\n Thangam Rammachandran said that Karnataka State is the key \r\n producer of rose onion. We at APEDA work closely with farmer help \r\n with export of produce. APEDA invites other stakeholders join hands to \r\n connect from farm level to market. Also encouraged the sector players \r\n to participate in the export promotion and buyer seller meet. The \r\n cluster based export policy will help farmers to produce and meet the \r\n demand. There are various pesticides available in the market; right set \r\n of pesticides pre harvest helps the farmers to produce agri products\r\n that meet the global standards. She suggested to train the farmers on \r\n right pesticides for pre harvest, best agriculture practices to yield more, \r\n packaging and marketing. These elements will help farmer to \r\n participate in domestic and global level buyer seller meet. APEDA also \r\n works closely with farmer help with their financial needs to meet the \r\n demand and produce agri products.
\r\nVote of Thanks & Summarization: Shri. Krishna Kumar Joshi, C o Chairman,\r\n ASSOCHAM Karnataka Council
\r\n\r\n Krishna Kumar Joshi concluded the session with closing remarks by \r\n picking key points discussed during the session.
\r\n\r\n The session was attended by more than 400 participants from various \r\n industry, academia and agri institutions. \r\n ***\r\n
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\r\n- Shri Rajkumar Khatri IAS, Principal Secretary, Agriculture & Horticulture\r\n Department, GoK
\r\n- Shri P V S Suryakumar, Chief General Manager / OIC, NABARD Karnataka\r\n Regional Office
\r\n- Shamla Iqbal, Commissioner, Food and Civil Supplies, GoK
\r\n- Shri Chandran Ratnaswami, Managing Director, NCML
\r\n- Shri Piyush Patnaik - Managing Director - Cargill India\r\n Shri Ravi Kannan, CEO, Coldman
\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable \r\n minister BC Patil….sir welcome to the program and on behalf of \r\n ASSOCHAM I would like to welcome all the dignities of program on \r\n the webinar on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing \r\n industries in the state of Karnataka.
\r\n \r\nBC Patil - Thank you. Good Moring all
\r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - On behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to extend my \r\n gratitude to each and everybody who had given their valuable time \r\n for this session. So thank you very much. I would also like to extend
\r\n\r\n my thanks to NABARD who has in fact come and collaborated for this \r\n particular session. Thank you sir, thank you very much. We also have \r\n one more banking partner, The Karnataka Bank which is also come \r\n on to the board as the banking partner. So now let's move on to the \r\n session, I would like to welcome all the dignities and also our \r\n honorable minister for this webinar from ASSOCHAM. Before we \r\n move on to the session I would like to introduce Dr. Suresh who is \r\n the chairmen for agriculture committee for ASSOCHAM. Dr. Suresh, \r\n it's over to you.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Dr. Suresh - Thank you ma'am. Good Moring everybody. Covid has \r\n affected all over the world and agriculture and food processing are \r\n the same kind. Those two are the most important for everybody's life \r\n wherein agriculture produce in the main raw material for most of the \r\n food processing. Even though they are two separate entities, they go \r\n hand in hand to produce safe food for us. In food processing chain, \r\n the supply chain management of agriculture food produce is most \r\n important for effective distribution of the food across the world. So \r\n during Covid-19, because of this lockdown, supply chain
\r\n management is effected drastically. Wherein we have to appreciate \r\n govt. of Karnataka and govt. of India and especially Karnataka's \r\n agricultural department and agricultural invocities. They have \r\n opened a agri-ware room and we have congratulate our agricultural \r\n minister who has travelled across the state throughout the Covid \r\n period to help the farmers and it has helped them a lot to distribute \r\n their agriculture products to the consumers directly. In supply chain, \r\n we have two different entities: the storage and marketing. Our \r\n present webinar will revolve around the storage aspects which helps \r\n in reducing post-harvest plasters and the second one is the \r\n marketing which helps in penetrating the markets to a greater extent \r\n across the world to increase the profitability to all stake holders. \r\n With these two aspects in mind, we thought of organizing this \r\n webinar. We are concentrating only on what has happened in \r\n Karnataka. In this webinar we'll find out the possible solutions for \r\n both storage and marketing of the agricultural food products and to
\r\n have a smooth supply chain during fighting times like Covid-19. \r\n Thank you so much.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - Thank you very much sir. Now I would like to request our \r\n honorable agriculture minister BC Patil to release a knowledge \r\n report. This knowledge report has come out with the collaboration \r\n with NABARD.
\r\n\r\n BC Patil - Thank you ma'am. It is my pleasure to be a part of this \r\n webinar organized by NABARD and ASSOCHAM. I am happy to \r\n release knowledge report of ASSOCHAM and NABARD on impact of \r\n Covid-19 on agro and food processing industries in the state of \r\n Karnataka.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - Thank you sir. Due to the lockdown, we couldn't send the \r\n hard copy so we thought we would release the soft copy and then \r\n we'll distribute the hard copy. I would like to pass on the floor to the \r\n honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil to deliver the inaugural \r\n address. It's over to you sir.
\r\n\r\n (Honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil's speech has been \r\n delivered to the media)
\r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - Thank you so much sir. Definitely after the program we \r\n will come up with a recommendation and submit it to the honorable \r\n minister. Thank you sir for your valuable time and for coming here \r\n and showing your presence to this particular program and I would \r\n like to ask you sir, we have good number of agri students attending \r\n this particular program from different universities, do you have \r\n anything to tell them sir?
\r\n \r\n\r\n BC Patil - I would like to tell all the agri students not to depend on \r\n jobs of the govt. They should go to the villages and start farming. So \r\n that they can be a good doctors to the farmers. They can teach, they
\r\n\r\n can make the farmers to know how technology can be used and how \r\n scientific things can be used by the farmers to develop and produce \r\n and doubling the income of the farmers. And now most of the \r\n students are getting in the govt. jobs and I want agri students to be \r\n like doctors to the farmers. In Karnataka 79ABC of revenue act has \r\n been amended and now anybody can go and purchase the land and \r\n can start cultivation and farming. I want young minds, young \r\n thoughts, young thinking should duck to the villagers and start \r\n farming. By doing this, Indian economy can boost up and fulfil our \r\n PM's dream.
\r\n \r\n\r\n Uma Nair - Thank you very much sir. It was in fact an inspirational \r\n words to the students community as you rightly mentioned, we need \r\n to see many youths going back to the farming community because \r\n they are going to be our next future so need to have students getting \r\n into that particular sector to increase the GDP of our country. So \r\n thank you very much for your time sir.
\r\n \r\n\r\n BC Patil - One more thing I want to bring it to your kind notice, I want \r\n to start agri tourism for the city people, where the city people, \r\n students and most of the children doesn't know how paddy/rice are \r\n formed. They don't know if rice is coming from paddy. I have already \r\n given a suggestion to the educational minister Suresh Kumar to \r\n start agri tourism. Another thing is weekend farming. All the \r\n youngsters and engineers are wasting their time by visiting pubs and \r\n other things. Instead of that, they can visit any village and start \r\n weekend farming.
\r\n\r\n Uma Nair - That's really a good idea sir. I think your words have \r\n reached the audience and we'll see what changes happens in our \r\n coming days. Actually agriculture is the backbone of our country and \r\n I think every individual youths and youngster should focus on that to \r\n see that the GDP of our country will grow on agriculture. Thank you \r\n very much for your time sir. Now I would like to move to the next \r\n topic of the day that is the panel discussion. The panel discussion is
\r\n\r\n about the importance of the storage structure and strengthening of \r\n agriculture and food processing supply chain as rightly mentioned \r\n by Dr. Suresh, during pandemic supply chain was badly affected. \r\n ASSOCHAM has been deliberating on this topic every year including \r\n this and Amit Ji is also a part of this. I think everybody understood \r\n that supply chain is very important aspect in the agricultural food \r\n processing when it has to come from the farm to the market supply \r\n chain makes a crucial role in this agricultural food processing \r\n industry. I would not take much of your time, I would like to welcome \r\n Rwitwika Bhattacharya who is the CEO and the founder of \r\n Swaniti initiative, who is going to moderate this entire session. We \r\n have Sri. Neeraj Kumar Varma, the CGF Karnataka regional office \r\n NABARD, welcome sir. Sri Amith Vatsyan who is the partner of agri \r\n and social sector advisory Africa India and Middle East from \r\n Earnst&young welcome sir. We have Sri Shivanand Rai who is the \r\n general manager of central warehousing corporation ministry of \r\n food and public distribution system govt. of India and director for \r\n Karnataka state warehousing corporation from ministry of GOK, \r\n welcome sir. We have the final speaker Dr. KC Gummagolmath, he is \r\n from institutional management from Hyderabad. So Rwitwika, the \r\n floor is onto you so you can take the discussion forward
\r\n\r\n Moderator - Thank you so much for that Uma, that was really a \r\n wonderful introduction really appreciate it. I think it's really \r\n wonderful to know that we are in an ecosystem right now where \r\n there is so much social, political, economic will to strengthen food \r\n processing, to strengthen warehousing and to really focus on the \r\n agricultural sector and we see that right from the central govt. down \r\n to the state govt., I think there is so much potential right know to \r\n transform the agricultural industry and we see that through the \r\n ordnance whether that's an essential commodity act or whether \r\n that's a incredible focus in various states, Of course including \r\n Karnataka o build infrastructural want to take up much of your time. I \r\n do want to briefly mention the intent of the panel today would be to \r\n examine warehousing ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem in different \r\n perspective. So I request each speaker to talk about their \r\n backgrounds that they bring in before Covid and of course the social
\r\n\r\n capital, the political capital that Covid has built in and the promise \r\n that holds. So I would love to start off with Amith ji. How do you see \r\n Covid affecting agro and food processing industry and what are the \r\n other possibilities?
\r\n\r\n Amith Ji - Thank you. Hello everyone. I think we need to look at Covid \r\n along with that also look at Atma Nirbar Bharat Abyan the way govt. \r\n has responded. Covid has caused huge destruction and we know \r\n that the supply chain has disturbed in a major way and also the \r\n existing processing unit which were suffering before Covid and govt. \r\n has taken multiple measures but I think along with that historical \r\n modulance which has opened up the space for much better vertical \r\n integration as well as the ordinance within the Karnataka govt. being \r\n able to trade across the area by farmers. To the question which I \r\n going to focus on is that now space have been opened up What \r\n would be needed in the ecosystem to be able to capture the \r\n opportunities. So just to say that if we currently look at Karnataka it \r\n is ranked 7th\r\n as far as infrastructure is concerned and it needs \r\n additional 2 million metric ton of storage capacity. So if one has to \r\n respond to honorable minister sir vision that there is an opportunity \r\n for processing and there is an aim to increase the number. Along \r\n with that both storage and processing needs to be aligned and later \r\n in the conversation I would also talk about specific type of storages. \r\n The other thing which is also important is that storage of processing \r\n and that has been our experience with MOFPI and with other \r\n schemes that it is very important that these storages of processing \r\n are part of larger value chain supply chain integration where at one \r\n end farmers are involved so already multiple stimulus have been \r\n announced including the 1 lakh crore stimulus for the infrastructure. \r\n At the other end we have got buyers and large companies which \r\n have been responding to consumers at Karnataka level or also I \r\n believe for Karnataka the big opportunity is looking at national and \r\n very importantly irrational market. To be specific it's Middle East and \r\n CIS markets. All of this cannot be achieved until and unless the \r\n missing medal of storage and infrastructure is put in place otherwise \r\n farmers will continue to produce great stuff. I have been to Bagakot, \r\n I have been to many of the areas in Karnataka and farmers are one of
\r\n\r\n the most entrepreneurs people. They are producing and that needs \r\n to come. That I think is one important piece and one action that I \r\n would like to highlight is that infrastructure needs to be built and \r\n recognized based upon what is being produced. So I would highly \r\n recommend a cluster way of thinking recognizing what are the key \r\n areas that the particular commodities are developing so that the \r\n storage and processing is aligned to the production and aligned to \r\n the final demand and agro cluster approach where FPO's are at the \r\n base is going to be critical. The second thing which I think is \r\n absolutely important is that just the way Karnataka earlier lead with \r\n electronics and investment in IT sector is very important to facilitate \r\n the current connection between the buyers who are coming in and \r\n the producers, the FPO's who are there so digit connection specially \r\n in Covid context where physically is very hard to figure out who is \r\n what, who is going to be very important to the ecosystem. On \r\n boarding the third point which I want to make it is about on boarding \r\n the warehouses and supporting private storage which can also be \r\n declared as marketing art specially in the intalent because the \r\n private sector will be able to reach out areas which are accessible \r\n but in north Karnataka and in deep south, it going to be very \r\n important to build this type of an analysis. The last point I want to \r\n mention is currently while the processing policy have come in but \r\n Karnataka level policy on FPO which has aligned with the guidelines \r\n which has been released but which answers the state wants to do \r\n and also takes into account the contract farming module so that \r\n Karnataka as a comprehensive will go a long way to respond to how \r\n the clusters and the infrastructure is going to be supported at the \r\n bottom. Lastly, this is a particular recommendation I would like to \r\n give, the micro food enterprise scheme has been launched under \r\n MOFPI and its very important and honorable minister in talking in \r\n farming which it's going to be good food entrepreneurship which is \r\n supported extensively as part of ecosystem for farming and along \r\n with that is to just to summarize the strengthening FPO's at the \r\n bottom part of the ecosystem building infrastructures around \r\n clusters developing policies to support this and getting the \r\n infrastructure on board where they are going to avail various
\r\n\r\n benefits which currently govt. is offering going to be crucial to \r\n respond to the opportunities which exist for Karnataka.
\r\n\r\n Moderator - Thank you for that. It was very helpful. We are now \r\n going to discuss two threats that you discussed and take that to \r\n other panelist. On is to talk about infrastructure and need to align \r\n infrastructure in a better way for optimal output. To that end I \r\n actually wanted to turn towards to Shivanand Rai who I wanted \r\n to identify special experience form the central warehousing \r\n perspective and looking at it from policy and how we can strengthen \r\n policy that can help the larger ecosystem further, what are the \r\n policies that you think make sense to focus on?
\r\n\r\n Shivanand Rai - Good morning to all participants and honorable \r\n minister BC Patil sir. It is a great opportunity for me. I can \r\n summarize and CWC is around 10 million tons capacities all over \r\n India and Karnataka we are having around 4.5 metric ton. Karnataka \r\n state warehousing corporation is having around 17 lakh metric ton \r\n with the help of NABARD and total food corporation of India is having \r\n around 4 lakh metric ton. Total warehousing that is listed under \r\n WDRA so they see that all warehouses should be scientific senders. \r\n All over country it is 1799 has been registered. So these are the \r\n basics and during the lockdown CWC all over India has handled \r\n about 100 lakh metric ton of food ware and 20 lakh metric ton for \r\n public distribution system and in Karnataka 2-3 lakh so is coming to \r\n that further we have container filter essentials and still in this Covid \r\n period the only problem we are facing is labour problem. Otherwise \r\n or warehouses are heading on full capacity so we still want to \r\n expand the basic
\r\n\r\n Moderators - Thank you for that sir. It was very helpful. Moving the \r\n infrastructure that existed and moving the amount of work that has \r\n been done, one thing Amith Ji mentioned was FPO. About the \r\n ecosystem face and then there is capital which is on the ground and \r\n which is executing on these firms. So Dr. KC I actually want to turn \r\n towards you and you had mentioned very success stories especially \r\n in this ecosystem, given there are chance to improve infrastructure, \r\n to improve capacity and there are still incredible stories that you
\r\nmention of FPO's in the kind of draft they were doing. Would kind of \r\n highlight those kind of examples?
\r\n\r\n Dr. KC - Good morning everyone and I congratulate ASSOCHAM for \r\n hosting such an important webinar. Impact of Covid have been quite \r\n harsh on other sector than agriculture sector. The first impact of \r\n Indian agriculture is destruction in supply chain. There was an \r\n interstate and inter district transportation ban and that really \r\n disturbed the supply chain and there was a delay in permit thought \r\n agricultural commodities were permitted so there was a delay in \r\n transportation. So these things affected the storage of agricultural \r\n commodities and also exports are effected due to international ban. \r\n So overall scenario impact of Covid on Indian agriculture. Even the \r\n other sectors are also badly effected the growth has been cut down \r\n by 20% to 17%. Bu growth in agricultural sector fortunately has \r\n come down by 1% or 2%. So this pandemic can be an opportunity. \r\n Here I want to make one important point. You can leverage ICT for \r\n location of storage structures like in Delhi they launched an app for \r\n location of vacant beds. So like that we can develop an app for the \r\n storage sectors. Second important point to make is we can leverage \r\n FPO and we can go for a smaller warehouses instead of building a \r\n big warehouse and again farmers has to take it for a longer distance. \r\n The FPO's can be strengthen by state govt. providing requisite \r\n assistance by having a storage structures. Mentioning the third point \r\n to the minister bring agriculture and line departments into marketing \r\n as well. For this policy change is required we can have a marketing \r\n cell in each of the allied sectors because these people are closely \r\n attached with the farmers can sensitize the farmers about different \r\n marketing and various aspects and passage of the two ordinance by \r\n GOI, role of the APMC is confined to that market area beyond that \r\n now this APMC will have a new role by involving in the backward \r\n linkages by developing warehouse, cold storages structures and \r\n storages more than anything Karnataka is having an international \r\n institute CFTRI Karnataka govt. can take a advantage of the institute \r\n some technologies can be borrow and transfer to the farmers as well \r\n as the total supply chain. These are the few points, Karnataka is
\r\n\r\n blessed with all climatic zones so cluster based approach export for \r\n domestic marketing will help a lot.
\r\n\r\n Moderate - Minister Sir, would you like to say something?
\r\nBC Patil - Now warehouses are there but still we need and I wanted \r\n to convert some warehouses into cold storage which is quite \r\n essential now a days after the Covid, we learnt that cold storage is \r\n much essential because when the supply chain demand was less \r\n farmers spoiled their vegetables and fruits instead of this they would \r\n have stored in cold storage in Karnataka we have only 32 cold \r\n storages and out of which they couldn't able to store all the things \r\n and the perishable goods were big loss to the Karnataka farming \r\n that time. That's why we look forward for more cold storage that's \r\n what essential.
\r\n\r\n Moderator - Neeraj Ji, would you like to add something about the \r\n govt. initiative and about the NABARD funding initiative in the \r\n agriculture post Covid?
\r\n\r\n Neeraj Ji - Good morning. Thanks for having me in the webinar for \r\n ASSOCHAM organizing this timely webinar topical theme by giving \r\n the current Covid-19 situation and also I must thank our honorable \r\n minister BC Patil sir stated as telling the FPO's should pitch in \r\n and the honorable PM giving the importance to the rural India at the \r\n pandemic time by bringing out the three strategic provisions through \r\n ordinance to convert totally into beans and this time will come the \r\n FPO's chance in the rural India. As I was CEO and MD of NABARD \r\n two years back and in Karnataka I drove funding to the FPO's. So out \r\n of 400 FPO's 250 FPO's has been promoted by NABARD and we lend \r\n to 40 FPO's and this year also we going to lend 50 FPO's and also will \r\n promote 50-100 the govt. of India has come up with FPO funds as we \r\n have funds we want to fund across India 10,000 FPO's and also I'm \r\n sure the agriculture minister of Karnataka and of NABARD is there \r\n and I'm sure Karnataka will be the leading state in this mission of \r\n FPO's promoting. FPO is key to everything from storage to marketing \r\n aggregation to realization of value and the income FPO is the key. \r\n The intention of GOI by doubling the farmer's income which \r\n Dalwai will speak in the next panel. The next decade will be the
\r\n\r\n FPO's decade GOI announced credit guarantee fund and also the \r\n equity provided to the FPO's as heading the Karnataka NABARD we \r\n will assure with the FPO's in NABARD in guidance and collaboration \r\n with the Karnataka govt. under the leadership of honorable CM and \r\n honorable agriculture minister we will be the leading in funding. For \r\n FPO's all kind of facilities and credit facilities is for storage and \r\n pandemic processing localizing centers the key localilse \r\n aggregation at the farmers level is the key. This kind of FPO's will \r\n evolve federation of the FPO's. The GOI Is planning the cluster one \r\n district one cluster and that is also been identified and also we will \r\n be having a meeting with the district level managers of NABARD and \r\n tomorrow the GOI Agriculture Ministry will have the meeting with the \r\n DGM's of across the country and the state with the FPO's and again \r\n we will assure from NABARD to the agri ministry and very shortly we \r\n will come out with the action plan going to be in Karnataka also and \r\n this is regarding to FPO and also across the country this will be a \r\n right movement. In pandemic times the farmers need all kind of helps \r\n because the farmers will be the key drivers at this point of time \r\n agriculture sector is the better place than other sectors because \r\n they drive the economy of India also. Another key announcement by \r\n NABARD we are going to provide storage facilities, processing \r\n facilities to saturate throughout India to assist and to lend max 4% \r\n and will give the grant for the capacity building. We have announced \r\n and the circular has come and very shortly and this we will do it in \r\n first phase in the year we notice the very first phase and across \r\n Karnataka they are ready along with the FPO's form packs will be \r\n there not only FPO's but packs are also there. The GOI has \r\n announced the agriculture infrastructure fund and also announced 1 \r\n lakh fund for interest of 3% along will the bankers in Karnataka the \r\n NABARD will give the grater boost. These are the schemes from the \r\n FPO's and packs which we are going to convert into multi-services \r\n center and this schemes will be translated very soon we have to \r\n come from paper to the ground and as our honorable minister as he \r\n is travelling in the state with his enthusiasm I am sure today is the \r\n starting point from today we are going to translate all the policies \r\n into action and shortly we will do this in collaboration with the GOK \r\n shortly. Thank you
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\r\n2. Harjeet Khanduja, Vice President - Human Resources, Reliance Jio Communications
\r\n3. Shalini Pillay, Office Managing Partner KPMG and India Head - Global Capability Centre
\r\n4. Sangeeta Chandran, Head, Safety and Well Being Programs, TCS
\r\n5. Chandrasekhar Sripada, Practice Professor of OB and Strategic Human Capital, ISB
\r\n6. S Prem Kumar, 1to1Help.net
\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program \r\n and said organizations must reimagine their workspace and business models. The HR have played a critical \r\n role in building resilience during the pandemic and now preparing to play a pivotal role in crafting a \r\n productive and rewarding work environment for their employees in the New Normal. As we now weave \r\n momentum into our organizations, the emotional health of the leaders and employees is going to be a \r\n critical factor in the fast-track recovery. To deliberate on this topic ASSOCHAM Southern region office in \r\n collaboration with our partner 1to1 help is organizing webinar on "Emotional Wellness and its Role in \r\n Designing the New Age Organization".
\r\nRoland Schatz - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n program and said Most human resource management theories, practices and literature originate in the \r\n Western countries. However, globalization and cross-cultural interaction increasingly highlights the \r\n differences in national cultures, and it is clear that Eastern and Western countries have different \r\n approaches, perspectives, norms and practices. Comparison of human resource practices in Eastern \r\n countries such as China and Japan and Western countries such as the United States and United Kingdom, \r\n therefore, reveals that they differ significantly in terms of organizational structure, motivational \r\n programs, communication and conflict resolution.
\r\nWestern and Eastern countries differ in their views on motivation; whereas Western countries tend to \r\n place greater emphasis on individual rewards and compensation packages and personal career \r\n development, Eastern countries value collective rewards and steady progression. In the Western context, \r\n individual workers stand out when they exercise personal initiative and are duly rewarded through \r\n competitive remuneration and opportunities for growth. Conversely, in the Eastern countries, there have \r\n been various influences including Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized long-term orientation, \r\n thrift, communality harmony and respect for tradition. As a result, workers receive promotion and \r\n rewards on the basis of seniority and rewarding high-performance teams rather than individuals works \r\n better as a motivational tool.
\r\nConflict resolution is a major aspect of human resource management that Western countries practice \r\n more overtly than the Eastern ones. In Eastern countries, there is a tendency toward harmony and a \r\n holistic approach, and people resolve conflicts through accommodation and compromise. Western style
\r\nof competing emphasize withdrawing or ignoring a conflict altogether. The holistic approach also \r\n advances that all people are part of a whole system and that each person has a definite role to play, which \r\n has the overall effect of minimizing instances of disagreements. The converse is true of Western cultures, \r\n where individuals are encouraged to explore and develop themselves and this has a greater capacity to \r\n cause conflict.
\r\nHarjeet Khanduja - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n program and said the tech world is often seen as progressive when it comes to work-life initiatives, so it \r\n was especially eye-opening to read the following quote from an industry powerhouse: "There's no such \r\n thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life and there's no balance."
\r\nIt's hard to diagnose the culture issues in your company if you don't know what areas need to be \r\n improved, added, or addressed. Often, communication is strictly top-down which limits the amount of \r\n insight leaders have of the employee experience. But a workplace app creates two-way communication \r\n which lets employees express what they need. Consider using mobile technology to send anonymous \r\n digital surveys to get honest employee feedback. You can also present a series of new culture-building \r\n initiatives focused on employee engagement to test what would make the most impact on your \r\n workforce.
\r\nIf there's one business strategy that gets clear engagement results, it's flextime. According to a recent \r\n study, 90% of employees said more flexible schedules would boost morale in their companies. This is \r\n due in part to the changing demographic of today's employees. Millennials now make up the majority of
\r\nthe global workforce and they have different priorities than past generations. They'll take a job with \r\n more flexible work options over more money. More companies are offering flex-time options, thanks in \r\n part to Millennial managers now shaping corporate policies that include flexible work arrangements in \r\n their companies.
\r\nShalini Pillay - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n program and said Hygiene is an important and critical part of the life of any human being. The importance\r\n of hygiene can be best understood by the fact that almost every religion on earth has preached hygiene. \r\n The benefits of hygiene are not only limited to the physical structure of a human being, it also influences \r\n some psychological behaviors. It creates self-confidence, boosts morale and uplifts the self-esteem of a \r\n person.
\r\nWhy is hygiene so important? Why has man converted his forests and lands into cleaner roads and proper \r\n societies? The answer is simple. Hygiene is a measure of a person's way of life. A person having good selfhygiene not only enables himself to feel comfortable in his skin but it also helps others around that person, \r\n to work in comfort. A person with good values will never ignore his personal hygiene.
\r\nEvery workplace has its norms and policies. Cleanliness and personal hygiene are always part of these \r\n norms and policies. All businesses have a dress code. This dress code is a part of the self-hygiene of \r\n employees. Maintaining proper hygiene at the workplace is very important for the good reputation of \r\n businesses. Both the official authorities and the employees need to take care of hygiene. No boss would \r\n want a dirty person to represent his company in the market or in front of the public. Similarly, no \r\n employee would want to work in a firm with dirty restrooms, cubicles, and the environment. The \r\n contribution of both parties is essential for the good reputation of the firm.
\r\nDeveloping trust in the workplace is a key organisational predictor of performance. Many organisations \r\n have stumbled and even failed outright where a lack of trust, doubt and suspicion have grown between \r\n the leadership, management and employees. Previous studies have found that mistrust in the workplace \r\n predicts high turnover rates, increased absence through sickness, lower levels of productivity, \r\n performance and employee satisfaction.
\r\nSangeetha Chandran - Thank you, All the panels spoke today all are very hygiene factors. Coming to \r\n the performance Management, we need to take few things into the consideration from few things what \r\n Shalini said about keeping what hygiene now and turning now which we see differently all together \r\n for instance trust need to be far more in terms when we need people to perform better we need to trust \r\n our teams more you know the ODP culture and so much of intersects phones outside offices suddenly we \r\n have people sitting at in their homes and no way to monitor them and we need to trust them so that is \r\n one thing that is where we see and view our team and how do we motivate and inspire them in more and \r\n more trust worthy.
\r\nSecondly in terms of how our terms perform is to have the highest level of empathy not from mangers to \r\n the team but also from teams to the manger because also humans as well and this sort to and pro which \r\n is very important in terms performance perspective and not from the performance management \r\n perspective. The next is give the work to people are how flexible are they and how tensile our people are \r\n able to function in cu active environment and still have structure around what they do and that is \r\n important as well. So many of things will come into play and I think performance management will goal \r\n oriented and may not be checking the people on how long spend at their desk be really about how they \r\n have performed. But how do they facilitate the performance in these environment systems.
\r\nI think the key is to the HR organization of the Future because no longer you can expect them to adhere \r\n to them without understanding in them what is going on in their life. For instance we talk about the \r\n leaders start the day early in the morning and start shooting up the mails and that's where she got up and \r\n she realizes the pressure on her team and they have to respond to the ail very quickly and to show that \r\n we are all working and not lacking up instead of that she has to put in the draft the timing they need to \r\n respond and that is how we need to take out the pressure off.
\r\nThe examples will help the leaders to know that how do we create environments where out teams are \r\n willing to talk to each other and open door is actually a virtual door now and nobody see really what's \r\n happening somebody door that's really important and leaders to be more venerable and show the human \r\n face to them so that the teams know that actually come back to them anything.
\r\nSo other thing in performance management which we are seeing already is the inclusion of other than the \r\n basic course and the holistic personality is looked up at how the person will look at this management and \r\n it may not hit directly to your goals in terms how are you taking care of yourself. Welting factors \r\n contribution to society and your ability to connecting to the other people because all this will feel the \r\n people helping well rounded and productivity will be higher. In short that is the way the performance \r\n management will move in terms of wellbeing perspective, Physical and Holistic wellbeing and that's the \r\n way we are going to move as time is running out, we will quickly move to moderator.
\r\nProf. Chandrasekhar Sripada - Thank you ASSOCHAM to having me here, I thoroughly enjoyed my fellow \r\n panelists and they all set an interesting background set context to what I am going to say including your \r\n question so when Rolland reminded us interesting music on sustainable goals and particularly descent
\r\nwork and we know that 100 and 1000 of companies we work is not yet descent and work is not descent \r\n and the relationship at the work place is not descent the infinity will imposes in us the emotion is \r\n extremely painful and hurtful but we do not have mechanism to deal with them.
\r\nWhen shalini talked about digital colleague that is an interesting assault on human emotions the very \r\n social need you go to work it's known it's interesting and it is confronted by a social and non-social and \r\n not social required to be social digital colleague and that will create emotions which we have not \r\n experienced before. When Sangeetha talked about new performance act structure has always are being \r\n the most emotive part of our work life. People will really sweat will develop Blood pressure stress around \r\n the famous and in in famous performance management discussion in organizations. Boss is not learnt \r\n over years how to give feedback or not people have learnt to receive feedback.
\r\nFinally Harjeet talks about Hari Sardou type of Bosses and how work slips into life and how life slips into \r\n work and we not yet ready to have a blende approach to understand both of them because they are two \r\n together it is in that context the organization are going to surface emotions specially in WFM scenario and \r\n so on the whole I believe that the organizations and the HR Functions at the new age surface confront \r\n and fairly deal with emotions as an important part of the organization structure life.
\r\nThey cannot no more pushed under the carpet it is ok to cry it's k to be emotional we do not need macho \r\n organization we need human organizations only then they can be sustainable and there is an article called \r\n "Unresolved Grieves". it's an unaddressed issue and it will happen only in America where 75 Billion Dollar \r\n a year because the Grief at the organization the grief of missing the promotion losing a customer or a big \r\n order getting fired by the boss in public being abused or just losing the team member or losing a mentor \r\n on retirement many events in the organization create a huge of amount of emotions we do not have any \r\n method today to deal with them to accept them or acknowledge them and hence employees to deal with \r\n them and so time if they become excessive we think suspicious case needing so called counseling so we \r\n need to change all this.
\r\nSo, let me say emotions are important not able to deal with them because of money ability to deal with \r\n will give you return on the investment or on the people to investment when they are dealt with 3 things \r\n will happen firstly Awareness, secondly acceptance and third one is Dealing. Awareness itself is the ability \r\n to surface emotions and talk about natural things are very important. When people loose identity or \r\n purpose or attachment or control if any of those four factors at a higher level of abstraction really crate a \r\n loss in the mind of people and create stroma and to stop that we need to have mechanisms where \r\n managers are more empathetically deal with employees and help them to resolve this issue through these \r\n three steps. And this will further increase in the new age organization and let's imagine the wide range of \r\n grieves and emotions said by few examples. And that is more in the world because of Covid and this is the \r\n universe grieve we are facing.
\r\nAt least now we awaken now, and organizations recognize emotions and build mechanism to deal with \r\n them and managers to be trained and employees need to be educated and organization should continue \r\n to promote this cause. That's my point of view.
', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-southern-region-presents-webinar-on-emotional-wellness', 1, 0, '2021-01-30', '2021-01-30', '11:00AM', '01:00PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'); INSERT INTO `events` (`id`, `title`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `registration`, `reg_link`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `start_time`, `end_time`, `sector_id`, `region_id`, `priority`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (81, 'ASSOCHAM Southern region presents webinar on \r\n "UPSKILLING Girls', '-ASSOCHAM in partnership with Brillio organized the webinar on Upskilling girls in STEM on Feb 10th\r\n 2021 to discuss the policies, best practices, and challenges around STEM education for girls in India.', 'Invited Speakers: \r\n• Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary to IT E & C Department, Government of Telangana
\r\n• Smt. K. Ratna Prabha, IAS (Retd), Chairperson, Karnataka Skill Development Authority, \r\n Government of Karnataka
\r\n• Dr. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice President, India Technology Hub, Mastercard
\r\n• Akilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India
\r\n• Sudeepta Banerjee, Co-Founder- Raise to Pi.Org and Advisor Partnerships & ProgramsSikshana Foundation
\r\n• Rekha Kumari, Head - Programs, Kaushalya Foundation, SOAS University of London
\r\n• Rumi Mallick Mitra, Leader, Strategy & New Initiatives, IBM Corporate Social Responsibility, \r\n IBM
\r\n• Annapoorna Swarup, Founder and CEO - Emotionalytics and Co.
\r\n• Smitha Thumbikkat, Associate Director, Delivery Excellence and Data Engineering, Brillio
\r\n• Abhishek Ranjan, Chairperson - ASSOCHAM Karnataka CSR Committee
\r\n• Uma S Nair, Regional Director - Southern region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nASSOCHAM in partnership with Brillio organized the webinar on Upskilling girls in STEM on Feb 10th\r\n , \r\n 2021 to discuss the policies, best practices, and challenges around STEM education for girls in India.
\r\nUma S Nair, Regional Director, Southern Region, ASSOCHAM, welcomed the dignitaries and the \r\n gathering. She highlighted that Government initiatives like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Digital India, etc. \r\n have positively impacted the Gender Parity Index and there are increased trends of girl children \r\n enrolment in primary and secondary schools. Also, the Digital solutions consumers have increased and \r\n girls are not enabled to embrace and pursue STEM Education. The core problem still exists \r\n unaddressed.
\r\nAbhishek Ranjan, Global Head, Sustainability & D&I, Brillio, spoke about the challenges faced and \r\n the need for a road map in STEM for Girls. He said that there are cultural issues and infrastructure \r\n issues at school levels.
\r\nThe first Panel discussion was on "Up-Skilling Girls in STEM -Tech bridge. A leadership perspective," \r\n moderated by Smitha Thumbikkat, Associate Director, Brillio. Introducing the speakers,Smitha spoke \r\n about the need for nurturing the mindset of girls to achieve more for the inclusive sustainable growth. \r\n Smt. Rathna Prabha, IAS (Retd.) Chairperson Karnataka Skill Development Authority shared that \r\n during her school days, only one girl in her class took science and now she sees a lot of doctors and \r\n engineers. 30% reservation in the state, 25% of reservation in IITs and IIMs has helped girls to place \r\n themselves in science fields.
\r\nShe spoke about the need for the safety of women and girl children and the importance of developing \r\n a conducive environment for girls. She emphasized the need for sensitizing the parents, train the \r\n teachers for STEM Education. There must be a convergence of programs both by Govt and corporates \r\n should work together and there is a need of evaluating what has been done and what needs to be \r\n done.
\r\nJayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal secretary of ITE&C, Govt. of Telangana said we need to have a Life \r\n cycle approach to encourage girl child in all walks of life without discrimination. He mentioned that \r\n the girl child ratio drops in science, post-high school. In Telangana, the Girls in Tech program is
\r\nintroduced in the early stage- 9\r\n th and 10th. Career guidance intervention is provided to girls and new \r\n generational skills like AI, Big data, Machine learning short courses have been provided and \r\n encouraged girls. Next is to support women by creating a community of women under It umbrella- a \r\n forum has been created called 'Cyberabad security council'. Free shuttle -women exclusive busses are \r\n provided. Women entrepreneurs are provided support through 'WeHub'- an exclusive incubator for \r\n women startups. He shared that the initial results of the initiatives are good and they want to scale \r\n the model. We have to keep track of numbers and also the qualitative indicators have to be \r\n methodically tracked.
\r\nAkilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids- shared examples of what \r\n Hitachi ABB Power grids are doing through CSR for women in engineering and manufacturing \r\n programs for the community and for the employees to guide how they can enter heavy engineering \r\n field. They also follow a life cycle approach to support the girl child to develop the interest and see \r\n how she can enter heavy engineering.
\r\nDr. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice president, India Technology Hub, MasterCard spoke about \r\n Mastercard's investments in STEM education. Mastercard has introduced critical topics like Digital \r\n convergence, Cryptology, False detection, cybersecurity, AI, Big data Analytics, ML, coding to be \r\n future-ready. 8 to 12yrs age girl children interact with employees who are the mentors and \r\n understand how technology is applied in the payment industry. She mentioned that partnership with \r\n global and national level non-profit agencies is needed to scale the programs to reach millions of girl \r\n children and train the teachers. Employee volunteering is critical to the application of STEM- develop \r\n curriculum and interact with the girl child.
\r\nThe second Panel discussion was on "Enabling Holistic Growth in Upskilling Girls in STEM - Post \r\n Pandemic." This session was moderated by Sudeepta Banerjee, co-founder RaisetpPi.org & Advisor,\r\n Shikshana Foundation said it is even though things are improving it is no closer to equality so needs a \r\n lot more to be done.
\r\nRekha Kumari, Head Programs, Kaushalya Foundation- shared the challenges faced in the field \r\n and access to education has been a very big differentiator, lack of role models, workplace gender \r\n norms & issues, migrations, etc. Due to these factors, female labor participation is going down and we\r\n need to work with a collaborative approach with necessary structural and policy changes.
\r\nAnnapurna Swarup, CEO & Founder, Emotionanalytics & Co. Most of the classes are onlinemobile/TV. Shared the reasons for the low female ratio in STEM -there is no infrastructure and children \r\n go for domestic help. As we go up the careers, they get married and enter parenthood and hence they \r\n drop out for family care. We need an ecosystem to support girls continuously. Should have the nearby \r\n role models and need the change of mindset through emotional intelligence skills.
\r\nRumi Mallick Mitra, leader- Strategy & CSR, IBM shared that being pioneers in gender equality, \r\n DEI is not a stand-alone agenda at IBM but it is inbuilt in the day to day business with strong policies \r\n backup.
\r\nTo conclude, the webinar was attended by100 + participants. There is a need for the consolidation of \r\n efforts and have the lifecycle approach to support the girls and replicate across states. Create interest \r\n and awareness, encourage people to participate more. A lot of girls are not able to migrate to cities \r\n for the Tech job in cities. We need to enhance communication and employability skills for girls. Socialemotional learnings should be brought into the curriculum and policy level changes are required to \r\n retain women on the job.
\r\nDr. Meghana Shashidhar, Brillio rendered the vote of thanks to the gathering.
\r\novid & online learning mode has made access to education even more difficult for girls from \r\n the underprivileged segments of the society. There are not enough devices available with the \r\n families and the male child is prioritized when it comes to sharing the devices. So, there is an \r\n immediate need to address this challenge. Unless girls get access to education first, they \r\n won\'t be able to venture into STEM.
\r\nCareer awareness about STEM fields and showing off role models through community \r\n outreach is extremely important. Now, these role models need to be someone whom these \r\n girls can relate to not someone like Kalpana Chawla. They need to be the ones from similar \r\n families or communities that these girls belong to.
\r\nempower women by also changing the mindset of men in the community. Spread awareness \r\n in young boys about how life changes for good when the women of the community work and \r\n get paid well.
\r\nCorporates need to create robust follow-up mechanisms to track how the girls are doing after \r\n the intervention and provide an end-to-end support to the ones already in the program and \r\n ensure their journey is complete rather than running behind numbers.
', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-southern-region-presents-webinar-on-upskilling-girls-', 1, 0, '2021-02-10', '2021-02-10', '11:00AM', '01:00PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (82, 'CAREER 2.0', 'Due to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be\r\n ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.', 'Due to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be\r\n ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.\r\n Students need to be great communicators, collaborators, and critical-thinkers that can\r\n tackle novel and unimaginable problems. There is a need to explore how digital technology\r\n like smartphones, according to advanced learners can be used as a medium to develop the\r\n critical thinking and problem-solving skills of students, and innovations to face a digital era\r\n in this world.
\r\nThere is a paradigm shift witnessed in the education sector in India. Education Institutions\r\n have been forced to adapt to e-learning leaving the traditional way of teaching. The\r\n adaption of technology was reluctant for many and there is a huge digital divide in urban\r\n and rural India.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital concern in\r\n mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on CAREER 2.0 \"A step towards\r\n creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat"\\\r\n Tuesday, 29th June 2021
', '', '', 'career2.0.jpg', 'CAREER-2-0', 1, 0, '2021-06-29', '2021-06-29', '3.00 p.m', '3.00 p.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (83, 'Emerging Technologies for Learning', 'In this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every \r\n field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools.', 'In this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every \r\n field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools. In \r\n every field, there are numerous courses available digitally across the world and the learners are \r\n eagerly filling up the seats. Digital learning is an advanced technological medium providing learners \r\n with a great deal of flexibility, allowing them to study at any time from any place at their convenient \r\n speed without worrying about timetables and schedules.
\r\nThe adoption of new technology-aided learning tools has changed the way education is being \r\n imparted in schools and colleges. The internet of things is turning out to be an affordable way to \r\n impart education to young minds and a powerful way to integrate experiential learning for \r\n everyone. The digital learning companies are constantly upgrading to advanced solutions to increase \r\n access to education for people who are currently struggling to get proper education facilities. The \r\n role of teachers is changing. They can now access the entire classroom through digital screens.
\r\nEven though online education has proved to be a solution for imparting education to the masses, there \r\n are several challenges of online education that need to be addressed and fixed.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized\r\n a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Development"\\ \r\n on Wednesday, 16th June 2021
', '', '', 'learningevent.jpg', 'Emerging-Technologies-for-Learning', 1, 0, '2021-06-16', '2021-06-16', '1.00 p.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (84, 'Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and \r\n Productivity', 'Even as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping \r\n executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity.', 'Even as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping \r\n executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity. In addition \r\n to reduced air pollution, telework and virtual meetings are helping companies in reducing travel time \r\n and cost, however, even though satellite images are revealing a significant decline in air pollution, but \r\n sitting on the virtual platform also demands taking care of health.
\r\nThe knowledge management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: \r\n Health, Wellness, and Productivity included a discussion with respect to health and wellness and how it \r\n has become crucial in these tough times. It also included discussion around innovative methods that \r\n can enable actions and change in the next decade.
\r\n\"Setting more realistic resolutions, or micro-goals will be a wellness trend for 2021". Our perspective \r\n on goals has changed due to the pandemic. Knowing the world can throw a wrench in our gears, we \r\n realize it\'s important to remain open and flexible.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and is also working for the same. Keeping \r\n this vital issue in mind ASSOCHAM organized a \"Knowledge Management virtual meet on\r\n Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity"\\.
\r\nFocus Areas and Global Trends:
\r\n➢ Self-care for the community
\r\n➢ Digital detoxes
\r\n➢ Flexible goal setting
\r\n➢ Immune Health: Stop Boosting, Start Balancing
\r\n➢ The Self-Care Renaissance
\r\n➢ The Year of the Travel Reset: Wellness Travel
\r\n➢ Yoga: Spiritual and Numinous Moments
\r\n➢ \"Home"\\ wellness
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', '', '', 'SUSTAI.jpg', 'SUSTAINABILITY-2-0', 1, 0, '2021-04-23', '2021-04-23', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (86, 'Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Developmen', 'Nowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in \r\n companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these \r\n positions to women.', 'Nowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in \r\n companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these \r\n positions to women.
\r\nIt is undeniable that women have the ability to be qualified either educationally or practically to \r\n attain success in different branches and fields. Therefore, it is quite fair to get higher positions in \r\n their careers. Although this makes practical sense, it ignores a lot of social and physical obstacles \r\n that women face which interfere with their efficient performance. Such obstacles need gross efforts \r\n exerted by both the family and the government to provide immanent support to women to achieve \r\n success in their practical life.
\r\nSince the Vedic Era, Women have played a key role in the development of society and the nation as \r\n a whole. They have been a pioneer for the development and evolution of mankind.
\r\nWomen in society have proved their mettle in all the fields, including sports, finance, IT, law, space \r\n technology, Government services, corporate, etc., and have set the milestones for others to follow.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized\r\n a \\"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human\r\n Development on 31st May 2021"\\
', '', '', 'womendiversity.jpg', 'Women-Diversity-Fundamental-Stone-of-Human-Development', 1, 0, '2021-05-31', '2021-05-31', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (87, 'Knowledge Management Virtual Meet ', 'On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times', '\r\n On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times. The event was graced by the presence of Tarkishore Prasad, Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar. Alongside our special addressee was Pradeep Hazari, Deptt. Of Agriculture, Government of Jharkhand. He explained the entire scenario efficiently. Some other eminent speakers were Manu Seth, Basant K Potnuru, Joseph Nixon, Neelam Pandita, Dr. Sumit Suseelan, and Bharat Jaiswal.
\r\nOvercoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity COVID 19 The way forward: Challenges and Opportunities Saturday, 15th May 3 PM Onwards
\r\nEven as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity. In addition to reduced air pollution, telework and virtual meetings are helping companies in reducing travel time and cost, however, even though satellite images are revealing a significant decline in air pollution, but sitting on the virtual platform also demands taking care of health.
\r\nThe knowledge management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity included a discussion with respect to health and wellness and how it has become crucial in these tough times. It also included discussion around innovative methods that can enable actions and change in the next decade.
\r\n\"Setting more realistic resolutions, or micro-goals will be a wellness trend for 2021\". Our perspective on goals has changed due to the pandemic. Knowing the world can throw a wrench in our gears, we realize it\\\'s important to remain open and flexible.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and is also working for the same. Keeping this vital issue in mind ASSOCHAM organized a \"Knowledge Management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity\".
\r\n \r\nFocus Areas and Global Trends:
\r\n➢ Self-care for the community
\r\n➢ Digital detoxes
\r\n➢ Flexible goal setting
\r\n➢ Immune Health: Stop Boosting, Start Balancing
\r\n➢ The Self-Care Renaissance
\r\n➢ The Year of the Travel Reset: Wellness Travel
\r\n➢ Yoga: Spiritual and Numinous Moments
\r\n➢ "Home" wellness
\r\nKnowledge Management Virtual Meet Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Development Monday, 31st May 2021, 11 AM
\r\nNowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these positions to women.
\r\nIt is undeniable that women have the ability to be qualified either educationally or practically to attain success in different branches and fields. Therefore, it is quite fair to get higher positions in their careers. Although this makes practical sense, it ignores a lot of social and physical obstacles that women face which interfere with their efficient performance. Such obstacles need gross efforts exerted by both the family and the government to provide immanent support to women to achieve success in their practical life.
\r\nSince the Vedic Era, Women have played a key role in the development of society and the nation as a whole. They have been a pioneer for the development and evolution of mankind.
\r\nWomen in society have proved their mettle in all the fields, including sports, finance, IT, law, space technology, Government services, corporate, etc., and have set the milestones for others to follow.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Development on 31st May 2021\".
\r\nKnowledge Management Virtual Meet Emerging Technologies for Learning Digital Education and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges Wednesday, 16th June 2021, 1 PM
\r\nIn this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools. In every field, there are numerous courses available digitally across the world and the learners are eagerly filling up the seats. Digital learning is an advanced technological medium providing learners with a great deal of flexibility, allowing them to study at any time from any place at their convenient speed without worrying about timetables and schedules.
\r\nThe adoption of new technology-aided learning tools has changed the way education is being imparted in schools and colleges. The internet of things is turning out to be an affordable way to impart education to young minds and a powerful way to integrate experiential learning for everyone. The digital learning companies are constantly upgrading to advanced solutions to increase access to education for people who are currently struggling to get proper education facilities. The role of teachers is changing. They can now access the entire classroom through digital screens.
\r\nEven though online education has proved to be a solution for imparting education to the masses, there are several challenges of online education that need to be addressed and fixed.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized a "Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Development" on Wednesday, 16th June 2021.
\r\nKnowledge Management Virtual Meet CAREER 2.0 A Step Towards Creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat Tuesday, 29th June 2021, 3 PM
\r\nDue to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.
\r\nStudents need to be great communicators, collaborators, and critical-thinkers that can tackle novel and unimaginable problems. There is a need to explore how digital technology like smartphones, according to advanced learners can be used as a medium to develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of students, and innovations to face a digital era in this world.
\r\nThere is a paradigm shift witnessed in the education sector in India. Education Institutions have been forced to adapt to e-learning leaving the traditional way of teaching. The adaption of technology was reluctant for many and there is a huge digital divide in urban and rural India.
\r\nASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital concern in mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on CAREER 2.0 \"A step towards creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat" Tuesday, 29th June 2021.
\r\n ', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'knowledge-management-virtual-meet', 1, 0, '2021-04-23', '2021-04-23', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (88, 'India Growth Story', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council initiated and organized first time its 1st BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) Summit 2018 with the theme \\\"INDIA GROWTH STORY - MARKETS, THEN & NOW!\\\"', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council initiated and organized first time its 1st BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) Summit 2018 with the theme \"INDIA GROWTH STORY - MARKETS, THEN & NOW!\" with an objective to obtain compendium of articles on Investment Avenues in financial Space and get insights from the key decision makers from across the industry, in a fast growing BFSI Sector.
\r\nThe Summit was inaugurated by Shri. Saurabh Patel, Hon'ble Minister of Energy, Government of Gujarat alongwith Bhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson - ASSOCHAM Gujarat and Shri. Madhu Menon, Chairman- BFSI Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council
\r\nShri. Saurabhbhai Patel, Hon\\'ble Minister for Energy, GoG encouraged ASSOCHAM team by selecting the justify theme that is India Growth Story. He advised the audience to make the best use of the advice and guidance that will be given in the summit on their investments. He said that India'\\s growth story has a very encouraging figures and comparing with other countries India is at a pace of 6-7% which is very promising and encouraging. He said that with the Government policy initiatives and vision to make India a global destination other developed countries are looking at investment opportunities in India. He pressed on the urgent need of inclusive growth and reforms to take India on the path of success and emphasized that returns will only come if each and every sector contributes in the overall development of the country.
\r\nBhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat Councilsaid that today'\\s summit is a great learning opportunities for investors and announced the first of its kind BFSI Summit is considered to be one of the most awaited topics that will give an overview on the regulations & policy by the Central & State Government, Investment Avenues in Financial Space, Insurance Solutions, Financial Planning & Wealth Management, Financing & Alternate Lending etc. She said that the strong, proactive policy level support from the government is much-needed boost to user adoption. She gave an overall concept of organizing this summit and announced that it will be taken forward in other cities spreading awareness on the subject and educating everyone on their investment front. She said the gathering will help everyone of us understand the Indian market scenario, trends in Capital Markets, Investments, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management, Alternate Investments, Insurance, Real Estate planning , will services etc
\r\nShri Madhu Menon, Chairman, BFSI Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Councilbriefed the audience on the overall programme flow of the summit and the take aways from this Summit. He announced that how for the first time with technology like mobile app the audience will actively participate in the summit\r\n and connect with the speakers. The Summit will be much interactive and the outcome of the summit will help each and every participant take wise decision on their investment front.
\r\nThe Summit marked the presence of eminent speakers from Nationalized Banks, and Industries like Ritesh Jain, Chief Investment Officer, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Sahazad Madon - Head- PMS & Alternative Assets, Reliance Portfolio Management, Ashish Goyal, AVP, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd alongwith Speakers across Capital Market & Investment World.
', '', '', 'indiangrowthgujrat.jpg', 'India-growth-story', 1, 0, '2018-01-19', '2018-01-19', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (89, 'THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT)', 'After receiving an overwhelming response to the first series of Beyond Pink, THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT) mentoring session on women empowerment, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council announced its second series this year with Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad's first lady Mayor of 1995', 'After receiving an overwhelming response to the first series of Beyond Pink, THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT) mentoring session on women empowerment, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council announced its second series this year with Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad's first lady Mayor of 1995 with other record breaking women dignitaries like Bhagyesh Soni, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat council , Panna Momaya, GPS, Addl. DCP, Women Crime Branch, Ahmedabad, Dr. Arundhati Misra, Group Director, AMHTDG,EPSA, SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad, Dr. Sarika Mehta, Psychologist, Socialist and Founder Biking Queens, Smt. Pabiben Rabari, Founder Pabiben.com & Dr. Mona Desai, Chairperson, All India Women's Doctor Cell, Indian Medical Association (IMA).
\r\nThe event witnessed a huge participation of 200 women participants from across Gujarat. All women participants were welcomed by gifts sponsored by our gifting partners.
\r\nDuring the event both the chief guests Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad's first lady Mayor of 1995 distributed ASSOCHAM's "Mahila Shakti Awards 2018" to the women who have contributed to the society and nation for social cause, sports and bravery, making nation proud of their achievements.
\r\nBhagyesh SoniChairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat council under her strong leadership took an initiative of celebrating and encouraging women by Organising a mentoring session on Women's Day called \"Beyond Pink\": The Power of SHE (Soaring Heights of Empowerment) for the second time in Gujarat. Last year in 2017 she had been conferred Women Excellence Award in Nigeria by WPDO (World Peace & Diplomacy Organisation) on International Women\\'s Day
\r\nSmt. Bhavnaben Dave,Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad\\'s first lady Mayor of 1995, spoke about gender equality and encouraged all women to come out of the gender boundaries and respect whatever role they have in society, be it a mother, daughter, wife anything. Being into the education field for years she emphasized on education that education should be the suo motto. She also spoke about family bonding and culture. She also motivated the audience that it is very important to be empowered first, love our nation and second our family.
\r\nSmt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women welcomed all the participants and briefed them about the work of Nari Adalat set up with the help of Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri. Narendra Modi and how this initiative is helping the poor and needy women resolve their issues free of cost without going to different courts for their rights and resolve the issues faced by them. She also emphasized on education for women for becoming empowered. She briefed about the difference medical colleges set up in Gujarat for education and encouraged women to take maximum advantage of it. By giving examples of different women of India in the field of education, sports, entrepreneurs she motivated all the audience to accomplish their goals.
\r\nPanna Momaya, GPS, Additional DCP, Women Crime Branch, Ahmedabad spoke about the combating role of women in today's society. In her address she spoke about the various rights of women and how the women helpline nos is a boon to the women today. She emphasized women to be bold enough and come forward if they are facing any injustice and also advised to stop blaming other women if they are complaining on the issues facing related to eve teasing.
\r\nDr. Arundhati Misra, Group Director, AMHTDG,EPSA, SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad, spoke about the structural organization of ISRO and also announced about their human space programmme. She spoke about the achievements of ISRO and her role in the organization. She encouraged more women to come forward and join the space research team and be a part of Nation's development.
\r\nDr. Sarika Mehta, Psychologist, Socialist and Founder Biking Queens shared her thrilling experience and achievements of record breaking All India motorcycle ride with 35 women for social awareness in different villages taking the message of "Sashakat Nari Sashakat Bharat". She also showed the AV of her family trip expedition to Mt Elbrus Russia one of the 7 Summit of the world at the height of 18,510 ft, with the message of "Be the change you want to see in the world". She also spoke about time management and gave few tips to how to adhere to it.
\r\nSmt. Pabiben Rabari,Founder Pabiben.com, spoke about her story that how she became a successful entrepreneur and how she empowered other women of her community and village by making them self reliant. During the event she also launched her product catalogue which was very much appreciated by the audience. She thanked ASSOCHAM for presenting her the Award.
\r\nDr. Mona Desai,Chairperson, All India Women's Doctor Cell, Indian Medical Association (IMA), gave a presentation on the issues and diseases related to women health and urged the women participants not to remain ignorant about the same as they are the pillars of their family. She also appreciated about the multitasking activities that women do today managing her stress level.
\r\nThe technical session speakers were also recipients of many national and international awards and few of them had also published their books on entrepreneurship and women empowerment. A session on women safety, domestic violence and role of women helpline number was also discussed and demonstrated by our learned speakers.
', '', '', 'gujratthepowerofshe.jpg', 'the-power-of-she-soaring-heights-of-empowerment', 1, 0, '2018-03-08', '2018-03-08', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'); INSERT INTO `events` (`id`, `title`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `registration`, `reg_link`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `start_time`, `end_time`, `sector_id`, `region_id`, `priority`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (90, 'Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges', 'The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Gujarat Council alongwith Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous research organization under the Ministry of External Affairs & DEA, jointly organised 2 days conference on Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges.', 'The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Gujarat Council alongwith Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous research organization under the Ministry of External Affairs & DEA, jointly organised 2 days conference on Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges.
\r\nThe event was attended by eminent experts, policy practitioners, officials from central government, industry leaders, bilateral partners and representatives of the Multilateral Development Banks including AIIB to deliberate on the pertinent issues relating to financing, institutional and regulatory environment, technological options for sustainable future, financial sustainability and other relevant aspects.
\r\nThe event witnessed participation of more than 100 participants from across the country. During the event both the Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & Co- Chairman ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council presented the dignitaries with ASSOCHAM memento for their gracious presence.
\r\nBhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat councilhighlighted on the missing part and challenges faced in the infrastructure development of the state. She spoke about the DMIC project in Gujarat. She said that nearly 62% of the population has fallen under the DMIC project. She emphasized on the supplies as major rural population has migrated to the urban cities and the challenging part today is to manage supplies. She said that need of an hour today is to build infrastructure to manage the migrated population to the big cities and also for rural-urban infrastructure management. She thanked all the participants and dignitaries for sparing their time and attending the very important conference.
\r\nProfessor Amitabh Kundu,Distinguished Fellow, RIS, and chair of the Inaugural session of the conference welcomed all the dignitaries and highlighted the work and research carried out by the dignitaries present on the dais for sustainable smart urban infrastructural development of the nation and the challenges & way forward.
\r\nKenichi Yokoyama, Country Director, Indian Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank, while welcoming all the delegates to the conference addressed the challenges and opportunities faced during their working in India and at state level. He highlighted on the various projects being undertaken by ADB in the country as well as state. He stated in his presentation about the recent economic survey in India that nearly $180 bn investment is being projected upto the year 2040. He said that urban infrastructure is growing rapidly and their bank in India has invested around USD 39.4 bn from (1986-2016). In his presentation he also highlighted about the various projects being undertaken in India with ADB viz India-East Coast Economic Corridor.
\r\nProf O. P. MathurSenior Fellow and Head, Urban Studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi thanked all the stakeholders for their active participation. He said it is high time state and central governments recognize the role of municipali governments in development of urban infrastructure and it is important to fiscally empower them. One of the ways this can be done is through monetizing land, which must be used as a source of revenue in addition to property tax.
\r\nDr Kumar V. Pratap,Joint Secretary (Infrastructure, Policy & Finance), Ministry of Finance, Government of India said that one third of the indian population, which lives in urban areas, contributes two-thirds to the GDP and therefore urban dwellers are the most productive segments of the population. He emphasized that augmenting urban infrastructure will cost a lot of money. However, ULBs own revenues as a percent of GDP is very low below 1%. According to the economic survey 2016-17 of the Ministry of Finance estimates that currently Bengaluru and Jaipur are collecting no more than 5 to 20% of their property tax potential. This implies that cities could increase their resources 5 to 20 fold from property taxes only. HE also educated about the catalytic missions such as Smarty City Mission, AMRUT and the Swachh Bharat Mission of Central ministry.
\r\nMukesh Puri, IAS Principal Secretary, Department of Urban development and urban housing, Government of Gujarat spoke about the governance challenges and how the administration is planning to overcome those challenges. He said that around 70% of GDP of Gujarat, the tax is coming from the urban areas and there are still many such areas which needs to come under the corporation for collection of tax for infrastructure development. He spoke about the Government & corporation plan of deputing regional municipal commissioner in various areas for unlocking the assets and covering the untapped potential of the state.
\r\nHe also spoke about the town planning schemes of Gujarat and the spending of AUDA for infrastructural development. He said that AUDA has a capital of 1000 crores for 2018-19 out of which 250 crores has been spent on infrastructural development.
\r\nDr. Ke Fang,Manager (Investment Operations), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank spoke about their role in infrastructural development and their major areas of investment for sustainable infrastructure are renewable energy in sustainable cities, cross border connectivity, regional connectivity such as express way. He emphasized on project financing and educated the audience about the aspiring 6 projects which is about USD 1.2 billion. He informed about a multilateral development bank mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia and beyond.
\r\nBharat Patel,Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council spoke on the overall perspective of urbanization ratio of 32%, which is still low. He said that total investments of at least $640.2 billion are needed for urban infrastructure and services until 2031 to meet the needs of the growing urban population and improve the standard of living of the existing urban population. To bridge this gap it has been emphasised that the private sector who is not only the primary user of the economic infrastructure but is the key stakeholder in implementation, designing, operations etc. It is equally pivotal to ensure private sector participation in resource generation through effective mechanisms of costs, risks and benefit sharing.
\r\nThe technical session speakers also shared their views on urban infrastructure development, their challenges, issues on PPP participation, Government role and way forward in development of smart cities and infrastructure for urbanization.
', '', '', 'urbandevelopmentgujrat.jpg', 'urban-development-technologicalsolutions-and-governance-challenges', 1, 0, '2018-04-19', '2018-04-20', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (91, 'Impact of COVID 19 on Small Indian Businesses & strategies to rise up', 'Many small Indian businesses & are finding it disruptive to continue smoothly due to coronavirus which has impacted the business entities and has emerged as a concern of sustainability for several enterprises.', 'Many small Indian businesses & are finding it disruptive to continue smoothly due to coronavirus which has impacted the business entities and has emerged as a concern of sustainability for several enterprises. These enterprises include basically the Medium and Small Scale Enterprises. Post lockdown, it is very necessary to think upon the strategies to rise those enterprise up again in the market. Therefore, to address this alarming topic on the Impact of COVID19 on Small Indian Businesses & Strategies to rise up. ASSOCHAM along with other industry leaders has hosted webinar on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 10.30 am to 11.50 pm.
\r\nThe welcome address was delivered by moderator of the Webinar Shri. Bharat Patel, Chairman, Startup Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. Shri Bharat highlighted the importance of this webinar in the present situation. Very smoothly, Shri Patel moderated between all the panelists. His prime focus was discuss all the minute detail of the topic. Every aspect including merits and demerits were explored thoroughly.
\r\nDr. Aman Aggarwal, Dean, Indian Institute of Finance, NOIDA was one of the three panelists. Dr. Aggarwal talked insights on all the impacts imposed by COVID19 on MSMEs and other small scale businesses in India. He has come up with several other financial strategies to cope up with the fall of market. Major issues which he covered were the steps which every MSMEs are taking as Indian Economy is at the risk of borderline.
\r\nCol. Sanjeev Dutta, another panelist, Executive Director, Brainamaze Corporate Services Ltd. Shri Sanjeev addressed the issue and gave some very practical and pragmatic approach to overcome the situation of recession at coming times. Shri Dutta suggested that financial support should be given by Indian government to SME,MSME and Small traders who are registered with company act. Another step can be to boost to the transport sector with changing policy so that supplies are replenished immediately after lockdown is over. At last Shri Dutta suggested that policy formation can be done in such a way that money comes in the hands of the user.
\r\nAnother panelist, Shri Saurabh Khandelwal, Director, Business Doctors, India gave some precious suggestions in the wake of this topic. According to Shri Saurabh's suggestion period interest in the lockdown times should be bare minimum (not justified for for banks to make profit over and above what they make on home loans) as they cannot expect premium in this difficult time and make benefit. Also, insolvency and bankruptcy code was the most important tool to balance their rights in the hands of msme , limit of threshold which is raised to 1 crore must be brought back to 5 lakh for msme and 20 lakh for others.
\r\nSubsequently, the participants raised several Q&A which were answered jointly by all the panelists. All IT related support was extended by Rohit Bhatia, Director HR, ASSOCHAM. The webinar attracted registrations of professional participants which included Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, CMAs, Directors, Legal and Compliance Heads, and Academician etc.
', '', '', 'impctoncovidgujrat.jpg', 'impact-of-covid-19-on-small-indian-businesses-strategies-to-rise-up', 1, 0, '2020-04-15', '2020-04-15', '10:30 a.m', '11:30 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (92, 'Operation Green', 'India has the potential to become the World's food factory; Tomato, onion and potato are basic vegetables consumed throughout the year.', 'India has the potential to become the World's food factory; Tomato, onion and potato are basic vegetables consumed throughout the year. However, seasonal and regional production of these perishable commodities poses a challenge in connecting farmers and consumers in a manner that satisfies both. The Government proposes to launch an ''Operation Greens'' on the lines of ''Operation Flood''. ''Operation Greens'' shall promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), Agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. However, there is a strong need to develop Good Infrastructure and to strengthen nexus between farmers, food processing industries & markets through FPOs (Farmers Producers Organization). As Market Linkages, good infrastructure and value-added products are the best strategies farmers can employ to improve net profitability. Hand-holding by the Government agencies is need of the hour to improve living standards of the farmers. Value addition in agriculture presents an opportunity to integrate agriculture with industry and market.
\r\nWith this background & to give a boost to Agriculture & Food Processing industry through FPOs we are happy to inform you that ASSOCHAM has announced Conference on \"Operation Green\" Awareness Program on \"TOP\" Scheme on 14th December, 2018 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Judges Bungalow Road, Ahmedabad. The Summit will create a platform for Industries and organized Farmers, Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and regulate the market Prices of TOP (Tomato, Onion, and Potato). The conference will be a key event for cluster of TOP farmers and related stakeholders, Central & State Governments, Researchers, Bankers, Farmers, FPO\\'s/VPO\\'s, Agri Consultants, KVKs, Technology Providers, R&D Institutes, Economists, Trade industry, Professional associations, Cold Chain providers, Start ups, Organic farming and small scale Agro & Food-industry, Government Agencies, Autonomous bodies, Boards & Corporations, Private sectors, PSUs & Joint Ventures, Economists to come under single roof for capacity building in this sector.
\r\nGiven the scale of the Program and the opportunity it offers, ASSOCHAM, invites you to attend Conference on \"Operation Green\" Awareness Program on \"TOP\" Scheme and play a visibly strategic role in this event of great significance.
', '', '', 'operationgreen.jpg', 'operation-green', 1, 0, '0000-00-00', '0000-00-00', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (93, 'POST BUDGET SEMINAR', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council organized post budget seminar on 7th February 2018 in order to bring greater awareness about the new tax proposals and policy initiatives in the Union Budget 2018-19.', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council organized post budget seminar on 7th February 2018 in order to bring greater awareness about the new tax proposals and policy initiatives in the Union Budget 2018-19.
\r\nThe post budget seminar aimed at providing clarifications about the recent announcement made in the budget on tax structures like LTCG, Corporate Tax, process of E-way bill Refund Process etc. along with the Policy initiatives having significant impact on trade, industry and Indian economy.
\r\nThe Speakers of the seminar were Shri. Gyanchand Jain, Commissioner - Commercial Tax, GoG, Shri. R R Patel, Jt. Commissioner (Enforcement) Commissionerate of State Tax, GoG, CA. Chintan Patel Chairman AHMEDABAD BRANCH OF WIRC OF ICAI, CA. Amish Khandhar, Partner, KMS India & Chairman ASSOCHAM Taxation Committee, Gujarat Council, Shri Divyang Shukla, Shri. Amit Kumar Prajapati, Manager Business Banking, IDFC Bank Ltd, Shri. Saurabh Khandelwal, Business Doctor & Member ASSOCHAM
\r\nAll the speakers gave their views, clarifications and suggestions on the announcement made in the budget and how it is going to impact the industry as a whole. The different refund processes and e-way bill introduction details were also discussed in the seminar.
', '', '', 'postbudgetseminar.jpg', 'post-budget-seminar', 1, 0, '2018-02-07', '2018-02-07', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (94, 'Agro & Food Processing', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \\\"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\\\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state.', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state. The objective of the conference was to promote the recent initiative by MoFPI i.e. \"PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA (PMKSY)\" the Scheme for Creation of Infrastructure for Agro Processing Clusters.
\r\nThe conference focused on the untapped potential of the State in Agro & Food Processing sector as well as Farmers Welfare programme and the aim to double their income promoting agriculture sector. The session marked presence of key stakeholders from, Food Processing, MSME companies, consultants, Govt representatives, R&D institutes, professionals, Agri & Food retails companies, etc.
\r\nShri Ranchhodbhai Faldu, Hon\'ble Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of Gujarat congratulated MoFPI and ASSOCHAM for organizing such programmes to promote farmers and the entire FP and allied sectors. He encouraged the industry and investor to form clusters and put forth their projects for investments in agro and food processing. He emphasized on people's participation with government and get maximum benefits from the various schemes of the government. He ensured the industry for maximum government support. He also urged the farmers to get together and indulge themselves into large production as the scope of growth is much high in large scale production
\r\nThe Conference also discussed Induction of modern technology in the food processing industries to help & encourage entrepreneurs and small industries in exports of Agro & processed Food products. The deliberations from the conference to help entrepreneurs in setting up of common pack houses, export houses, mega food parks, cold storage and infrastructure facilities in the Agro, Food Processing & horticulture sector was welcomed by the participants .
', '', '', 'gujratinvestmentevent.jpg', 'agro-food-processing', 1, 0, '2018-02-27', '2018-02-27', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (95, 'Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2020', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council had successfully organised summit \\\"APETA 2019 : Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2019 with theme of Higher Education Sustainability & Quality Initiative\\\" on 3rd January, 2019 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council had successfully organised summit \"APETA 2019 : Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2019 with theme of Higher Education Sustainability & Quality Initiative"\\ on 3rd January, 2019 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad
\r\nAPETA is one of the reputed program in the Education & Technology sector. APETA is a curtain raiser of universities promise quality and research based education. The summit has also focus on the educational institutions and organizations which are in technology and innovations especially for social sectors which are most sought financial investments in Asian countries. There are institutes who are focusing their energies on overall quality of education and making their students more employable so that they can make meaningful contribution towards making India a true superpower in the coming years. APETA is providing the best opportunity available to get recognition of education Institute/Universities by Global leaders of Education technology Sector.
\r\nThe Summit had provided a platform to discuss on \"Higher Education Sustainability and Quality Initiatives (HESQI)\" with UN-SDGs on the occasion of the 2018 session of high level political forum on sustainable development- The United Nation's central platform for follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and sustainable development goals (SDGs).
\r\nThe summit was inaugurated by Shri. Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Hon'ble Minister for Education (Primary, Secondary and Adult) Higher and Technical Education, Government of Gujarat other dignitaries on dais where Shri. Jaxay Shah, Chairman - ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter ; Prof. Goutam Dutta, Professor at IIM-Ahmedabad and Chair, FWA Western Region ; Dr. M Venu Gopala Rao, Vice President, MODY University Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan and Shri. Nakul Sharedalal, Chairman, IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter
\r\nThe Summit had marked presence of key stakeholders from education sector Vice Chancellors, Senior Professors, Edupreneurs, corporate, Bureaucrats, Directors, Journalists & Students.', '', '', 'gujratapeta2019.jpg', 'education-and-technology-summit-2020', 1, 0, '2020-02-10', '2020-02-10', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (96, 'ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST', 'Dr. P. D. Vaghela, IAS, Commissioner (State Tax), Ahmedabad, GoG inaugurated ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, Hotel Pride Plaza, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad', '
Dr. P. D. Vaghela, IAS, Commissioner (State Tax), Ahmedabad, GoG inaugurated ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, Hotel Pride Plaza, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad
\r\nThe seminar marked a benchmark on the various issues related to GST with their proposed solutions/ suggestions by the panelists and delegates as the seminar also aimed at interaction of industry with the government authorities and agencies.
\r\nAHMEDABAD:- Commercial State Tax commissioner, Gujarat, Dr. P D Vaghela has address the industry during the GST seminar organized by ASSOCHAM in the city strongly representing the issues and demands related to Goods and Service Tax (GST) before the central government and the GST Council.
\r\nAddressing a seminar of ASSOCHAM Vaghela said,\" I have heard the various problems and issues faced SME\\'s, traders, & textile Industry. The issues are genuine and the state government will seriously take up the issues with the central government and the GST Council.\"
\r\nDr. Vaghela in his speech gave an overview of reduced GST rates for various goods and services across the board. He further added that India is rapidly going through economic and monetary transformation with the rate reduction from 28% to 18%. He also said that it will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance etc. He further added that Government has made various recommendations/ decisions on issues relating to policy, law and procedures, including key recommendations on reduction in GST rates of more than 50 items, rationalization of return filing system for small taxpayers. He also highlighted that Implementation of GST was challenge for all but now GST has stabilized because of the GST Council's efforts and contribution. He also focus on the issues like inter-state e-way bill provision etc which will be sorted out by the state government
\r\nDr. Vaghela said they had successful in enabling migration of 5 lakh Gujarat traders on GST network much before the schedule. He also said that conducted outreach programme in 200 towns and cities to help traders understand GST better.
\r\nShri. Ajay Jain, IRS, Chief Commissioner (Central Goods & Services Tax), Government of India
He said that there are so many changes in GST. Mainly changes focus on facilitation of trade, migration registration, simplification of procedure etc. He further added that policy related issues have to be tackled at policy level. He has invited the views and queries for GST through ASSOCHAM platform.
Amish Khandhar, Chairman, Taxation Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council
ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council welcomed all the dignitaries, experts of the technical sessions and participants to this important seminar on GST. He also added that changes in GST will provide significant visibility to industry, and highlights the Government's intention to move ahead.
Nakul Sherdalal, Chairman, IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Councilin his vote of thanks he Thanked all the dignitaries and Technical Experts, all participants and Sponsors. He further added that this GST seminar may provide opportunity to the participants for better understanding of the new tax regime and discuss important aspects of Model GST law, rules, procedures and their implications on different business segments and industry sectors.
', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-national-seminar-on-GST', 1, 0, '2018-07-24', '2018-07-24', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (97, 'National Conference on GST Friday, 20th January, 2017, Hotel Express Tower,R C Dutt Road, Vadodara', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \\\"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\\\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state.', 'The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), India\\'s Apex Chamber of Commerce organized a conference on Goods and Services tax (GST) which was inaugurated by Shri. Arvind Singh, Chief Commissioner (Central Excise & Customs), Vadodara ,GoI.
\r\nGST conference was organized to spread awareness about the bill which will subsumes various Central indirect taxes, including the Central Excise Duty, Countervailing Duty, Service Tax, etc. It also subsumes State value added tax (VAT), octroi and entry tax, luxury tax, etc. The conference marked the presence of experts, technocrats on GST software, chartered accountant firms and business fraternity from manufacturing, service and banking sector.
\r\nThe conference marked a benchmark on the various issues related to implementation of GST with their proposed solutions/ suggestions by the panelists and delegates as the conference also aimed at interaction of industry with the government authorities and agencies.
\r\nShri. Arvind Singh, Chief Commissioner (Central Excise & Customs), Vadodara, GoI,
gave an overview of the proposed GST Bill and its implementation. He future added that India is rapidly going through economic and monetary transformation. The mega tax reform of replacing multiple indirect taxes by uniform Goods and Service Tax is an important part of this transformation. He also said that GST will be a game changing reform for the Indian economy by creating a common Indian market and reducing the cascading effect of tax on the cost of goods and services. In his speech is also said that It will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system. He further stated that the total amount of 26% of indirect tax is highly proposed under GST regime as against 75% today. He stated that we are a socialistic democratic country and should minimize the bridge between have and have-not's. He also gave a positive overview on demonetisation. He emphasized that GST is a single point tax to control black money.
Bhavesh C Shukla Joint Commissioner (Commercial Tax), Vadodara, GoGin his speech shared their expertise and industry perspective on the implementation of GST as they have been working closely with the Union Finance Ministry on this project and are well updated on all the recent developments on the proposed GST Bill. He also added that GST will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system. It is a game changer reform which will change the way people do business in India. It is therefore important to understand its implications on economy in general and one's own business in particular and prepare for the transition. He emphasized that Government is working very closely with the GSTN team and informed the business fraternity to be ready for GST as it will not be delayed beyond15th September 2017. At present he informed that there are 4 slabs under GST 5%-12% 18% - 28% and said that as the government is working hard GST can also be implemented by 1st April 2017 also.
\r\nArpan Dodia Chairman Western Region ICAI,in his speech said that this conference on GST is considered to be one of the most awaited topic that will give an overview on which taxes are to be levied by the Centre, States and local bodies and which goods and services will be subjected to GST and the basis and the rates at which GST will be applied.
\r\nBhagyesh Soneji Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Councilon behalf of ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council welcomed all the welcome all the dignitaries, experts of the technical sessions and participants to this important conference on GST. She also added that GST will provide significant visibility to industry, and highlights the Government's intention to move ahead with the introduction of GST.
\r\nAmish Khandhar Chairman, Taxation Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council l in his vote of thanks he Thanked all the dignitaries and Technical Experts, all participants and Sponsors. He further added that this GST conference may provide opportunity to the participants for better understanding of the new tax regime and discuss important aspects of Model GST law, rules, procedures and their implications on different business segments and industry sectors.
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\r\nShri. K. V. Tirumala, ITS, Deputy Director, DGFT - Ahmedabad
\r\nShri. P. K. Jha,Zonal General Manager, NSIC
\r\nShri. Neeraj Srivastava,DGM, (SIDBI) Small Industries Development Bank of India, Regional Office
\r\nThe Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is an important pillar of Indian Economy as it's contribution to the country\\'s GDP is expected to increase to 22% in 2020 from 17% in 2011. India\\\'s MSME sector faces a major problem in terms of getting adequate credit for expansion of business activities. Keeping in mind the potential of MSME sector, it becomes all the more important to give special attention for growth of small and medium Enterprise sector since they only have the potential to provided wage employment for Indian labor force highest next only to agriculture as well as to provided goods and service at a lower cost
\r\nManufacturing and Export has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, had launched the 'Make in India' program to place India on the world map as a manufacturing hub and give global recognition to the Indian economy. The sector is challenged by credit and finance issues, technology & innovation, regulatory environments and credibility issues.
\r\nThe objective of this sammellan is to provide a platform for awareness and discuss the opportunities and challenges for Equity loan fund raising, Financing, Government & Banks financial assistance, Innovative ways of funding and funding issues for start ups, recovery protection for SME.
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\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\r\nWelcome By: Shri Nikhil Agarwal , Chairman, Tourism Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council and Director, Lalooji & Sons
\r\nModerated By: Shri Nishat Shah,MD, SITC Group & Member, ASSOCHAM - Gujarat Council
\r\nSpecial Guest - Khyati Nayak,, Manager, Business Development and Skill Development, Gujarat Tourism, Government of Gujarat
\r\nEminent Panelists were -
\r\n- Dr. Rekha Chaudhari, Global Wellness Ambassador for India and a social entrepreneur of non-profit organizations
\r\n- Dr P K Shaji,Chief Medical Officer, Nimba Nature Care
\r\n- Shyamapriya Sarkar, Key Catalyst, Lokayurved
\r\n- Shri. E. M. Najeeb, Senior Vice President, IATO
\r\n- Shri Rajesh Mishra, General Manager, Hotel Narayani Height
\r\nKEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-
\r\nKhyati Nayak Manager, Business Development and Skill Development, Gujarat Tourism, Government of Gujarat - \r\n
\r\nIn these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been infected, and half of the worlds population is in some form of lockdown.
\r\nThe Health & Wellness Tourism Sector just before the onset of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic situation was promising and had gained enough momentum over the past few years. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Travel & Tourism market across the different levels. A huge loss to the tourism industry is expected due to this impact after second wave of COVID, specially to the tour operators, hospitality centres etc. even after considering the fact that last year, The Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi symbolically reopened India's arms after first long lockdown to welcome the tourists from all over the world.
\r\nWhile equipping with best infrastructure of hospitals, treatment centers, and attractive tourist places, Gujarat can be considered as a hub for Health & Wellness Tourism for India and the rest of the world. The time tested principals of Ayurveda, ancient natural medicine practice from back 3000 years, combines medicine and philosophy and promotes wellness of mind, body and soul with a renewed stress on holistic well being, nutrition & rejuvenation as an aftermath of pandemic. Health & Wellness Tourism sector is poised to grow more aggressively in the new normal & this holds a lot of promise as we have our traditional strengths in the form of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy.
\r\nDr. Rekha Chaudhari, Global Wellness Ambassador for India and a social entrepreneur of non-profit organizations
\r\nNever before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health schisms between the world's haves" and have nots." The haves" also include individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems form the first line of defense against infectious disease.
\r\nIndeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions - such as diabetes, heart disease, and compromised immune systems - are at high risk for severe illness and death.
\r\nDr P K Shaji, Chief Medical Officer, Nimba Nature Care
\r\nWellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or weakens another. He also presented a ppt attached with this document.
\r\nShyamapriya Sarkar, Key Catalyst, Lokayurved
\r\nIf we talk about wellness though healthy food, a shift in the dietary pattern of the people have been observed during the outbreak of COVID-19 was observed among the population which could also be driven by the fear and anxiety many people around the globe are experiencing. Consumers are more focused on the products with nutritional aspects which could help in boosting immunity. By consuming balanced & Nutritious Food not only immunity can be boosted but also mental & physical wellness can be attained rapidly. She also presented a ppt attached with this document. \r\n
\r\nShri. E. M. Najeeb, Senior Vice President, IATO \r\n
\r\nHe has said that frontline tourism workers in travel and tourism should be given priority for COVID-19 vaccination. \"For a state like Kerala, a healthy, robust tourism industry is critical to the overall recovery of the economy as it contributes over 10 per cent of the GDP,\" he said.
\r\nThe Confederation of Kerala Tourism Industry, which is the united voice of Kerala Tourism Trade, is seeking urgent financial aid package for the survival of the state\\'s biggest service industry sector - Tourism.
\r\nThe Tourism Sector is the most important revenue generating sector in Kerala with a total revenue of Rs 45,000 crores, which makes up 11.5 percent of the state's GDP and giving employment to more than 15 lakh people. The sector's foreign exchange revenue during the last financial year is Rs. 10000 crores, which goes far beyond the IT sector. It is one of the hardest hit sectors in Kerala. Unfortunately, no relief measures have given by both the central or state governments till date and most of the skilled and experienced professionals within the industry workforce are out of jobs because of lockdown and majority of the investors and industry stakeholders are finding it difficult to maintain their businesses. Some of the professionals and investors have moved to different areas trying to salvage their businesses like fish sales, online and offline trade of pickles and food stuff, housekeeping contacts etc. just to make ends-meet.
\r\n\r\n The various tourism industry associations under CKTI have submitted many representations and suggestions to the governments for the mere survival and existence of the sector through financial aid packages and expect favourable decisions. These demands are completely justifiable given the situation and include waiving of taxes for one year and fixed electricity tariffs. The industry requests this from both state and Central Governments in order to ensure that the tourism industry survives this crisis.
\r\nShri Rajesh Mishra, General Manager, Hotel Narayani Height
\r\nHe has explained the role of Hotel industries in Health and wellness. When booking a hotel room, there are certain basic amenities most people expect will be available to them. 24-hour access to a gym or pool is not a surprise in most full-service hotels and is even starting to become standard at focusedservice properties around the world. More recently, however, many hotels seem to be expanding beyond the standard gym and pool amenities.
\r\nIt is no surprise that the hotel industry has responded to this wellness trend accordingly. For years, upscale hotels have offered "health and wellness options" for guests (think spa services like massages and facials). But times are changing and these service just don't cut it any longer. Beyond these typical spa services, hotels now offer amenities such as paddleboard yoga classes, fitness apparel boutiques, and juice and oxygen bars to name a few. Some of the trendier hotels offer more eccentric amenities such as aromatherapy, astrology readings and sound therapy. The upscale Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa in Paradise Valley, AZ offers one-on-one classes with an in-house nutritionist, paddleboard yoga, and \"Zennis\"- tennis classes that focus on body awareness and relaxation. These amenities are more commonly found in boutique hotels, but even larger hotels seem to be jumping on the bandwagon by offering more extravagant amenities.
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ASSOCHAM’s Virtual Conference on “CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products”
\r\nASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 21 April, 2021. Theme of the virtual conference was "CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products on April 21, 2021 started at 11 AM Onwards The key objective of this Virtual Conference is to develop a concrete roadmap for regaining
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Welcome & Moderated By: Shri Vishal Rajgarhia, Chairman, Pharma Committee ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CEO – Finecure Pharmaceuticals Special Guest - Dr Ishwar Basavaraddi, Director, Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India.
\r\nEminent Panelists were -
\r\n- Shri Dhiren Rathore, COO, Asclepius Wellness Private Limited \r\n
- Dr. Ajay Dubey, Faculty, Dr. B R Ambedkar University of social Sciences, MHOW, Indore
\r\n- Dr. Sunil Joshi, Dean - Ayurvedic, Gokul Global University - Dr. Harit Parikh, MD, Harit Remedies Pvt. Ltd
\r\n- Dr. Pawankumar Godatwar, Dean (Research), Professor and HOD, PG Dept. of Roga & Vikriti Vijnana, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur
\r\n- Shri. Sunil Sangani, Director, Envitro Laboratories Pvt Ltd
\r\n- Vibhuti Arora, Expert & Founder, House of Beauty \r\n
- Dr. Mandeep Kaur, Associate Professor, Gujarat Ayurveda University.
\r\nKEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-
\r\n• In these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been infected, and half of the world’s population is in some form of lockdown.
\r\n• Never before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health schisms between the world’s haves” and have nots.” The haves” also include individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems form the first line of defense against infectious disease.
\r\n• Indeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions – such as diabetes, heart disease, and compromised immune systems – are at high risk for severe illness and death.
\r\n• Wellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or weakens another.
', '', '', 'consumerhealthwellness.jpg', 'assocham-virtual-Conference-on-comsumer-health-wealth', 1, 0, '2021-04-21', '2021-04-21', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (101, 'Global FAD 2018', 'Food processing is the key to the viability of agriculture sector. Reduction of wastages of agricultural produce and value addition are the pre-requisites for achieving this viability', 'Food processing is the key to the viability of agriculture sector. Reduction of wastages of agricultural produce and value addition are the pre-requisites for achieving this viability. This is the only sector that gives economic sustainability to the farmers by providing opportunities for demand driven cluster farming which further results in ample employment opportunities from the landless labour up to highly skilled individuals.FAD is a flagship event of ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. This year FAD 2018 is the 12th edition of ASSOCHAM. The earlier 11 series of FAD was a grand success with participation from various country partners, delegation from International business community & state partners. All the earlier summits witnessed presence of more than 200 delegates and eye catching media presence with presence of Hon’ble State Minister for FPI, GoI, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.
\r\nRecognizing and Celebrating Food & Agri Innovation Excellence Awards 2018
\r\nFood & Agri Innovation have transformed several sectors hence Food processing Sector also desperately needs to get its share for excellence in new food, agri and innovation to move forward. In this context ASSOCHAM for the last five editions have been announcing its Innovation & Excellence Awards, which have been a grand success because of versatility of applications, thoroughness of evaluation process, and presence of experts in food, agri , innovation and business space as Award Jury. This year too ASSOCHAM announced it’s “INNOVATION & EXCELLENCE AWARDS-2018” in concurrence with 12th FAD 2018, Summit cum Exhibition on 19th September, 2018 at Hotel Pride, Ahmedabad, to recognize and felicitate food & allied industry to continue & contribute in providing excellence in this sector thereby bringing new approaches for accelerating country’s economic growth and social development in FP sector.
\r\nFAD 2018 witnessed presence of more than 200 delegates from different sectors of Industries alongwith participation of other states like Telangana, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab as partner for the summit.
\r\nThe Summit was very timely and fitting, as food processing has moved on from being a craft to a modern technology. The principles of operation and design of industrial equipment, used in the processing, storage and packaging of foods may play an important role in the processed foods of the future. In order to meet the sensory, quality, safety, nutrition, health, economic and novelty demanded of food products by consumers, it is necessary to design and engineer food process operations to enhance product's quality, safety, yield, and profitability to compete at international market.
\r\nSadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India congratulated ASSOCHAM for organizing such programmes to promote farmers and the entire FP and allied sectors. She encouraged the industry and investor to form clusters and put forth their projects for investments in agro and food processing. She emphasized on people’s participation with government and get maximum benefits from the various schemes of the government. She ensured the industry for maximum government support. She said that Gujarat Government is very active in Food Processing sector and Gujarat has the appropriate environment for Industry. Synthesis of Ministry-AgricultureIndustry plays vital role for developing our country more. She announced about the various subsidies under this scheme for setting up cold chain and mega food park.
\r\nDuring the Summit Knowledge Paper on Food Processing, Agri and Dairy “Challenges & Strategies : Doubling the Farmer’s Income : Mission 2022” was released. The Knowledge Paper was prepared by Abhyuday Techno Economic Consultant.
\r\nInnovation and Excellence Awards 2018 were distributed by the Guests of the Summit to recognize and honor the Indian food industry brightening stars who have achieved excellence in various segments involved in Agriculture, Dairy and Food processing Sector.
\r\nWhile congratulating ASSOCHAM and addressing the participants, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Hon’ble Minister of State, Food Processing Industries, GoI informed about the SAMPADA scheme launched by GoI, which will be implemented by MoFPI with an objective to boost the food processing sector in the country and help farmers provide better value for their produce and ensure doubling of farmer’s income. She said that the scheme is to promote SMEs in Food Processing sector. She announced about the various subsidies under this scheme for setting up cold chain and mega food park.
\r\nTo enhance the competitiveness of the FP and allied sectors in the world market by developing value-added foods based on higher quality standards, skilling manpower, improved processing techniques & innovations, development and promotion of high-quality and value-added agro-products combined with changing market and consumer preferences amid recent trends in economic development and globalization, were discussed during the Summit.
\r\nThe Technical session’s speakers also shared their expertise, technological know-how and presented new innovations and trends prevailing in the national and international market. Topics on employment generation, skilling manpower in this sector as well as Food safety were also discussed.
\r\nFAD 2018 also gave an opportunity of exhibition to the Industry, Banks, and Institutes to showcase their products/ services.
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ASSOCHAM’s Western Region organised a virtual conference on 29th October, 2020. The topic for this webinar was “National Education Policy - Impact and Implementation” ', '
Virtual Conference on National Education Policy - Implement & Implementation”
\r\nASSOCHAM’s Western Region organised a virtual conference on 29th October, 2020. The topic for this webinar was “National Education Policy - Impact and Implementation”
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\r\nSpecial Guest: Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE
\r\nWelcome Note: Shri Bharat Patel, Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council
\r\nModerator: Dr Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of Management Eminent Speakers -
\r\n- Shri Harish Sanduja, Director, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Schools & Member Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad
\r\n- Dr Mahendra Sharma, Pro-Chancellor & Director General, Ganpat University - Shri Achin Bhattacharyya, CEO and Founder, Notebook
\r\n- Dr Umesh Chandra Jain, Secretary (North Zone), Association of Chemistry Teachers, Mumbai & Principal, Academic heights Public School, Morena \r\n
- Dr Amit Joshi, Director, Global Knowledge Research Foundation
\r\n- Shri Saurabh Kumar, Director Academics, Vidyamandir Classes
\r\nSUMMARY OF WEBINAR
\r\nThe session was welcomed and introduced by Shri Bharat Patel, Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. After Shri Patel, the session was took over and moderated by Dr Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of Management. Dr Jitendra also delivered the opening note of the webinar.
\r\nThe special guest of the session was Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE. Prof Anil highlighted the salient features of National Education Policy recently launched by the Govt. of India. He also laid emphasis on how well the new forwardlooking policy has covered all the aspects of higher education. The session was then took over by Shri Harish Sanduja, Director, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Schools & Member Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad. Shri Sanduja laid emphasis on how actively his organisation is imparting training and educating teachers with the needed necessary skills for teaching at primary level. The main theme of Shri Sanduja’s address was Early Childhood Care and Education. Another Speaker Shri Achin Bhattacharyya, CEO and Founder, Notebook, took over the session after Shri Sanduja. Shri Achin focused on NEP Approach (Language, Disability and Digital Content) - PPT. He also focused on the role of technology in imparting the quality education at school level. The session was followed by the address of another speaker Dr Umesh Chandra Jain, Secretary (North Zone), Association of Chemistry Teachers, Mumbai & Principal, Academic heights Public School, Morena. Dr Jain gave a crisp gist of NEP, highlighting its feature specially on Senior Secondary level of education. Another Speaker Dr Mahendra Sharma,
\r\nPro-Chancellor & Director General, Ganpat University address the session on NEP offering much to University scholars. Shri Saurabh Kumar, Director Academics, Vidyamandir Classes followed the speaking session and shared his brief insights on NEP and its relation to Competitive exams.
\r\nThe Session was given a conclusion and quick round of Q&A by Dr Amit Joshi, Director, Global Knowledge Research Foundation.
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\r\nInteractive Session with Shri Dibya Shankar Mishra, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Department of Energy, Govt. of Odisha
\r\nASSOCHAM Eastern Region orgianised a Webinar on \"Odisha Energy Sector: Learnings from the State\" on 19th May, 2021. Chief Guest was Shri Dibya Shayankar Mishra, Hon'ble Minister of State, Department of Energy, Government of Odisha. Speakers included Shri Vishal Agarwal Chairman ASSOCHAM Odisha State Council, Shri. Somesh Dasgupta Chairman Energy Council ASSOCHAM, Shri. Partha Chatterjee, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub-Council, Shri. Sabyasachi Sarkar, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub-Council - Eastern Region, Shri M Shenbagam of CEO TP Central Odisha Power Distribution (Tata Power), Dr. Raj Shekhar Malur, Vice President and Head Power Business Tata Consulting Engineering Ltd, Shri M Shenbagam, CEO, TP Central Odisha Distribution ltd., Shri. Vikas Gaba, Partner & India Head, Power & Utilities Sector, KPMG, Shri. Sabyasachi Sarkar, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub Council - Eastern Region & Executive Director, S.K. Samanta& Co. Pvt. Ltd. Addressing the Energy Meet Hon'ble Minister said Odisha government is futuristic and is very\r\n \r\n focussed on welfare and economic development of the state. Odisha over the years has emerged as key investment destination. He said, the government is open to suggestions from industry and assured full cooperation while speaking on the learnings from Odisha Energy Sector for Other States. He said the state is committed to provide 24/7 energy to everyone in the state while being responsible towards environment. He stated that is State believes in firming up business friendly policies and stands by the same and is among the first for having privatised the power distribution. Vishal Agarwal Chairman ASSOCHAM Odisha State Council in his welcome remark said energy demand will grow as economic activities would continue to grow in the state. Somesh Dasgupta Chairman Energy Council ASSOCHAM and whole time Director India Power invited thoughts from Hon'ble minister on key learnings for other states from Odisha in terms of privatisation and the future plans of the state in terms of energy transition and grid development. M Shenbagam of CEO TP Central Odisha Power Distribution (Tata Power), spoke about the capex investment and the extensive support of all stakeholders in terms of distribution privatisation and he also spoke about the infrastructure built by the state over the years. Key inputs were presented by Former Coal Secretary AlokPerti , Vikas Das, Partner KPMG and Bishwadeep Parida PwC. The meet ended with a vote of thanks by Chairman Odisha Chapter of ASSOCHAM as he thanked Hon'ble Minister for his responses and the time spent with members.
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\r\nASSOCHAM\'s Western Region organized a virtual conference on 25 February, 2021.\r\n Theme of the webinar was \"The Strategic Perspective on The Cold Chain Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and a Way Forward.\"
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\r\nModerator: Shri Dhaval Raval,Chairman, Food Processing Committee,\r\n ASSOCHAM Western Council
\r\nEminent Panelists were
\r\nShri Dipak M. Bandekar, Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce,\r\n Government of Goa
\r\nShri Manguirsh Pai Raikar, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa State
\r\nShri Rajesh Goyal, President, Federation of Cold Storage Associations of India
\r\nShri Kiran Gubba, Director and CEO, Gubba Cold Storage Pvt Ltd
\r\nJaya Jha, Manager, MAERSK Lines Limited
\r\nDr. Anil N. Fadte, Managing Director, Goa Dairy
\r\nSmt Usha Ramesh, General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, Goa
\r\nShri. Pamarty Venkataramana,\r\n International Corporate Lawyer/Business Strategist & Chief, PVR LAWS
\r\nShri Pramod Shetgaonkar, Owner, Cold Chain India logistics
\r\nShri Swarup Bose, CEO , Celcius Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd
\r\nSUMMARY OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\r\nShri Dipak M. Bandekar, Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce,\r\n Government of Goa
\r\n• The cold chain industry is seen as an emerging and fast growing business sector in\r\n India. Considering the current issue of food shortage and food security in India, cold\r\n chain facilities will play an important role in the country. According to Food and\r\n Agriculture organization (FAO) of the UN, approximately one third of the food\r\n produced for the human consumption, which amounts to 1.3 billion tones, gets lost\r\n or wasted.
\r\n• However, this sector has witnessed a considerable growth in the last decade and is\r\n expected to have further improvement in growth rate in the years to come.
\r\n• The role of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India is instrumental\r\n in development of cold chain infrastructure in India and is implementing scheme for\r\n its promotion. Other departments such as National Centre for Cold-chain\r\n Development (NCCD), NABARD, National Horticulture Board (NHB) and State\r\n Governments are also taking initiatives for the development of cold chain industry in\r\n India.
\r\nShri Manguirsh Pai Raikar, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa State Council
\r\n• Latest technology used world over in cold chain sector, is making inroads in India.\r\n And with the government sanctioning new cold chain projects in the recent past, the\r\n demand for more efficient cold storages is going to increase in the future. Hence,\r\n with further support from government, new players are going to enter India and a\r\n platform is required where these latest know how, equipment s and infra facilities\r\n gets noticed and new players are made aware of.
\r\n• The industry should play its part in doubling farmer s income by ensuring that the\r\n fruit grown by the farmer should reach the end consumer without intermediaries and\r\n with the help of a well-established cold chain which will ensure a good price to the\r\n farmer. Due to the cooperation of the industry, with the farmers, they have not only\r\n created storages and cold transportation but a total solution which not only benefit\r\n people from the cold chain but the farmers in getting the better price for their\r\n produce.
\r\n• The $ 5 Trillion Indian economy will not be brought from the top down but from the\r\n bottom up. He said that the second important point to focus on is jobs as GDP of\r\n India growing but not similar to the world and we don t want a GDP growth without\r\n employment. Cold chain is capable of generating employment for hundreds of\r\n people.
\r\nShri Rajesh Goyal, President, Federation of Cold Storage Associations of India
\r\n• The third part of cold chain which is the export of sea foods from India. India has a\r\n huge coastline but the extent of fishing has gone down in recent years. Export of\r\n fishing and cold chain will create a value proposition for the fisherman of India which\r\n is most important thing.
\r\n• We need to act as intermediaries that not only develop cold chain but a total solution\r\n to increase the level of income.
\r\nShri Kiran Gubba, Director and CEO, Gubba Cold Storage Pvt Ltd
\r\n• Cold chain is experiencing a boom in the current India and that many reports have\r\n suggested that Indian cold chain market is projected to reach around 2300 billion\r\n (INR) at a CAGR of 15.4% during 2019-2023. This growth is due to growing demand\r\n of processed foods and strict regulatory checks in cold chain supply and storage\r\n domain. The increase in e-commerce has paved a way organized retail contributes\r\n significantly in the growth of cold chain market.
\r\n• The importance of cold chain agriculture as there are huge post-harvest losses due\r\n to inadequate storage and transport facility. It is dire need to make cold chain\r\n facilities assessable to the farmers. Cold chain a very fragile industry and has a huge\r\n scope of improvement. It is important to understand that cold chain is capital\r\n intensive industry and a collaborative approach between the industrial stakeholders\r\n along with government bodies that a strong industry and be built and India Growth\r\n Story can be derived.
\r\nJaya Jha, Manager, MAERSK Lines Limited
\r\n• Cold storage is a temporary storage to avoid wastages. Cold Storage is not cold\r\n chain but only a part of it which connects the growers to the consumers. The capacity\r\n creation today is 88% in storage and only 12% in transportation.
\r\n• The gap between the cold storage capacity and the cold transportation facility with\r\n the help of relevant data. These storages are mostly for potatoes, chilies and seeds\r\n while the other perishables do not have access to it.
\r\n• The gap between the requirement of the nation and the available facility. It is\r\n necessary to think about a value chain where FPO is the central activity to connect\r\n growers to the consumers with cold chain as the underlying infrastructure. It can be\r\n this model which can connect the farmers to market, reduce the losses, increase\r\n their income and make every player across the value chain benefitted.
\r\nDr. Anil N. Fadte, Managing Director, Goa Dairy
\r\n• If we are talking about doubling farmer s income we need to focus on different\r\n aspects of agriculture and strategically shifting the focus from production approach\r\n to income approach.
\r\n• Cold chain in agriculture is a crucial part in reducing the post-harvest losses as in\r\n case of horticulture and perishable crops it can be more than 50%. The efforts should\r\n be made to minimize the losses and incorporating every farmer as a part of\r\n agriculture value chain.
\r\n• Cold storages won t suffice, there is need of an integrated chain from farm to\r\n consumer. Pack- houses at farm level and multi model transportation will play a\r\n crucial part in improving the value chain.
\r\n• Major challenge in cold chain is sometimes limitation of technology and parts of\r\n delivery. There is a need to decentralize cold storages and energy infrastructure.\r\n The government will be a part of the whole value chain with the support and\r\n participation of the industry.
\r\nSmt Usha Ramesh, General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, Goa
\r\n• The cold chain should be integrated and multi- dimensional, and not focused on just\r\n one aspect. Every aspect of the complete cold chained should be focused upon so\r\n that they can be discussed in further such conferences. Not just focusing on the postharvest losses but collecting region-wise data of the whole of the country as every\r\n region faces different problems and different issues.
\r\n• It is important, for the people in the cold chain business, to understand the needs\r\n and requirements of different regions, what is being produced there and how it can\r\n further utilized.
\r\n• The topic for development of cold chain as there was no such innovation before\r\n which can safely bring the food from farm to fork without being wasted. 1/3rd of the\r\n total produced is wasted and we can prevent these wastages than there is definite\r\n chance of increasing the farmer s income. The conference can benefit for the nation\r\n as these are the rare chances that the people from industry sit together and have\r\n such discussions.
\r\nShri. Pamarty Venkataramana, International Corporate Lawyer/Business Strategist\r\n & Chief, PVR LAWS
\r\n• Cold chain in India started with frozen foods, ice cream, frozen meat and fisheries\r\n and it is fully developed for such product but on the other hand F&V is suffering this\r\n chain aspect. The reefer trucks which are manufactured are not product centric\r\n rather they are multi-product reefer trucks which is not correct. Dedicated\r\n transportation for F&V should be developed with a temperature range of 4-10°C so\r\n using the same reefer truck for different temperature requirements is expensive and\r\n wastage of its capacity.
\r\n• The logistics company generate more revenue when they transport ice cream rather\r\n than F&V which is why the transportation is not even available to the farmer. Even\r\n when it is available the cost is way too much for the farmers.
\r\n• The cold chain is a fairly new concept for the farmers. Carrier developed a working\r\n and profitable cold chain for a specific commodity and he shared a success story\r\n that how Carrier managed to transport the kinnow of Punjab to the southern parts\r\n of India, without any wastage, which seemed impossible to the farmers as they were\r\n hesitant to use new technology. It even fetched a better price to them.
\r\nShri Swarup Bose, CEO , Celcius Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd
\r\n• Cold chain in India started with frozen foods, ice cream, frozen meat and fisheries\r\n and it is fully developed for such product but on the other hand F&V is suffering this\r\n chain aspect. The reefer trucks which are manufactured are not product centric\r\n rather they are multiproduct reefer trucks which is not correct. Dedicated\r\n transportation for F&V should be developed with a temperature range of 4-10°C so\r\n using the same reefer truck for different temperature requirements is expensive and\r\n wastage of its capacity.
\r\n• The logistics company generate more revenue when they transport ice cream rather\r\n than F&V which is why the transportation is not even available to the farmer. Even\r\n when it is available the cost is way too much for the farmers.
\r\n• The cold chain is a fairly new concept for the farmers. Carrier developed a working\r\n and profitable cold chain for a specific commodity and he shared a success story\r\n that how Carrier managed to transport the kinnow of Punjab to the southern parts\r\n of India, without any wastage, which seemed impossible to the farmers as they were\r\n hesitant to use new technology. It even fetched a better price to them.
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\r\nMEASURES TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT OF GOA TO FIGHT AGAINST\r\n COVID 19
\r\nThursday, May 07, 2020 ; Time - 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM \r\n
\r\nDuring COVID times, every state of India has come up with some unique ways to fight back with\r\n COVID cases. Amongst these, the state of Goa came stood first to claim corona free state in the\r\n nation. With this background, the interactive session with Dr Pramod Sawant, Hon'ble CM Goa\r\n was organised by ASSOCHAM to discuss over the various measures taken by the state of Goa to\r\n combat the challenges arising from the Covid19 pandemic. This interaction was organised on May\r\n 07, 2020 at 04.00 PM to 05.00 PM \r\n
\r\nOn behalf of ASSOCHAM, Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary-General; Shri Niranjan Hiranandani,\r\n National President, ASSOCHAM and Shri Mangirish Pai Raikar, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa state\r\n council had a discussion with Dr Sawant.
\r\nThe session was moderated by Shri Deepak Sood. To take this discussion further Shri Mangirish\r\n Pai Raikar congratulated Government of Goa for becoming the pharmaceutical supplier to the\r\n world, especially in order to meet the high demand for hydroxychloroquine and paracetamol.
\r\nFurther, Mangirish emphasised on the rapid revival of the tourism industry as the economy of\r\n Goa, majorly revolves around this industry. He also highlighted the issue of the State having the\r\n highest number of government employees and roughly one in 26 is working in government office,\r\n major budget is spent on their salaries, which leaves very little for development work. \r\n
\r\nAnother Panelist, Shri Niranjan, laid focus on two other economic factors, one is liquidity crisis that\r\n Indian industry and business is facing today. Se stimulus package is also need to be introduced in\r\n terms of giving funding to the states adequacy to meet the problems which are taking place.
\r\nChief Guest of the interaction, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Goa, Dr Pramod Sawant announced that\r\n he is not only open to FDI from companies who are now moving out of China but will look into how\r\n Goa can be made a logistics hub, an idea suggested by the former civil aviation minister Suresh\r\n Prabhu to Goa about two years ago. Dr Sawant shared his plans and steps taken so far for the\r\n rapid revival of the economy of Goa and he also welcomed all the industry bodies to the State for\r\n investment purpose. \r\n
\r\nFurther Dr Sawant welcomed all the industries those who wish to invest in Goa and also thanked\r\n ASSOCHAM for their concern and recommendation for the speedy revival of the economy. \r\n
\r\nAt last, ASSOCHAM Secretary General, Shri Deepak Sood, ensured the whole hearted\r\n cooperation for the economic revival in Goa. He also stated that ASSOCHAM is future ready and\r\n willing to work with Government of Goa for the better economic condition of the state.
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\r\nVenue - Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bhopal\r\n
\r\nDate: 25-May-2017
\r\nASSOCHAM\'s Madhya Pradesh Council has organized AGRO & FOOD Processing\r\n Summit 2017 on May 25, 2017 at Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bhopal, with an\r\n objective to focus on potential in food processing sector in the state with a view to\r\n Increase business opportunities and investments
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE SUMMIT
\r\nInaugural Session -
\r\nEminent Speakers were -
\r\n- Shri Surya Prakash Meena, Hon ble Minister of State Dept. of Horticulture and\r\n Food Processing, Govt. of MP
\r\n- Shri. Dhaval Raval Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee,\r\n ASSOCHAM Western Council
\r\n- Dr. K. K. Singh, Director, Central Institute of Engineering
\r\n- Shri. Satyanand, Director, Department of Horticulture& Food Processing, Govt.\r\n of MP
\r\n- Shri. Hansmukh Jain Gandhi, President MP Cold Industry Association
\r\nShri. Surya Prakash Meena, Hon ble Minister of State, Department of Horticulture and\r\n Food Processing, Govt. of MP was delighted to see an active participation of more\r\n than 150 delegates from the Agro & Food Processing Industry and informed the\r\n business community and stakeholders that the Govt of MP has already allocated\r\n Rs.350 crore worth of fund to set up cold storage chains with a 25 per cent subsidy\r\n plan to set up the chains. This was in response to the issues the farmers were facing\r\n in terms of storage of their food produce and vegetables they grow in their farms. He\r\n briefed the audience that the state is being the leader in food grain production and a\r\n solid position in horticulture produce it has immense scope for food processing sector.\r\n He welcomed the investors to come and invest in the state and assured all the help\r\n from the state government in setting up their projects in Agro & Food Processing\r\n sector.
\r\nDhaval Raval, Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee ASSOCHAM\r\n Western Council started his welcome address by welcoming the Chief Guest and\r\n dignitaries on the dais with the flower bouquet. Firstly he expressed very warm\r\n welcome to everyone who had gathered for the Agro & Food Processing SUMMIT\r\n 2017 organized by ASSOCHAM. He briefed the audience about the objective of the\r\n Summit. He discussed the opportunities & challenges, technological advancements,\r\n investment opportunities and infrastructure availability to promote Agro & Food\r\n Processing sector in the State. He also gave an overview of the Agro & Food\r\n Processing sector and discussed ongoing projects in the State. He also appreciated\r\n the participants by saying that the enthusiastic participation from across the country\r\n from Agro & Food Processing industry has made the efforts of ASSOCHAM worth and\r\n meaningful. Lastly, he wished ASSOCHAM a great success for the session and its\r\n remarkable contribution towards Agro & Food Processing sector.
\r\nDr. K. K. Singh Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Congratulated\r\n ASSOCHAM for its initiative of organizing Agro & Food Processing Sector in Madhya\r\n Pradesh. He encourages the participants by saying that there is lot of potential in the\r\n State. He digged into the food production statistics of Madhya Pradesh and said\r\n although it has increased immensely but said still we are not able to match\r\n international standards to utilize our production to ensure better returns. He said we\r\n are far behind China, America and even countries like Philippines and we should try\r\n to match the international standards and increase more production in this sector.
\r\nShri. Satyanand, Director, Department of Horticulture& Food Processing, Govt. of MP,\r\n welcomed the initiative of ASSOCHAM for organizing Agro & Food Processing\r\n SUMMIT in the State for promotion of this sector. He put forth towards the industries\r\n his views & feedback on how to improve the economic status of farmers in the state.\r\n He said that by fixing minimum purchase price industry can support the farmers and\r\n how to motivate organic farming to meet the international standards so that there is\r\n an increase in exports of the Agro & Food processing commodities. He said tapping\r\n the international market is very much essential today and we should foucs on quality\r\n of our food products. The farmers should be encouraged to produce pestcides free\r\n crops so that it can be easliry sold in the international markets.
\r\nShri. Hansmukh Jain Gandhi, President MP Cold Chain Industry Association educated\r\n the audience on the ample opportunities the State has in terms of Agro & food\r\n processing products. He stated that the state stands 2\r\n nd largest in the country in terms\r\n of area and is the largest producer of soya bean. He was of the opinion that State\r\n government should come up with plan to help the food producers and farmers\r\n especially the onion, garlic, tomato and potato farmers. These farmers are facing\r\n problem due to huge production and inability to sell their produce at profitable\r\n proposition. If they can have storage facility they can wait for right time to seek better\r\n price.
\r\nTechnical Session -1 Investment & Financing Opportunities in Agro & Food Processing Sector
\r\nSession Chairman - Shri. Satyanand, Director, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP
\r\n\r\nOther Speakers - D. K. Puranik, DGM, MP State Agro Industries Development Corporation Ltd
\r\nArun Hajela, Horticulture Development Officer, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP
\r\nVikash Pandey, Consultant, agro & Food Processing, Malwa Group
\r\nM. S.R.K. Murthy, Branch Head & AGM, SIDBI
\r\nSatyanand, Director, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP; and session chairman for ASSOCHAMs technical session welcomed other panelists and participants for the Technical session. He gave a presentation on opportunities and advantages in Madhya Pradesh in Agro & Food processing sector. He encouraged the participants by briefing on the government proactiveness in promoting agro & food processing sector. He gave an overview of the states Agro & Food Processing Policy. He emphasized on how horticulture produce can be marketed and made profitable so that the farmers are benefited. Their needs a lot of improvement in the quality & standard of the horticulture produce to meet the international standards he suggested. He also replied to lots of queries and invited suggestions from the participants for the growth of this sector. The session was very interactive as the\r\n \r\n audience was very much interested to know about the development in this sector and understand government support.
\r\n \r\nVikash Pandey, Consultant, Agro & Food Processing, Malwa Group, gave an overview on the Indian scenario of food processing industry and the horticulture and food processing sector advantages in Madhya Pradesh. He said in his presentation that agro & food processing sector in one of the rapidly growing sector in the state exhibiting several distinguished features. He said this sector contributes an average of 32% share f the toral industrial output value in Madhya Pradesh. He also spoke about the robust infrastructure facilities in Madhya Pradesh conducive for investment in this sector.
\r\n \r\nAdil, SIDBI; shared with all the dignitaries on the dais and participants about the various financing schemes of SIDBI in setting up Agro & Food Processing Industry. He briefed the audience about the various incentives the Bank is offering to promote investment and encouraging entrepreneurs to set up food processing industry in the state as well as country. He gave an overview on all the loan options available with the bank at a very nominal rate of interest., He urged the delegates to visit their nearest branch to get awareness on the various developmental schemes offered to the industries in making investment and start up in this sector.
\r\n \r\nD.K. Puranik, DGM, MP State Agro Industries Development Corporation Ltd briefed the participants about the objective of state Agro Industries Development Corporation. He said that all assistance in providing modern technology for the increase in agricultural production and increase in the availability of subsidiary and complementary food grains is being taken care by the State. He also highlighted on the Agro & Food Processing Policy of the state and assured assistance to farmers and other allied groups. The aim of the state is to increase the flow of investment across the supply chain from farm to market and increase direct and indirect employment in the state and develop agricultural based industries.
\r\n \r\nArun Hajela, Horticulture Development Officer, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP, was overwhelmed on seeing a huge participation of delegates from Agro & Food Processing sector. He had come specially toa ddress the issues of the industries and farmers related to horticulture and to brief about the various initatives of the Department to support farmers and industries across the state and encourage investment in this sector.
\r\n \r\nTechnical Session -2 Latest Trends & Technology in Food Processing Sector with\r\n \r\n a focus on safety & Global Best Practices in Food value Chain
\r\nSession Chairman - Dr. K. K. Singh, Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
\r\n\r\nOther Speakers - Nitin Aras, Director Technical, Odtin Food Solutions Ramnath Suryawanshi, CEO, Global Foodtech
\r\n \r\nDhaval Raval, Chairman Food Processing & SME Committee, ASSOCHAM Western Council
\r\n \r\nHansmukh Jain Gandhi, President MP Cold Chain Industry Association
\r\n \r\nAjay Malhotra, Director, M. M. Consultancy Services
\r\n \r\nDr. K.K. Singh, Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, and (Session Chairman) welcomed the participants for the Technical Session II, on latest trends and technology in food processing sector with a focus on safety & global best practices in food value chain. He briefed on the global technology scenario in this sector and how Indian companies can adopt these technologies to become globally competitive. He spoke about multiple industries in the food processing sector and their technological front. He welcomed the other speakers and panelist to share their views on the technological front.
\r\n \r\nNitin Aras, Director, Odtin Food Solutions shared presentation on the food solutions their company is offering and briefed on the technology adopted by their company to meet the international standards. He welcomed questions from the participants and also briefed on the various opportunities the state provides to explore business potential in this sector.
\r\n \r\nRamnath Suryawanshi, CEO Global Foodtech, in his presentation gave details of the horticulture produce in the state and its scope for development. He briefed on teyh various food parks that are up coming in the state and major investments from the foreign companies in this sector. He said that we are lacking behind in global competition due to various reasons. He suggested on various horticulture processed products that are very much in demand and can be sold in the international as well as domestic markets. By giving an example of tomatoes which are largely produced in the state can be processed and tomato puree from the same apart from dehydrated banana powder as well onion & garlic can be sold in the international market. These products he said is very much in demand internationally. He encouraged the participants to invest in this sector. He with his expertise in this field and research of 37 years was ready to help the investor to get an estimate of setting up of food processing unit in the state.
\r\n \r\nHansmukh Jain Gandhi, President MP Cold Chain Industry Association educated the audience on the ample opportunities the State has in terms food processing products. He shared the details on the number of food chains the state has alongwith its storage capacity. He gave district wise details of the cold chain facilities in the state. He was of a view that since the horticulture production is increasing the need for more cold chain storage facility is need of an hour today and we should try to increase this facility in the state.
\r\n \r\nAjay Malhotra, Director M.M. Consultancy Services shared a video on the latest technology the companies in food processing sectors are adopting to meet the global standards. He said it is not difficult to adapt to the new technology as it is easy to use and helps the industries achieve and compete in the global market. With his experience and expertise in this field he had helped various industries achieve the quality & standard required in the international market. Various technologies adopted in different industries was shown to the participants which was very informative and educative.
\r\n \r\nDhaval Raval,Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee, ASSOCHAM Western Council, gave an overview of the food processing sector in India and Gujarat. He also talked about the various business potential available in Madhya Pradesh as well. On industry perspective he said that there is lot of scope for development with the help of government support. He highlighted on the various food parks schemes of government and incentives made available for promotion of this sector. He also gave an idea about the various horticulture products that can be used, preserved and sold in the international market as the state and country is rich in agriculture production. Lot needs to be done to tap this untapped potential of Agro & Food Processing sector. He also welcomed questions from the delegates for development of this sector.
\r\n \r\nRECOMMENDATIONS/SUGGESTIONS
\r\n \r\nMadhya Pradesh has a vast scope and opportunities for the investment in food processing sector as there is easy availability of raw material and good transportation linkages all over India as well. Central as well as State Government is also focusing to the sector and taking new steps in favor of encouraging food processing industries in Madhya Pradesh. ASSOCHAM recommends the following recommendations for implementation, in order to click untapped opportunity-
\r\n \r\nInvestment in innovative products like ethanol is needed which can be produced from raw and low cost material like sugarcane husk and corn. These types of products needs to produce in India and should have the potential to export as well.
\r\n \r\nTo get good food, vegetables, milk, grains, fruits etc there is a need to focus on rural production and also to encourage farmers for farming the potential crops for processed food.
\r\n \r\nSkill Development is needed with the help of training in school and to teach various courses related to this sector in institutes.
\r\n \r\nIndustry needs to put their code of conduct very tight and needs to be more and more ethical in standards.
\r\n \r\nIn GST i) Poor people food should be exempt from the tax. ii) Low unit value should be totally exempt from the tax. iii) Wherever exemptions are there, keep exemptions & if providing lesser tax right now, in GST also keep the same lesser tax. iv) Vishesh Krishi needs to increase from 5% to 7%.
\r\n \r\nTo make the assurance of raw material to the processing industry and precise remuneration to the farmers through direct communication and MoU between the farmers and Industries.
\r\n \r\nSince a lot of attention is given to the hygiene and quality factors of food, food testing is one of the major avenues where the potential is still untapped.
\r\n \r\nFarm mechanization is gaining pace in Indian agriculture. So, to ensure adequate deployment of farm machines available to the farmers at affordable costs, Farm Machinery Banks can be established for facilitating the hire/purchase of farm machines and equipments. This, in addition to augmenting power availability, will also assist the removal of disparity in farm power availability among different states, and subdue the drudgery associated with several farm operations.
\r\n \r\nFOLLOW-UP ACTION TAKEN/TO BE TAKEN:
\r\n \r\nAfter successfully organizing this summit on Agro and Sector with a great participation from all walks of the sector like Corporate & industry, System integrators, assemblers and distributors, Suppliers of raw material, Journalists and Consultants, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Government agencies, Environment Agencies, Panels manufacturers etc...ASSOCHAM is aiming high to take this lead further.
\r\n \r\nIt has planned to take the following actions to help Agro and Food Processing Sector:
\r\n \r\nIndia is a large country and Agro and Food Processing is an emerging sector; Agri products manufacturers are spread all over the country. So, in the event organizing committee and expert committee meeting it is decided that ASSOCHAM, Western Council will organize the Agro and Food Processing Summit 2017 summits in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Goa so as to cover the maximum area of operation.
\r\n \r\nTo begin with, ASSOCHAM is organizing Agro and Food Processing Summitwith theme of opportunities and challenges in various parts of Gujarat. In accordance with the recommendations of participants which entail a roadmap for Government of India, State Governments and other stakeholders, ASSOCHAM will take up the recommendations with the respective state Governments on a regular interaction basis. ASSOCHAM will work closely with the stakeholder and groups for capacity building measures with a view to increase production so as there is no short fall in the supply chain of the sector.
\r\n \r\nPreparation of set of recommendations for submission to Ministry of Food Processing Industries, APEDA, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and other apex government and trade promotion bodies to roadmap the future course of action and support necessary policy framework up gradations.
\r\n \r\nConstant interaction with participating members from Manufacturers, Supplier, Agencies, Trade Promotion bodies and other International organizations to provide support for the development of Indian solar sector products, business & trade.
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\r\n14 July 2020
\r\n \r\nASSOCHAM\'s Gujarat Council has organized a webinar on 14July 2020. Theme ofthe webinar was \"Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in th.e State of Madhya Pradesh: Challenges and way forward\"
\r\n\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR
\r\n \r\nModerator: Prof. V Padmanand, Partner, Grant Thornton India LLP
\r\n \r\nEminent Speakers were
\r\n \r\n- Shri Sanjay Pathak, Deputy Director, Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of Madhya Pradesh
\r\n \r\n- Dr. D. S. Chauhan, General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, MP
\r\n \r\n- Shri. DhavalRaval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council &CMD, Abhyuday Group of Companies
\r\n \r\n- Shri. Gerald d\'Almeida, Director, SBAGS International FPC Ltd
\r\n \r\n- Dr. Davish Jain, Group Managing Director, PRESTIGE Group
\r\n \r\n- Shri. RamnathSuryavanshi, CEO, Global Food Tech
\r\n \r\n- Shri. NareshMaheshwari, MD, FTI Food Tech Pvt. Ltd
\r\n \r\nSUMMARY OF WEBINAR
\r\n \r\nProf. V Padmanand, Partner, Grant Thornton India LLP
\r\n \r\n· Food and grocery constitute a substantial part of India's consumption basket\r\n \r\n accounting for around 31 percent share in the total.
\r\n \r\n· In contrast, consumers in other countries spend a much lower proportion of their income on food and grocery—9 percent in the United States (US), 17 percent in Brazil and 25 percent in China.
\r\n \r\n· Food and grocery is the largest segment in India's retail sector, with a share of more than 60 percent in India's total retail market.
\r\n \r\n· Most of its agriculture exports serve developing and least developed nations. Indian agricultural/horticultural and processed foods are exported to more than 120 countries, primarily to the Japan, Southeast Asia, SAARC countries, the European Union and the United States
\r\n \r\nShri. DhavalRaval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council &CMD, Abhyuday Group
\r\n \r\n· India is Fastest growing economy in the world, with largest production of several agri commodities. It ranks 2nd in terms of total food production globally, next to China.
\r\n \r\n· Food processing was only sector perform positive growth in COVID-19
\r\n \r\n· Madhya Pradesh is having too much potential for Food processing sector which is untapped as of now
\r\n \r\n· There are over 1.2 billion consumers with increasing demand for branded food. Apart from that we are the 4th largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. Our country will excel and accede in Agro & Food Processing Sector with the help of proactive government policies attractive fiscal incentives, focusing on development of infrastructure, ports, logistics & Supply chain, and availability of skilled personnel.
\r\n \r\nShri Sanjay Pathak, Deputy Director, Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of Madhya Pradesh
\r\n \r\n· Madhya Pradesh has been selected as it is blessed by natural resources and abundant raw material. MP is the second largest State in the Country stretching over 308,000 sqkms. Nearly about 75% of the population in Madhya Pradesh depends on agriculture.
\r\n \r\n· Investment promotion assistance with Government Proactiveness have encouraged the State's development in Agro & Food Processing Sector. Secondly, the agriculture sector forms almost one-third of the GSDP and this forms the backbone of the MPs economy.
\r\n \r\n· Madhya Pradesh is also the largest producer of pulses and oilseeds in the country. Apart from that many food parks are coming to Madhya Pradesh to explore their business potential.
\r\n \r\nDr. D. S. Chauhan, General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, MP
\r\n \r\n· All the manufacturing and service sectors were hit not only in domestic but also in the foreign markets.
\r\n \r\n· It is only the agricultural industry which has defeated Corona as during the Corona lockdown, our farmers not only sold rabi crops but also sown for kharif season.
\r\n \r\nShri. Gerald d\'Almeida, Director, SBAGS International FPC Ltd
\r\n \r\n· MP is the top in the country in production of Pulses, Oilseeds, Oranges, Coriander, Gram and Soybean, while the state is second largest producers of food grains, sesame seeds, guava, tomato, garlic, mustard, green peas, green chili and onion.
\r\n \r\n· In the production of, Citrus fruits, Cabbage, Red Chili and Cereals, Madhya Pradesh stands on third position, while the state stands fifth in the production of Milk.
\r\n \r\n· The US has developed, over 600 soybean value added products whereas in our country, hardly 20 soya products are currently manufactured.
\r\n \r\n· Global market of soybean and its products like soya oil, soyameal and by products like phytosterols, tocopherols, choline are in the stages of development.
\r\n \r\nDr. Davish Jain, Group Managing Director, PRESTIGE Group
\r\n \r\n· The Corona pandemic has not only changed our personal lives, but also the way we think and do business.
\r\n \r\n· If we have had bumper Rabi harvest this year, the monsoon for the season indicates that the kharif crop would also be bountiful. The agriculture sector has proved that as long as there is hunger, there is negligible effect of the pandemic on the food and agricultural sector.
\r\n \r\n· Food processing could also provide Nutraceuticals to 135 Crore Indians as also to the people across the world so as to enhance immunity with strong ability to fight against diseases that is why we say prevention is better than cure.
\r\n \r\n· This is what has happened in the development of Madhya Pradesh. Almost 78% of population in our state is dependent on agriculture.
\r\n \r\n· After COVID-19 epidemic China is on backfoot thus India has great opportunity in soya advance value products like phytosterols and many more.
\r\n \r\n· The Madhya Pradesh government should also understand that about 78 percent of the state\'s population is dependent on agriculture. Soybean cultivation has proved to be a boon for small farmers of the state.
\r\n \r\n· With abundant farming of agricultural produce in the country, Madhya Pradesh has all the potential to become the largest food processing state of the country. Proper development of the food processing industry here will not only create new jobs for agriculture but it will also increase income of the farmers.
\r\n \r\nShri. RamnathSuryavanshi, CEO, Global Food Tech
\r\n \r\n· Explained FSSAI Food Hygiene and Food Safety Guidelines for Food Businesses during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
\r\n \r\n· It is the responsibility of the FBO to follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) as prescribed in Schedule IV of FSS (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011.
\r\n \r\n· He also explained roles and responsibility of Food businessman during COVID19 pandemic
\r\n \r\nShri. NareshMaheshwari, MD, FTI Food Tech Pvt. Ltd
\r\n \r\n· MSP should be replaced by a more equitable hectare and quality based pricing in other words the Bhavantar scheme. Imports of oils should be discouraged with duty mechanism and may be a quota capping.
\r\n \r\n· Encourage exports by way of enhanced incentives.
\r\n \r\n· GST on all agricultural produce and products including the processors output should be totally exempt and to say that there is no tax on the food plate for Indians.
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\r\n\r\nASSOCHAM\\\'s Western Region has organised a webinar on 13th August, 2020. Theme of the webinar was \"Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Maharashtra: Gap - Challenges - Opportunities & Way Forward\"
\r\n\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR
\r\n \r\nModerator: Shri Dhaval Raval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, AS-SOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group
\r\n \r\nEminent Speakers were
\r\n \r\n- Shri R. Ravindra, Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA
\r\n \r\n- Shri Vijay Chole, Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd.
\r\n \r\n- Shri Sandeep Sonawane, Chairman, Sambha Agro
\r\n \r\n- Shri Aviruk Chakraborty, Founder & CEO, Archeron Group
\r\n \r\n- Dr Omkar Hari Mali, Founder President, Udyami Maharashtra
\r\n \r\n- Shri Ritwik Bahuguna, Partner, Wazir Advisors
\r\n \r\n- Shri Rajaram Sangle, Director, Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd.
\r\n \r\n- Shri Bhushan Nikam, Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies
\r\n \r\nSUMMARY OF WEBINAR
\r\n \r\nThe Session was moderated by Shri Dhaval Raval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group. Shri Dhaval Raval also delivered the opening note of the webinar.
\r\n \r\nThe Session was then addressed by Shri R. Ravindra, Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA He helped the session with the better understanding of Govt. policies and perspective taking account the loss occurred in Agro-Food Sector due to pandemic. Another Speaker Shri Ritwik Bahuguna, Partner, Wazir Advisors, gave the highlights on the needs of agro-food consumer in today's time and how much hard the COVID has impacted the Agro industry at large. Followed by another speaker Shri Aviruk Chakraborty, Founder & CEO, Archeron Group. Shri Aviruk shared insights on how well Artificial Intelligence is doing in helping farmers - doubling their income. Also, he focused on all the technological advancement in Agro-Food sector. After Shri Aviruk, session was addressed by another speaker Shri Vijay Chole, Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. Shri Vijay's whole address was on paving the new roadmap for Agro-Food Industry, recovering from COVID. He shared his experience on efficiently managing mega food park amidst pandemic.
\r\n \r\nShri Sandeep Sonawane, another speaker for the session and Chairman, Sambha Agro shared his timely thoughts on the various helpful methods which are practiced by the local farmers of Maharashtra to reduce the impact of COVID and giving upthrust to the Agro-Food sector. This was followed by Shri Rajaram Sangle. Shri Sangle is Director at Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd. He also supported the thoughts of Shri Sandeep and shared the collective experiences of the local farmers community from Maharashtra. Another speakerShri Bhushan Nikam, Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies threw light upon how his organisation is helping farmers to sup-port them financially amidst of this pandemic. The farmers are helped with not only finances but the families of farmers who committed suicide were taken well care of. This session was joined and addressed by the last speaker of the session Dr Omkar Hari Mali. Dr Omkar Mali is a Founder President of Udyami Maharashtra. Dr Mali highlighted the disturbance observed in the import and export of Agro-Food and how this can be managed in better terms. He also revealed the concrete roadmap to retract economics involved in Agro-Food Sector.
', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'webinar-on-impact-of-covid-19-on-agro-and-food-pro-cessing-industries-in-the-state-of-maharashtra', 1, 0, '2020-07-14', '2020-07-14', '', '', 0, 12, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (109, 'ChandiKrit Industrial Excellence Awards & Expo', 'Chandigarh has the true potential to play a key role in building growth momentum of the North \r\n India.', 'Chandigarh has the true potential to play a key role in building growth momentum of the North \r\n India. With an aim to chart a holistic growth trajectory for industries in the UT, Chandigarh \r\n ASSOCHAM in partnership with Dept of Industries, Chandigarh organized Chandikrit \r\n Industrial Excellence Awards & Expo of Chandigarh from March 26 to March 30, 2021 on a \r\n virtual platform. The five-day event had a slew of eminent personalities and experts from the \r\n government, and industry. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of \r\n MSME, other govt officials Shri Yashpal Garg, IAS, Secretary, Industries, Chandigarh \r\n Administration, & Shri Jagjit Singh, Director, Industries, Chandigarh Administration and \r\n prominent panellists included Vivek Atray, Former Director - Industries, Haryana, Author \r\n & Motivational Speaker, Raju Kapoor, Managing Director, Frontier Agrotech Pvt Ltd, \r\n Sarvjeet Singh Virk, Managing Director, Finvasia India Pvt Ltd and Mukul Bansal, \r\n Chairman, Emm Bee Group engaged in panel discussions and talks on pertinent topics. 18 n \r\n XELERATE NORTH ANNUAL COMPENDIUM 2020-21 The initiative received an \r\n overwhelming response from the industry and stake holders with healthy participation. The \r\n interaction was greatly supported by the presence of the Govt. officials and industry leaders \r\n of Chandigarh.
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\r\nASSOCHAM in partnership with Government of Manipur hosted a session on Business Opportunities at ITSEZ, Manipur on 22nd June, 2021. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon'ble Minister of State, DoNER said that in the post-covid India, north-east, including Manipur is going to have a very critical role in the resurgence and supplementation of economy and the path to power post-covid India roadway via north-east is destined\r\n to lead India\'s post-covid economy. Dr Rajesh Kumar, Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur informed\r\n that the state government is focusing on tourism and IT as major employment generating sectors. Dr B.K. Panda, IOFS, Zonal Development Commissioner, East and Northeast also addressed the industry leaders during the interactive session
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\r\nArunachal Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions
\r\n31st July, 2021
\r\nASSOCHAM North Eastern Regional Council in association with NABARD Arunachal Pradesh, conducted\r\n the National Webinar on Arunachal Pradesh Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions, which had\r\n several panelists present from different sectors, who came together to put forward their views on\r\n dynamics of agro logistics and discuss the challenges faced by the people and tribal of the state as well\r\n as present solutions. The webinar was honored by the presence of Shri Tage Taki, Hon'ble Minister Dept.\r\n of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Govt. of\r\n Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from the distinguished panelists, the webinar also saw the presence of .\r\n Mahendra Agarwal, Chairman, North Eastern Development Council ASSOCHAM, who gave the welcome\r\n address and B. P. Mishra, Deputy General Manager, NABARD.
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\r\n31st July, 2021
\r\nASSOCHAM North Eastern Regional Council in association with NABARD Arunachal Pradesh, conducted\r\n the National Webinar on Arunachal Pradesh Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions, which had\r\n several panelists present from different sectors, who came together to put forward their views on\r\n dynamics of agro logistics and discuss the challenges faced by the people and tribal of the state as well\r\n as present solutions. The webinar was honored by the presence of Shri Tage Taki, Hon'ble Minister Dept.\r\n of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Govt. of\r\n Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from the distinguished panelists, the webinar also saw the presence of .\r\n Mahendra Agarwal, Chairman, North Eastern Development Council ASSOCHAM, who gave the welcome\r\n address and B. P. Mishra, Deputy General Manager, NABARD.
', 'registration', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x2IMZibRo4otNoobGxnsPUvhxmFSJp7U/view?usp=sharing', 'arunachalagro.jpg', 'Arunachal-Agro-Logistics-Challenges-Solutions', 1, 0, '2021-07-31', '2021-07-31', '', '', 0, 15, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (113, 'MSME SAMVAAD SERIES- Haryana May 21, 2021', 'As northern region of the country has strong potential to grow MSMEs, ASSOCHAM Northern \r\n region started an initiative called 'MSME Samvaad' to discuss the roadmap and present \r\n scenario of MSMEs in states like Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and UT of Jammu and \r\n Kashmir.', 'As northern region of the country has strong potential to grow MSMEs, ASSOCHAM Northern \r\n region started an initiative called 'MSME Samvaad' to discuss the roadmap and present \r\n scenario of MSMEs in states like Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and UT of Jammu and \r\n Kashmir.
\r\nThe Series of MSME starred with Haryana, as Haryana's industrial ecosystem thrives on the \r\n back of 9.7 lakh MSMEs which is employing 19.06 lakh people. The major MSME footprint \r\n present in the State includes sectors like automobile, food & beverages, textiles, engineering, \r\n and metals sector. The manufacturing MSME spectrum in the state comprises of both stateofthe-art medium enterprises as well as a large number of traditional micro and small \r\n enterprises. Haryana MSME Samvaad was inaugurated by Pratap Chandra Sarangi, \r\n Union MoS MSME and Dushyant Chautala, Dy CM Haryana, who were the key speakers \r\n in the inaugural session among many other Industry leaders.
\r\nThe session started with the welcome address by Vijay Sharma, Chairman ASSOCHAM, \r\n Haryana State Development Council & Director, Jindal Stainless following other speakers \r\n like Vineet Agarwal, President, ASSOCHAM & Managing Director, Transport Corporation \r\n Report: Haryana MSME Samvaad 12 of India Limited, Kulwin Seehra, Chairman, \r\n ASSOCHAM Regional Council on MSME & Executive Director GNA Axles Ltd., \r\n Dushyant Chautala, Dy CM Haryana and Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Union MoS MSME.
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\r\nShri. Dr. S Sudharsan, DGM, NABARD, Tamil Nadu
\r\nShri. BNS Murthy, CEO and Advisor, Dept. Agriculture & Co Operation, GOI
\r\nShri. AD Padma Singh Issac, CMD, Aachi Msala Group
\r\nShri. S AnandaKumar, ME Phd, Asst. Professor, IIFPT
\r\nDr, K Rathnam, CEO, Milky Mist Dairy
\r\nShri. Mohanan N K, Sr. VP, Business ( South & East ), Rinac India Ltd.
\r\nSmt. Uma S Nair, Regional Director, Southern Region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nRelease of Knowledge Report
\r\nShri. Dr. S Sudharsan, DGM, NABARD, Tamil Nadu
\r\nThanking ASSOCHAM, speaking about the activities of NABARD, on the Food Processing Funds available from NABARD and also Subsidy schemes available and NABARD done on Cold Storage units. Presently NABARD implemented and features of this is Special fund of Rs. 2000 Crore created in NABARD 2014-15. Corpus contributed by scheduled CBs from out of priority sector lending shortfall. To provide affordable credit to Food processing units in Clusters. Eligible Institutions Like, State Govt. entities promoted by State govt./GOI, JVs, SPVs, Cooperatives, Federation of COOP., FPOs, Companies, Partnerships, Entrepreneurs, Etc.
\r\nEligible projects for Finance designated Food Parks notified by MOFPI and Food Processing Units. Projects Eligible for Credit from FPF are no 1 Establishing new DFP’s such as new Food Parks, Agro Processing Cluster, approved MoFPI or any State Govt. No.2 Modernization. Additional Infrastructure in existing DFPs No.3 Setting up new food Processing Units in any of notified DFPs, No.4 Modernization of new Food Processing are already established in any of the DFPs. Activities of Food Processing Fund provides post-harvest resulting in value addition and enhances shortage Life in Primary, Secondary Tertiary Processing. Product of Processing like Food, Vegetables, Mushrooms, Plantation crops and other Horticulture Crops, Milk and Milk Products, Poultry and Meat, Fish and Aquatic and other Marine Products, Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Oil Crops, Herbs, Medicinal and aromatic Plants Forest Produce and Consumer Food Product such as Bakery items.
\r\nThe Lending Terms of Food Processing Funds
\r\n• Borrowing Entities Like State Govt. Maximum Loans up to 95%, tenure of 7 Years with Interest of 1.50%.
\r\n• Entities Promoted by State Govt. (With Govt. Guarantee) Maximum Loans up to 95%, tenure of 7 Years with Interest of 1.50%.
\r\n• Entities Promoted by State Govt. (Without Govt. Guarantee) Maximum Loans up to 95%, tenure of 7 Years with PLR + Risk Premium.
\r\n• Entities promoted by GOI, JVs, SPVs, Cooperatives, Federation of COOP., FPOs, Companies, Partnerships, Entrepreneurs Maximum Loans up to 75%, tenure of 7 Years with PLR + Risk Premium.
\r\nThe Borrowing Entity has to provide the security Collaterals like Primary security, Collateral Security and Guarantees under various State Govts., State Govt. Entities (with Guarantees of Sate Govt.) State promoted Entities (without State govt. Guarantees) Private Sectors.
\r\nProcess of Loan Sanctions
\r\n• Submission of Loan Applications to NABARD RO.
\r\n• Payment of Advance Amount of Appraisal Fees.
\r\n• Appraisal of the Project by NABARD (Desk & Field Appraisal).
\r\n• Assessment of Technical Feasibility, Financial Viability, Bankability, Credit Risk Rating.
\r\n• Sanction/ Rejection of Loan Proposal.
\r\nAgriculture Marketing Infrastructure the Sub- Scheme for (ISAM) for the Cold Storage Units.
\r\nStandalone Cold Storage up to 1000MT under the category
\r\n• North Eastern States, State of Uttarkhand, HimachaL Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir UTs, Hilly and Tribal Areas are eligible for 33.33% subsidy with 30.00 (in Lakhs)
\r\n• Other areas of Registered FPOs, Panchayat Raj Institutions, Women Farmers, Entrepreneurs, SC/ST Entrepreneurs and their cooperatives are eligible for 33.33% subsidy with 30.00 (in Lakhs)
\r\n• For all other Categories and other Beneficiaries are eligible for 25% subsidy with 25.00 (in Lakhs)
\r\nNABARD Geotagging of Agri- Storage Infrastructure has come in the Budget in 2020-21 GOI, has says India has the capacity of 162 Million MT in Agri Warehousing, Cold Storage, Reefer Van Facilities. In that NABARD will undertake and exercise to map and geo tag them.\r\n
o Objectives
\r\n• Mapping of Agri Storage Structures.
\r\n• Develop Spatial Intelligence for effective utilization of available Warehousing Capacities.
\r\n• Development of IT enabled services to Farmers.
\r\n• Development of Logistic Network.
\r\n• Ensure network of Markets with Storage Infrastructure.
\r\nMethodology Adopted to the Benefits of Farmers.
\r\n• Development of Mobile Application to capture the Field Level Data.
\r\n• Web Portal for capturing the data in the Mobile Application.
\r\n• Submitted data verification at different Level.
\r\n• Farmers App on the use of Storage Information.
\r\nPresent Status in Tamil Nadu NABARD has completed with Field Survey, Verification of Data in progress and Farmers app being developed and tested. Tamil Nadu Status of Geo Tagging so far no of Agri Storage Infrastructure 7176 no of Geo tagged Infrastructure is 7011 with percentage of 97.82 compare to all India no of Agri Storage 111291 no of Geo tagged Infrastructure 99456 with percentage of 89.37.
\r\nShri. BNS Murthy, CEO and Advisor, Dept. Agriculture & Co Operation, GOI
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, Capacity Building and Employment generation through Cold Chain.
\r\nThe very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some points of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building & Employment Generation through Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or Agriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these the theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the skill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon. As said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects and they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be some direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved which benefit the 260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about 325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and Vegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing manually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to export Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India is authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering all this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the better price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing post-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses including during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in the field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the dining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model that we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable mostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to spoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits and vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also higher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has to be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of the producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate and these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment controlled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes near farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In Horticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable produce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. So each crop has a specific requirement temperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector wise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining 2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma’s, 5% is used for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and Meat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold Storage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need to look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and subcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening require is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different efforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in creation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in the policy. It’s important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the vision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the losses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently announced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the gaps. GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial Institutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO’s, Agri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore available for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for repayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under sec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting & Grading Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility, Projects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming assets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for Employment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but there are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the domain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in ignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of domain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused development of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs like entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also send for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain sector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level, govt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO’s and skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like sensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank you.
\r\nShri. AD Padma Singh Issac, CMD, Aachi Masala Group
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, during pandemic time Aache group has taken a big role in the Food Industry and have invested 55 crore in cold chain products and able to supply Masal to entire South India 24/7 when other were closed. Even also played a great role in Supply Chain area we loaded the shelves of retail with our products and able to 38 percent extra growth and created 650 employment this pandemic period and also 750 extra exclusive agents pan India in this pandemic period there by our cold chain storage has helped in a very big way. In this forum particularly want to tell one thing we have created a lot of employment in the cold chain and same time crated employment in Agriculture area because of cold chain projects.
\r\nWe are confident in giving any number of quantity to the society, and by using our technology by reducing the cost through reducing the power that really helped cold chain Industry in a very big way and we have created a lot of employment in the last 20 years about 4,000 employees with 3,000 exclusive agents. With the new project We have going backward because of Natural Farming and we have identified nearly 1000 farmers and have conducted nearly 200 meetings and we have educated farmers and one sampling has given for cultivation and are happy for cultivating chili and other turmeric crops so by April end we can get the crop from farmers with a doubled price to our cold storage and ensuring them what are they produce we will be buying from them and that is the success of our cold chain project. With the help of govt. and NABARD we are planning to put more cold storages in Tamil Nadu in the near future as we are leading in Food processing sector in Tamil Nadu industry we are also leading in India also particularly in the area of Horticulture and our dream is to play a major role and in Tamil Nadu we are the largest cold storage occupier. Thank you.
\r\nShri. S AnandaKumar, ME Phd, Asst. Professor, IIFPT
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, Focusing more on Technical aspects on Advances in Frozen Food Processing Packaging Storage to minimize the post-harvest costs. The Indian Cold Chain Logistics like type of Infrastructure, Infrastructure requirement, Infrastructure created, all India gap and percentage of Share Shortfall.
\r\n• Food Preservation in the cold storage produces high quality of Nutritious that offer the advantage of a long storage life.
\r\n• Cold chain potential remain untapped due to multiple reasons.
\r\n• The Food losses have been stated high Rs. 52,000 to 95,000 crores per annum from Agriculture sector.
\r\n• Cold chain Infrastructure has hampered India’s Food Export as well.
\r\n• India has a huge Export potential, reflected in the fact that domestic commodity prices were below parity in 72 percent of cases.
\r\nWe need to have Cold Supply Chain to Some products which need to be cold or frozen storage like Milk, Frozen Foods, Tolu and etc. Extends the shelf life of fresh foods. Prevents loss and improves food safety by 20-30% food loss occurs in transportation or storage. If we take Indian scenario in Horticulture extent losses in the food and vegetables is about 10,000 to 12,000 crores annually. Agriculture Commodity supply chain comparison with India to the developed countries the passing options of foods from Farmers to the consumer are high compare to developed countries so minimizing the passes we can contain the losses and amount of economy will be minimized. The Agriculture commodity particularly in Horticulture in the Field Heat & Vital Heat need of the hour is product Temperature upon Harvest, Major fraction of the Heat load to be removed, Influences the rate of reactions during storages, rate of reduction influences the fate of the product. Normally the pre cooling are done with technology n the Industry and the methods of pre cooling with 4 types that are Forced-air Cooling, Hydro cooling, Vacuum Cooling and Package icing. The points to be noted in the freezing is basically product type, Size, In-feed temperature and condition (any prior process such as cooking or marinating) appearance, production line capacity, critical operating times, and factory space limitations. Transportation guidelines has to be followed properly in staking strength, bracing the load and load on Pallet or slip Sheet. In the Ministry of Food processing Industry support by Govt. under PM Schemes cold chain schemes, National Horticulture Board and National Horticulture Mission, Small Farmer Agri Business, Consortium assistance to cold storage, Cold storage and Fruits & Vegetable development program under National Cooperative Development Cooperation, APEDA assistance for cold chain, Venture capital for Small Farmer Agri Business Consortium, NABARD Ware Housing Schemes. Suggestion On Way Forward Shift from Unorganized to Organized Market, Focus Shifting end to end cold chain not just Storage, Modernization of Existing Stores, Better and more Sophisticated Machinery and Equipment, setting up of multi-purpose cold storages, Modern pack Houses, Ripening facilities, Farm Gate or Cold Storage point, Energy efficient technology and new storage technology, Integrated cargo complexes are being planned at major Airports in India which will be equipped to all types of goods.
\r\nDr, K Rathnam, CEO, Milky Mist Dairy
\r\nThank You ASSOCHAM, we are the value added dairy manufacturing company and we are procuring the milk and value addition to it and selling as a product to the Market. We have 20 different category and collect a half million liters of milk daily directly from Farmer’s daily and no middle man or agents or bulk vendors are involved so we get very good quality of milk and very good control over the raw material and we have standard technology to manufacture every type of dairy product. Couple of years back invested 550 crores t set up new plant to manufacture different type of Dairy products we also operate the logistics with 3 different vehicle end to end we own and operate the logistics from depot to retails and with much control on our operations. Cold chain needs. The key element to preserve the product is transportation between the practices to the various destinations providing the infrastructure facilities at the retailer point level. We started building infrastructure facilities at the retailer level we are the only company in India to the data we have put 15,000 vehicle across our market with no cost and maintenance. As for as dairies is concerned we have to go long way and there are reasons for the development is not taken place most of the dairies in south particularly Tamil Nadu focused in Chilling centers which are expensive to operate rather than the bulk setting of the chiller center, reason for not becoming popular unlike Maharastra, Gujurat or any other places the support from the agencies or the govt. agencies little less in dairy field having said that we have problems in Village level more than 2 players in competition and no possibilities of putting chilling facilities because it is not viable and this is clear disadvantage in Tamil Nadu so with the help of NABARD with finance with subsidies we can bridge the gap we can able to put bulk setups in small villages it will improve the quality and secondly going long way it will improve farmers economy as Tamil Nadu is growing in Milk production and will get higher input that is the handicap is there things to be worked out and in terms of Infrastructure development facility it is tremendous development on 10 to 15 years in terms of connecting roads to villages in Tamil Nadu and to channelizes more we need subsidies and schemes from state govt. cold chain in ant farm weather it is Frozen chill or cold storage AC Coolers or the refrigerator freezers or de freezers in the market place Is going to dominate in the coming years because of consumers are demanding for quality product and manufacturing company we realized to provide the quality product to the consumers. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Mohanan N K, Sr. VP, Business (South & East), Rinac India Ltd.
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, Cold Chain Infrastructure and best practices and the Way Forward. Cold Chain Infrastructure required not merely a cold storage but an uninterrupted cold chain with effective operational qualification. Segments where cold chain Infrastructure extensively being used like Agri. Horti, Fruits & Vegetables, Dairy Milk, Milk Products Ice cream, Food Service/ Retail, RTE, Hospitality, Meat & Poultry Processing, Sea food Processing, Pharma & Health Care, Engg.-Auto/ Chemical/Aero. India is in No.1 position in production of milk, 2nd iN foods & Vegetables production, 3rd In Sea food Segment, 5th In Livestock like poultry and 6th Meat production and over all if we look at food Industry size Rs. 11,25,000 Crore, Processed food sector is Rs. 5,45,000 Crore and unprocessed sector Rs. 5,80,000 Crore. What is the need for cold chain is to Reduce Wastage Ensure Safety for Consumption, Retain Quality, preventing Decomposition, and eliminating the fermentation. So current Infrastructure starts from Field Level, Pack House, Pre-coolers/ Ripening /Ice Machines etc. Blast Chillers and Freezers, induvial quick freezers, Conditioned processed Area, Walk-in Chillers/ Freezers, Cold Logistics/ Ware House/ Reefer Vans, Distribution Cold Storage and Front end retail. S o today’s Cold Chain Challenges are
\r\nLack of awareness of the type of Cold Chain requirement- product Specific & Segment Specific
\r\n• Technology Up gradation.
\r\n• Lack of Skilled Team.
\r\n• Improper Storage – FIFO/LIFO Storage Cocept
\r\n• Data Logging and Mining
\r\n• Effort to maintain SOPs
\r\n• In ability in maintaining consistent Parameters required for the cold chain product specific and segment Specific.
\r\n• Product specific Packaging
\r\n• Usage of inappropriate MHEs
\r\n• Energy Efficiency
\r\n• Lack of Technology and Automation
\r\n• ROI.
\r\nCold chain the way Forward :
\r\n• Rack Assisted Ware House
\r\n• Mezzanine Assisted Ware House Segment based Ware House
\r\n• Retrieval Based Ware Houses
\r\n• Stored Energy Transportation
\r\n• AERS-Automated Storage and Retrieval System \r\n
Rinac market solutions on cold storage Racking and warehousing Solutions customized and segment specific storage solutions Storage inside the Building, RAS Rack assisted storage
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ASSOCHAM & NABARD webinar on \"Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain \r\n Industry: Innovation, Challenges, Trends, Opportunities and Way Forward in the \r\n State of Andhra Pradesh"\\ 4th March 2021(11 Am to 1 Pm).
\r\n1. Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS\r\n Special Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Co Operation\r\n Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\n2. Shri. Chiranjiv Choudhary, IFS\r\n Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\n3. Dr. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD,\r\n Department of Agriculture, Co Operation & Farmers Welfare.
\r\n4. Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, Chief General Manger,\r\n NABARD Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh
\r\n5. Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO\r\n Gubba Cold Storage
\r\n6. Dr. B Madhusudana Rao, M.V.Sc., Ph.D.\r\n Principal Scientist, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology\r\n Visakhapatanam, AP.
\r\n7. Dr. Giridhar Kirshana, M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D.\r\n Registrar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur, Ap
\r\nBy Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS, Spl. Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and \r\n Co Operation, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\nThank you for having this very Important Webinar, as we all know that India is the 2nd world largest \r\n group in fruits and vegetables but we have a substance in Meat and Poultry in the recent research \r\n report in the cold chain Industry in this sector 13 to 15% growing CAGI and set to reach 47, 000 \r\n Crore by 2022. But it is not only the food product and also Bio Medical and Manufacturing which is \r\n another key driver for the growth of Cold Controller of Supply Chain and also the trend that are \r\n actually driving growth of Supply Chain in India as well are may be consumer behavior and more \r\n consumers are moving towards and that is getting preserved and this is getting promoted in \r\n Consumers and changing by the modern trade Super Markets. Which organize the food retail \r\n demand Chain. Similarly the farmers are also now moving towards cultivation of fruits and \r\n vegetables which give them better deals and remunerative values. So moving to Agriculture and \r\n allied sectors, in these types of behavior consumer work and Farmer is also driving the \r\n requirements of cold stores closer to the to the farms and farmers and in India predominant \r\n Industry being Agriculture and farming the need on developing the supply Chain with focus on \r\n Temperature control and is highly disorganized interior base and completing with infrastructure and \r\n cold chain transport is equally important. We are aware that the Indian's present cold chain \r\n positioning as a very high share of single commodity cold storages particularly in Agriculture Sector. \r\n There are also challenges in cold storage transport facilities and there is challenge in high initial\r\n investment paneling is covered with inadequate enabling Infrastructure like Road, Water Power \r\n Supply as well as drainages near to the farms and in the interior where actually the fruit and \r\n vegetable production is happening. In addition to this, there is also lack of awareness about \r\n handling temperature sensitive goods and the challenge to an immediate need and an urgent need \r\n for not only having network of modern multi chamber cold storage and cold transportation \r\n infrastructure and also having safety with global standard of quality enhancing efficiency and \r\n Investment and also need to create a reformed and trained work force to handle this. It is very \r\n important and very sensitive Industry move forward and we also assist it's impact on environment\r\n so that the climate foot prints of these activities remain well and within in the margin that would \r\n enable the long term sustainability. About Andhra Pradesh we are is 1 of the India's Largest \r\n consumer foods and third largest producer of agriculture according to the Top Market report and \r\n cold chain International Trade Administration. Around 25 to 30% what we produce ways to \r\n adequate cold chain infrastructure and 1% part of the losses in the current storage as well as in \r\n transit. It is not only the fruits and vegetables we have a digital production of around 50 to 50.25 \r\n metric tons ranking 5th in India and also a study growth in Fish and Meat Industry in state of AP. We \r\n also have 404 storage facilities that include fish and poultry efficient altering with installed capacity \r\n of 22.41 lakh Metric Tons and these are mostly used for storing Chilies and tamarind and also have \r\n fisheries storage pf 44 thousand metric tons per day and 5250 insulated vehicles on transport \r\n sector with 650 refrigerator vehicles. There is need to step up this and the existing sources of \r\n funding for cold storage infrastructure and from 2011/12 has given infrastructure status and \r\n subsidy is also there on cold storage budget cost and the key challenge is to bridge the gap in cold \r\n storage ware housing capacity and only 25% of storage facility is available for food, vegetables, \r\n processed food and pharmaceuticals and 75% capacity is dedicated to 1or 2 crops in Chilies and \r\n Tamarinds. AP Govt. has taken measures on the gaps to address by CM, and have Raith Baravasa \r\n Kendra in every Village with 10732 Kendra in the state of AP which are handled by Agri & \r\n Horticulture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry graduates and this kind of man power we have is not \r\n there in any other state. Now the govt. is producing large number of FPO'S and will become very \r\n important component in handling this and this work force are well trained. The Raitha Baravasa \r\n Kendra have major 3 pillars like knowledge capacity building 2nd is all farmers are connected to the \r\n internet so can reach them through various modules with TV connectivity and iPad which is given to \r\n all the workers and next step is to train the farmers and how to produce the crops on the first level \r\n handling of the crops which is called primary processing and also coming with multipurpose facility \r\n centers which will have collection centers and also wet storage go downs and 400 places to start \r\n with and cold storage go downs will be established at the Farm gate so at the large extent will fill \r\n need of filling gaps of taking the cold storage to the Farm gate in agriculture is very crucial and \r\n similarly in Fisheries. Addition to this secondary processing centers are coming at 25 location in the \r\n state of AP. And also coming up with 175 Aqua Hubs with cold storage facility with a refrigerated \r\n transport system which will carry from farms to Aqua hubs to Aqua Hub retails and so the entire \r\n back end forth will be covered from farmers to the producers and all this are taken from Agri Infra \r\n Fund and Large number of this Projects are funded by NABARD. Similarly bulk milk cooling units will \r\n also come along with automatic mill collection Units al this are estimated with 3678 crores. And this \r\n will give good network for the 9000 add villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Food processing \r\n policy has recently released by AP govt. where the govt. itself investing in Infrastructure\r\n development at 25 location on plug and play model where investors can come to AP and start \r\n processing plants. In addition to this 170 crore program is there and a market called Janatha Bazar \r\n and this market has also have cold storage facilities as well as link to secondary process centers \r\n where all processing foods can come and also from aqua center to this Markets. AT 10,000 crores \r\n investment are coming 10, 600 locations and entire supply chain has large extent both in \r\n vegetables and fruits and also in Food Grains and also in Fisheries and Aqua from the govt. side \r\n And all are worked closely with NABARD and other banker friends. And the universities are playing \r\n very important role in this as back bone when the technologies are concerned and also happy to \r\n inform program will start by March 21 and will be able to complete in 24 months' time and this \r\n point of time these are the things are happening from AP Govt. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, CGM, NABARD, Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh
\r\nWe congrats ASSOCHAM for organizing this webinar on cold chain Industry, as a challenging subject \r\n and really thank you and making NABARD as its partner I his particular webinar. In the recent \r\n economy service table department has highlighted the India's Agriculture sector has shown the \r\n resilience and growth rate of 3 to 3.5% and this was the only industry was growing at the pandemic \r\n and especially food processing sector has done very well. One side India is producing lot foods and \r\n other side lots of food is wasted, so in this area we have the cold storage has a big role where as in \r\n the past the challenges simply supply addictive food and in the future the challenge will be to \r\n provide optimal nutrients genetic profile and that's the challenges will take place. So we need to \r\n take this challenge and work in this process. The operation links in 2015-16 stood at 146.45 Million \r\n of which 85% are small and marginal farmer and operational size of 1% has reduces to .08 Hector. \r\n There are good number of people and again the cold storage place a big role here because the \r\n wastage can be stopped here and farmers can get the better price for their produce. The \r\n Agriculture enterprise during covid -19 has recommended that the use of the crises as an impetus to \r\n the crises to strengthen the institutional capacity of association to enhance the little more to \r\n income to small farmers. The GOI schemes like PM Schemes has good number of subsidies project \r\n and they have taken up in large scale to name the few Mega food park, Integrated cold chain, \r\n Infrastructure for cluster development for backward linkages, creation for expansion of food \r\n processing and preservation capacities and operation Greens. So many schemes has been floated \r\n here even though it is launched 6 years ago the takeoff id not to that extent. One more change is \r\n the essential commodities amendment act 2020, which remove a commodity like a serial sponsor \r\n from the essential commodities and these are the very big step taken by the govt. legislation will \r\n help to drive up in more investment in storage and modernization of the full supply. Now coming to \r\n the cold chain industry there's the way the farmer produced then it is stored and transported and \r\n then it is marketed. We find some issues in this regard produce there is absolutely no problem \r\n where we can say we are producing surplus to export. After produce we need to store and has \r\n become a problem. To overcome this required to take up just to not to encourage farmers to to \r\n produce 1 type of crop so that they can crop another type. It can be eliminated to price and it will \r\n be good for all. There are few challenges in this particular industry. Here you required large amount \r\n of finance, the cost of goods storage is very high it cannot be in a small scale and another thing is \r\n the main cold storage keeping in the view the climate the Energy business that is very high and that \r\n is the biggest challenge for crop selection for a particular area for particular format. It is policy \r\n should be taken by the state and Central. So that every farmer they produce as per the plan of the \r\n govt. so that there won't be any problem and also not excess. Here it is observed who are managing \r\n the cold storage they do not have proper knowledge at even normal standards and also the hygiene \r\n has not done which we need to look for. The challenges here is capacity building Institution which \r\n can forward and look into the different challenges here. Training on operation and skilling is \r\n required and NABARD will give necessary support for such trainings and for giving capacity \r\n building. In India we are having maximum of single crop or single commodity cold storages when \r\n the govt. earlier have floated subsidies and has given good number subsidies around 50laks and so. \r\n All the entrepreneurs who take up the cold storage is they used construct the multi chamber that \r\n was the big issue practically look into that multi chambers were used for single commodity so very \r\n purpose of stating that we lost. We need to look into this. It won't be a revenue relative to the cold \r\n storage owners though the rent they take which has been fixed as there is a rotation of 2 to 3 \r\n times. The economic will be better rather than keeping in single commodity for all after the 2,3 \r\n months it is vacated some cleaning operation are taken up and this is the big challenge here where \r\n we need look for. The Instance moment of India there is a Geo Tagging for all Agri. Infrastructure \r\n almost in completion stage. More than 1 lac Agri. Infrastructure are available in India as gathered \r\n there are 4400 cold storages are available and AP have 240 Cold Storages and operational cost and \r\n awake need look into alternative power like solar for the cold storages. According to NCCD Data we \r\n have there is the tremendous gap we found in cold storages and we request to bankers to support \r\n the reformer again and again so the produce can be saved and made more economical. Lastly 1st is \r\n the different fund from NABARD Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and NABARD \r\n Infrastructure Development Fund and these funds can be given to the Govt. and govt. owned \r\n corporations so that they can take more structures can be set up in district or villages so farmers \r\n will be benefited and Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund are conditional funds and also on \r\n Fisheries and Aqua Development Funds as we have huge demand in AP as we are developing lot of \r\n Fisheries hope govt. will use this particular fund. We also Have Food Processing Fund as this funds \r\n are available at nominal rates and anyone interested in buying Infrastructure will be helpful. These \r\n structure couldn't because of high cost. The GOI recently announced 3% intervention for the \r\n borrower who take the Agri. Infrastructure activity for the next 3 to 4 Years. NABARD has 5000 \r\n crores for supporting the Agri. Infrastructure will be given to the primary Agri. Co Operative \r\n Societies rather directly to the borrowers and under this window we are supporting AP govt. 1500 \r\n crore for this process. In the state of AP we have formed 300 Farmers produce organizations and \r\n these are the different schemes from NABARD and Thank you.
\r\nShri. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD
\r\nGood Morning, the very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some \r\n points of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building & Employment Generation \r\n through Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or \r\n Agriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these \r\n the theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the \r\n skill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon. \r\n As said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects \r\n and they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be \r\n some direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved which benefit the \r\n 260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about \r\n 325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and \r\n Vegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing \r\n manually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to \r\n export Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India \r\n is authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering \r\n all this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the \r\n better price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing \r\n post-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses \r\n including during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in \r\n the field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the \r\n dining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model \r\n that we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable \r\n mostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to \r\n spoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits \r\n and vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also \r\n higher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has \r\n to be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of \r\n the producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate \r\n and these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment \r\n controlled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes \r\n near farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In \r\n Horticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable \r\n produce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. So each crop has a specific requirement \r\n temperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector \r\n wise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining \r\n 2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma's, 5% is \r\n used for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and \r\n Meat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold \r\n Storage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need \r\n to look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and \r\n subcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening \r\n require is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different \r\n efforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in \r\n creation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries \r\n (MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in \r\n the policy. It's important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the \r\n vision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the \r\n losses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently \r\n announced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the \r\n gaps. GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial \r\n Institutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO's, \r\n Agri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore \r\n available for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for \r\n repayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under \r\n sec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting & Grading Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility, \r\n Projects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming \r\n assets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for \r\n Employment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but \r\n there are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the \r\n domain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in \r\n ignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of \r\n domain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused \r\n development of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs \r\n like entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also \r\n send for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain \r\n sector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level, \r\n govt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO's \r\n and skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like \r\n sensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank \r\n you
\r\nShri Chiranjiv, Choudhary, IFS, Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
\r\nGood Morning, talking about some of the practical issues and experience we have seen and little initiative what we \r\n taken in for this, the overall infrastructure availability in the state of AP, the data base in the last 5 years has a substantial \r\n progress and there has been a lot of awareness amongst various stakeholders and there are positive indication that thy \r\n demand has increased and we are trying to live up to the demand. There are initiative in tune with the latest trends in cold\r\n chain industry like Modernization/ Retrofitting of existing Infrastructure. No of cold storage has been modernized with the \r\n high speed engines and PUF Insulation. Use of sophisticated machinery and equipment. Setting up of multi commodity cold \r\n storage rather than conventional single commodity storage. Modern Pack Houses with integrated facility. Ripening Facility. \r\n Energy efficient and new storage technology. Development of integrated Cargo complexes to handle all kinds of good's , \r\n including perishables. Shift from unorganized to organized Market. Focus on development end to end cold chain and not just \r\n storage. Recently in coordination with TATA Trust, we have gone ahead with the establishment of this and it is Biomass \r\n technology. It is a complete integrated system where starching grading and collection center and it is a multipurpose and \r\n getting installed and will be operational by end of this month. We are looking cost effective technology where it can reduce \r\n the cost of the service providers and cost in the producers who use it. No of Grid connected Solar PV Panel Systems to \r\n reduce the power consumption charges. Challenges what we seen is Insufficient market survey. High Initial capital cost with \r\n increasing cost of land. Land availability at suitable Locations. Cumbersome procedure for accessing Bank Credit. Lack of \r\n adequate and reliable power supply. Outdated technology and conventional single commodity storage. Lack of coordination \r\n between monitoring quality and Food Safety Systems. Lack of Skilled Personnel. Lack of Reefer Transport. Looking all these \r\n challenges we need to focus on technologies which are also cost effective. So the back end produce Fruits and Vegetables \r\n where the ingredients are washing and packing everything we done are created by our own. Support of GOI, set of Officers \r\n are authorized as issuing authority and locally the officers are able to identify. The Opportunities are Farm Level/ Village \r\n level Small scales units with alternate energy Sources. Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and consequent higher returns. Utilization \r\n of Railway Network. Creation/Strengthen of Cold Chain Infrastructure will not only encourage only Farmers but also promote \r\n entrepreneurship among the youth. Creates direct and in direct Employment for Skilled and Un Skilled Youth and creates \r\n better standard of Living. PPP Project. Promotion of R&D. Reduced CO2 emission leading to reduced carbo foot print and \r\n cleaner Environment and these are the game changing thing. The Way Forward are Development of Common Infrastructure \r\n for Multi Commodity Storage in order to give unrestricted access to small Farmers. Technology Development at low cost \r\n technologies to be developed to address the problems of local Supply Chain and low cost small capacity Reefer Trucks to be \r\n developed to connect. Projects are to be considered without Credit Linkage for self-Finances Projects may be considered. \r\n Even NBFC should be considered for the new projects. PPP should be promote to undertake the emerging new technologies. \r\n Reduction of GST on Processed Foods and Vegetables from 5 to 0&. Strengthening the cold chain Infrastructure at all Airports \r\n and Sea Ports. Gamma Irradiation facilities is very much required to promote Export of Fruits and Vegetables. Incentivizing \r\n the front end Infrastructure for small players and these are the experience and key area if you really know the farmers to get \r\n know proportionate returns to their hard work. Thank you we look forward the suggestion from all of you as you all know \r\n the Horticulture is also of the Hub of AP with the largest producer of Fruits and with 60 to 70 % of Food production from AP \r\n and we require Guidance, Support, Innovative Ideas from all of you. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Gubba Kiran, CEO, Gubba Cold Storage, Hyderabad
\r\nThank you for the given opportunity to speak, the strategic perspective of a Cold Chain Industry opportunities & \r\n Challenges.\r\n We have established in 1987 with a 500 modest capacity in terms of volume we are growing up largest in the \r\n country we in the last 20 years we have diversified ourselves from a normal regular cold storage to the state of \r\n the facilities which is probably less than 5% of Indian Industry size. We have l15 probably less than 1% Indian\r\n Cooling Industry is having such facilities supported Euro Pallet track Supported facility set up in 2008 for the \r\n Industry. The cream, butter, Meats and the Fruits like Apple Orange are stored in these type of storage facility. \r\n These are little high in Capital because the high value products absorb this checklists. Block Stocking Multi Level \r\n Cold Storage - 2 Ton Jumbo Bag those are the block tracking each bag is 2 ton there are baffles and non-baffles \r\n inside the cold storage so we can create and give it back to client supply chain become fast and easy. These \r\n facility are available in developed countries but in India slowly the culture is staring beginning. \r\n When the Industry seed of Volume is growing the optimization was needed and that is how we started \r\n optimization optimizing this facility and operation is faster and easier cost of packing decreases and in total look \r\n at the cost of the packages versus a gunny bag should be less and manpower savings so all put \r\n together it make sense to optimize the Cold Storage facilities. We should also have Web enabled \r\n Inventory Monitoring System in the cold storage for the client if the client sends 3 trucks of chilies \r\n with good premium quality with the purchase from various vendors so the client will be knowing \r\n about his stock monitoring. So the Indian cold chain industry is slowly gearing up and doing such \r\n enabled Inventory system. They are slowly migrating from typical Excel and going beyond. The client sit and \r\n see by a click of a button anywhere and we are doing since 10 years. By doing Inventory Audit couple of things \r\n the SOP's should be right or less it will a great challenge and there is increase in Man Power, increase in system \r\n there is an impact in the bottom line so when we plant with such Inventory Management system, such things\r\n pay back maintain the stock accurately and giving back right feed back to the client. The various reports which \r\n will inspire the clients like Product Expiry Report, FIFO Report, Automated Previous day Transaction Report, \r\n Stock Report (Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly), Space Utilization Report, Transaction Mail/SMS, Monthly Audit Report, \r\n Air Monitoring Report, Temperature Mapping Report. It has to collective effort in bringing out this aspect to the \r\n cold storage owners. There are 95% unorganized sector dose error by keeping vegetables in required \r\n temperature so they have to face the cost reduction at the end at least by 30% and finally they lose the value on \r\n the investment. So we need to bring such Management quality systems into the cold storage Industry with real \r\n time access of temperature & Humidity and we need to adhere to Rodent Management system in the Cold \r\n Storage Industry. It is better to have certification because that will have system and structure in place when \r\n Auditor comes in will question when you don't have certification especially pharma should have GDP guideline \r\n for storage facility and safety measures to be adhered strictly. Thank you.\r\n
\r\nShri Madhusudan Rao, Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, (ICAR)
\r\nThanks for the opportunity, CFTI has been working in the area of post-harvest in fisheries, we are responsible for \r\n sustainable Fishing resilient Fishing and also to maintain the quality. There are several characters to spoilage \r\n and affecting food perishability. One fourth of the world food supply and 30% of Landed Fish are lost through \r\n microbial activity alone like External Condition, Product Conditions, and Biochemical and Microbiological \r\n distraction, Contamination of Food by Microorganisms pesticides and adulterants. Rancid flavor warmed over \r\n Flavor change of Texture. Food Borne Diseases. There are several process of preservation methods Thermal \r\n processing and Non Thermal Processing, in Thermal Processing Baking, Frying, Ohmic Heating, Microwave, Radio \r\n Frequency, Infrared, Drying, Extrusion. In Non-Thermal Processing Chilling, Freezing, Freeze Dying, High \r\n Pressure Processing, Pulsed Electric Field, Pulsed Light, Ultrasound, Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ozone , \r\n Eradication, Gas, Cold Plasma. The basic difference as far as Fish is concerned, it is necessary to preserve the \r\n Fish 0 degree centigrade after the catch as it's spoilage is very fast. There are two types of store like chilled \r\n store and cold store especially for the Fish Industry and the freezing of Fish happens with slow Freezing and \r\n Rapid Freezing. At the time of Harvest Capture and preprocessing the temperature should be -4 degree and time \r\n of processing, storage or distribution it should be -18 degree. And these two things should be maintained \r\n weather it is for consumer consumption or for Export Market. AS per the dept. of Fisheries trends in Indian Fish \r\n Production India is the second Largest Fish producer in the world with 125.9 lakh Tones of production in 2017-\r\n 18. In that Marine Fish production was 36.88 Lakh Tons and Inland Fish 89.02 Lakhs Tons with the contribution \r\n of 1,33,492 crores. There are impressive growth in Indian Fisheries Export in 2019-20 the 6679 million US \r\n Dollar. The cold chain Fisheries the maximum exports are Frozen Foods is the mainstay of sea food exports from \r\n India at the quantity of 10,55,310 tons with the value of 42,600 crore. Fish produced in India is marketed mainly \r\n as Fresh/ Chilled Fish and Frozen Fish. At CFTI we have the system where the consumer can get the information \r\n about the product depending upon the changing the color of the dot you can have a visual assessment weather \r\n the fish is being sold or in good condition or they are ready to eat and these dot will help the consumer. In AP \r\n the most of the production is coming from Inland Aqua culture. ICAR-CIFT has developed a refrigeration enabled \r\n fish vending kiosks to improve the handling and marketing practices of Fisher Folks. This Kiosk is found favorable \r\n and affordable to small scale and retail fish vendors and all the harbors need to have chilling facility. Availability \r\n of good Ice should be there at all Fishing harbors so it is useful for processing the Fish then we need to have \r\n refrigerator display cabinet for the markets and the shipment of chilled fish will be having a very less shellfire \r\n right from the point of catch through the processing and packing and distribution then the only it is enable us to \r\n get the good quality of fish. I conclude here. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Giridhar Krishna, Registrar, Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur
\r\nThanks for ASSOCHAM for giving opportunity, I think we play a very important role by educating the students \r\n on Agriculture and other in the Industry Sector pertaining to the Farmer. So this is the important subject at the \r\n present situation especially agriculture commodities. We have seen last year even during post pandemic we \r\n should all compliment the farmer who was there outside all the time in the fields and produced food for the \r\n population which was actually closed doors due to this corvid pandemic. So here our Agriculture University HQ \r\n at Guntur, is serving the research needs and Education needs to the 13 districts of AP and Agriculture Research \r\n center nearly 32 no's in these 13 districts and we have 13 University KVK's and 8 to 10 NGO's KVK's which are \r\n under technical control of our University working the districts and every districts we have Data Centers so we \r\n are working as liaison as state govt. Initiated 10,000 and odd Raita Barawasa Kendra( RBK) so our 2 scientist are \r\n situated at 2 districts working as liaison district resource center looking after the needs of these RBK's. at district \r\n level and at education side we have 8 Agriculture collages and 6 private collages established last year. So the \r\n cold chain Management our university have specialized courses especially in Under Graduate courses. So lack of \r\n storage facility and also long distance travel by keeping temperature control of quality foods. So India is \r\n dependent 70% on Agriculture and so we need to know how best we should understand to reduce the losses \r\n through this cold chain and also establishing the facility also bringing a fresh produce from the field from the \r\n farmer's production site it to the consumer's outlet apart from the Meat, Fish and milk. So we have Milk chilling \r\n centers especially in the production of milk side is very tailor made and farmer produce milk is reaching the \r\n consumer with all the support from govt. and all the private industries which is reaching to the consumer. \r\n Similarly all the agriculture producers right from the farmer production site in the field it should reach the \r\n consumer and the farmer should get benefited because of this cold chain facility established at different centers. \r\n If the RBK are connected to the cold chain or supply chain facilities by giving time to store his produce at this \r\n place for longer time so he can sell at a better price later on at a cost effective cold storage facility will benefit \r\n the farmers. Similarly AP we are seeing farmer will be producing the tomato and onion with limited water \r\n facility and we farmer comes to the market the glut will be there through Imports and finally not able \r\n to sell his produce and transportation cost not able to meet finally will be throwing away his produce \r\n by leaving away his profit. So these kind of things require maximum attention if we can established \r\n the cold chain facility near to the farmer's production areas. In Krishi Vignana Kendra we are building\r\n the capacity of the farmers to adopt the latest technologies by training them we are also evaluating \r\n certain technologies in farmer fields so that he can transmit the same to other farmer. Around 6 years back \r\n Indian council of Agriculture Research has conducted a program called ARYA. KVK are training the youth farmers \r\n to retain them in Agriculture in villages by making profitable and be a profession and also by using the cold chain \r\n technologies by training them for 3 to 6 months and we can generate the skilled employment so that they will \r\n be given opportunity like alternate employment. Farm Mechanization is doing by Agri. Engg. For ease of doing \r\n Agriculture with the help of this implements. In the seed supply chain it is for Agriculture from the university \r\n side we are producing breeder seed which is a pure seed from that again Foundation seeds and certified seeds \r\n will be supplied to the farmers the vital seed which is viable to the next season if this cold chain or cold storage \r\n facility is there they are extended at the villages' level so farmer can definitely can store the seed with a normal \r\n cost and viable and germination is not affected. Thank you.
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\r\nThe introductory & welcome address was delivered by Shri Vipul BG, Regional Director - West, ASSOCHAM. The moderator of the Webinar was Shri. Bharat Patel, Chairman, Startup Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. Shri Bharat highlighted the importance of this webinar in the present situation. Very smoothly, Shri Patel catalysed the entire session. His prime focus was discuss all the minute\r\n detail of the topic. Every aspect including merits and demerits were explored thoroughly.
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Shri Sohrab Kothari, Co-founder, SAHAS Softech LLP was our main speaker and presenter. Shri\r\n Sohrab laid focus on the use of Digital inventory in bridging liquidity crunch.Technology is the solution for that and SAHAS is leading the way for the same. Digital inventory will help you in reduced\r\n investment in the stocking. It will give you the freedom on minor edits and customizing products for\r\n individuals. Passing digital inventory is through a click of the button rather than transporting actual\r\n inventory around different locations. The digital inventory in additive manufacturing gives you the\r\n confidence of manufacturing any kind of geometry, which might not be possible through traditional\r\n manufacturing. said Shri Sohrab.
\r\nOn the future of 3D printing, Shri Sohrab added that The next industrial revolution, industry 4.0 or we\r\n say smart factories 3D printing would be an excellent tool for such companies. 3D Printing in future\r\n will disrupt the manufacturing value chain, allowing a shift from mass production to full customization,\r\n from centralized to distributed production. There is definitely going be a lot of innovation on applications, Material development, and different parameters to achieve properties of actual materials. 3D\r\n printing has some amazing applications apart from industrial, like Edibles, Tissue engineering, memory\r\n and reactive material (4D Printing) etc.\r\n
Subsequently, the participants raised several Q&A which were answered by Shri Sohrab the panelists.\r\n All IT related support was extended by Anoop Negi, IT Dept., ASSOCHAM. The webinar attracted\r\n registrations of professional participants which included 3D Printing Professionals, Directors, Legal\r\n and Compliance Heads, and Academician etc
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\r\nASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 21 April, 2021. Theme of the virtual\r\n conference was \"CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of\r\n Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products on April 21, 2021 started at 11 AM Onwards\r\n The key objective of this Virtual Conference is to develop a concrete roadmap for regaining Health & Wellness Through Balanced & Nutritious Food
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\r\nWelcome & Moderated By: Shri Vishal Rajgarhia, Chairman, Pharma\r\n Committee ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CEO - Finecure Pharmaceuticals\r\n Special Guest - Dr Ishwar Basavaraddi, Director, Morarji Desai National Institute of\r\n Yoga (MDNIY), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India.
\r\nEminent Panelists were -
\r\n- Shri Dhiren Rathore, COO, Asclepius Wellness Private Limited
\r\n- Dr. Ajay Dubey, Faculty, Dr. B R Ambedkar University of social Sciences,\r\n MHOW, Indore
\r\n- Dr. Sunil Joshi, Dean - Ayurvedic, Gokul Global University
\r\n- Dr. Harit Parikh, MD, Harit Remedies Pvt. Ltd
\r\n- Dr. Pawankumar Godatwar, Dean (Research), Professor and HOD, PG Dept.
\r\n of Roga & Vikriti Vijnana, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur\r\n- Shri. Sunil Sangani, Director, Envitro Laboratories Pvt Ltd
\r\n- Vibhuti Arora, Expert & Founder, House of Beauty
\r\n- Dr. Mandeep Kaur, Associate Professor, Gujarat Ayurveda University.
\r\nKEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-
\r\n• In these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a\r\n roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One\r\n moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and\r\n then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been\r\n infected, and half of the world'\\s population is in some form of lockdown.
\r\n• Never before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so\r\n many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health\r\n schisms between the world'\\s haves"\\ and have nots."\\ The haves"\\ also include\r\n individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems\r\n form the first line of defense against infectious disease.
\r\n• Indeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from\r\n COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions - such as diabetes, heart disease,\r\n and compromised immune systems - are at high risk for severe illness and death.
\r\n• Wellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the\r\n active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health.\r\n Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social,\r\n environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of\r\n these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or\r\n weakens another.
\r\n• Apart from this, if we talk about wellness though healthy food, a shift in the dietary\r\n pattern of the people have been observed during the outbreak of COVID-19 was\r\n observed among the population which could also be driven by the fear and anxiety\r\n many people around the globe are experiencing. Consumers are more focused on\r\n the products with nutritional aspects which could help in boosting immunity. By\r\n consuming balanced & Nutritious Food not only immunity can be boosted but also\r\n mental & physical wellness can be attained rapidly.
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\r\nGuest of Honour: Shri Parimal Suklabaidya, Hon\'ble Minister of Fisheries, Govt. of Assam
\r\nShri. K Lalrinliana, Hon ble MoS, (I/C), Fisheries, Govt. of Mizoram
\r\nEminent Speaker:
\r\nShri K S Srinivas, IAS, Chairman, MPEDA
\r\nDr Rajeev Ranjan, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Govt\r\n of India
\r\nDr Manoj Sharma, Director, Mayank Aquaculture Pvt Ltd
\r\nShri Rajamanohar Somasundaram, Co-founder & CEO, Aqua Connect
\r\nShri Subrata Mandal, Chief General Manager, NABARD, West Bengal
\r\nShri Deepak Sood, Secretary-General, ASSOCHAM
\r\nDr. Worawit Wanchana, Policy & Program Coordinator, SEAFDEC, Bangkok, Thailand
\r\nProf Baskaran Manimaran, Founder Vice-Chancellor (Retd.), Tamil Nadu Fisheries University
\r\nChallenges Faced by the Sector-
\r\n• Gaps in supply chain, infrastructure, skilling of people to newer ways & value addition.
\r\n• Lacking in adequate technology for fish farming.
\r\n• No proper scaling is there in the fisheries and aquaculture industry\r\n
• Lack of quality and consistency of supply of fish and its products.
\r\n• Not paying attention to domestic market in fisheries, shrimps and fish allied activities.
\r\n• Only have some govt and cooperative ponds for aquaculture
\r\n• Fish Exports have come down by 44% in April 2020 as compared to April 2019.
\r\n• Labour was also not able to go to the fields. April was the worst month. Even some of the areas,\r\n the workers are not allowed to enter the factories by their family people.
\r\n• Only dependent on 01 or 02 varieties of shrimps which are - 95% on l - vannamei shrimp and 5%\r\n on black tiger shrimp.
\r\n• In southeast asia, farmers have the lowest farms output.
\r\n• Insurance policy is not there for fishery as we have Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for agriculture. Insurance cover is much needed as state govt are also asking for it.
\r\n• Lack of knowledge in the production area, lack of knowledge on the availability of materials and\r\n working of equipments required for feed production.
\r\n• Demand from the factories were decreased and regarding the ready to eat products the impact is\r\n low as it also impacted the chilled and frozen products like salmon and shrimps. The orders from\r\n the importing countries cancelled or postponed.
\r\nSuggestions and Recommendations By Industry Experts-
\r\n• Job generation and investment can do a lot of value addition to the sector.
\r\n• Much need of quality and consistency of supply
\r\n• In order to double the production and export, need to approach countries like European Union,\r\n South Africa, Japan, Korea, Russia will give us better price for the fish.
\r\n• For fish production, need to open resources to private industry in a large number. As today we only\r\n have some govt and cooperative ponds; we need to establish more of these.
\r\n• Need to pay attention to domestic market in fisheries, shrimps and fish allied activities.
\r\n• Slogans like \"Sunday ho ya Monday, Roz khao ande"\\has changed the whole egg-poultry industry\r\n inside-out. So, similar can be launched for the fish industry by Govt of India, and it can prove to be\r\n the biggest game changer inside industry.
\r\n• If 50% population of the nation, consumes even 1 kg fish and 1 kg shrimp per annum. Then also\r\n our India's entire production can be consumed within our country.
\r\n• Improvement in Exports is directly proportional to the Improvement in production. So need to improve production and export will improve by its own.
\r\n• Coming up with new technology - Biofloc fish farming and RAS technology for fish farming.
\r\n• Improve the productivity; at present it is as low as 01 metric tonne per hectare to 10 metric tonne\r\n per hectare and taking average we can say that it is 05 metric tonne per hectare, it has to be\r\n increased to 10 metric tonne per hectare per annum.
\r\n• Introducing the fish consumption as a part of midday meals will propel the growth and domestic\r\n consumption of the country.
\r\n• Use of AI & Technology in the farm production is the need of the hour.
\r\n• Urge MPEDA and other govt stakeholders to initiate subsidy and better tax return to incentivise\r\n technology adaptation; that goes the long way to improve the farm income of the farmers.
\r\n• Under FPOs, the credit guarantee should be extended for fisheries as we have for farmer producer\r\n organisations.
\r\n• Need for eco-friendly technology in order to save biodiversity and mother earth.
\r\n• Building up of confidence amongst citizens to increase production.
\r\n• We need to implement the PMMSY scheme on ground, simply announcing it will not help. In order\r\n to utilise it fully we need to do basic ground work, research and data collection etc.
\r\n• To implement it properly we need any nodal coordinating agency to prepare its own plan, in order\r\n to go forward. Also Private players can be involved in this task.
\r\n• Our goal is to double the farmers income, we cannot do it unless production is not increased. And\r\n if production is increased then marketing is lacking.
\r\n• Rumours like - Eating fish will lead to corona are spreading inside the society. We need to mitigate\r\n such apprehensions.
\r\n• More fish consumers are fond of eating boneless fish, if we produce that at large, more demand\r\n of fish will rise.
\r\n• Knowledge of nutrition should be given to masses such as fish is the cheapest source of protein.
\r\n• Promotion of cage culture to increase fish production.
\r\n• Reduce the cost of production through application of technology.
\r\n• There should be a feeling of cooperation instead of competition; the goal if of becoming Aatma\r\n Nirbhar.
\r\n• Be vocal for local for global outreach by PM Modi; we can apply this concept in the fish industry\r\n too.
\r\nASSOCHAM\\'s view over the topic:
\r\nIn the current time and situation, amidst unprecedented contraction of the economy and large scale\r\n destruction of the livelihoods, a market changed pattern of the consumption can be observed clearly.\r\n Another challenge which we are facing is the proper opening of the industries and also a massive\r\n labour shortage due to migration in pandemic. If we focus on the fisheries and aquaculture industry,\r\n we will find that 14 million people are employed currently in the industry, out of which 90% of women\r\n are involved in certain states. This employment of fishermen is at stake and they are finding it really\r\n hard to sustain in current pandemic. Hence, the industry of fisheries and aquaculture needs a huge\r\n investment, which can do a lot of value addition to the sector. Also, we at ASSOCHAM welcomes\r\n the Government of India's Scheme -PMMSY - Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana- We are\r\n sure of the fact that a package of 20,000 crore rupees by the Union Government of India for the\r\n fisheries and aquaculture industry will help the industry retracting the economy and employment.
\r\nAnother aspect is the application of technology to the industry. Use of technology for fish production\r\n can not only save time, money and other resources but also can save a lot of human lives from\r\n contaminating them from virus. Sadly, we see a lack of technology in the industry. Coming up with\r\n technology for fish farming such as Biofloc fish farming and RAS technology is the need of the hour.\r\n We also need to propel innovative approaches for bringing more productivity and quality in the sector\r\n of fisheries and aquaculture such as Crab Farming, Ornamental fish farming, Circulatory Aqua System, Cage Culture, breeding of indigenous aquatic species etc. The cost of production will also be\r\n suspended with the application of technology to the sector. Another thing which we as a fishery and\r\n aquaculture industry need is to come up with the development of more number of artificial ponds so\r\n as to promote the production aquaculture at local level.
\r\nOur focus should also be to promote the consumption of fishery and aquaculture products domestically. If exports are hit by any reason, whether it may be pandemic or natural calamity, then we as a\r\n nation may have the capacity to consume the fish products, domestically. This will not hamper the\r\n potential of fish production of our country. Last but not the least, we not only need better quality of\r\n the fisheries, aquaculture and other value added products, but we also need the consistency in the\r\n supply of these products. A robust supply chain is the need of the hour to meet the demand of the\r\n consumer. In such challenging times, it is very difficult to transport the products from on part of the\r\n country to another part of the country, but we need to come up with some technique and procedure\r\n so that we as a supply chain sector can overcome all the problems which comes our way from\r\n producers to consumers. ASSOCHAM is always focused for the betterment and bringing quality to\r\n the industry of fisheries and aquaculture.
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\r\nASSOCHAM's Western Region organised an e-Conclave on 10th September, 2020.\r\n The topic for this was\"Techno-Intelligence e-Conclave 2020 - Digital Framework\r\n in COVID times and a Roadmap to Resilience and Sustainability "\\
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONCLAVE
\r\nSpecial Guest:Ankita Anand, IAS, Director, Dept. of Information Technology,\r\n Govt. of Goa
\r\nModerator: Shri Bharat Patel, Chairman, Startup & Skill Development Committee,\r\n ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council
\r\nEminent Speaker:
\r\nShri Minesh Doshi, Director, Silver Touch Technologies
\r\n- Shri Sanjay Moralwar, Global CIO, Cadila Healthcare, ZYDUS Group
\r\n- Shri Shrikant Navelkar, Director, Clover Infotech
\r\n- Shri Hemanth GC, Head of Product, Crediwatch
\r\n- Shri Alok Bansal, Managing Director & Country Head - India, Visionet India
\r\n- Shri Atul Vir, CEO and Founder, Equator Advanced Appliances
\r\nSUMMARY OF VIRTUAL CONCLAVE
\r\nThe session was welcomed and introduced by Shri Minesh Doshi, Director, Silver\r\n Touch Technologies. The session was took over for moderation by Shri Bharat Patel,\r\n Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council.
\r\nThe special guest of the session was Ankita Anand, IAS, Director, Dept. of\r\n Information Technology, Govt. of Goa.Ankita laid focus on the current status of\r\n Digital India and opportunities provided by IT in this ongoing pandemic. Ankita\r\n also highlights the common problems in Cyber space such as hacking and spamming.\r\n After Ankita, the session was joined by Shri Sanjay Moralwar, Global CIO, Cadila\r\n Healthcare, ZYDUS Group. Shri Sanjay highlighted the role of AI in COVID Times.\r\n How easy way the AI and Technology has put up in today's time, where pandemic is\r\n being handled by the use of technology. Be it Aarogya Setu App etc. Another Speaker\r\n Shri Shrikant Navelkar, Director, Clover Infotech addressed the session on\r\n Empowering Business through Digital Transformation. He shared his experience on\r\n rise in no. of new online businesses taking place due to the easy online operation of\r\n Business.
\r\nAfter Shri Navelkar, the session was followed by Shri Alok Bansal, MD and Country\r\n Head - India, Visionet India. Shri Alok highlighted the roadmap to resilience and\r\n sustainability through AI and IT. Followed by his address, another speaker Shri\r\n Hemanth GC, Head of Product, Crediwatch talked about how useful the FinTech\r\n Companies are being in lending finance and money towards mitigating financial crisis\r\n in society. Also he focused on how AI-based Insights-as-a-service platform is helpful\r\n in providing credit intelligence and monitoring to financial institutions, corporates,\r\n professional services firms & MSMEs. The last speaker of the sessionShri Atul Vir,\r\n CEO and Founder, Equator Advanced Appliances joined and addressed the session\r\n on the Technology shaping in the home appliance segment and how there is a dire\r\n need of using smart appliances where human potential can be saved.
\r\nThe session was concluded by Shri Bharat, followed by a quick round of Q&A.
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\r\nTo celebrate the occasion of International Day of Yoga, ASSOCHAM's Western\r\n Region organized a special interactive virtual session on \"YOGA: Balancing Stress\r\n & Boosting Immunity"\\ on June 21, 2021 from 11 AM to 01 PM.
\r\nEMINENT GUEST SPEAKERS AT THE SESSION VIRTUAL SESSION-
\r\nModerator: Dr. Naaznin Husein, Chairperson, Nutrify Today, Dietetics\r\n & Nutritionist, Dietician & Wellness Expert
\r\nEminent Guest Speakers were -
\r\n• Dr. Deepak Sachdeva, Medical Yoga Expert & Founder & Director, Dr. Deepak\r\n Sachdeva s Medical Yoga Center
\r\n• Vibhuti Arora, Face Yoga-Wellness Expert & Founder, House of Beauty
\r\n• Namisha Singh, Yoga Instructor & Faculty, MDNIY, Ministry of AYUSH
\r\n• Swami Hira Yogi, Yoga Enthusiasts & Practitioner
\r\nSUMMARY OF SPECIAL VIRTUAL SESSION-
\r\n• Dr. Deepak Sachdeva, Medical Yoga Expert & Founder & Director, Dr. Deepak\r\n Sachdeva s Medical Yoga Center
\r\n- Medical yoga is defined as the use of yoga practices for the prevention and\r\n treatment of medical conditions. Beyond the physical elements of yoga, which\r\n are important and effective for strengthening the body, medical yoga also\r\n incorporates appropriate breathing techniques, mindfulness, and meditation in\r\n order to achieve the maximum benefits. Multiple studies have shown that yoga\r\n can positively impact the body in many ways, including helping to regulate blood\r\n glucose levels, improve musculoskeletal ailments and keeping the\r\n cardiovascular system in tune.
\r\n- It also has been shown to have important psychological benefits, as the practice\r\n of yoga can help to increase mental energy and positive feelings, and decrease\r\n negative feelings of aggressiveness, depression and anxiety.
\r\n- Within the past decade, yoga has infiltrated not only Western culture, but also\r\n Western medicine. The more we learn about this ancient practice, the more we\r\n realize that its benefits go far beyond increased flexibility and muscle tone.\r\n
- A common misunderstanding is that yoga predominantly focuses on increasing\r\n flexibility; however, although Hatha Yoga, or the physical practice of yoga, does\r\n emphasize appropriate postural alignment, musculoskeletal strength and\r\n endurance as well as balance, the study and practice of yoga incorporates\r\n mindfulness-based practices such as mindful breathing techniques, focused\r\n concentration, meditation and self-reflection.
\r\n• Vibhuti Arora, Face Yoga-Wellness Expert & Founder, House of Beauty
\r\n- First impressions are the most lasting. And you only get one chance to make that\r\n first impression. Moreover, your face is the first thing that people look at. A\r\n smiling face lightens the mood, attracts people, and puts them at ease. A popular\r\n study reveals that a baby smiles 400 times a day while an adult smiles barely 8\r\n times.
\r\n- Lack of any kind of facial exercises and accumulation of stress can cause a buildup of tension in your facial muscles. A yoga technique called Sukshma Yoga can\r\n help release this tension. This technique consists of short, simple and subtle\r\n yoga exercises that can work wonders for your face. Facial yoga can rejuvenate\r\n your face within minutes and brighten it up. Your facial muscles and nerve\r\n connections will relax, thereby delaying the onset of wrinkles. Sukshma yoga is\r\n an excellent way of toning up your face.
\r\n• Namisha Singh, Yoga Instructor & Faculty, MDNIY, Ministry of AYUSH
\r\n- Yoga is one of the seven AYUSH systems. It is essentially the art and science of\r\n healthy living which focuses on bringing harmony between the body and mind.\r\n The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning to join" or to\r\n unite". Another meaning of Yoga is samadhi", the higest state of consciousness\r\n or the state of absolute knowledge which leads to freedom. The aim of Yoga\r\n practice is to overcome all kinds of sufferings that lead to a sense of freedom in\r\n every walk of life with holistic health, harmony and happiness.
\r\n- In the present era, Yoga is popular worldwide because of its spiritual values and\r\n therapeutic credentials. Also, its role in the prevention of diseases, promotion of\r\n health and management of lifestyle-related disorders are revered globally. The\r\n speciality of this system is that it can be practised with any other systems of\r\n health care.
\r\n• Swami Hira Yogi, Yoga Enthusiasts & Practitioner
\r\n- Yoga has evolved as one of the promising and potential domains of career over\r\n the past few decades, especially with the tide of globalisation sweeping across\r\n the world. There is a great career scope for Yoga professionals not only in India\r\n but also in abroad like schools, colleges, universities, wellness and healthcare\r\n centres, corporate places, etc.
\r\n- The awareness amongst people about the benefits of Yoga for a healthy mind\r\n and body has increased the prospects of Yoga as a lucrative career. Further with\r\n the declaration of 21st June as International Yoga day by the UNO, the\r\n importance of Yoga as a career has increased many folds.
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\r\nASSOCHAM'\\s Western Region organised a webinar on 26th August, 2020. The topic\r\n for this webinar was \"Industry Innovation & Intellectual Property in times of COVID & Post Corona Era in Conversation with the Entrepreneurs & Experts"\\
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR
\r\nModerator: Shri Nakul Sharedalal, Chairman - IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM\r\n Gujarat Council and Founder, NS Legal
\r\nEminent Speakers were
\r\n- Julie Desai, Lawyer & Human Rights Activist, Mehul Vakharia\r\n Associates Advocates
\r\n- Shri Udeet J Banker, Partner, Manus Aktteva Biopharma LLP
\r\n- Shri Tarun Bothra, Co-Founder, Saathi
\r\n- Shaina Shah, Co-Founder, Limelight Pictures
\r\n- Shri Sahil Arora, Founder & CEO, Indemniti
\r\nSUMMARY OF WEBINAR
\r\nThe session was moderated by Shri Nakul Sharedalal, Chairman - IPR Committee,\r\n ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council and Founder, NS Legal. Shri Nakul also also delivered\r\n the opening note of the webinar.
\r\nThe speaker panel observed a diversity of profiles belonging to different forte. The\r\n session was addressed by Shri Udeet J Banker, Partner, Manus Aktteva Biopharma\r\n LLP. Shri Udeet highlighted the impact of COVID on sector and how new business\r\n development has been effected by the pandemic. The session was took over by\r\n another speaker Julie Desai. Desai is Lawyer & Human Rights Activist at\r\n Mehul Vakharia Associates Advocates. She highlighted the problems/disputes\r\n occurring inside the industry. She also shared her work on girls education,\r\n improvement in political, economic , social and health status of women for sustainable\r\n development. After this, the session was address by Shri Tarun Bothra, CoFounder, Saathi. Shri Tarun shared his experience of doing well in entrepreneurship.\r\n Saathi Pads has not only been a role model to a startup fraternity but also has excelled\r\n in bringing social change by serving Sanitary industry.
\r\nAnother Speaker Shaina Shah, Co-Founder, Limelight Pictures shared her\r\n experience of film making and production amidst ongoing pandemic. She highlighted\r\n the challenges faced by the whole Film making and production industry due to COVID,\r\n followed by the financial struggle faced by the film artists and other small associates.\r\n This Conversation was followed by another speaker Shri Sahil Arora, Founder &\r\n CEO, Indemniti. Shri Sahil shared the insights on the cyber crime and digital hacking\r\n and cyber attacks taking place. He also laid emphasis on the concrete roadmap\r\n provided by his organisation in building an attack proof cyber space for the better\r\n future.
\r\nAt last, Shri Nakul thanked all the speakers and ended the session with a crisp\r\n conclusion.
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\r\nOn the Occasion of International Women's Day, ASSOCHAM's Western Region\r\n organised Special Virtual Session ENTHUSIASTIC SHE - Celebrating the Power of\r\n SHEROES on 08th March, 2021.
\r\nBACKGROUND OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
\r\nWomen are being empowered to break barriers and making a positive difference. The\r\n position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 20th century.\r\n The credit goes to the education which has become the right and ideal channel for\r\n awakening and promoting the retention of constitutionally guaranteed gender equality\r\n on all fronts. Women are playing bigger and bigger role in economic field and are\r\n becoming role models for the other women to excel in their area.
\r\nIndia has experienced rapid growth and development in the past years in many\r\n spheres. Gender equity is not one of them. This is deplorable considering the\r\n important role played by women in the socio-economic growth of the country. The\r\n number of women are increasing and gradually seen marching into domains which\r\n were previously reserved for males (sports, politics, police, navy, astronauts, pilots,\r\n chartered accountants, commandos).
\r\nASSOCHAM believes that It s time women should be given their due. Equip them with\r\n the best, and then see India give rise to its more daughter and excel in every sector.\r\n It s not a pipe dream. As they say, Every day is a new opportunity. In order to\r\n encourage the women to lead and excel into every sector, promoting zeal \\'n'\\ zest of\r\n women, ASSOCHAM on International Women's Day 2021 organised an special\r\n virtual session on ENTHUSIASTIC SHE- Celebrating the Power of SHEROES, on\r\n March 08, 2021 ; 03 PM Onwards, with an aim to have the concrete discussion with\r\n the faces who changed the perspective of Indian Women, with more focus on uplifting\r\n and making opportunities to encourage and empower more and more women to excel\r\n in their respective fields at national and international level.
\r\nSPEAKERS AT THE SPECIAL SESSION
\r\nModerator: CA Tripti Shinghal Somani, Co-Chair, ASSOCHAM Startup Council,\r\n CEO KGS Advisors & Founder - Womennovator
\r\nKey Women Enthusiasts were -
\r\nMs Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, IAS, Asst. Collector, Dist. Dindori, Govt. of MP
\r\nAdvocate Seema Kushwaha, Nirbhaya's Advocate & Adv. Supreme Court of India
\r\nMs Merin Joseph, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kerala HQs, Govt. of Kerala,
\r\nDr Laxmi Bhawani, Chief, UNICEF Gujarat,
\r\nDr Sarika Mehta, Campaigner & Founder Biking Queen,
\r\nMs Pragya Prasun, Acid Attack Survivor & Campaigner Stop Acid Attack,
\r\nMs Shital Shah, Actor & Director, Gujarati Cinema,
\r\nDr Mona Desai, Immediate Past President, Indian Medical Association, WDW
\r\ns Tripti Katiyar, Sr Space Scientist, ISRO,
\r\nMs Hardi Oza Patel, Travel Enthusiasts & Entrepreneur,
\r\nSarita Dalal, Director, ROB, Ahmedabad,
\r\nMx Dhananjay Chauhan, Transgender Activist
\r\nSUMMARY OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
\r\nMs Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, IAS, Asst. Collector, Dist. Dindori, Govt. of MP
\r\n• Always dream high. Don\'t be discouraged if anyone criticises you. Always dream\r\n with dedication and hard work and strive to make it come true.
\r\n• For all the women out there, each one of you is unique. We are all multitaskers and\r\n we are capable of doing it. So, always love yourselves and do what\'s good for you;\r\n only then you will be able to add more value to everyone around you.
\r\n• Start listening to the stories of women. Whether we are men or women or don't\r\n identify with either of the two genders, no matter where we fall on the spectrum, it's\r\n important to listen to the stories of not only women but of all those who have\r\n historically been marginalized and of course to offer us more and more scope to tell\r\n our own stories.
\r\nAdvocate Seema Kushwaha, Nirbhaya's Advocate & Adv. Supreme Court of India
\r\n• Women are still not treated equally in India and still women are considered as just a\r\n tool. Today\'s system is entirely male-dominated even today, it is not properly\r\n accepted that a woman is in any position. Even today, women\'s opinion is not given\r\n importance. Women\'s opinion must be taken into account in every field, that is the\r\n demand of women. A woman who is very educated can give an opinion on what\r\n women want.
\r\n• Be what you are and enjoy what you do. You came to this world to live your life; do\r\n not let others live it. Stand tall against all prejudice, be it work or home!
\r\nMs Merin Joseph, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kerala HQs, Govt. of Kerala,
\r\n• Never give up working, never stop being financially independent because it adds a\r\n lot to your sense of self. Speak out because the environment today is finally allowing\r\n women to support other women who are speaking out
\r\nDr Laxmi Bhawani, Chief, UNICEF Gujarat
\r\n• Women s rights are human rights. Investments in gender equality contributes to\r\n lifelong positive outcomes for children and their communities. On International\r\n Women s Day, let us pledge to do everything we can to overcome prejudice and\r\n promote gender equality and women s empowerment.
\r\nDr Sarika Mehta, Campaigner & Founder Biking Queen
\r\n• I want to salute the independence of spirit that women have been expressing over\r\n the last few decades. They have made a mark in every field. I believe that with time\r\n the women of India will not only be skilled and financially independent but a force to\r\n be reckoned with!
\r\nMs Pragya Prasun, Acid Attack Survivor & Campaigner Stop Acid Attack
\r\n• There are people with two different attitudes, one who takes the path always\r\n grumbling along the way, while the others who follow the grateful path, and I have\r\n learned to see the glass half full. Here I stand as proof that I'm not what happened\r\n to me, I'm not my face, I'm what I make of myself. I'm a story with happy ending.
\r\nMs Shital Shah, Actor & Director, Gujarati Cinema
\r\n• Women should grow up to be self-reliant. They should grow up to give, not to take.\r\n They should grow up to believe you are as good as you think for yourself. Prepare\r\n and optimally use whatever is within your own grasp, capacity and around.
\r\nDr Mona Desai, Immediate Past President, Indian Medical Association, WDW
\r\n• I feel every woman should standup for their rights and support each other. We should\r\n all practice and preach equality.
\r\ns Tripti Katiyar, Sr Space Scientist, ISRO
\r\n• Investing in women and girls has a multiplier effect on productivity, efficiency, and\r\n sustained economic growth and that increasing women's economic empowerment\r\n is central to the achievement of the Millennial Development Goals and to the\r\n eradication of poverty, the greatest global challenge facing the world today, and an\r\n indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
\r\nHardi Oza Patel, Travel Enthusiasts & Entrepreneur,
\r\n•Hardi is very fond of traveling, she has traveled to 72 countries in just 10 years,\r\n with a main objective is to provide an opportunity for people to see each country in\r\n depth. I am promoting toy tourism, rural and tribal tourism.
\r\nMs Sarita Dalal, Director, ROB, Ahmedabad,
\r\n• Women should be given more resources since childhood and should be taken proper\r\n care of, then only Women can lead the society in real terms.
\r\nMx Dhananjay Chauhan, Transgender Activist
\r\n• The awareness about 'Gender' is very bleak and faces obstruction from all facets of\r\n society, including the Kinnar community as they think that people like me who don't\r\n beg and live their life are perilous to their business of begging. It's important to\r\n remember that - One's caste or creed doesn't always structure them to a particular\r\n profession which goes on for ages.
\r\nCA Tripti Shinghal Somani, Co-Chair, ASSOCHAM Startup Council, CEO KGS\r\n Advisors & Founder - Womennovator
\r\n• Women have always been a strong source of energy to society and have the\r\n potential to empower others. Our energies must nee reflected and channelised in\r\n empowering each other and strengthen women hood. It's time we join hands to\r\n create real women GDP.
\r\nATTENDEES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
\r\nThe Session was attend by approximately 300 attendees along with 50 females from Gujarat\r\n Narmada Valley Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd (GNFC), Gujarat who attended this session live\r\n in their auditorium.
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1. Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS\r\n Special Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Co Operation\r\n Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\n2. Shri. Chiranjiv Choudhary, IFS\r\n Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\n3. Dr. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD,\r\n Department of Agriculture, Co Operation & Farmers Welfare.
\r\n4. Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, Chief General Manger,\r\n NABARD Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh
\r\n5. Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO\r\n Gubba Cold Storage
\r\n6. Dr. B Madhusudana Rao, M.V.Sc., Ph.D.\r\n Principal Scientist, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology\r\n Visakhapatanam, AP.
\r\n7. Dr. Giridhar Kirshana, M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D.\r\n Registrar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur, AP
\r\nBy Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS, Spl. Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and\r\n Co Operation, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\nThank you for having this very Important Webinar, as we all know that India is the 2nd world largest\r\ngroup in fruits and vegetables but we have a substance in Meat and Poultry in the recent research\r\nreport in the cold chain Industry in this sector 13 to 15% growing CAGI and set to reach 47, 000\r\nCrore by 2022. But it is not only the food product and also Bio Medical and Manufacturing which is\r\nanother key driver for the growth of Cold Controller of Supply Chain and also the trend that are\r\nactually driving growth of Supply Chain in India as well are may be consumer behavior and more\r\nconsumers are moving towards and that is getting preserved and this is getting promoted in\r\nConsumers and changing by the modern trade Super Markets. Which organize the food retail\r\ndemand Chain. Similarly the farmers are also now moving towards cultivation of fruits and\r\nvegetables which give them better deals and remunerative values. So moving to Agriculture and\r\nallied sectors, in these types of behavior consumer work and Farmer is also driving the\r\nrequirements of cold stores closer to the to the farms and farmers and in India predominant\r\nIndustry being Agriculture and farming the need on developing the supply Chain with focus on\r\nTemperature control and is highly disorganized interior base and completing with infrastructure and\r\ncold chain transport is equally important. We are aware that the Indian's present cold chain\r\npositioning as a very high share of single commodity cold storages particularly in Agriculture Sector.\r\nThere are also challenges in cold storage transport facilities and there is challenge in high initial\r\ninvestment paneling is covered with inadequate enabling Infrastructure like Road, Water Power\r\nSupply as well as drainages near to the farms and in the interior where actually the fruit and\r\nvegetable production is happening. In addition to this, there is also lack of awareness about\r\nhandling temperature sensitive goods and the challenge to an immediate need and an urgent need\r\nfor not only having network of modern multi chamber cold storage and cold transportation\r\ninfrastructure and also having safety with global standard of quality enhancing efficiency and\r\nInvestment and also need to create a reformed and trained work force to handle this. It is very\r\nimportant and very sensitive Industry move forward and we also assist it's impact on environment\r\nso that the climate foot prints of these activities remain well and within in the margin that would\r\nenable the long term sustainability. About Andhra Pradesh we are is 1 of the India's Largest\r\nconsumer foods and third largest producer of agriculture according to the Top Market report and
\r\ncold chain International Trade Administration. Around 25 to 30% what we produce ways to\r\nadequate cold chain infrastructure and 1% part of the losses in the current storage as well as in\r\ntransit. It is not only the fruits and vegetables we have a digital production of around 50 to 50.25\r\nmetric tons ranking 5th in India and also a study growth in Fish and Meat Industry in state of AP. We\r\nalso have 404 storage facilities that include fish and poultry efficient altering with installed capacity\r\nof 22.41 lakh Metric Tons and these are mostly used for storing Chilies and tamarind and also have\r\nfisheries storage pf 44 thousand metric tons per day and 5250 insulated vehicles on transport\r\nsector with 650 refrigerator vehicles. There is need to step up this and the existing sources of\r\nfunding for cold storage infrastructure and from 2011/12 has given infrastructure status and\r\nsubsidy is also there on cold storage budget cost and the key challenge is to bridge the gap in cold\r\nstorage ware housing capacity and only 25% of storage facility is available for food, vegetables,\r\nprocessed food and pharmaceuticals and 75% capacity is dedicated to 1or 2 crops in Chilies and\r\nTamarinds. AP Govt. has taken measures on the gaps to address by CM, and have Raith Baravasa\r\nKendra in every Village with 10732 Kendra in the state of AP which are handled by Agri &\r\nHorticulture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry graduates and this kind of man power we have is not\r\nthere in any other state. Now the govt. is producing large number of FPO'S and will become very\r\nimportant component in handling this and this work force are well trained. The Raitha Baravasa\r\nKendra have major 3 pillars like knowledge capacity building 2nd is all farmers are connected to the\r\ninternet so can reach them through various modules with TV connectivity and iPad which is given to\r\nall the workers and next step is to train the farmers and how to produce the crops on the first level\r\nhandling of the crops which is called primary processing and also coming with multipurpose facility\r\ncenters which will have collection centers and also wet storage go downs and 400 places to start\r\nwith and cold storage go downs will be established at the Farm gate so at the large extent will fill\r\nneed of filling gaps of taking the cold storage to the Farm gate in agriculture is very crucial and\r\nsimilarly in Fisheries. Addition to this secondary processing centers are coming at 25 location in the\r\nstate of AP. And also coming up with 175 Aqua Hubs with cold storage facility with a refrigerated\r\ntransport system which will carry from farms to Aqua hubs to Aqua Hub retails and so the entire\r\nback end forth will be covered from farmers to the producers and all this are taken from Agri Infra\r\nFund and Large number of this Projects are funded by NABARD. Similarly bulk milk cooling units will\r\nalso come along with automatic mill collection Units al this are estimated with 3678 crores. And this\r\nwill give good network for the 9000 add villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Food processing\r\npolicy has recently released by AP govt. where the govt. itself investing in Infrastructure\r\ndevelopment at 25 location on plug and play model where investors can come to AP and start\r\nprocessing plants. In addition to this 170 crore program is there and a market called Janatha Bazar\r\nand this market has also have cold storage facilities as well as link to secondary process centers\r\nwhere all processing foods can come and also from aqua center to this Markets. AT 10,000 crores\r\ninvestment are coming 10, 600 locations and entire supply chain has large extent both in\r\nvegetables and fruits and also in Food Grains and also in Fisheries and Aqua from the govt. side
\r\nAnd all are worked closely with NABARD and other banker friends. And the universities are playing\r\nvery important role in this as back bone when the technologies are concerned and also happy to\r\ninform program will start by March 21 and will be able to complete in 24 months' time and this\r\npoint of time these are the things are happening from AP Govt. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, CGM, NABARD, Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh
\r\nWe congrats ASSOCHAM for organizing this webinar on cold chain Industry, as a challenging subject\r\nand really thank you and making NABARD as its partner I his particular webinar. In the recent\r\neconomy service table department has highlighted the India's Agriculture sector has shown the\r\nresilience and growth rate of 3 to 3.5% and this was the only industry was growing at the pandemic\r\nand especially food processing sector has done very well. One side India is producing lot foods and\r\nother side lots of food is wasted, so in this area we have the cold storage has a big role where as in\r\nthe past the challenges simply supply addictive food and in the future the challenge will be to\r\nprovide optimal nutrients genetic profile and that's the challenges will take place. So we need to\r\ntake this challenge and work in this process. The operation links in 2015-16 stood at 146.45 Million\r\nof which 85% are small and marginal farmer and operational size of 1% has reduces to .08 Hector.\r\nThere are good number of people and again the cold storage place a big role here because the\r\nwastage can be stopped here and farmers can get the better price for their produce. The\r\nAgriculture enterprise during covid -19 has recommended that the use of the crises as an impetus to\r\nthe crises to strengthen the institutional capacity of association to enhance the little more to\r\nincome to small farmers. The GOI schemes like PM Schemes has good number of subsidies project\r\nand they have taken up in large scale to name the few Mega food park, Integrated cold chain,\r\nInfrastructure for cluster development for backward linkages, creation for expansion of food\r\nprocessing and preservation capacities and operation Greens. So many schemes has been floated\r\nhere even though it is launched 6 years ago the takeoff id not to that extent. One more change is\r\nthe essential commodities amendment act 2020, which remove a commodity like a serial sponsor\r\nfrom the essential commodities and these are the very big step taken by the govt. legislation will\r\nhelp to drive up in more investment in storage and modernization of the full supply. Now coming to\r\nthe cold chain industry there's the way the farmer produced then it is stored and transported and\r\nthen it is marketed. We find some issues in this regard produce there is absolutely no problem\r\nwhere we can say we are producing surplus to export. After produce we need to store and has\r\nbecome a problem. To overcome this required to take up just to not to encourage farmers to to\r\nproduce 1 type of crop so that they can crop another type. It can be eliminated to price and it will\r\nbe good for all. There are few challenges in this particular industry. Here you required large amount\r\nof finance, the cost of goods storage is very high it cannot be in a small scale and another thing is\r\nthe main cold storage keeping in the view the climate the Energy business that is very high and that\r\nis the biggest challenge for crop selection for a particular area for particular format. It is policy
\r\nshould be taken by the state and Central. So that every farmer they produce as per the plan of the\r\ngovt. so that there won't be any problem and also not excess. Here it is observed who are managing\r\nthe cold storage they do not have proper knowledge at even normal standards and also the hygiene\r\nhas not done which we need to look for. The challenges here is capacity building Institution which\r\ncan forward and look into the different challenges here. Training on operation and skilling is\r\nrequired and NABARD will give necessary support for such trainings and for giving capacity\r\nbuilding. In India we are having maximum of single crop or single commodity cold storages when\r\nthe govt. earlier have floated subsidies and has given good number subsidies around 50laks and so.\r\nAll the entrepreneurs who take up the cold storage is they used construct the multi chamber that\r\nwas the big issue practically look into that multi chambers were used for single commodity so very\r\npurpose of stating that we lost. We need to look into this. It won't be a revenue relative to the cold\r\nstorage owners though the rent they take which has been fixed as there is a rotation of 2 to 3\r\ntimes. The economic will be better rather than keeping in single commodity for all after the 2,3\r\nmonths it is vacated some cleaning operation are taken up and this is the big challenge here where\r\nwe need look for. The Instance moment of India there is a Geo Tagging for all Agri. Infrastructure\r\nalmost in completion stage. More than 1 lac Agri. Infrastructure are available in India as gathered\r\nthere are 4400 cold storages are available and AP have 240 Cold Storages and operational cost and\r\nawake need look into alternative power like solar for the cold storages. According to NCCD Data we\r\nhave there is the tremendous gap we found in cold storages and we request to bankers to support\r\nthe reformer again and again so the produce can be saved and made more economical. Lastly 1st is\r\nthe different fund from NABARD Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and NABARD\r\nInfrastructure Development Fund and these funds can be given to the Govt. and govt. owned\r\ncorporations so that they can take more structures can be set up in district or villages so farmers\r\nwill be benefited and Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund are conditional funds and also on\r\nFisheries and Aqua Development Funds as we have huge demand in AP as we are developing lot of\r\nFisheries hope govt. will use this particular fund. We also Have Food Processing Fund as this funds\r\nare available at nominal rates and anyone interested in buying Infrastructure will be helpful. These\r\nstructure couldn't because of high cost. The GOI recently announced 3% intervention for the\r\nborrower who take the Agri. Infrastructure activity for the next 3 to 4 Years. NABARD has 5000\r\ncrores for supporting the Agri. Infrastructure will be given to the primary Agri. Co Operative\r\nSocieties rather directly to the borrowers and under this window we are supporting AP govt. 1500\r\ncrore for this process. In the state of AP we have formed 300 Farmers produce organizations and\r\nthese are the different schemes from NABARD and Thank you.
\r\nShri. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD
\r\nGood Morning, the very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some\r\npoints of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building & Employment Generation\r\nthrough Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or\r\nAgriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these\r\nthe theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the\r\nskill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon.\r\nAs said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects\r\nand they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be\r\nsome direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved which benefit the\r\n260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about\r\n325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and\r\nVegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing\r\nmanually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to\r\nexport Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India\r\nis authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering\r\nall this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the\r\nbetter price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing\r\npost-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses\r\nincluding during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in\r\nthe field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the\r\ndining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model\r\nthat we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable\r\nmostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to\r\nspoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits\r\nand vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also\r\nhigher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has\r\nto be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of\r\nthe producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate
\r\nand these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment\r\ncontrolled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes\r\nnear farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In\r\nHorticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable\r\nproduce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. So each crop has a specific requirement\r\ntemperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector\r\nwise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining\r\n2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma's, 5% is\r\nused for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and\r\nMeat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold\r\nStorage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need\r\nto look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and\r\nsubcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening\r\nrequire is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different\r\nefforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in\r\ncreation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries\r\n(MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in\r\nthe policy. It's important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the\r\nvision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the\r\nlosses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently\r\nannounced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the\r\ngaps. GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial\r\nInstitutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO's,\r\nAgri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore\r\navailable for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for\r\nrepayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under\r\nsec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting & Grading Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility,\r\nProjects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming\r\nassets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for\r\nEmployment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but\r\nthere are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the\r\ndomain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in\r\nignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of\r\ndomain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused\r\ndevelopment of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs\r\nlike entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also\r\nsend for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain\r\nsector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level,\r\ngovt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO's\r\nand skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like\r\nsensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank\r\nyou.
\r\nShri Chiranjiv, Choudhary, IFS, Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
\r\nGood Morning, talking about some of the practical issues and experience we have seen and little initiative what we\r\ntaken in for this, the overall infrastructure availability in the state of AP, the data base in the last 5 years has a substantial\r\nprogress and there has been a lot of awareness amongst various stakeholders and there are positive indication that thy\r\ndemand has increased and we are trying to live up to the demand. There are initiative in tune with the latest trends in cold\r\nchain industry like Modernization/ Retrofitting of existing Infrastructure. No of cold storage has been modernized with the\r\nhigh speed engines and PUF Insulation. Use of sophisticated machinery and equipment. Setting up of multi commodity cold\r\nstorage rather than conventional single commodity storage. Modern Pack Houses with integrated facility. Ripening Facility.\r\nEnergy efficient and new storage technology. Development of integrated Cargo complexes to handle all kinds of good's ,\r\nincluding perishables. Shift from unorganized to organized Market. Focus on development end to end cold chain and not just\r\nstorage. Recently in coordination with TATA Trust, we have gone ahead with the establishment of this and it is Biomass\r\ntechnology. It is a complete integrated system where starching grading and collection center and it is a multipurpose and\r\ngetting installed and will be operational by end of this month. We are looking cost effective technology where it can reduce\r\nthe cost of the service providers and cost in the producers who use it. No of Grid connected Solar PV Panel Systems to\r\nreduce the power consumption charges. Challenges what we seen is Insufficient market survey. High Initial capital cost with\r\nincreasing cost of land. Land availability at suitable Locations. Cumbersome procedure for accessing Bank Credit. Lack of\r\nadequate and reliable power supply. Outdated technology and conventional single commodity storage. Lack of coordination\r\nbetween monitoring quality and Food Safety Systems. Lack of Skilled Personnel. Lack of Reefer Transport. Looking all these\r\nchallenges we need to focus on technologies which are also cost effective. So the back end produce Fruits and Vegetables\r\nwhere the ingredients are washing and packing everything we done are created by our own. Support of GOI, set of Officers\r\nare authorized as issuing authority and locally the officers are able to identify. The Opportunities are Farm Level/ Village\r\nlevel Small scales units with alternate energy Sources. Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and consequent higher returns. Utilization\r\nof Railway Network. Creation/Strengthen of Cold Chain Infrastructure will not only encourage only Farmers but also promote\r\nentrepreneurship among the youth. Creates direct and in direct Employment for Skilled and Un Skilled Youth and creates\r\nbetter standard of Living. PPP Project. Promotion of R&D. Reduced CO2 emission leading to reduced carbo foot print and\r\ncleaner Environment and these are the game changing thing. The Way Forward are Development of Common Infrastructure\r\nfor Multi Commodity Storage in order to give unrestricted access to small Farmers. Technology Development at low cost\r\ntechnologies to be developed to address the problems of local Supply Chain and low cost small capacity Reefer Trucks to be\r\ndeveloped to connect. Projects are to be considered without Credit Linkage for self-Finances Projects may be considered.
\r\nEven NBFC should be considered for the new projects. PPP should be promote to undertake the emerging new technologies.\r\nReduction of GST on Processed Foods and Vegetables from 5 to 0&. Strengthening the cold chain Infrastructure at all Airports\r\nand Sea Ports. Gamma Irradiation facilities is very much required to promote Export of Fruits and Vegetables. Incentivizing\r\nthe front end Infrastructure for small players and these are the experience and key area if you really know the farmers to get\r\nknow proportionate returns to their hard work. Thank you we look forward the suggestion from all of you as you all know\r\nthe Horticulture is also of the Hub of AP with the largest producer of Fruits and with 60 to 70 % of Food production from AP\r\nand we require Guidance, Support, Innovative Ideas from all of you. Thank you.
\r\nShri. Gubba Kiran, CEO, Gubba Cold Storage, Hyderabad
\r\nThank you for the given opportunity to speak, the strategic perspective of a Cold Chain Industry opportunities &\r\nChallenges.
\r\nWe have established in 1987 with a 500 modest capacity in terms of volume we are growing up largest in the\r\ncountry we in the last 20 years we have diversified ourselves from a normal regular cold storage to the state of\r\nthe facilities which is probably less than 5% of Indian Industry size. We have l15 probably less than 1% Indian\r\nCooling Industry is having such facilities supported Euro Pallet track Supported facility set up in 2008 for the\r\nIndustry. The cream, butter, Meats and the Fruits like Apple Orange are stored in these type of storage facility.\r\nThese are little high in Capital because the high value products absorb this checklists. Block Stocking Multi Level\r\nCold Storage - 2 Ton Jumbo Bag those are the block tracking each bag is 2 ton there are baffles and non-baffles\r\ninside the cold storage so we can create and give it back to client supply chain become fast and easy. These\r\nfacility are available in developed countries but in India slowly the culture is staring beginning.
\r\nWhen the Industry seed of Volume is growing the optimization was needed and that is how we started\r\noptimization optimizing this facility and operation is faster and easier cost of packing decreases and in total look
\r\nat the cost of the packages versus a gunny bag should be less and manpower savings so all put\r\ntogether it make sense to optimize the Cold Storage facilities. We should also have Web enabled\r\nInventory Monitoring System in the cold storage for the client if the client sends 3 trucks of chilies\r\nwith good premium quality with the purchase from various vendors so the client will be knowing\r\nabout his stock monitoring. So the Indian cold chain industry is slowly gearing up and doing such\r\nenabled Inventory system. They are slowly migrating from typical Excel and going beyond. The client sit and\r\nsee by a click of a button anywhere and we are doing since 10 years. By doing Inventory Audit couple of things\r\nthe SOP's should be right or less it will a great challenge and there is increase in Man Power, increase in system\r\nthere is an impact in the bottom line so when we plant with such Inventory Management system, such things\r\npay back maintain the stock accurately and giving back right feed back to the client. The various reports which\r\nwill inspire the clients like Product Expiry Report, FIFO Report, Automated Previous day Transaction Report,\r\nStock Report (Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly), Space Utilization Report, Transaction Mail/SMS, Monthly Audit Report,\r\nAir Monitoring Report, Temperature Mapping Report. It has to collective effort in bringing out this aspect to the\r\ncold storage owners. There are 95% unorganized sector dose error by keeping vegetables in required\r\ntemperature so they have to face the cost reduction at the end at least by 30% and finally they lose the value on\r\nthe investment. So we need to bring such Management quality systems into the cold storage Industry with real\r\ntime access of temperature & Humidity and we need to adhere to Rodent Management system in the Cold\r\nStorage Industry. It is better to have certification because that will have system and structure in place when\r\nAuditor comes in will question when you don't have certification especially pharma should have GDP guideline\r\nfor storage facility and safety measures to be adhered strictly. Thank you.
\r\nShri Madhusudan Rao, Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, (ICAR)
\r\nThanks for the opportunity, CFTI has been working in the area of post-harvest in fisheries, we are responsible for\r\nsustainable Fishing resilient Fishing and also to maintain the quality. There are several characters to spoilage\r\nand affecting food perishability. One fourth of the world food supply and 30% of Landed Fish are lost through\r\nmicrobial activity alone like External Condition, Product Conditions, and Biochemical and Microbiological\r\ndistraction, Contamination of Food by Microorganisms pesticides and adulterants. Rancid flavor warmed over\r\nFlavor change of Texture. Food Borne Diseases. There are several process of preservation methods Thermal\r\nprocessing and Non Thermal Processing, in Thermal Processing Baking, Frying, Ohmic Heating, Microwave, Radio\r\nFrequency, Infrared, Drying, Extrusion. In Non-Thermal Processing Chilling, Freezing, Freeze Dying, High\r\nPressure Processing, Pulsed Electric Field, Pulsed Light, Ultrasound, Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ozone ,\r\nEradication, Gas, Cold Plasma. The basic difference as far as Fish is concerned, it is necessary to preserve the\r\nFish 0 degree centigrade after the catch as it's spoilage is very fast. There are two types of store like chilled\r\nstore and cold store especially for the Fish Industry and the freezing of Fish happens with slow Freezing and\r\nRapid Freezing. At the time of Harvest Capture and preprocessing the temperature should be -4 degree and time\r\nof processing, storage or distribution it should be -18 degree. And these two things should be maintained\r\nweather it is for consumer consumption or for Export Market. AS per the dept. of Fisheries trends in Indian Fish\r\nProduction India is the second Largest Fish producer in the world with 125.9 lakh Tones of production in 2017-\r\n18. In that Marine Fish production was 36.88 Lakh Tons and Inland Fish 89.02 Lakhs Tons with the contribution\r\nof 1,33,492 crores. There are impressive growth in Indian Fisheries Export in 2019-20 the 6679 million US\r\nDollar. The cold chain Fisheries the maximum exports are Frozen Foods is the mainstay of sea food exports from\r\nIndia at the quantity of 10,55,310 tons with the value of 42,600 crore. Fish produced in India is marketed mainly\r\nas Fresh/ Chilled Fish and Frozen Fish. At CFTI we have the system where the consumer can get the information\r\nabout the product depending upon the changing the color of the dot you can have a visual assessment weather\r\nthe fish is being sold or in good condition or they are ready to eat and these dot will help the consumer. In AP\r\nthe most of the production is coming from Inland Aqua culture. ICAR-CIFT has developed a refrigeration enabled\r\nfish vending kiosks to improve the handling and marketing practices of Fisher Folks. This Kiosk is found favorable\r\nand affordable to small scale and retail fish vendors and all the harbors need to have chilling facility. Availability\r\nof good Ice should be there at all Fishing harbors so it is useful for processing the Fish then we need to have\r\nrefrigerator display cabinet for the markets and the shipment of chilled fish will be having a very less shellfire\r\nright from the point of catch through the processing and packing and distribution then the only it is enable us to\r\nget the good quality of fish. I conclude here. Thank you. .
\r\nShri. Giridhar Krishna, Registrar, Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur
\r\nThanks for ASSOCHAM for giving opportunity, I think we play a very important role by educating the students\r\non Agriculture and other in the Industry Sector pertaining to the Farmer. So this is the important subject at the\r\npresent situation especially agriculture commodities. We have seen last year even during post pandemic we\r\nshould all compliment the farmer who was there outside all the time in the fields and produced food for the\r\npopulation which was actually closed doors due to this corvid pandemic. So here our Agriculture University HQ\r\nat Guntur, is serving the research needs and Education needs to the 13 districts of AP and Agriculture Research\r\ncenter nearly 32 no's in these 13 districts and we have 13 University KVK's and 8 to 10 NGO's KVK's which are\r\nunder technical control of our University working the districts and every districts we have Data Centers so we\r\nare working as liaison as state govt. Initiated 10,000 and odd Raita Barawasa Kendra( RBK) so our 2 scientist are\r\nsituated at 2 districts working as liaison district resource center looking after the needs of these RBK's. at district\r\nlevel and at education side we have 8 Agriculture collages and 6 private collages established last year. So the\r\ncold chain Management our university have specialized courses especially in Under Graduate courses. So lack of\r\nstorage facility and also long distance travel by keeping temperature control of quality foods. So India is\r\ndependent 70% on Agriculture and so we need to know how best we should understand to reduce the losses\r\nthrough this cold chain and also establishing the facility also bringing a fresh produce from the field from the\r\nfarmer's production site it to the consumer's outlet apart from the Meat, Fish and milk. So we have Milk chilling\r\ncenters especially in the production of milk side is very tailor made and farmer produce milk is reaching the\r\nconsumer with all the support from govt. and all the private industries which is reaching to the consumer.\r\nSimilarly all the agriculture producers right from the farmer production site in the field it should reach the\r\nconsumer and the farmer should get benefited because of this cold chain facility established at different centers.\r\nIf the RBK are connected to the cold chain or supply chain facilities by giving time to store his produce at this\r\nplace for longer time so he can sell at a better price later on at a cost effective cold storage facility will benefit\r\nthe farmers. Similarly AP we are seeing farmer will be producing the tomato and onion with limited water
\r\nfacility and we farmer comes to the market the glut will be there through Imports and finally not able\r\nto sell his produce and transportation cost not able to meet finally will be throwing away his produce\r\nby leaving away his profit. So these kind of things require maximum attention if we can established\r\nthe cold chain facility near to the farmer's production areas. In Krishi Vignana Kendra we are building\r\nthe capacity of the farmers to adopt the latest technologies by training them we are also evaluating\r\ncertain technologies in farmer fields so that he can transmit the same to other farmer. Around 6 years back\r\nIndian council of Agriculture Research has conducted a program called ARYA. KVK are training the youth farmers\r\nto retain them in Agriculture in villages by making profitable and be a profession and also by using the cold chain\r\ntechnologies by training them for 3 to 6 months and we can generate the skilled employment so that they will\r\nbe given opportunity like alternate employment. Farm Mechanization is doing by Agri. Engg. For ease of doing\r\nAgriculture with the help of this implements. In the seed supply chain it is for Agriculture from the university\r\nside we are producing breeder seed which is a pure seed from that again Foundation seeds and certified seeds\r\nwill be supplied to the farmers the vital seed which is viable to the next season if this cold chain or cold storage\r\nfacility is there they are extended at the villages' level so farmer can definitely can store the seed with a normal\r\ncost and viable and germination is not affected. Thank you.\r\nEND.
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', '', '', 'roadmapevent.jpg', 'national-education-policy', 1, 0, '2021-01-08', '2021-01-08', '', '', 0, 27, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (126, 'Changing the Dynamics of Health Insurance', 'ASSOCHAM in partnership with Government of Manipur hosted a session on Business Opportunities at\r\n ITSEZ, Manipur on 22nd June, 2021', 'ASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on Changing Dynamics of Health Insurance on June 15th 2021. The \r\n welcome address was given by Navneet Doda, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Insurance Sub Council East and \r\n General Manager & Director, National Insurance Co. Ltd. where he welcomes all the distinguished speaker \r\n and said the pandemic has left its mark on almost all industries and sectors across the spectrum, including \r\n health insurance. While the pandemic is still showing no signs of abatement, we are somewhat able to \r\n forecast its impact in the health insurance industry in the near and mid-term future with enough cues \r\n from the past quarter's data. The industry has witnessed a massive shift towards digitalisation. Not only \r\n has the need for digital distribution strategies become significant, the nature of services has also triggered \r\n the need for a reliance on digital processes across the spectrum: whether they are underwriting processes \r\n or processes related to issuing policies or filing claims. Considering the disconcerting uncertainty around \r\n treatment expenses for Covid-19, the variance in treatment protocols and lack of standardisation of costs \r\n and expenses, that are witnessed significantly higher claim costs than those generally associated with \r\n infectious illnesses and epidemics and there is no ready answer. The challenge is accuracy in predicting \r\n the impact on healthcare expenses and consequently the claims book
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\r\nMinistry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change
\r\nGovernment of India
\r\nASSOCHAM Eastern Region organized a webinar on ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE \r\n (ESG) - RESILIENCE" on 23rd June, 2021. Guest of Honor of the event was Dr. Sujit Kumar Bajpayee, \r\n Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. Key \r\n discussion of the program were a strong ESG proposition help create enormous business value across \r\n the enterprise, Sustainable practices, Readiness of India Inc: Restructuring and Business Strategies and \r\n Carbon Negative Roadmap.
', '', '', 'eventimage.jpg', 'Environmental-Social-Governance-(ESG)-Resilience', 1, 0, '2021-06-23', '2021-06-23', '', '', 0, 27, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (128, 'Interactive Session with Bikram Kumar Das, State Engagement Officer-West \r\n Bengal, Jharkhand and A & N Island, National Skill Development Corporation', 'ASSOCHAM Eastern region has organized a conference on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day \"An \r\n Interactive Session with Bikram Das, State Engagement Officer, West Bengal and, Jharkhand \r\n & A & N Island, National Skills Development"\\ ', 'ASSOCHAM Eastern region has organized a conference on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day \"An \r\n Interactive Session with Bikram Das, State Engagement Officer, West Bengal and, Jharkhand \r\n & A & N Island, National Skills Development"\\
\r\nBeing that webinar was held across the subject matter of Upskilling Bikram Das commenced via way \r\n of means of first emphasizing the significance of upskilling the Indian populace at some stage in those \r\n instances, he cited all of the partnership's the authorities' been having with agencies which includes \r\n WhiteHat, Unacademy, Britannica to call a few. This might assist the stakeholder with inside the future, \r\n Initiatives which includes E-Skill India is encouraging the young people to upskill themselves with the \r\n converting global with a purpose to preserve competitiveness with different international locations and \r\n to make certain this initiative reaches some distance nook of India and to make certain most participation \r\n the authorities has made this software FREE OF COST. He additionally in brief pointed out the District \r\n Skill Committee in which committees might be installation in each and every district to make \r\n certain right popularity and nurturing takes place in those parts.
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\r\nKumar, Joint Secretary (Seed), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India\r\n ASSOCHAM Eastern region has organized a webinar on Agri inputs and its challenges entitled as "Paradigm Shift \r\n on Agri Inputs: Challenges and A Way Forward" held on 1st July 2021 at (3: 00 - 05:00) PM on Virtual Mode. The \r\n virtual event was inaugurated by Shri Parshottambhai Rupala, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture & \r\n Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Shri Ashwini Kumar, Joint Secretary (Seed), Ministry of Agriculture & \r\n Farmers Welfare, Government of India was invited as Special guest. Aayush Marodia, Co-Chairman, \r\n ASSOCHAM Agriculture Sub Council Eastern Region gave welcome address. During the course of discussions, \r\n respected Industry members/Panelists highlighted some of the key challenges and also gave a recommendation \r\n to Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. The Minister ensured that the government \r\n would try its level best to address all the issues being faced by the industry. Shri Ashwini Kumar informed that \r\n government is looking to produce newer varieties of seeds in the PPP mode with the association in the pulses and \r\n oil seeds sectors and develop them to make our country self-reliant
', '', '', 'agriinput.jpg', 'Paradigm-Shift-on-Agri-Inputs-Challenges-Way-Forward', 1, 0, '2021-07-01', '2021-07-01', '', '', 0, 27, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'); INSERT INTO `events` (`id`, `title`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `registration`, `reg_link`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `start_time`, `end_time`, `sector_id`, `region_id`, `priority`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (130, 'Taxation Challenges & Industry Preparedness', 'ASSOCHAM organized a webinar on Taxation Challenges and Industry Preparedness on 18th June, 2021. \r\n Welcome address was given by Ashis Nundy, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Financial Services Sub Council, \r\n East', 'N C Guriya, Asst. Commissioner, State GST
\r\nJ P Lhaitan, Senior Advocate
\r\nASSOCHAM organized a webinar on Taxation Challenges and Industry Preparedness on 18th June, 2021. \r\n Welcome address was given by Ashis Nundy, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Financial Services Sub Council, \r\n East. The eminent speakers of the program were Pulak Saha, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Taxation and \r\n Compliance Sub Council, Ramesh Patodia, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM Taxation and Compliance Sub \r\n Council, J P Khaitan, Senior Advocate, N C Guriya, Asst. Commissioner, State GST. The discussion \r\n was on the basis industry preparedness, Exemptions and benefits to employers for creation of benevolent \r\n funds & extension of time line for unabsorbed business loss, Recent Supreme Court Suo Motu Order on \r\n limitation and GST Departmental Audit.
', '', '', 'taxationevent.jpg', 'Taxation-Challenges-Industry-Preparednes', 1, 0, '2021-06-18', '2021-06-18', '', '', 0, 27, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (131, 'Connecting the Fragmented Supply Chain', 'Logistics Supply Chain is critical for social and economic reasons and amidst the current situation it's the \r\n need of the hour to ensure essentials supplies reach each and every corner of the country.', 'Logistics Supply Chain is critical for social and economic reasons and amidst the current situation it's the \r\n need of the hour to ensure essentials supplies reach each and every corner of the country. From \r\n Railways to Air , Surface to Waterways all the agencies are committed to support the end consumers \r\n however a supply chain crisis is fast emerging and is impacting movement of goods of essentials , related \r\n industries as well as deliveries to the end users across India. The logistic sector robustness is essential to \r\n support raw material procurement to delivery of final goods for regional, national and international \r\n trade. Disruption in the movement of goods weakens the network and disrupts both forward and \r\n backward integration.
\r\nConsidering the issues of Indian logistics sector across multimodal transportation and the challenges of \r\n movement of goods across the states and within the municipalities, ASSOCHAM initiated a national \r\n meet of senior government officers across eastern, southern, western and northern region with key \r\n industry stakeholders. ASSOCHAM Senior Vice President Vineet Agarwal opened the session with \r\n his welcome remarks and stated that challenging time such as these requires exception solutions. He \r\n thank government for the supporting the sector while touching upon the demanding ground realities of \r\n the logistic sectors. Interstate movements and other issues have impacted the sector and several \r\n carriers are yet to reach the destinations originally planned.
\r\nThe program was divided in two panels , Chief Guest of the day N Sivasailam, IAS, Special Secretary \r\n Logistics, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India was joined by M T Krishna Babu, IAS , \r\n Principal Secretary Transport, Govt of Andhra Pradesh , Gitte Kirankumar Dinkarrao, IAS, Secretary \r\n Industries and Commerce, Government of Tripura, Vivek Pandey, IAS, Commissioner, Trade and \r\n Taxes, Government of NCT of Delhi (State nodal officer for E-commerce and Pan Indian Companies) and \r\n to share industry perspective R S Sodhi, MD, Amul Federation along with Harpreet Singh \r\n Malhotra, CMD, Tiger Logistics Limited joined in.
\r\nPanel 1 Cross Border Transportation - Enhancing Smooth Operations
\r\nThe session focusing on interstate movement, effective logistic operations began with an address from \r\n R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Amul Federation and he talked of the challenge of the milk sector \r\n where logistics begin with the collection of milk from farmers. He stated that initial challenge was how \r\n to collect the milk from farmers and then to bring it the cooperative plants and then to move it to \r\n several states of the country through 5000 road milk tankers and amidst lockdown such massive \r\n operation and transportation was a major challenge. Being a perishable product with shelf life of about \r\n 2 days initial teething problems were of concern however constant reaching out effort to state \r\n authorities paved way to the problem of transportation.
\r\nHe also shared how railways service has been extensively used by Amul during this time to handle the \r\n situation. He expressed desire of clarity in communication at down the line in administrative setups \r\n across state to help ease the stress of the movement of the essential goods.
\r\nTo share perspective of a leading southern region state, M T Krishna Kumar IAS - Principal \r\n Secretary, Department of Transport, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh spoke at the various efforts taken by his \r\n government to ease movement within the state as well as support interstate movement.
\r\n1. The Government of AP has set-up a call centre (1902) to help the inter district and state \r\n transport sector, so far the state has addressed more than 55,000 calls. The Government of AP \r\n has also set-up a command centre in each districts to help the movement of essential supplies \r\n and goods. The AP transport department has set-up a WhatsApp group to address the inter \r\n state challenges and issues - southern states have been actively participating to address the \r\n concerns.
\r\n2. The inter state observed only 25% of essential commodities movement in the state during the \r\n lockdown. The AP Government has created an online portal to apply for e-passes for the various \r\n sectors related to essential category. Also, an online grievance system to address issues and \r\n concerns, so far the state has addressed more than 34,000 requests.
\r\n3. The Secretary was happy to share that the State Government was able to approve the SLA's with \r\n in two hours. The state and district officials trying best to mobilize labour movement with in the \r\n state to restart the work in relation to essential supplies and manufactures. The AP government \r\n is looking forward for a graded relaxation in green zones to restart the economic activity post \r\n lockdown.
\r\nVivek Pandey, IAS, Commissioner, Trade and Taxes, Government of NCT of Delhi (State nodal officer \r\n for E-commerce and Pan Indian Companies), while sharing the tasks already implemented by Delhi state \r\n such as epasses, whatsapp group, easy access via phone lines , Pandey invited ASSOCHAM members \r\n for inputs on further efficiency and improvement by the services as may be desired by the industry \r\n members.
\r\nHe further added that Delhi has accepted epasses issues by neighbouring states such as Haryana,\r\n Rajashtan to ease the movement. Delhi has also started the concept of self e-passes by large responsible \r\n organizations to help ease the movement of goods and people within the states as well as permit \r\n movement of goods from neighouring states. Appreciating the fact that supply chain is complex and if \r\n any bit of it broken it has long lasting impact, he admitted there was initially a gap in communication \r\n where local authorities at the level of policeman were taking a while to interpret things differently \r\n hwoever with collective effort of all the matter is resolved is to great extend and not trucks are being \r\n stopped for interstate movement. He even raised concern on labour issues being faced as labours have \r\n moved out and the new recruitment and training is a challenge for transportation companies.
\r\nHarpreet Singh Malhotra, CMD, Tiger Logistics Limited shared his thoughts from the perspective of \r\n international logistics. He stated initial issues existed as there was no clarity; clearance took longer \r\n however things have improved. The major issue which is being faced is that there are high charges laid \r\n in by shipping line. Another problem is with the detention of export containers. He raised other issues \r\n such as liquidity and expected support from government agencies as well as large logistics companies to \r\n join hands to support smaller partners to sustain well
\r\nChief Guest of the day N Sivasailam, IAS, Special Secretary Logistics, Ministry of Commerce, \r\n Government of India, echoed the voice of speakers and laid emphasis on the participative culture and \r\n invited institution such as ASSOCHAM to take up the responsibilities of managing the Covid-19 \r\n situations. In his words the industry is better understood by institutions such as ASSOCHAM and other \r\n similar bodies and collectively these institutions should aim at creating a portal for the nation to support \r\n logistics industry so that any transporter or any service in the remotest of the location can reach the \r\n portal for help. Specifically with regard to Epasses he appreciated the app based concept by AITWA , but \r\n encourage ASSOCHAM and other bodies to take up the task of issuing e-passes. He stated the Epasses, \r\n E-invoicing by shiping industry is the future and is here to stay although it all became a quick reality \r\n because of Covid 19.
\r\nSecond Panel titled \\"Learning from states-railways, interstate transportation"\\ had presence of Dr K K \r\n Dwivedi, IAS, Commissioner and Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Government of Assam, K R \r\n Jyothilal, IAS, Principal Secretary Transport, General Administration, Revenue(Devaswom), Government \r\n of Kerala, Rajan Satardekar, Director Transport, Govt of Goa, Mahendra Arya, BE, MIE, President, \r\n All India Transporters\' Welfare Association, Samir J Shah, Partner JBS Group and inputs were taken \r\n from Prashant Sahu, Principal Chief Commissioner of South Eastern Railways
\r\nInitiating the session to share state perspective , K R Jyothilal, IAS, Prinicipal Secretary, Transport, \r\n General Administration, Revenue ( Devaswom), Govt of Kerala, said
\r\n1. Covid-19 is a great lesson to all of us. The truck movement has reduced from 2500 to 900 and he \r\n also mentioned first in the country to open Whatsup group between industry members to Govt.
\r\n2. Using Data & Technology for long distance carrying Pulses through Rail and Telangana helped \r\n Kerala Govt in helping to carry the Pulses to APMC from the Last mile.
\r\n3. GPS is implemented with all trucks to track the movement and also to implement 'Vahan \r\n Sarathi"\\ and also to trust people by issuing passes to their people.
\r\n4. To understand the Milling and warehouse stocks and also to ease the business for loading and \r\n unloading places in the last mile.
\r\n5. Screening is done at all ports, Airports and Railways for drivers.
\r\nDr K K Dwivedi, IAS , commissioner and Secretary Govt of Assam , while talking with regard to the\r\n support mechanism set by Government of ASSAM , there is no permission required, once self \r\n declaration by the organsiaiton to DM that all the necessary guidelines are being followed is good \r\n enough to start functioning.
\r\nHe shared statistics of 300 rakes being brought in to the state and movement of 24 thousand trucks \r\n being used to move goods with in the state and to neihbouring states. He shared that warehouses and \r\n other key operations are being permitted that include tea auction. However he stated owing to other \r\n reasons such as capital, labour shortage it's only about 2% of industry that has opened up. Responding \r\n to concern of logistics hub operations requiring transshipment centers be opened up , he stated such \r\n facility are open. He invited specific matter if pending be brought to the notice of government.
\r\nIn response to the query of movement of non essential by train service to Assam he reiterated that the \r\n service is open by rail for both essential and non essential into the state.
\r\nRajan Satardekar, Director of Transport, Government of Goa, talked of several steps taken in the \r\n state of Goa that included supporting migrant labour with accommodation to stop spreading \r\n coronavirus as well as use them for services of industry within the state that require functioning as per \r\n the guidelines of Govt. One of the key features was to extend permission to functional managers in the \r\n states to issues passes. Proactive steps of ensuring well trained staff, ensuring supply of essentials right \r\n up to the door steps helped state control the spread and is now working towards revival of the economy
\r\nSamir J Shah, Partner JBS Group stated that ground realities are different as there is a wide variety \r\n of industry community which is into exports. The larger organizations that have access to the police, \r\n bureaucrats have been able to find the solutions and one can say that they have found a good solution \r\n to receive goods and get staff daily. Whereas, the major chunk of medium enterprises are finding it very \r\n difficult to operate. In spite of all the efforts being done by the administration, we are noticing that if we \r\n look at any of the major facilities, they are outside the metros. They are surrounded by a large number \r\n of small villages. A lot of Sarpanches declares close down of the village as a virtue of which servicing \r\n units which were working on import and export have gone isolated. Another concern is Customs have\r\n made passes that were not validated by local police. Co-ordination between state and local authority is \r\n missing. A huge gap in communication can be seen between local and state authorities. Urge the \r\n government to help the medium sector of the import/export industries with more readiness.
\r\nPrashant Sahu, Principal Chief Commissioner, South Eastern Railways, on behalf of railways \r\n presented the facilities of express train for moving goods across the country, he shared there are about \r\n 70 trains per day that are moving across various routes and he requested ASSOCHAM to share\r\n information with members and ecommerce companies to use Railways as alternate mode of \r\n transportation at this difficult time. Railways have also supported with passes, waiving of charges, etc.
\r\nThrough ASSOCHAM he wished to communicate to Cement Sector companies to clear off the load so \r\n that space can be used for movement of Essential goods.
\r\nMahendra Arya, President AITWA shared his concern over the communication and suggested there \r\n clarity of understanding at ground level to be enhanced. He suggested states shall all come forward to \r\n honour the circular of MHA and should extend easy passage to trucks and cargo. With regard to \r\n movement of personnel especially drivers who have to reach to offices or hubs to start operations are \r\n stuck as movement of people is stopped and getting people to reach place of work is becoming a \r\n challenge. He shared the information of the mobile app being created by his organisation to support \r\n issuance of e-passes and hoped each state would accept the centrally approved epass mechanism.
\r\nProgram was closed by Senior Vice President ASSOCHAM Vineet Agarwal by thanking all the eminent \r\n guests to have shared their valuable inputs and to have spared time at these demanding times.
\r\nKey Takeaways for ASSOCHAM
\r\n1. ASSOCHAM to consider issuing Epasses as an institution - ASSOCHAM as an institution in partnership take up \r\n the challenge of management and this can be supported by central authorities.
\r\n2. ASSOCHAM via its network promote usage of Railways as alternative
\r\n3. Share information with cement industries to clear cargo thus ensuring availability of space for perishables
\r\n4. Share information with Exim community to clear containers and accept cargo deliveries
\r\n5. Proactively support industry and connect with administration
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\r\nModerator: Shri. Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education
\r\nSpeakers:
\r\n- Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE
\r\n- Shri. B V Naidu, Chairman- ASSOCHAM Karnataka; Managing Partner, StartupXseed & Founder \r\n and Chairman, THE GAIN
\r\n- Prof. S Sadagopan, Director - IIITB Bangalore
\r\n- Dr. Madhu Chitkara, Pro Chancellor, Chitkara University
\r\n- Dr. N. Jayasankaran, Fmr. Vice Chancellor Kanchi University and Member NAAC Accreditation \r\n committees
\r\n- Dr. Suresh Mony, Founder & Director, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies \r\n (NMIMS) & Key Advisory Member for ASSOCHAM Karnataka CSR Committee.
\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the panellists and welcomed the participants and partners to the program.
\r\nInaugural Chief Guest: Dr. C N Aswathnarayana - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit \r\n to share the State perspectives about the NEP 2020. The Union Cabinet approved the National Education \r\n Policy 2020 today, making way for large scale, transformational reforms in both school and higher \r\n education sectors. This is the first education policy of the 21st century and replaces the thirty-four year \r\n old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986. Built on the foundational pillars of Access, Equity, Quality, \r\n Affordability and Accountability, this policy is aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development \r\n and aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and global knowledge superpower by making \r\n both school and college education more holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary, suited to 21st century needs \r\n and aimed at bringing out the unique capabilities of each student.
\r\nNEP 2020 leads of growth and drive the education requirements of our young population. It leads better \r\n learning and employment outcomes of younger generation.
\r\nKarnataka is one of the most progressive among the states as far as education goes. It is among the top 5 \r\n states in terms of universities per district with an average of nearly 2 universities per district. Bangalore \r\n has the highest density of colleges-(880 nos.) among the cities in India-51 colleges per lakh population. \r\n The next highest is Jaipur with 558. Bangalore has four premier institutions of higher learning viz. IISc, IIM, \r\n National law School, IIIT
\r\nKarnataka government is bringing in administrative reforms and amendments to laws which are essential \r\n to implement the National Education Policy following which Karnataka would become the first state in \r\n the country to implement the policy.
\r\nKarnataka Government has already come out with suggestions to implement the policy in a phased \r\n manner. The new policy would make high-quality education available to all students. The whole system \r\n would benefit from quality teaching.
\r\nThe Karnataka government is upbeat about becoming the first state in the country to implement the \r\n National Education Policy (NEP) and believes it to be the foundation of \'New India\'. The Government is \r\n very confident that Karnataka will emerge as the first state to successfully implement the policy. NEP \r\n would not only reform the state but also the education sector across the country. The Policy will bring in \r\n the drastic positive changes in society.
\r\nIn the view of Implementation, the high-level task force was constituted immediately after the draft of \r\n the policy. The state government is making all preparations to bring in administrative reforms and \r\n amendments to the laws which are essential to implement the national education policy.
\r\nKarnataka is perhaps the only state that has set up a Higher Education Academy (HEA) at Dharwad at an \r\n investment of Rs. 100 crores. In keeping with the NEP-2020 to set up multi -disciplinary universities \r\n (MDUs), the government may consider setting up a few MDUs-right now we have only Manipal in the \r\n private sector which is a MDU.
\r\nIn order to ensure meritocracy, we will try to ensure that admissions are merit based while at the same \r\n time providing opportunities for socially disadvantaged sections of the population.
\r\nToday, the inter-university flow of students among the universities in Karnataka is restricted, that is a \r\n Bangalore university student can apply only for higher studies in Bangalore University. We will encourage \r\n flow of students from one university to other in keeping with healthy competition and the new policy of \r\n taking credit courses from different universities.
\r\nOur Teacher appointments should be merit based and with the HEA our quality of teachers can be \r\n significantly enhanced. However, we shall try to further improve with Learning Outcome based teachinglearning process. We will aim that all our universities aim for international accreditation and ranking \r\n among the top universities of the world.
\r\nShri. BV Naidu - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members who \r\n have been working closely to draft the NEP 2020. Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit \r\n to share the State perspectives about the NEP 2020. The Union Cabinet approved the National Education \r\n Policy 2020 today, making way for large scale, transformational reforms in both school and higher \r\n education sectors. This is the first education policy of the 21st century and replaces the thirty-four year \r\n old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986. Built on the foundational pillars of Access, Equity, Quality, \r\n Affordability and Accountability, this policy is aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development \r\n and aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and global knowledge superpower by making \r\n both school and college education more holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary, suited to 21st century needs \r\n and aimed at bringing out the unique capabilities of each student.
\r\nHe also said that the NEO aligns with 5 trillion dollar economy by our Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. The \r\n State government recommends the four E mantra's - Educate, Energise, Employee and Empower if we \r\n follow this it helps in investing in Human resources, higher education. There is need of focus on higher \r\n education cognitive skills and increasing employability through linking of education and focus on skills and \r\n job creation in the education system.
\r\nNEP 2020 leads of growth and drive the education requirements of our young population. It leads better \r\n learning and employment outcomes of younger generation. NEP 2020 will create new paradigm in \r\n Education system of India. We have 3.74 Crores Students are enrolled in 51,649 institutions with a GER \r\n of 26.3. As per the MHRD 2018-29 report 91 lakhs students graduate per year. NEP 2020 aims to increase \r\n the Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education including vocational education from 26.3% (2018) to 50% \r\n by 2035. 3.5 Crore new seats will be added to Higher education institutions.
\r\nProf. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020 and roles of AICTE and benefits to the Karnataka State. He stressed that \r\n implementation of NEP 2020 plays an important role across the States and Districts. This NEP provides \r\n more opportunities to Industry and Institutions and suggested to explore such opportunities. As the \r\n Karnataka State is among one of the first state to come forward and implement the NEP and he specified \r\n that Bengaluru and Karnataka State should be the role model for other States to implement NEP \r\n effectively. He said that the partnership between Industry - Institute is very much necessary to create \r\n better for ecosystem in Educations sector which leads to employment generation.
\r\nProf. S Sadagopan - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspectives \r\n about the NEP 2020. He said that this pandemic has opened up new opportunities to connect with various \r\n universities and professors though Technology. He suggested to think out of the box as the Prof. \r\n Sahasabudhe said there are many opportunities in the NEP 2020. He stressed to give more importance to \r\n teachers and address their issues as they play an important role in the Education sector. He suggested to \r\n identify an implementation agency to execute the NEP 2020 in the state. Also an agency needs to create \r\n a platform to empower, implement and improve the sub critical institutions to be improved.
\r\nDr. Madhu Chitkara - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspectives \r\n about the NEP 2020. She pointed out that NEP 2020 provides more opportunities to younger universities \r\n work on the research or teaching domain as their spatiality also provide the many opportunities in higher \r\n education sector as collaboration, multi-disciplinary and many more. The NEP also suggests to provide \r\n help to the local communities and support school education. This NEP recommends for blended type of \r\n learning such as vocational training, multi-disciplinary and good initiatives.
\r\nDr. N. Jayasankaran - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspectives \r\n about the NEP 2020. As he grew and taught by the "Gurukula" education is one of the oldest teaching \r\n methodology in education sector. In Gurukul system teaches the students to ability to grasp, knowledge \r\n and retain. He said that to learn any new things you need to have the burning desire. As per his view on \r\n the higher education, in India we have many number universities and excellence centers, suggested to \r\n identify the pockets of excellence and nurture them to crate the better ecosystem in the education sector.
\r\nDr. Suresh Mony - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspectives about \r\n the NEP 2020. He said that Higher education requires to build culture and environment for economic \r\n development in the Country. The implementation plays an important role in NEP. He said that system \r\n approach in the NEP such as multi-disciplinary, vocational education and single window regulatory to help \r\n achieve the NEP goals. He suggested include the regional language teaching and study materials which \r\n will help the local community students to peruse the education. He also suggested to collaborative \r\n approach from Industry, Institute and academia with government to create a better ecosystem.
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\r\nSpeakers:
\r\n• Dr. Niyati Chitkara, Vice President - Schools, Chitkara Educational Trust
\r\n• Dr. R. Vijay Kumar, Regional Director - ERC, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
\r\n• Shri. Vinesh Menon, CEO - Education, Skilling and Consulting Services, Ampersand Group
\r\n• Dr. H. B. Chandrashekar, Senior Assistant Director, Department of State Education Research \r\n and Training (DSERT), Bengaluru
\r\n• Smt. B. Seshu Kumari, Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), \r\n Government of Telangana
\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the panellists and the participants and partners to the program.
\r\nDr. Niyati Chitkara - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020. With the roll out of promising NEP 2020, it is pertinent to understand \r\n the nuances of the changes in it to give a stimulus to Indian School Education system. In light of the same, \r\n said has propounded her avant-garde ideas on this much-talked new education policy.
\r\nTechnology is one thing that has helped the businesses, organsiations and people at large connect with \r\n each other and keep the momentum going. In similar line, technology is an important part be it school \r\n curriculum or simply bridging or connecting two levels of government together. Technological platforms \r\n should be employed to collaborate and communicate. Furthermore, framework of the same should be \r\n designed keeping in mind the challenges, and hence focus should be on the personalization & research \r\n part of it divergent from the content part. This shall greatly augment as technology in itself is \r\n interdisciplinary, integrated, innovative, research-oriented, inquiry-based etc.
\r\nAnother inventive element that could bridge the two levels of government or bring closer the duo of \r\n private & government is Accreditation. As has been for Chitkara International School, 5 years back (one \r\n of the only 70 accredited schools of country); the accreditation has helped it communicate in a better \r\n way. More so, Accreditation is a brilliant support mechanism that validates system and ensures one is \r\n working at a quality level in multiple operations.
\r\nDr. R. Vijay Kumar - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020. He said this National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education \r\n (NCFTE, 2009) elaborates the context, concerns and vision underscoring that teacher education and \r\n school education have a symbiotic relationship and developments in both these sectors mutually reinforce \r\n the concerns necessary for qualitative improvements of the entire spectrum of education including \r\n teacher education as well. The new concerns of school curriculum and the expected transactional \r\n modalities have been emphasized in designing this Framework for all stages of school education. Issues \r\n related to inclusive education, perspectives for equitable and sustainable development, gender \r\n perspectives, role of community knowledge in education and ICT in schooling as well as e-learning become \r\n the centre-stage in the Framework.
\r\nThe curriculum of teacher education is broadly dealt with under foundations of education, curriculum and \r\n pedagogy and school internship. The foundations of education include learner studies, contemporary \r\n studies, and educational studies. Curriculum and pedagogy deal with curriculum studies, pedagogic \r\n studies and assessment and evaluation studies. The school internship is visualized by situating the practice \r\n of teaching in the broader context of vision and the role of teacher and sustained engagement with \r\n learners and schools. In a departure from the existing approaches, the rationale of each major area \r\n alongwith curricular provisions, both in theory and practicum, have been indicated, leaving scope for \r\n individual reflection on the part of the institutions offering teacher education and the academics \r\n associated with them.
\r\nShri. Vinesh Menon - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020. He stressed to give more importance to teachers and address their \r\n issues as they play an important role in the Education sector. He suggested to identify an immediate \r\n implementation agency to execute the NEP 2020 in the State and Schools. Also suggested to setup an \r\n agency needs to create a platform to empower, implement and improve the sub critical institutions to be \r\n improved. This NEP provides more opportunities to Industry and Institutions and suggested to explore \r\n such opportunities. This NEP provides more opportunities to Industry and Institutions and suggested to \r\n explore such opportunities.
\r\nDr. H. B. Chandrashekar - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020. He said the investment in education is key for getting desired outcomes. \r\n In this regard, it is important to ensure the Govt expenditure on education is 10% of GDP. The Governance \r\n of Anganawadis/Pre-Primary Education needs to be transferred to Education Department. The nutrition \r\n and health part can be with the Women and Child Department and Health department respectively. This \r\n step will helps to ensure universal access in ECCE.
\r\nSaid to ensure Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, the Pupil Teacher Ratio in Classes till 5 has to be 1: \r\n 20 at School/Class level. The cadre of Primary school teacher must be suitable revised in such a way that \r\n the researchers/academicians/experts can also join as teachers after they complete a suitable course. The \r\n salary of primary/Higher Primary school teachers should be on par with college teachers. This will attract \r\n talented and interested people to take up teaching profession at Primary level. The service conditions of \r\n primary school teachers should be improved so that there will be no disturbance (non-teaching activities) \r\n to teachers.
\r\nThe shift of mind in teachers (Metanoia) has to happen to make teaching enquiry, discussion, discovery \r\n based. The transformation in the pedagogical practices of teachers is the key to change the education \r\n scenario of the country. In this context, the belief system and attitudes of teachers must be changed and \r\n this is a challenge to make it happen. Different strategies/programmes/activities must be developed after \r\n the detailed deliberations. Small scale and big scale industries and commerce establishments have to be \r\n associated with school education to sensitize/orient secondary/higher secondary school students on \r\n vocations.
\r\nSmt. B. Seshu Kumari - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State \r\n perspectives about the NEP 2020. She stressed about universalization of Early childhood care and \r\n education (ECCE) is more than preparation for primary school. It aims at the holistic development of a \r\n child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs in order to build a solid and broad foundation for \r\n lifelong learning and wellbeing. ECCE has the possibility to nurture caring, capable and responsible \r\n future citizens. The implementation plays an important role in NEP. She said that system approach in the \r\n NEP such as multi-disciplinary, vocational education and single window regulatory to help achieve the \r\n NEP goals. She suggested to include the regional language teaching and study materials which will help \r\n the local community students to peruse the education. She also suggested to collaborative approach \r\n from Industry, Institute and academia with government to create a better ecosystem.
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\r\nWelcome Addressby
\r\nSmt Uma S Nair, Regional Director, ASSOCHAM
\r\nModerated By : Smt Uma S Nair, Regional Head, ASSOCHAM
\r\nPanel Discussion : 1
\r\nHow Company can get benefited in terms of :
\r\n1. Fund Raising
\r\n2. Attracting Quality manpower with Employees retention
\r\n3. Creating credibility with business associates
\r\n
4. Mitigation Currency fluctuation Risk
\r\n \r\nShri B Gouri Sankar, AVP, Regional Head - BD South, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd
\r\nUma S Nair : Good evening Everybody, We welcome you all to the webinar on Non-Conventional Avenues of Fundraising and Forex Risk Management for MSME\\'S \r\n and Corporates. We welcome B Gouri Sankar and Sajal Gupta who are \r\n going to the key main speakers Gouri Sankar is AVP, Regional Head- BD \r\n South from National Stock Exchange India Ltd and Sajal Gupta is from \r\n Edelweiss we welcome you all for this particular program. Befor we start up this \r\n program I would like to have brief introduction about this particular program on \r\n what is this about and what is the objective of this particular program and what \r\n is going to the take away for the participants from this program. The actual \r\n systematic mechanism available with SME to recognize their Currency risk \r\n associated with any particular exposure Data for the reviel said awareness \r\n about the use of the products deprised and most of the SME'S awailing this \r\n currencies risk management services. The core relationship exercise indicate the \r\n risk that there is no single detriment factor that effect's the most exchange rate.
\r\nFactors like Scio political changes was our natural calamities the central Bank \r\n intervention speculative action are secondary, it means there is an effect on the \r\n exchange rate cannot measured by statistical tool infliation, Foreign exchange \r\n reserves our primary responsibilities will factor to better mind the exchange \r\n rate in our measurable in order to track the movement of the exchange rates \r\n the data base of the above is primary is necessary and would and go along in \r\n studying the exchange rates. So keeping all this in mind the importance and the \r\n challenges of Forex Risk Management for MSME and Corporates. The objective\r\n of this program is how company can be benefited for fund raising and crating \r\n credibility's with cbusiness associates mitigating currency fluctuation risk with \r\n facts and Forex markets and market outlook in USD and INR. No we will pass on \r\n the floor to Gouri Sankar AVP Regional Head, NSE of India. With 15 years \r\n experience in various roles in MSME and got a huge knowledge on various \r\n products. His specialties includes Business development listed direvitirs, product \r\n designing, derivative pricing and new products.
\r\nIn front roles and he fear heads in all the business development products \r\n education initiative and SME listing in southern region and spent time \r\n significantly in emerging corporates awareness and creating capital Markets.
\r\nGouri Sankar :
\r\nThank you Uma Ji, for the introduction and signing the context for the the \r\n today's session. Respected dignitaries of the webinar co presenter co speaker \r\n and all the members of ASSOCHAM. It's gives me immense pleasure here on this \r\n webinar and presenting on alternative revenue for fundraising to SME'S through \r\n fund platform and also thank team ASSOCHAM for this opportunity.
\r\nIt is very essential to all corporates to understand the risk and identify their and \r\n learns quickly to ways mitigate smoothly through this challenges time and the \r\n topic chosen is very apt in today's situation and both the topics we are \r\n discussing today is very challenging.
\r\nSME\\'S play an important role in developing the Nation's economy and they are \r\n considered to be the back bone of delopnig economy. We can see the \r\n contribution and second largest in terms of providing employment and \r\n contribute significantly to the GDP. Talking on the risk managment we face \r\n today in terms of managing finance and need working capital requirement or \r\n cash flow's. The trent platform created by RXIL and second one to meet the long \r\n term funding requiremets for SME. In the year 2015 RBI issue trade receivables \r\n discounting systems to set up the trade to RXIL. The objective of the SME sellers \r\n who realise their bills from buyers usually will take 90ays but suing this platform \r\n will take only 48 Hrs. TREDS is the bill discounting platform in this sellers are \r\n only MSME'S and can participate in sellers in TREDS factoring process. PSU's and \r\n any other entity can participate as buyers in TREDS and win win situation to all \r\n the participant and stake holders in TREDS system by releasing they cash in \r\n 48hrs after rising the invoice and flexibility to choose financiers bidding at the \r\n lowest. Funds distributed through RXIL are PSL Accredited, Defaulters are \r\n minimized as top rates buyers, access to buyer's ecosystems to minimal cost. \r\n Benefits to buyers like free their finance team's bandwidth by facilitating quiver\r\n payments, improved procurement terms and competitive pricing from suppliers, \r\n no obligation on seller to pay the financier and streamlined vendors payment.
\r\nMoving second platform exclusive broken development of Small and Medium \r\n enterprises in the intial platform we have notice the SME'S significant role they \r\n play and how much they contribute the nation economy. In spite we are having \r\n SME'S role still facing in fundraising and capital. The larger companies shave \r\n already listed in NSE the set eligibility criteria sat on online board and SSME'S \r\n not able to tap the public equity route. That needs the efficient funding \r\n systems. The NSE Emerge platform helped the ecosystems of SME'S. funds from \r\n public equity exclusively for SME'S. The NSE Emerge is platform for SME'S to \r\n grow in Inia to list in Equity, Regulated by SEBI, separate segment in NSE, same \r\n trading terminal as main board, same trading members and merchant bankers \r\n as main exchange. This platform is created to relax SME'S. from 2012 209 \r\n companies has been registered and Rs. 3000 has been raised in this platform \r\n and we saw companies average issueeue size is been above 15 crores and the \r\n companies list from Emerging platform is 19 companies from different sectors \r\n who has covered wide range of sectors who have utilized this platform out of \r\n 209 companies registerd 33 companies have migrated to the main board. \r\n Company can list under NSE Emerge we can classify the companies under this 4 \r\n buckets based on their stage growth like start up, Early stage, Grown Phase and \r\n Large company. List on NSE Emerge criteria like 2 years operational history, 2 \r\n years positive cash accruals, positive Net Worth and under SEBI Eligibility \r\n criteria Rs. 10-25 crore SME'S main board and upto Rs. 10 crore SME board only. \r\n The Regulatory frame work the requirement should be at least 50 allotter's in \r\n SME IPO, Post Listing Complaisance, Migration and Investors. Process of Listing \r\n in NSE Emerge is very simple like Interaction between NSE and SME team, \r\n appointment of Intermediators, preparation of documents, filling of offer \r\n document with NSE, in- principal approval by NSE and Listing. The advantages to \r\n the listed firms to the SME platform efficient by raising capital, higher visibility, \r\n credibility, appropriate valuation, Corporate Governance and Migration to the \r\n main board. Value proposition for issuers like Liquidity, Borrowing terms, High \r\n value employers, Share as Collateral and access to wider capital. There are lot \r\n advantages for the listed firms and create awareness sessions and 80% of the \r\n companies listed in last 4 years and first 4 years was only 20% listed and \r\n because of awareness openness of the corporates and tie-up for strategic \r\n development like Govt. Bodies, State Govt., MIDC,GIDC Etc, MSME Institute, \r\n Industries Association and Banks. Nifty SME Emerge Launched on 2oth \r\n November 2017, and a base value of 1000, reconstituted on a monthly basis.
\r\nConclude of 1st Session
\r\nPanel Discussion: 2
\r\n1. Myths and Facts on Forex Market
\r\n2. Market Outlook - USD INR
\r\n3.\r\n - Shri CA Sajal Gupta, Head Forex and Rates
\r\nIntroduction :
\r\nSajal Gupta who heads the Forex and Rates from Edelweiss he is also Forex and \r\n Risk Management Expert having 18 years of experience in this field and associated \r\n with ICICI Bank, CITI Bank and General Electric and he is the founder Edelweiss forex \r\n ha also speacilies in developing and customizing for the Forex needs and also CA.
\r\nMy first slides says Forex is no my Business it\\'s the biggest myth if you are in \r\n Exports and Import will explain why Forex is your business and you need to take care \r\n business Rupees has moved 17 to 25% in just 3 to 4 Months if we are cautious to safe \r\n guard under using Insurance much more. Between 2009 to 2011 3 years Rupee was \r\n going down from 45 levels went down to 36 to 35 levels would have not known lost in \r\n the Export side and Rupee keep on going down after my order you will incur loss and \r\n that reason why we should focus imports generally will pay the premium and Export \r\n will less and it is the only Insurance in the market where by edging Exporters 4%. So \r\n broadly what are the amount it heads you earn 4% per annum over and above we \r\n have normal businesses so this is the Incentives to the Imports, the problem with the \r\n Exports are there overheads and over edging is a problem because the peculation is \r\n a problem. If you are an Exporter or Importer people always says we loose money \r\n and there were big move in the currencies. If the dollar index become stronger than \r\n Rupee will become weaker and Vis versa and similarly oil prices as everybody knows\r\n like India imports oils and the oil is high the dollar prices will go up so Rupee has a \r\n good relationship with short turn with oils that is one thing which is helping us now \r\n during Covid times so oil is something which we need to keep in mind. We need to \r\n insure our business, Health, Vehicle and Life similar Forex insurance is very much \r\n required for your business and we need proper care to be taken.
\r\nNoboby can loose money in hedging, and people will say lost money in it. We need \r\n look at the bench mark we are talking losses USDINR Current spot is 74.75 and \r\n outright rate is 74.50 if you are hedging we can guarantee there is no loss and \r\n opportunity loos is something that nobody can control it but it can only minimize it \r\n and also should understand the opportunity loss and present loss as an exporter \r\n you are gaining and too are able to hedge out your budgeted report and we should \r\n confuse on opportunity loss and actual loss. Structured hedging for Exporters and \r\n Importers and most of the corporates are using this by keeping 3 to 4% margin and \r\n morning 9 to evening 5pm you can Hedge and lots of banks says my rates are \r\n different others are different but we say all the banks rates are same at one part of \r\n time and we need to having pricing tool to avail live market prices and Edelweiss will \r\n charge 1.2 Lakhs per annum and you access all live pricing in the market and if you \r\n do not have good tool you cannot talk the bankers. And you can also be a vigilant to \r\n your money. If you don't to the bankers and bargain you will get bad rate. No \r\n cheating on brokerage everything is digital on hedging and every thing is transparent \r\n and this SME's are pioneers in this and that's why corporate should also hedge on \r\n the exchange and 100 percent safety is there. And also Reliance and L&T are working \r\n on this exchange and we are working from 9 to 5 and banks are working for 4hrs. \r\n INR; Cherry picking on external sector resilience is possible. Rbi is buying lot of \r\n Dollars in the market and reserves are there. Oil benefit to reflect in CA Surplus : BOP \r\n Comfortable surplus too and good for our economy and reserves are happening and \r\n shock could be avoided and that's the passive for Indian Rupee and outlook is mild \r\n appreciation in base case scenario and these are estimated as normal conditions \r\n currency will be stable in doing currency trading and valitevily is safer trading is a \r\n risky bussines but still we can make 20 to 25% return in this and yield enhansment in \r\n existing portfolio and only season investers will understand this covered call \r\n business and Edeleiss is the largest wealth management in the country and one of \r\n the top 3 managements in the country. We also work as consultant at we charge 3 \r\n lakh to 6 lakh for period of six months and we provide all the services talked about \r\n forex space live advisory will suggest when to hedge and not and we will do \r\n transaction with the bankers on behalf of clients and we cover all end to end and \r\n entire decision making with the company we assist and advise the company and do \r\n the transaction after taking decision from the company and we act as an employ and \r\n work on their side and charge our fees on half yearly basis and maintain almost 600 \r\n companies as of now and recognized by NSE and facilitated by NSE and also do the \r\n SME funding through banks and other channels and also advise on the claim \r\n recovery status and help to claim insurance to the companies nd that is the major \r\n part of our services.
\r\nConclude
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\r\nPanels
\r\nShri. G Kumar Naik, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of MSME, Mining & Textile, \r\n GOK.
\r\nShri. G R Akadas, Director, MSME Development, Institute, GOI, Bengaluru
\r\nDr. Charan Singh, Chairman ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and Chief Executive \r\n Egrow Foundation
\r\n. RK Singh, General Manager, MSME Division, Canara Bank
\r\nShri. Sagar Agarwal, Co-Chairman, Karnataka State Development Council & Sr. VP, Transystem \r\n Logistics International Pvt Ltd.
\r\nShri. Ullas Kamath, Joint Managing Director, Jyothy Laboratories
\r\nShri. Jacob Crasta, Chairman, CM Envirosystems Pvt. Ltd & Lsquare Eco-Products Pvt. Ltd
\r\nShri. Krishna, General Manager, Marketing, HAL
\r\nModeraor Shri. S N Ranga Prasad, Consultant & Former\r\n Director, MSME Development Institute
\r\nWelcome By Shri. Suvin Narayan ASSOCHAM, Bengaluru
\r\nSetting of Context by
\r\nShri . Sagar Agarwal, Co-Chairman, Karnataka State Development Council & Sr. VP, Transystem \r\n Logistics International Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nWelcomed all speakers from govt. and Industries, MSME is the back bone of our country \r\n contributing by 35% of GDP. And Govt. initiate supporting the MSME and Funds and through \r\n awareness program which can be govt initiative or through industry initiate and todays if the one \r\n of the ASSOCHAM initiate to the MSME benefits for their growth. Having Agency assisted the \r\n govt. or from Industry Association which can support all the MSME starting from documentation \r\n to the end of benefit and should get technical support to get those benefits to their growth. \r\n Technology upgradation and adapting digital development is most in today's business \r\n environment particularly in post pandemic.
\r\nIn the development aspect of MSME or the Industry in the business environment we need to \r\n upgrade our technology and transform into digital system.
\r\nPanel
\r\nInaugural Address by Shri. G Kumar Naik, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of \r\n MSME, Mining & Textile, Department of Commerce & Industry, GOK
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, MSME Conclave hence important in the context of a New challenges and \r\n imposed by Covid-19 both health and economy distraction by pandemic. MSME sector in \r\n Karnataka and in India a second largest employment after agriculture sector and acts as breeding \r\n ground for entrepreneurs and its continuous support in strengthening business ecosystem. \r\n Survey report shows disruption caused by Covid-19 have impacted MSME earnings between 20 \r\n to 50%. Micro and Small entrepreneurs faced the maximum heat mainly due to Liquidity crunch.\r\n Non-essential Commodities towards the essential commodities in the production of Hand \r\n Sanitizer toiletries, PPE Kits and Masks were able to survive at tough times. In fact our ability to \r\n ramp up of all these needed essential commodities during the pandemic has earned lot of \r\n appreciation across the world. MSMEs present in remote areas facing lot of difficulties due to \r\n interrupted supply chain systems interstate lock down. We have dedicated officers during these \r\n covid times to ensure as much as possible supply chain is not disturbed. Innovation and change \r\n in strategies MSMEs have been able to demonstrating the strength and raising to the occasion \r\n for the kind of response we have in the pandemic. MSME is growing sector in the Karnataka \r\n industry and occupy a prominence space in the economy. Karnataka Manufacturing and vibrant \r\n Exports have earned worldwide price and Karnataka manufacturing sector contribution during \r\n 2018-19 was 14.46 while national average is 14%. In 19-20 the state govt. has approved even \r\n during 1081 MSME projects with 14.90 crore investments which should generate nearly 50,000 \r\n employment. Credit flow and availability is major issue which need to create awareness among \r\n the MSMEs. The state govt. has come to the rescue of MSMEs during pandemic year with the \r\n new Industrial Policy 2020-25, with special incentives to the MSMEs for new investment in the \r\n form of Investment promotion on term loans subsidy interest subsidy to the Lands, Stamp duty \r\n and registration concessions etc. It provides the 15% price difference to local MSMEs in public \r\n procurement. Reservation of 20% local MSME. During pandemic state govt. has waived of fixed \r\n deposit of electricity demand charges during lock down period and postponed KIADB and KSSIDC \r\n 3 months and introduces the flexible labor loss. Covid in fact pushed certain innovation into \r\n technology and much needed reforms and state govt released 140 crores to the 500 MSMEs \r\n pending from 3, 4 years and land subsidy of 120 crores to SC/ST Entrepreneurs. State govt. \r\n Infrastructure development 43.7 Crores released for the development of critical Infrastructure \r\n works through KSIIDC in 25 industrial estates. Also State Govt. released 75.84 crores pending \r\n market development assistance payed incentives to Khadi Societies, pending from last 5,6 years. \r\n 17527 has been benefited for Khadi and Weavers and these is the concerned shown to MSMEs \r\n sectors from State Govt. The State govt. constituted the State Level Task force and the \r\n chairmanship of Director and to monitor the effective implementation emergency credit line to \r\n the guarantee schemes to provide 20% loan to MSMEs as a result 1 69,280 units have got the \r\n sanction of Rs. 6,000 Crore in our State. In the review of Banking eternity Karnataka state has \r\n done well compare to other state must be in top 2 or 3 in the extension of banking support to \r\n the MSMEs. Karnataka CM has announce in the recent Budget 21-22 govt. is committed to the \r\n industrial sector particularly Peenya Industrial Area with necessary Infrastructure development \r\n with an expenditure of 100 Crores. Chief Minister also announce of Mega integrated Town ship \r\n in Bangalore - Mumbai and Bangalore Industrial Corridors minimum 500 acres of Land at each of \r\n this places utilizing the available opportunities will be developed with PPP model with the \r\n expected investment of Rs. 10,000 Crore in the next 3 Years with expectations of employment of \r\n 5 lakh.
\r\nPanel
\r\nDr. Charan Singh, Chairman ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and Chief Executive \r\n Egrow Foundation
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, at the ouset impressed addressed by Shri. Kumar Naik, regarding the \r\n Karnataka State govt. taking initiative and supporting MSME Sector. With 8 lakh MSME Sectors \r\n in Karnataka in India out of this 3 Lakh are in Bangalore. In the polices announced by govt. was \r\n very good 12500 acres of land identified in National Investment and Manufacturing Zone project \r\n needs to be revived it generates lots of employment. Understanding the estimates are to \r\n generate 2.6 lakhs jobs. Under the Karnataka Industrial Policy 2025 the stress of special \r\n investment of region act which support industrial town ship and corridor needs to be developed \r\n fast and in peenya Industrial area has 8500 units with a large industry in the cluster in the lock \r\n down 80% of MSMEs were shut down even MSME has mortality rate but 10% may not open and \r\n that is the real concern and how do they survive. Happy to see the passing 25 Policy in that easing \r\n regulatory and process of land acquisition. The concerns all over India and Karnataka too GST \r\n Compliance and stress on weak payments and the key industrial that is operational Automobile, \r\n Power, Machine Tools Aerospace, Defense, we need to be strengthen them. Why can't Karnataka \r\n have cluster approach with that MSMEs will be covering their cost in a way efficiently by using \r\n the resources given the cost the cluster takes care of the Infrastructure. Single window approach \r\n at the district level the eject model is good everything in one single roof and one application and \r\n in day with in 6 to 8 hours the approval has to be given. Karnataka also support Micro Enterprises \r\n in a very big way. India Landscape is concerned the use of Fintech will be very important and \r\n Karnataka is the IT Hub can serve great purpose in incentivizing attracting and promoting Fintech \r\n companies which would engage Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning integrating all these with \r\n the Banking sector that is one area ASSOCHAM can play a role attracting and identifying and \r\n seeking Karnataka govt. support. The revival growth has taking place and normalcy has to take \r\n place and MSME sector has hit badly because of the employment generation sector immediately \r\n after Agriculture needs to be supported at every level. The Non-Banking Finance Companies has \r\n to play a big role have set back in our country during this time the finance companies in Karnataka \r\n has carefully reviewed to find out the bottle necks in financing the MSMEs. NBFC do the last mile \r\n go where the Banks don't reach and banks may have various schemes but through the NBFC the \r\n banking industry has to reduce the rate of interest at least for certain type of loans for MSMEs \r\n and extend the credit. Banks are extending credit through MUDRA Loans and still have scope to \r\n NBFC to play a role. Peenya industry faces a financial literacy according to survey a way years \r\n back is still a challenge. So along with SIDBI and Commercial banks ASSOCHAM can play a role \r\n banking penetration into the MSME sector need to be strengthen. While govt. taking various \r\n initiatives to ensure the revival of the sector MSME sector has to play a role. Financial literacy \r\n from the banking industry has to work far more extensive so MSME are able to rights of books of \r\n accounts properly. So the relationship of banks and MSME has to be strengthen the balance \r\n sheet and accounting practices at the MSME level also to be strengthen. ASSOCHAM can come \r\n with modules for the MSME segment educating them in the local languages about the challenges \r\n and to address the challenges. The startup standup initiative support from GOI SIDBI supports so \r\n may be Govt. can use the Chinese modules can give holidays in terms of infrastructure and in \r\n terms just in time technology. Thank you.
\r\nQ: Moderator Shri S N Ranga Prasad, Consultant & Former Director, MSME Development \r\n Institute on Making MSME Self-Reliant in Karnataka
\r\nPanel: Shri. Ullas Kamath, Joint Managing Director, Jyothy Laboratories
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, all MSMEs are not doing well, but 30% are doing extremely well as they \r\n need no help and they are earning very well and for also their employees and even won't attend \r\n any conclaves as they are busy in producing their goods and services and they are busy in \r\n growing. We need to focus more on who started their company with lot of hopes, they have \r\n created some facility to produce certain goods and services by taking some loans with maximum \r\n of 100 jobs. In this new schemes we have in that we see most of the MSMEs especially Small and \r\n Micro entrepreneurs work for hand to mouth business they buy on credit and sell on credit and \r\n in between bridge the gap by borrowing the money from the known and un known sources on \r\n their personnel capacity in this the balance sheet will not be sound it should have been otherwise. \r\n Today's MSMEs are in need every kind of teaching in skill, Technology, without to raise the Capital \r\n or how to raise the Loan or to get the Market access and the latest technology available product \r\n they should in. The present and Future could be different and we are going to be the past and \r\n lot of things are happening on consolidation basis we need to adopt quickly to the new normal. \r\n So these small and Micro entrepreneurs should understand the market need and learn to adopt \r\n to change and must factor is they have to learn to access technology to grow further and should \r\n be able to negotiate the need of the market to get orders. Some of the big buyers are govt. \r\n agencies while govt. releases the money not in time (Few Day's) that affects the working of the \r\n company. Primarily MSME In the next 5 to 20 years has to look into the Business model, the \r\n measures, Quality Control they have and the way they have procured the material they have \r\n supply and terms and condition they are suppling the materials about margin and tax compliance \r\n they are. How strong the balance sheet is and today at 8% are able to raise capital and make \r\n money. Every Industry associations have to come forward together to ensure to make \r\n understand the MSMEs the schemes of the State govt. and at the end of the day its important \r\n how the growth of the business. We need to talk to categories the industry wise we need to hold \r\n the hand in such that they are back into the business so more meaningfully with all employees \r\n and profitability also and all the govt. policies are good and meant for industrialist to start the \r\n unit and get the best of it. So request to educate all MSME members of the schemes available in \r\n the govt. and also request the govt. to release the fund with in 15days or else it is difficult to run \r\n the business. Banks are concerned they need educate the MSMEs on all aspects from borrowing \r\n to maintaining the balance sheets strong and ensure the take benefits are available from the \r\n govt. and ensure to use the latest technology with a Fntech and innovation is the future because \r\n the bottom line and top line will grow. Request to work together to give a meaningful direction \r\n for MSMEs putting our thoughts together we can guide them to ignite to the next growth level \r\n in Karnataka. Thank you.
\r\nQ : Moderator, on MSME Public Procurement Policy by PSUs
\r\n
Panel: Shri. Krishna, General Manager, Marketing, HAL
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, presently HAL is 23,000 Crore annual Turnover and we are first group at \r\n the reasonable rate thanks to the development of indigenous platform and thanks to policy of \r\n GOI, like Athma Nirbar Bharat like indigenous or in house products are been supported the recent \r\n order 83ca the light combat Aircraft and also many more to come like combat Helicopter and \r\n basic trainer 30 40 which all developed indigenously they are going to support our vision for the \r\n growth. The suppliers and partners of HAL vendor base like MSMEs to facilitate from the core \r\n competency who can do the job in efficient, productive and cheaper way. It's our duty to hand \r\n whole encourage and get the things done for the platform we are working for and ultimately \r\n being a designer and integrator so what all we see from outside of Tejas Aircraft it's all been out \r\n sourced from different companies and they supply and we integrate to admit the numbers we \r\n will be getting the more number out sourced companies, Nearly 40% of our turnover is value of \r\n procurement and presently we are importing the raw materials. Regarding The procurement \r\n policy, we are guided by the govt. policy to mention some of the guidelines for MSMEs are the \r\n 25% of the domestic procurement from Micro and Small Industries enterprises we are supposed \r\n to procure it and presently we are operating at 28%. Purchase preference are given of 15% and \r\n provision of Waiver of EMD, Tender fee and criteria of prior experience and credit turn over with \r\n the expected technical specification will be waived off. We need to be supported financially to \r\n make. This since we are able to ensure payments are in time efforts. There are procedures and \r\n all in the way, but there is continuous efforts in improving the situation. 15% of industry advance \r\n payment can give to micro and small enterprises with 30 days of receive and acceptance \r\n comparison to earlier days the things are improving there are certain internal mechanism vendor \r\n cell and there are trade receivable discounting system platform facilities where the supplier can \r\n intense this receivables through this system. Any payment related enquiry or grievances there is \r\n SAMADHAN portal available to address the question can be posted and the action are taken on \r\n that these are the some of the guideline to support the small and micro entrepreneurs and some \r\n are applicable to the major MSMEs rather. To highlight the policy of outsourcing and getting the \r\n things outside the supply chain this is the major boost for the growth of the vendors or small \r\n industries and the orders increasing on public sector and the policy of out sourcing it definitely \r\n going to help the industry and they are becoming the partners in the business industry of the \r\n nation. There are many more schemes supporting the MSMEs and Startups continuously rolled \r\n out like solo moto proposal which was not there in earlier days and then make to perfect offer \r\n to the supplier and will be evaluated only after technically proven all though there are 5000 Crore \r\n MSMEs in India is catered to different sectors. With the challenges in this field the technical \r\n complexity very tough material to machine low volumes because the platforms are done in few \r\n numbers and there are also success stories of small firm grown to big firms ultimately \r\n transforming business into exporter because having a successful order from any PSUs that give a \r\n readymade qualification for being a supply chain partner to the global customers. There are \r\n various packages In the State Govt. and also Aerospace policy announced by Karnataka Govt. in \r\n February 21 and more than 65% of Defense Exports are coming from Karnataka 67% of aircraft \r\n related production also from Karnataka and it is a huge vendor based aviation State the very fact \r\n that the Aero India is held in Bangalore speaks about the opportunity and Eco System where it \r\n attracts all the major global players so all this in place awareness to the MSMEs and availability \r\n of the opportunity and support from the govt. will make the difference for their growth and our \r\n effort is that we are all ready to join hands with the agencies which are supporting the vendor \r\n base or supply base as it is a Win Win situation while we are helped by implementing our \r\n productivity it is we are helping the nation by developing the eco system as a go for the Defense \r\n Industry. Thank you
\r\nQ: Moderator, on Growth & prospects of MSMEs after Post Budget
\r\nShri. Jacob Crasta, Chairman, CM Envirosystems Pvt. Ltd & Lsquare Eco-Products Pvt. Ltd
\r\nThank You ASSOCHAM, let take the scenario after demonetization we have got many budget on \r\n 30th May by PM and after I year of announcing the 3 lakh crore from Current Finance Minister \r\n and have released only i.8 lakh crores and these is the apathy MSMEs are facing. Has given 20% \r\n of this on the outstanding of 29th February 2020. If at all any unit have some payment on they \r\n are not eligible. On the 29th Outstanding only those 20% have been paid Unit is suffering on the \r\n record we say 8,500 crores of units but it is actually 11,500 units are there in our country. What \r\n are the money they are trying to get from the bankers or for different issues because they want \r\n to survive and that is the real factor and budget at this time should be more and we can have a \r\n helping hand. Today bankers are harassing the MSMEs for the loan they have borrowed for the \r\n delay in EMI payment and the GOI has announce that if there is any due in payment it gas to be \r\n converted into working capital and it has to be rescheduled and all the facilities are available for \r\n the bankers to do it and now lot of pvt. Banks are helping hands for MSMEs by giving loans. And \r\n they don't follow the credit rating and they know that MSMEs are back bone for our economy \r\n and slowly this Pvt. Banks took over from public sector banks on funding for the MSMEs. If we \r\n talk on Ease of doing business Karnataka was in the 2 or 3 spot during 2001-2 and today we are \r\n in 17th position who is responsible for this and what is given to the MSMEs from state govt. for \r\n the MSMEs growth. To grow prospectively they required money and banks are not coming \r\n money at this time govt. should support and start releasing money from the agencies. The \r\n allotted money for peenya industrial area are spent only 3o% and rest used elsewhere. And there \r\n is no proper infrastructure and waste management and if they treat the MSMEs is like this and \r\n they think somehow they move and it will be very disaster stage. So when there is stream line \r\n for the growth and we are filling GST and govt. are getting crores of money and so they have to \r\n flow some amount of money for the infrastructure and should appoint an undersecretary IAS \r\n officer to look into this issues for the Industry growth. In Karnataka 93 to 95% MSMEs are outside \r\n the industrial area and only 6 to 7% are in industrial area MSMEs are somehow are the other they \r\n are running the business at today's situation as we all say it is the survival is the fittest. So request \r\n govt. to take this issues seriously at least now and to act fast for the growth of MSMEs, Thank\r\n you.
\r\nQ: Moderator on Central Govt. Policy for MSME and Schemes.
\r\nShri. G R Akadas, Director, MSME Development, Institute, Bengaluru, Ministry of MSME
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, we are seeing lot of change in MSME the way they are operating and \r\n there was portal at the pandemic time last year to hear the grievances operating from 8am to \r\n 10pm even on holidays and portal works live and monitored by secretary in New Delhi and even \r\n this portal is been continued and almost 1000 cases were handled and at the lock down it was \r\n mostly on logistics and passes and now mainly on rejection of loan application and emergency \r\n credit. So we are happy to say that we are able to settling this issues and by reaching the \r\n concerned departments and trying to sort there problems and try to find solutions. The financial \r\n literacy is the most needed at this hour or this time and many of the entrepreneurs we are \r\n interrogating we understand the financial literacy in results in bankers rejects the loan \r\n applications. Most of the genuine enterprises need the guidance so we stared organizing a Loan \r\n Mela and also we are continuing now and bankers are teaching the prospective entrepreneurs \r\n how to take the loan what are the requirements and we also help bankers by identifying genuine \r\n entrepreneurs who really need loans. Most of the times the banking clause doesn't allow to fund \r\n Startups. So we need to focus of Financial Literacy. So govt. needs to focus on tier 2 and 3 Cities \r\n on priority on the infrastructure development and other facilities. Because the working \r\n atmosphere is better there and also availability of man power. MSME Industry we are carrying \r\n with our existing schemes and skiil development and management development has started and \r\n Flagship pilot schemes and North Karnataka is leading in cluster development schemes and south \r\n Karnataka is lacking nearly 4 to 5 times in cluster performs. The cluster are the future economies \r\n because China economy has developed in this concept. Govt. is also implementing One district \r\n one product and govt. also have identified some districts and one has come near Chitradurga and \r\n almost it is ready and Millet cluster in Davanagere which is going to come up and in future these \r\n clusters will play a major role. Digital MSME is yet to be launched in which we are creating Cloud \r\n Infrastructure for the use of MSMEs at the very nominal cost hoping to launch soon. Digital \r\n Manufacturing is already started the innovation is going on rapid level as we need to protect the \r\n intellectual property so department has come with lot of schemes and subsidies for registering \r\n the Trade Marks patents National and International. So entrepreneurs required to know the \r\n schemes allotted by GOI and so many people are not aware of it and we are doing promotion of \r\n this schemes regularly. Earlier we need to reimburse the cost of ISO and now it has discontinued \r\n from last 2 or 3 years and govt. has come up with certification called ZED Scheme and now the \r\n scheme has been simplified has already launched and it's the need of the hour the quality has to \r\n improve and design expertise for manufacturing sector it is out of reach for MSMEs because the \r\n cost is involved in this so under this we provide subsidies for the design expertise on the central \r\n of excellence has been set up in IISc Bangalore so MSME can apply online so their ideas will be \r\n assisted financially and technologically the inputs will be given by faculty of IISc. Last year 25 \r\n projects are finalized so depending on the projects available Ministry is doing lot of Financial \r\n Support for the design expertise. Marketing on PMS where associations can apply for financial \r\n assistance for organizing the State or National Level exhibitions. Finally Technology System \r\n Program earlier we had 18 centers and now upgraded to world class another 15 new centers with \r\n the help of investment 150 to 200 Crores in each technology centers on and one which is already \r\n in Bangalore. So hope entrepreneurs will take the advantage of this specialized centers. MSME \r\n testing center has been set up providing testing facilities at a nominal cost, Bangalore has a \r\n testing station and these are the brief schemes which are been going on an better going of Central \r\n and State govt. so that the schemes will be implemented properly. Thank you.
\r\nPanel Topic on Financial Resilience
\r\nShri. RK Singh, General Manager, MSME Division, Canara Bank
\r\nThank you ASSOCHAM, hoe to build a financial resilience for MSMEs even before pandemic and \r\n after the pandemic it has become very important area just to ensure and one of the critical aspect \r\n of Indian economy that is MSMEs sector. Hence they are supported the resilience is there in \r\n system for MSMEs to sustain and continue to play a role not only in employment but also play \r\n vital link between in one sector of big business supply to big industries working as small traders \r\n or manufacturers or semi sector this has become very fiscal part not only to the govt. to the entire \r\n society to ensure that MSMEs functioning that provided every support they require and financial \r\n support is a major challenge the MSMEs are facing now. The support given by GOI and the \r\n support given by banking sector also but somehow the support may not be adequate to provide \r\n the assistance to all the requirements or particular to all the sector who are badly affected by \r\n this pandemic. Before to covid or post covid some the recommendation are valid moving into \r\n infrastructure bottle necks with the help of the State govt. or the Trade Associations so MSMEs \r\n are provided by good support and Technology hub based support and R&D may require in the \r\n cluster in the cost effective manner to get the benefit of finance and that is one part of cluster \r\n approach and helping in resilience of MSME sector. If the MSMEs are finding the supply for their \r\n product with buyers in the market and not having an individual MSME units in that way also \r\n helping them in difficulties times. Certainly resilience will be available to those MSME units to \r\n the greater extent. MSMEs are getting into B2B segments in most of the times like direct \r\n approach to the end use customs are limited so for MSME units are concerned the dependent on \r\n other business for selling their products the problem of getting timely payment is always there.\r\n Whenever the problem comes we all know in any business they will try to block the payment \r\n from their suppliers and it hits hard on MSME sector. The platform which remains help online \r\n credit platform for like reverse factoring and all the association should encourage MSME units \r\n and MSME suppliers should register more on platforms and they are not exactly not depending \r\n the money from buyers and will be very cost effective at the bidding platforms. So technology \r\n based platforms are there for the MSME units that may help the cash flow and not affected to \r\n the extent by blocking the payment by their buyers. Certain decisions has been taken by the govt. \r\n on GST the big change in MSME the way they used to do business and in the bankers point of \r\n view or Finance point of view how MSME is playing a big role in GST there is always challenge to \r\n fund MSME on cash flow or the banking was the content on balancing approach and we also \r\n know the balance sheet is not a strong aspect in MSMEs. As a banker we know that there is harine \r\n verity in the unit they have good product and their products in demand at same time balance \r\n sheet weakness is there and there was not a much validated source where we can understand \r\n what exactly would be the sales history at the particular unit. So to the large extent the problem \r\n is solved and bankers are in better position to understand and relay upon cash flow from MSME \r\n unit and small and micro units as we are in present guideline from GST requirement but given \r\n the opportunity should also try to come on GST board they can have a sort of very authentic data \r\n available so they can approach for their Finance for the business. Other initiative taken from GOI, \r\n PSU 59though in a development stage the way it is happening the type of solutions providing to \r\n MSMEs. And also providing platform to lot many banks and financiers are available so they can \r\n approach without moving from there office they can get approvals and Interest is up to for \r\n financial is very high PSU 59 concerned there are other various platforms for doing the same \r\n services and today there are many banks with very competitive rate of interest and this will help \r\n MSMEs and this one of the way of getting the finance to this sector. The GOI schemes will help \r\n MSMEs like targeted Schemes Standup India and banks also runs various schemes from Canara \r\n Bank side regarding the GST part we are having good scheme called Canara GST up to 25% once \r\n they file GST we will straight away will provide working Capital Finance and cluster based \r\n approach we are offering the competitive interest to the MSME units and they should have \r\n disciplined approach by keeping books and documents in a tidy manner it gives lot of confidence \r\n to any financer and MSME will become strength while approaching for finance. Adoption to \r\n technology is very important because while making or accepting payments need more towards \r\n digital platform that will help mot only cutting the cost but also digital foot prints and can access \r\n all digital payment transaction history by any financer when they are in need credit facility. \r\n Particularly we are helping MSME in whatever the manner and we are in good presence what are \r\n the units they have in any parts of Karnataka we are committed to help MSME in Karnataka as \r\n well in Pan India Level. Thank you.
\r\nConclude......
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\r\nEminent Speakers:
\r\n1. Shri. Aditya Nagarajan
\r\nVP, Guidance & Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency, Tamil Nadu
\r\n2. Shri. Sujai Karampuri
\r\nDirector of Eva and Energy Storage\r\n Dept. of Commerce & Industries, Govt. of Telangana
\r\n3. Dr. Vinod Surana, ( Knowledge Partner & Moderator)
\r\nCo- Chairman, ASSOCHAM southern Region & Managing Partner & CEO Surana \r\n & Surana International Attorneys.4. Sri. B C Datta
\r\nVP, Corporate Affairs
\r\nOLA Electric.
\r\n5. Shri. K Venkatraj,
\r\nDeputy Director General, SAEIndia.
\r\n6. Shri. Dattatreya Gaur,
\r\nVP, Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd
\r\n7. Shri. R K Mishra
\r\n Founder Director,\r\n Center for Smart Cities\r\n8. Shri. Varun Chaturvedi,
\r\n Founder/ CEO\r\n Volttic EV Charging\r\n9. Smt. Uma S Nair
\r\nRegional Director, ASSOCHAM Southern Region
\r\nWelcome Address by Smt. UM S Nair, Regional Director, ASSOCHAM Southern \r\n Region.
\r\nTheme Address by Shri. K Venkatraj
\r\nDeputy Director General, SAEIndia
\r\nStarted by Thanking all the panels and ASSOCHAM Members,
\r\nIt\\'s been a different year 2020, has actually press the rest button for many sector not \r\n only for Automobile. So 2020 is reset year to all the industry as well Electric Industry.
\r\nIs India is ready electrifying the Electrc Vehicle, Where are we going as electric vehicle \r\n is concerned. Electric Vehicle is contrary to the perception is not new. Knew in 18 \r\n hundreds a series is breakthrough from battery to Electric motor and to the 1st electric \r\n vehicle. It all started from the start is inventor. Robert Anderson who invented the \r\n first electric parots. You may not accept that as electric vehicle by today's standards. \r\n Very true it was bulky and it was moving at a very low speed and 1835 the invention \r\n moved to America, Thomas Devarport was created the building and 1st practice\r\n electric vehicle a very small locomotive which has moved certain a small load to a \r\n certain distance.and then the whole thing came to Toyota prior to price which sole \r\n 18,000 No's in the very first Introduction. Coming to India, electric vehicle came from \r\n a very modest and announced manner 1996, by scooter is there yes. With himself with \r\n a name to remember the 1st electric 3 Wheeler launched in India and 1st electric Bus \r\n from Chennai by name Ashok Leyland and very 1st electric Bus. India has over 15 \r\n EVM'S 15 in passenger vehicle 13 in 2 wheeler and 7 in 3 Wheeler. 12 Commercial \r\n companies and 17 Truck Companies' the companies' not in electric vehicle, but \r\n generally in automotive Industry. Indian Automotive is presently 5th Largest in the \r\n world and said to take over as 3rd by 2030. So when we talk about Electric Vehicle \r\n Market joggling with a lot of terms that can be prototype, Charging Infrastructure \r\n challenges batteries Fuel cells, Startups and new word is Recession. The electric \r\n Vehicle component Industry is about 36,000 crore or 4.8 Billion Dollars and this is by \r\n Sullivan 2025 and there are so many ASSOCHAM members in MSME Category and tier \r\n 1,2,and 3 category and so you are all looking for what will happen to the traditional. \r\n So 1st thing AV Market Industry is classified into 4 major components sectors ectric \r\n motors which is about 1,3 billion Dollar and batteries is about 1,8 billion Dollars power \r\n electronics is about 1.47 billion Dollars and charging stations is much lesser 0.23 billion \r\n Dollar. We have got enough expertise from the electric motor perspective and then \r\n the batteries world over research phases is on we are no different and there is a lot of \r\n papers written and technical information is being shared. As per world we are in \r\n growing growth area. Power Electronics we have in south enough expertise in India \r\n 33,000 Engineering Institution out of which almost 35% in 4 states put togethere. \r\n Charging station is an emerging area and a technological marvel but it is actually green \r\n field. we have got network dotted across state Highways National Highways and \r\n Interior India. There are 2 type of composition which includes scooter and bikes and \r\n 3 wheeler which includes golf carts, passenger Auto, cargo vehicle and we have 4 \r\n wheeler passenger vehicle and light commercial and Trucks and Buses, The pother \r\n category is Technology category battery plays complete integral part of EV and lot of \r\n charging stations. The predictions for the Big 4's about Roadmap delight and trust the \r\n 3 wheeler category both passenger and truck will take the line shade in 2025 or 2030. \r\n The near future possibilities are faster introduction in EV or electrification in3 wheeler \r\n segment then followed by 2 wheeler then Buses, Trucks and Cars. On Technology the \r\n product life science of any product not new to the ASSOCHAM Members weather you \r\n are in power train breaks or engine of motorsor any component of Automobile \r\n Industry. Under research the Govt. and Regulatory Agencies and work with India \r\n premier Agencies for certification and glonal automotive research center. And \r\n Institution has taken big lead on research in EV Vehicles and happening many of \r\n southern states. Charging Infrastructure has its own chqallenges like logistics as well \r\n and land availability. The value chain of of auto components is divided into 7 pillars. \r\n Skilling is very much needed for SME and MSME'S goes in 70 20 10 formula 70% is \r\n Electric Motor Batteries, 20% Vehicle Integration and 10% Management Institution, \r\n SME Agencies. The take away from this webinar is EV is coming and going to stay. The \r\n cost issue and the range barrier and charging time barrier you need to break this \r\n barrier to be successful In EV area. Recommendation like Bank or Finance companies \r\n to fund EV'S, Universities to bring PG Courses, EV knowledge Parks, Component \r\n Corriders. Technology Consortiums. Over all 4 Takeaways, are Focus on EV Scooters, 3 \r\n wheelers, focus on EV Sales, Focus on developing top 10 cities in southern states \r\n changing infrastructure in top 10 cities.
\r\nThank you.
\r\nKey Note Address by Shri Sujai Karampuri, Director of EV & Energy Storage, Govt. of \r\n Telangana.
\r\nTalking from the state angle, we know the EV is a great opportunity for the country as \r\n an Economy and this respect we have created our policy and recently we have \r\n released it as an Govt. Order by the cabinet approval. What we have done is that we \r\n have looked this step by step rather than come up with vision for the next 10years and \r\n we have created a working document like 1 set giving incentives to a few members to \r\n get udopted into the state will see the change in the attitude of the people and Govt. \r\n might in the position to extend further. And the tab limits at the later point of time. \r\n Right noe we are giving incentives as a Tax exemption on registration exemption to\r\n first 1200 2vehicles and first 20,000 for 3 Wheelers and buses but with a different \r\n amount and 15% reimbursement on retro equipment for the Auto and 15,000 for the \r\n first 5,000 and four wheeler we have started with 500 on 5000 cards and then light 2 \r\n areas also. Private cars has been divide into private cars and cab operators and private \r\n cars also 1st 5000 and buses also. We have set of Incentives to the tractors also we \r\n were told 1st of this practice. So this is for the people who buy or purchase and this \r\n additional the fame 2 incentives receive from Central Govt. we have used this \r\n opportunity to supply side also. So certain incentives have taken the current electronic \r\n policy of the state and extended to EV. We are giving capital subsidy, Incentive for \r\n setup of EV and even related manufacturing. In this 20% of capital Investment and \r\n subsidy upto 30 crores and 100% GST reimbursement for First 7 years and power tariff \r\n discount also.and different for manufacturing and charging infrastructure and \r\n electricity duty exemption and interest intervention and transport subsidy and so on. \r\n The two major bus plant setting up in Telangana investment of 1000crore each and \r\n also 1st Lithium Ion cell manufacturing coming up starting from 1 mega watts upto 5 \r\n mega watts capacity and also similar two more companies is also interested in \r\n investing. In additional to this they have created steering committee to take care of \r\n the policy implementation for the next 10 years. IT Dept heads the steering committee \r\n with various Directors and Secretaries. Steering committee is rnforcing some the \r\n departments to work in co position. Drafted necessary guidelines for the appartments \r\n Govt. offices and Authorities too. For installation of charging infrastructure withb the \r\n lower tariffs and also planning to covert electric pools into easy charging stations and \r\n also parking spaces to charging spaces for EV'S. state is already operating 50 Electric \r\n buses from city to Airport and right now up for business and about a weeks time from \r\n now issuinf guidelines for Registration fee and Road Tax and other life term access \r\n waived off. Regarding parks Telangana has dedicated 1500 parks for EV and associated \r\n Technologies and craeated 500 acre park only to Lithium Ion and Charging \r\n Infrastructure and also have the mobility cluster with the companies like Hyundai and \r\n Chrysler for R&D and associated development and key words which is India's largest \r\n prototype in the city. According to our vision we want to become the most Electrfird \r\n state in the country through various policy measures and also stated that state is with \r\n Energy Surplus.
\r\nThank You.
\r\nShri. RK Mishra, Founder Director for center for Smart Cites.
\r\nSuggestion for Telangana State from RK Mishra.
\r\nStarted with appreciation about the pretty quick in decision making and also white \r\n compact state with a large metropolitan state with leading potentially from south \r\n India. Purchase of Individual Vehicle is it a Organic thing. The Govt. priority are \r\n creating a huge number of charging stationsin the city and where somebody will put \r\n their car for 2hr charging is actually impracticle. And I have target target decision in \r\n my office complex. I belive you do in the as well. There you can immediately bring \r\n that and they will need your public infrastructure because they won't have this space \r\n in their house or capacity to charge. ( First request).
\r\n2\r\n nd one will please encourage public by sharing essential 1st. and now the new Metro \r\n and last mile connectivity The lowest side swappable battery, public by sharing \r\n manual has around 10,000 bikes has alreaaaady running in, but still dosen't promote \r\n that. Very easy to make by that. India makes every thing comes from China. So this \r\n thing has to be involved.
\r\n3\r\n rd one SME\\'S are very scared they think they will go out of Business espetially \r\n automotive SME\\'S. Creat a Training Institute and work with NITI Ayog for this SME'S to \r\n how to go about it and Happy to work.
\r\nShri Sujai, Ans:
\r\nThanks a Lot and these inputs have noted. So definetly we have the option to change \r\n the course and improve on our policy and that's what we have done. We have created \r\n a living document, we have empowered the steering committee to add on. We invite \r\n members to be part of it as a Invite Members. He also said will work ASSOCHAM team \r\n how it can be part of it. So that you can direct us. Also will take the proposal of \r\n Training Institute and want to see how it can forward and helping us through NITI \r\n Ayog. Coming to next one we have fleet operators and trying to see how we can help \r\n them. Current policy would help them and also need additional support from the \r\n Govt. we are trying to see HRML to run some pilot program.
\r\n We look forward ASSOCHAM further and bigger support on the above suggestion.\r\nThank You.
\r\nPanel Discussion on Road Map to develop EV Market and Boost Economy by Dr. Vinod \r\n Surana. ( Moderator)
\r\nA warm welcome to all the panels to creating a Road Map to develop the EV market \r\n to boost the Economy.
\r\nI loo forward to hearing their views and perspectives on how they see the Electric \r\n Segment deloped and more importantly and to have their advice or tips to our MSME \r\n members who have suppling high quality products internal combustion of Engine \r\n Market. What should be the smooth transition as possible into the segment where \r\n should Invest. What oppurtunities exists in spaces manufacturing service and \r\n maintainance infrastructure development shared mobility spaces and last mile \r\n connectivity.
\r\nPanelist;
\r\n1. Shri. Aditya Nagarajan, VP, Guidance Investment Promotion & Facilitation \r\n Agency, Tamil Nadu.
\r\nFrom the state of Tamil Nadu, what the stae has been doing from past 2020 and also \r\n state roadmap to boost the economy.
\r\nTamil Nadu has rated one of the top 10 Auto motive hub in the World.
\r\n50% of auto mobile exports are coming from Tamil Nadu. The state has strong \r\n backward linkages with Metal Industries, Capital Equipment, Warehousing and \r\n service parts and also home for major companies like Mitsubushi, Ford, Yamaha and \r\n also homegrown companies like TVS and Ashok Leyland. State is also home to 1383 \r\n companies of auto components. Motor vehicles trailer. During post Covid times Tamil \r\n Nadu has done favorably well in terms of economy. Interms of attracting various \r\n investment and today rank No. 1 in post Covid Investment much of them are in from \r\n automotive and mobility space. Sighned MOUs with various companies. They have\r\n specific Auto Guidance, the team reached out to who are in traditional IC Engine to \r\n request them to know about power trains and electric mobility plans in the future. \r\n Reached about 80% of this companies. ( Auto Components) to moving through ward \r\n Electric mobility. The auto components companies have already made shift to Electric \r\n Mobility. Tamil Nadu is an ideal Destination for EV like Eshtablished Automobile Hub, \r\n Emerging Electronic Hub, Leader in Renewable Energy and High Human \r\n Development/Urbanization. All the Auto and Auto components Manufactures have \r\n approached us for shifting electric mobility and approaching Govt to assistance with \r\n respect to. Target Vision on EV policy. By attracting 7 billion dollar of investment in \r\n electric mobility. Create an comprehensive eco system and creating 1.5 Lakh Jobs. \r\n Guidence said, will have multiple workshops in different levels of mobility preparing \r\n road map to the state. Inviting ASSOCHAM and other stake holders to be part of those \r\n workshops and they could suggest advice and reccomandation. They have also have \r\n supply side incentives also frim the Govt. by giving 15% subsidy on capital & 100% \r\n Electric Subsidy for Ev Manufacturing parks and Vendor Eco System and additional \r\n Incentives to the MSME Sector. The Chief Secretary of the State to decide on the \r\n enabling infrastructure for EV and promoting it. So we will definitely love to invite \r\n each and invite more Pvt. Sector participation in that particular panel. To gine little \r\n background, Guidence is an Nodal Agency of the State of Tamil Nadu and we also a \r\n single window system and also have Land information portal to assist Electric Mobility
\r\nQ. Moderator
\r\nWhat are the two threats Tamil Nadu see in leadership space about competition on & \r\n Land cost in your opinion.
\r\nAns : Genuinely see to a larger extent not more about competition from splits in India. \r\n Ex. We would have wish in Tamil Nadu about set up on Innovations in Singapore that \r\n would have probably would have given terminology for assistance. And we lacked in \r\n investment in Battery Technology. We should have EV cluster at the earliest. \r\n
Panel R K Mishra, Founder Director, Center for Smart Cities.
\r\nThank you and appreciate to be in this forum,
\r\nIndia has an opportunity to be the world leader both from demand and supply point \r\n of view without global alliance. Energy Suffiency in fact surplus and this is the way to \r\n go. In EV there are very few players in the world who have the 11 technology and \r\n there are few things required in EV where technology and expertise is required these \r\n are 3,4 power trade battery, motor controller essentialy those are the kind. We are \r\n working close with both state and center as well, and planning to bring urban planning \r\n and policies in EV angle from the Dept. of Heavy Industries and NITI Ayog equally \r\n important but the real role has to be played by State Govt. to attract these \r\n investments and they have to be facilitator when the invest comes in. Tamil Nadu has \r\n an huge advantage of restart capacity and even Telangana have a huge opportunity \r\n and Karnataka also have strengths and Weakness and all the state come together this \r\n will be more generic from my view. China became the powerhouse noy just because \r\n of manufacturing supplier, they are also the biggest demand generators. That's the \r\n side our efforts are not there entirely in the Govt. domain Talil Nadu should be \r\n thinking to be all school buses should be Electric buses as they run hardly 30 to 40 Kms \r\n a day where charging stations can be provide as they will be having sufficient time to \r\n charge, by giving potential incentives and finance mechanism, essentially the leasing \r\n mechanism. EV fund and Venture funds is an great idea for the Startups but how \r\n about any fund help the finance the EV Buses those can be done by the state Govt. as \r\n an funding agencies and this can happen through convincing the players and through \r\n regulation. About the smart city concept, the GOI putting policy together metro in 25 \r\n cities, how metro will give mile connectivity. Demand creation will happen through \r\n for 2,3 wheeler by share Mobility. Buses will happen through by 10% of the car sleep. \r\n Regulation as a leader to create demand and facilitation to create supply. So my \r\n request for the both states will be use demand generation and supply facilitation \r\n through regulation and supply facilitation.
\r\n Thank You.\r\nQ. Moderator
\r\nView on Last mile connectivity and pain points.
\r\nAns. Last Mile Connectity comes from the urban context but most of the cities in India \r\n don't have any public transport. So every metro station are providing their space to \r\n share Mobility. As mentioned earlier, Daily metro is the best use metro. There per \r\n hour is only 9000 passengers portably ever breakeven. Now Central Govt. is noe very \r\n hesitant in sanctioning any metro unless city estates can justify and that will make \r\n way to Pvt. Sector. There should be make for the shared mobility system for the public \r\n in parking space and they are low cost vehicle, no need for Helmet , Registration and \r\n no Driving License and approved by GOI.
\r\nPanel Sri. Varun Chaturvedi, Founser/CEO, Volttic EV Charging.
\r\nThanks for giving opportunity, there are two points to be discussed and the first on \r\n depending on demand and the business is going to be sustainable where there is \r\n demand and economic viability. And the second most discussed on charging time. \r\n Demand is coming from fleet segment and they see economic viability 10 to 50 Kms. \r\n Since we come from charging side everywhere discussed it is a challenging lot's of \r\n people are complaining about charging infrastructure is not available buy same time \r\n practically it is very high in India in terms of getting Infrastrutyre. So we require 8200 \r\n kilowatt in cities to make fast charging stations at the same time we required same \r\n kind of Infrastructure. Volttic come up with a different approach we start putting our \r\n charging stations by lying with fleet operators so that we can ensure demand. This \r\n should be Business sustainable viable for a longer term rather than putting too many \r\n machines and nobody utilizing. So we are developing this in very strategic location are \r\n going to play a vital role. So now we are devlopin charging stations to the corporate \r\n companies and this about demand either through Govt. Subsidies and the fleet \r\n operators under govt. can be facilitated. Today lots of business are available for \r\n MSME'S so they can easily switch towards the skill side and lots of training is going on \r\n Charging Infrastructure and from some pvt startups on skill education. This might take \r\n time because every transition take time so with in 2,3, years we don't expect good \r\n number of transition so this the thought process on this.
\r\nThank you.
\r\nPanel Shri BC Datta, VP, Corporate Affairs, OLA Electric.
\r\nGood after Noon, First and foremost we lack on facilities in manufacturing and we \r\n need to think on manufacturing capacities and definitely it is the need of the hour \r\n post that the govt. support is required. Even though the states are initiating on \r\n charging infrastructure it is not taking it should that 1 required initiating requirement \r\n definitely need to look at. The other thing we need look in trading and creating man \r\n power in addressing in manufacturing. There is also MSME about the fear on old \r\n business will go off but in the view it will take 8 to 10 years in automobiles on 2,3, 4, \r\n and commercial vehicles. The govt. should make sure that the customers come by way \r\n of compulsion. We should also insist the delivery apps to use the EV's. so that will \r\n bring the boost to EV consumption. The people are getting dowm from Metro should \r\n use the Ev to reach their destination and this should be encouraged by the govt. to \r\n make sure the consumption going up. Environmentalists says should be done but \r\n definitely from the industry view will take 10 years. And more than 50% will definitely \r\n will be things are going. From The manufacturing side request to govt. to encourage is \r\n the battery and major component of all EV and it has to be manufactured here so that \r\n the cost comes down and becomes more affordable to the customers. The GOI has \r\n been talking about replacing the older vehicle with new vehicle that is environment \r\n friendly. So the govt should ask the customers switching from old to new vehicle \r\n should insist to EV which will increase the number what we are talking about. As a \r\n manufacture this kind of encouragement from govt. in all the areas the number the \r\n purchase number will start increase. So we believe in the coming years from the govt. \r\n the public who is shifting from old to new vehicle will ensure the EV. So we all \r\n together will ensure that will worst cities in India will make Environment in India.
\r\nThank You.
\r\nPanel Dattatreya Gaur, VP, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions.
\r\nThanks ASSOCHAM and panels, our focus will be on technology so Bosch deliver a lot \r\n of heightened parts to automotive world we are largest automotive parts supplier to \r\n all global in different segments. So when it comes to eletrictification, not only in \r\n technology but we cover vide spectrum in bicycles and 3 & 4 wheeler to commercial \r\n way in terms of technology in terms of light vehicle to 800 volts systems. To high light \r\n 2019/20 EV Coomparing to normal vehicle weight as 30 to 35% of the cost. The electric \r\n motors the electronics circuit and including transmission roughly 7% of the total car bu \r\n looking this the battery research should go on and we have to bring the cost \r\n significantly so the vehicle can actually fly off. And the vision of this business is \r\n something equal to know your existing gallery. About safety in the EV vehicle should \r\n be there as they can catch fire as it is ranging from 350 to 600 volts. At this time I take \r\n this opportunity to invite all the Technocrats and especially research academia in the \r\n country to grab it and really want to excel.
\r\nThank you.
\r\nQ. Moderator
\r\nWhat is the educational Institute should do and govt. should do.
\r\nAns: Excellent question, so urgently what we have to do actually get our top \r\n institution and kick start focus activities. We have some car program and specific \r\n programs and the govt. industries and academia should take up this in urgent ways.
\r\nEND...
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\r\nInaugural Chief Guest: Dr. C N Aswathnarayana, Hon\\'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and \r\n Hon\\'ble Minister of IT, BT and S & T, Government of Karnataka
\r\nModerator: Shri. Arvind Bali, CEO, Telecom Skill Sector Council
\r\nSpeakers:
\r\n• Shri. B V Naidu, Chairman- ASSOCHAM Karnataka; Managing Partner, StartupXseed & Founder \r\n and Chairman, THE GAIN
\r\n• Shri. Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA & Hon'ble Secretary TSSC
\r\n• s. Meena Nagaraj C. N. IAS, Managing Director, Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society \r\n (KITS), Government of Karnataka
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• Shri. Sujai Karampuri, Director - Electronics, ITE&C Department and MD - Telangana Fiber Grid \r\n Corporation and CEO - T-Works, Government of Telangana
\r\n• Shri. Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA & Hon'ble Secretary TSSC
\r\n• Shri. Pradip Punwatkar, Assistant Vice President, Learning Platforms & Operations, Reliance Jio \r\n Infocomm Ltd
\r\n• Shri. Sandeep Bhargava, Managing Partner - Alliances, Karo Sambhav Private Limited
\r\n• Shri. Gururaj A, Chair - Manufacturing Committee, ASSOCHAM Karnataka
\r\nUma S Nair - Welcomed the panellists and welcomed the participants and partners to the program.
\r\nShri. BV Naidu - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members. \r\n Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the Skilling \r\n Employment is the need of the hour in the State. He urged the Industry members and supporting bodies \r\n to come forward to tackle the challenges in the Skilling sector. He was happy to share that Karnataka \r\n become the 2nd largest hub Electronic manufacturer in the World. Suggested to focus more producing \r\n quality from the manufacturing the sector and increase in volumes of production. It is estimated to \r\n produce 200 million mobile phones in the country, he stressed the telecom sector to be prepared to \r\n produce and create the employment and platform ready.
\r\nHe said, Karnataka is the first State to formulate the ESDM Policy with attractive benefits to create the \r\n State as the ESDM hub in the Country. In the State there is an excellent set of leadership drive the Industry \r\n needs and huge potential to invest and make use of this excellent opportunity.
\r\nShri. Arvind Bali - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed the \r\n fellow panelists, representatives from the government and participants. He said the current focus in the \r\n country is on Electronics, the provided the how India came a long way in creating the manufacturing hug \r\n to manufacture locally and Ministry of Electronics has supported them accordingly. He highlighted that \r\n huge increase in the parts imports from Defense and Electronics sectors.
\r\nHe said that compared to any other industry, telecom sector requires a very highly skilled manpower to \r\n fill the requirement. As the telecom sector is a very versatile sector comes with new technology very now \r\n and then, so the skilling requires a regular upgradation and trainings to adopt with new technologies, TSSC \r\n plays a very important role in technology upgradation and training them for newer technology. He said \r\n the southern States in India are contributing more in creating more manufacturing hubs for telecom \r\n sector.
\r\nShri. Pankaj Mohindroo - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and \r\n welcomed the fellow panelists. He said India was ahead of China in early 90's in per capita income, \r\n currently we are one fifth of China's per capita income. He said currently India contributes 3.2% of world \r\n GDP with about 18% population which is very alarming position, suggested to come of this situation and \r\n industry policy to come out of the economic situation. He urged the manufactures to focus more \r\n importing goods to manufacture mobile phones locally. Suggested that ICEA targets to increase the export \r\n revenue to 0.5 trillion to the Country in the Electronic sector. The ICEA targets to increase the mobile \r\n exports to the domestic market target to reach by 80 billion dollar by 2025. ICEA created the plan to export \r\n IT hardware from India to Global markets.
\r\nHe suggested to change the complete thought process in skilling as the domestic markets are saturated. \r\n The entire labour force to be extremely competitive to the global markets in terms of quality and output. \r\n There a great lesson to be learnt from the competitive markets such as China and Vietnam, the Country \r\n needs to make friendly environment to increase the export in electronics sector as one of the focus. He \r\n said India has major opportunity as people strength and geographical dividend, should make use of such \r\n opportunity to compete with Global markets.
\r\nShri. Pradip Punwatkar - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed \r\n the fellow panelists. He said Reliance JIO's 5G announcement and benefits are vast such as 10x faster \r\n network compared to the current network and JIO is currently working on building the 5G network in the \r\n country. The ground force who monitors the optical fiber networks to maintain the bandwidth. Optical \r\n fiber are the backbone of 5G network. It is very critical to upgrade the ground force to up skill from 4G to \r\n 5G network. To seek the availability of the skilled force very important in telecom sector. JIO had planned \r\n reach out ITI colleges across the country to train them with latest technology and skilling and create the \r\n employability locally. JIO has partnered with TSSC and NSDC to create a pool of skilled work force and \r\n employed locally as per the requirement.
\r\ns. Meena Nagaraj C. N. IAS \r\n
Shri. Sujai Karampuri - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed \r\n the fellow panelists. He said the Telangana state is working towards to create the hub Electronic \r\n manufactures in the Country. The state had focused on various recent trends of the industry and have \r\n attracted various electronic manufactures, consumer electronics in recent years. The state had worked \r\n key elements such as promises and subsidies to the manufacturers. The Department have worked closely \r\n with local ITI's to create employment where they nearer to manufacturing zones. The State's frame is \r\n more friendly and flexible for industry in constructing their own way of facility and the utilization.
\r\nThe Telangana created a TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge) was established by the \r\n Government of Telangana for enhancing skilling synergy among institutions of Government, Industry & \r\n Academia. TASK Grants access to modules for enhancing their technology, personal and organisation skills \r\n at highly subsidized rates. Our programmes help corporates gain access to a pool of trained graduates for \r\n suitable roles. Our students are trained extensively in latest technology to help companies find the right \r\n candidate.
\r\nShri. Sandeep Bhargava - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and \r\n welcomed the fellow panelists. He said the industry has gone much ahead and have to be prepared for \r\n Automation, Embedded systems and so on. He stressed to create a pool of skilling for repairing and recycle \r\n of electronic goods in the country. Also suggested to make use of the current covid situation to train the \r\n work force remotely and upgadation, these times thought us to adopt to newer way to learn things. He \r\n suggested to make availability of place to reside for the work force near the plants which helps in reducing \r\n the pollution and travel time.
\r\nShri. Gururaj A - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed the \r\n fellow panelists. He said that challenges of MSME's and Medium scale industries, the is situation post \r\n covid there where movement of work force to their native and lack of man power the factory, this covid \r\n created a challenge for the workforce due the non-geopolitical presence anybody can work from \r\n anywhere, this cause the movement of work force to bigger companies. Also it is an opportunity to the \r\n MSME's and Medium scale industry are in urgent need to create a pool of local skilled work force for \r\n employment in the State. He suggested to TSSC to create a short time course to and partner with State \r\n Government formulate a joint collaboration to skill the work force. He suggested to focus more on \r\n creating the local skilled work force availability in the State.
\r\nDr. C N Ashwathnarayan - Shared the message to the participants -
\r\nKarnataka is known to be a Centre of hi-tech industry, contributing significantly to the country's revenues \r\n from information technology, biotechnology, ESDM, aerospace and other technology sectors. The best \r\n and the largest global companies across sectors have their R&D and innovation centres here. Karnataka is \r\n the fourth largest contributor to electronic industrial output in the country and contributes to 10% of the \r\n country's electronic industrial output with a recorded growth rate of 18% CAGR during 2008-2013. It has \r\n the second fastest growing start-up ecosystem in the world and is home to billion-dollar Indian start-ups.
\r\nKarnataka is on the move of making Karnataka into a global ESDM hub and a hotbed of innovation through \r\n focused interventions and encouragement to local companies in the sector with creation of 20 Lacs new \r\n jobs in the ESDM industry by 2025; both direct and indirect, thereby increasing the total workforce in the \r\n sector to ten times the present number.
\r\nKarnataka\\'s economy is centered on its IT ecosystem that is one of the biggest contributors to the central \r\n coffers. But the covid-19 induced lockdown has further exacerbated Karnataka's fledgling finances and \r\n acute fund crunch. The reduction in cash inflows from the centre has forced the state into more debt and \r\n also amending laws on industries, labour and land to attract more investments into the state.
\r\nThe cabinet also cleared special incentives for the newly proposed Electronics System Design and \r\n Manufacturing or ESDM cluster. The cabinet approved capital investment subsidy of 25% on land, \r\n complete reimbursement on costs like stamp duty and registration, land conversion rate. It also proposed \r\n ₹1 per unit for five years from the month of commercial production, 100% exemption from duty on \r\n electricity. The cabinet also approved 1% of annual turn. An investment of over ₹5,000 crore is expected \r\n by the state through this scheme, with a potential to generate 43,000 direct employment over next 5 \r\n years,the government said in a statement.\r\n
In view of Nava Karnataka Vision 2025 and Karnataka Electronics System Design & Manufacturing \r\n (KESDM) - 2017-22, the State Government promises to roll out the red carpet for investment in the ESDM \r\n Sector, promising EoDB through investor friendly policies and programmes. The State aims to create 2 lac \r\n jobs by 2025.
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\r\n1. Chief Justice Shri. MM Kumar - Founder President NCLT.
\r\n2. Shri. Ritesh Kavdia, Executive Director, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of \r\n India ( IBBI )
\r\n3. Shri. Ramji Srinivasan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
\r\n4. Shri. CS Nagendra D Rao, President, Institute of Company Secretaries of \r\n India ( ICSI )
\r\n5. DR K S Ravichandran, Managing Partner, KSR & CO Company Secretaries \r\n LLP ( Panel Moderator )
\r\n6. Shri. N K Dilip, Partner, TATVA Legal
\r\n7. Shri. Anil Goel, Chairman/Founder, AAA Insolvency Professionals LLP
\r\nUma S Nair, Regional Director - Southern Region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nDR K S Ravichandran ASSOCHAM Chairperson for Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code \r\n Southern Region and Managing Partner KSR & Co LLP
\r\nTry to separate revenues in this Insolvency & Bankruptcy code and also especially with respect to \r\n the MSME pre - packaged resolution process so that this will be disseminated across. As we are \r\n aware that the economic system has under gone a big change and the question is no longer is \r\n defaulter paradise defeated or not default as practice. At the opinion the defaulter paradise has \r\n got defeated. The Cedit culture has bought a change, the institution has come on change, everyone\r\n has contributed to the Judiciary be the duplicating Authority, Regulatory and the professionals. \r\n Every agency, every entity in the whole architecture has performed very well and they are bought \r\n the dynamic change and dynamism is required in Insolvency resolution because ultimately we are \r\n talking about the potential of Economic value and before that the resolution must happen and if \r\n it doesn\\'t happen of Couse the viable and non-viable can always go for Liquidation. We need to \r\n look at this entire code and activities from an economic perspective from judiciary perspective the \r\n Corporate Law perspective, Creditors perspective, Professional perspective. The IBC has seen \r\n several dynamic disruptive things ever since the comment on 1st December 2016 where IBC came \r\n into force and then we saw the first disruptive change on 23rd November 2017, then section 29A \r\n was introduced. Thereafter with in another 8 months we saw in 2238 6/6/2018 another very \r\n important we saw 2238 limitation provision were introduced 29a is on 23rd November 2017, but \r\n \r\n 238A or 240 A MSME there is an exemption. 66% rule was introduced on 6/6/2018. Thereafter \r\n in 2019 330 day rule was introduced trial. Then in 2020 was washed out of Covid 19 has gone ever \r\n since the IBC 23rd March was under suspension though 10 year was introduced in 2020. \r\n Thereafter very recently in 4/4/2021 we saw a very big change with respect to MSME introducing \r\n pre - packaged Insolvency resolution process. There are several decision and regulations \r\n everybody has worked wonders in the short period of time to make this Law dynamic, it is \r\n definitely disruptive but there is a IBC itself disruptive due to pandemic that is the actual fact of \r\n it that itself has to be suspended is the truth. Thank you.
\r\nInaugural Address
\r\nChief Justice Shri MM Kumar, Founder President NCLT
\r\nThe Pandemic has made very difficult to spoke face to face however the VC has made it possible \r\n even though distant, appreciating the team ASSOCHAM for organizing this Webinar, June 2016 \r\n when the NCLT established I took over as first President didn't have any idea that the Insolvency \r\n & Bankruptcy will be un the domain of NCLT Applicate Tribunal. Thinking was that in 2016, the \r\n deciding Company cases pending before the High Court got transferred to the NCLT. In the \r\n beginning there was hardly seriousness wound by the corporate debtors to the enactment of the \r\n court. It was not that the Insolvency Law introduced IBC first in the country, there was 2 \r\n important neatening Residency Town Insolvency Act 19 under 9 and the provincial Insolvency \r\n cases were decided under these acts but no reappearing has been issued and it will be matter of \r\n discussion and said to the Supreme Court there are reasons for not notifying the repeal of the old \r\n statue and the proceedings under are still to continue even after they are appealed the pending \r\n cases. On Raipur Power, we appointed an IPR and due to some of lack of knowledge to the people \r\n and should appreciate Supreme Court reason for occasion and members of the Bar who have \r\n brilliantly, efficiently have helped the benches and it has reached the Supreme Court with in no \r\n time. These principals which has not been let down had stayed very long time. The study of IBC \r\n Code cannot be complete without study of subjection, any leader or practitioner of IBC Code must \r\n have knowledge of many other subjects because the right of audience has been given to CA, CS, \r\n and Cost of Audits beside the Members of the Bar. By virtue of their long practice they are familiar \r\n to the constitution, we cannot help law of Contract excessive delegation conditional legislation to \r\n the judgement of Supreme Court. IBC Knowledge will be incomplete if we read in isolation we \r\n should have knowledge rudimentary principals of constitutional law of article 14. So if you want \r\n to practice IBC timely master the rudimentary principals of constitutional law contract law \r\n company law Banking Law Negotiable Instrument Act and so on. The first issue with regard to \r\n limitation act the journey is devious as for as law of limitation and IBC is concern. The judgement \r\n of the IBC was overturned by the appellate tribunal on the grounds anything which has come from \r\n 2016, book will be the limitation. That was the thinking of the appellate tribunal. The Law of \r\n interpretation is also essentials for those who are to practice IBC and it must be known to many \r\n practitioners of IBC. Supreme Court also observed any RP issue a certificate under section 30 \r\n subscription 4 of the IBC that the resolution can't is a complaint with all the existing Law So kindly \r\n consider in the panel discussion weather the reasoning adopted by 80 the appellate tribunal and \r\n the reasoning from NCLT and Supreme Court are better than each other because the rational and \r\n reasoning the constitutional back bone of the Judgement. The practitioner of IBC should also be \r\n known about the Judiciary discipline or the appellate tribunal will bind the NCLT and how the \r\n Supreme Court will bind everybody and all these things to be known to the practitioners. During \r\n the last judgement in April, the appellate tribunal has laid doe the statement of account abide \r\n \r\n before ROC or any other authorities would not give fresh lease of life because they are actualized \r\n by completion of Law. Therefore we should not come to conclusion under section 18 and have an \r\n acknowledgement within three years of the limitation period from the date of default has \r\n occurred. The Supreme Court also discussed by filling the return, dose not intent the judgement \r\n of section 18. So kindly discuss it can be overcome and the view taken by the Supreme Court and \r\n the three so many sections says the company should file company returns. Kindly go through the \r\n reasoning and the rational why it happened like this. The conditional judgement on April 21, \r\n notifying a particular clause is permissible constitutional judgement article 14 as a notification to \r\n one clause earlier or later are notifying at the instance at the deceptive govt. would result into any \r\n unconstitutional valued or it is justified and the Supreme Court has taken the view and it is \r\n perfectly permissible and the old judgement has been dismissed. The jurisdictional accept the \r\n personnel guarantor would be DRP or would be NCL. What would the resolution plan? What is \r\n they liability of guarantor under section 128 and all these area matter of discussions. Try to search \r\n any rule of Law which says that the resolution plan must be or must be in less than liquidation \r\n and Supreme Court says there is no provision and in another April 21 judgement has wide \r\n consequences. MSME is very important sector and special provision under IBC has made from \r\n section 59A a AAA has added in IBC. When the 10 member team travelled to London, the pre \r\n packed resolution was there and Singapore recently 2 years has passed. Any protection given to \r\n the Entrepreneurs who has suffered the corporate insolvency resolution process, the entrepreneur \r\n who has gone under hammer in big 11 cases how to rehabilitees them to end the formula and any \r\n period can be fixed from the initiation of CRP they will be not tighten so we need to look into these \r\n thin to reduce the fallen of entrepreneurs Thank You.
\r\nEminent Panel
\r\nShri. Ritesh Kavdia, Executive Director, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
\r\nGood noon to everybody, we passed a mile stone, on May 2016 was enacted. Since than it has \r\n rolled out unprecedented dispute within 180 days of the enactment of the act all the preparation \r\n were done by the govt. establishment of NCLT after that the regulator registration of Insolvency \r\n professional agency being out of regulations and all these done in 180 days and by 1st December \r\n everything was ready. Since than all the stake holders of this eco system has contributed a truly a \r\n reform by the stake holders we can all share out whatever the credit we can draw out from it. In \r\n fact NCL Constituted in hearing the company act matters and IBC was an addition load, under \r\n the chairmanship of Justice MM Kumar NCLT has settled many issues and they guided IBBI by \r\n framing the legislative work right now NCLT has past more than 12 to 13 thousand orders that are \r\n available on our website this eco system has moves to quite matured level we have 3500 IPs govt. \r\n has been committed that this reform will need adaptation and growing need of the business the \r\n merging challenges and now 6 amendments has been made to the Court and all these objectives \r\n has made further to the court to some extent we can say the Law reforms has done in a satisfactory \r\n manner this reform redefine that relationship between debtors and Creditors. Even IBBI \r\n regulation has been has confirmed on multiple occasions. So latest of the amendment from the \r\n court on pre-packed insolvency resolution process when these code was considered it was well \r\n thought of once for the initial these we are starting normal CRP but soon we will have matured \r\n products in pre packed resolution under the Insolvency frame work so every time this change of \r\n Management is a cost on the efficiency of the corporate Debtors and that cost can be avoided if \r\n \r\n the business are kept to the Minimum. At the initial time rights of Creditors were very week \r\n Creditors in delaying the proceedings now this code has put in right place think this is an \r\n appropriate time to pre pack amendment on everything so Insolvency Law Committee started \r\n deliberation on a prepack system in India. Due to pandemic the IBBI has share of Misfortune and \r\n this has most challenging for us. Due to severe impact on business the govt. has recognized that \r\n all the economy under stress we won\\'t resolution applicants and the most Vulnerable sector is \r\n MSMEs because they all run on informal systems and normally they don\\'t see resolution \r\n applicants. Recognizing that the govt. has the limit of CRP crush hold from 1 lakh to 1 crore to \r\n the MSMEs to provide some breathing time suspension of resolution Insolvency has done but \r\n real lies on resolving the Balance sheet and having the suspension dose not to resolve the balance \r\n sheet and we have to be alive to the fact that to relive the corporate debtors from its stress and a \r\n scheme was very much required and in Atma Nirbhar Bharath scheme will rolled out special \r\n schemes for MSMEs and even in the last budget and soon special schemes frame work will \r\n launched for MSMEs. Govt. has a ready frame work for pre packed it was thought that better we \r\n try this pre pack for MSMEs as a special Insolvency resolution frame work which is cost effective \r\n and a quick mechanism for MSMEs and initial part has been made only for MSMEs. Even though \r\n the code has kept intact its Creditors who has absolutely control and corporate debtors get benefit \r\n of moratorium calm period has been provided and completive recovery proceeding put on hold \r\n and reasonable chance are given for the corporate debtors, resolution plan is binding on all and \r\n that is the most important aspect of this code so section 29 A is applicable The pre pack \r\n mechanism frame work is efficient and we hope that it will be adopted by this industry in a big \r\n way and Law is good as its implementation and frame work is an experiment and it has reached \r\n extreme trust on management corporate debtors. If the management is clean and well-intended \r\n and enjoys the trust of the creditors and pre pack will be very useful for them under the discipline\r\n of the court and the success of this frame work will be friendly and the resolution frame work from \r\n the govt.
\r\nEminent Panel
\r\nShri. Ramji Srinivasan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
\r\nHappy Birth day to IBBI. Highlighting the recent developments in IBC, and incredible five years \r\n for IBBI. No economic legislation has meet with such a tremendous success which is measurer \r\n quantifiable and visible in real terms as the IBC. Had a privilege to argue the very first appeal in\r\n almost every commercial Appellate Tribunal and Regulatory Tribunal in Electricity, \r\n Telecommunication, Gas, and Pipeline with the privilege of first appeal before the NCLAT in the \r\n inventive leading Judgement in the IBC was the first one. Purposive intervention has to be given \r\n thereafter move to the new management with maximize of the assets so these experiments has \r\n been succeeded. There after we had many other judgements. Supreme Court noticed that even in \r\n 180 days it doesn't happen it will be called corporate debt, so you need to avoid that issues. The \r\n embassy which talk about the jurisdiction the NCLT do decide matters in right directions to take \r\n the constitutional role of the High Court late se boundaries to NCLT also. NCLT all order are \r\n subject to Law and consent of stakeholder's would have been required if there is no petitioner and \r\n the entity become same. We there is a preexisting disputes can we pursue the IBC proceedings \r\n and therefore Supreme Court clarified that it should be not be pursued and if any disputes that is \r\n evidence that is IBC can be permitted to be pursued. The recent decisions was a tortures root to \r\n up to the supreme court this was the case the CD has acknowledge the dept. in its balance sheet \r\n and therefore hit by limitation beyond three years of default therefore you cannot go ahead with \r\n \r\n the IBC proceedings so the NCLT rejected the claim and said you can proceed against which case \r\n was filed in NCAT. Thank you.
\r\nShri. CS Nagendra D Rao, President, Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)
\r\nIt is greater insights to the audience with this timely organized IBC Webinar, and the outset will \r\n appreciate the IBC on the stride gain in 5 years and its enactment in 2016, this progress is \r\n culmination as a part of the govt. entities and stakeholders. IBC change the Insolvency resolution \r\n in India being a debtor in position regime to creditor in control affairs of the company. IBC \r\n Introduced in India to fair initiation between parties and encouraging the revival of the companies \r\n by formulation of resolution process. The judicial pronouncements have played a crucial role in \r\n development of Law. Various legal pronouncements acts and judgements have unpresidental \r\n impact on the frame work. IBC in a short span has raised India in a World Bank and doing \r\n business ranking 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2020. According to IBBI the resolution plan yielded about \r\n 191%of the realizable value for the financial creditor at a average of 380 days tremendous \r\n improvement from the previous regime which took about 1200 days average to resolve. The ICSI \r\n has also contributed in the endives and form its insolvency professional's agency ICSI IIP enroll \r\n to educate train and also monitored the performance the registered members as Insolvency \r\n professionals. Today we all stand un precedent in this difficult time in this century the whip of \r\n wave of pandemic has stuck each and every person and business of this country. As the Indian \r\n economy was building to show the sign of recovery from the pandemic disasters the second wave \r\n has shattered the business. Govt. Since last year has taken measures to the ease the economy to \r\n address these adverse the govt. has been preparing the strategies and actions not only for business \r\n continuity but also for reviving the economy regulators have been working all through the difficult \r\n times to facilitate the stakeholders. It is appreciate the court Tribunal have adopted this facility to \r\n cater the demand of the stakeholders. Since beginning the IBC has involving and revolving \r\n legislation and there has been amendments to the IBC to out the practical difficulties the \r\n interpretation Issues faced by the practitioners and other stakeholders. Hon'ble Supreme Court \r\n and NCLT and NCLAT have pronounced various landmark judgements and sure many \r\n deliverables will take place. Thank you.
\r\nPanel Discussion:
\r\nMod : Ref to the 243 section IBC the reason why age old Insolvency resolution for Individuals and \r\n non-corporate the presidency insolvency and the provincial Insolvency act. Why it is notified even \r\n the repeal of them.
\r\nSrinivasan Ramji : This is legislative in Nature. Mau not have fall exactly with in jurisdiction of \r\n IBC they may have been certain proceedings which may have commenced or continue. Supreme \r\n Court should have examined also innovative. We need see IBBI has made any recommendation.
\r\nRitesh Kavdia : it\\'s a pre mature for whole of Insolvency and as a calibrated manner it was only \r\n ruled to the personnel Corporate debtors. Because they are covered both the legislations as in CRP \r\n has multiple remedies they can refer IBC same way for personnel guarantors have multiple \r\n options. The Process has initiated if 243 has to be repealed it has to be repealed for all of them. \r\n We have not attended yet. Rolling out a individual Insolvency country like India once dealing with \r\n such cases we need to be aligned to their sentiments culture emotional issues and the social Issues. \r\n \r\n So Individual Insolvency might be distance away from IBBI. Anticipating the partnership firm\\'s\r\n proprietorship firms to come into and remaining individuals will come last.
\r\nMod : 60 (2) and (3) will be completely taken care of the requirements related to the personnel \r\n guarantors to the corporate debtors. Because if there is a proceedings in front of Supreme Court\r\n or an insolvency Court may not be over as an Insolvent sort of a Grey area we see?
\r\nN K Dilip : The Intent of this legislation is commercial in nature and intent to be given current \r\n meaning and intent of the commercial legislative has bought forward. Commenting on the \r\n personnel Guarantor it is these are very welcome move the estate is resolved as quickly as possible \r\n if the personnel guarantor of the CRP has the both go along with CRP happening to be certainty \r\n and closure of matter as early as possible. One of the area is still lacking is group Insolvency in \r\n days to come most of the Indian Business are in Culamarated structure. So we are seeing the \r\n experiment has happening between PG and CRP hopefully MSME and PRPF also will have an \r\n experiment and also based on the success will move forward.
\r\nMod : MSME sector plays a very important role and the contribution to the GDP by MSME is one \r\n reason why the entire country is focused giving opportunity for a large number of Employment a \r\n generation in this country and considering the 28% of unemployment in recent days report. So is \r\n IBC is Boon or Bane for MSME?
\r\nAnil Goel : As the country is dependent on MSME, in the last four and a half years actually done \r\n well with MSMEs, outlet it has gained little in their capacity they have taken the advantage of IBC \r\n to great extent. Merely the fear of IBC lot of large Corporates has struck in making the payment \r\n to their suppliers in capacity of Operational Creditors. The CIRP has taking away their control and \r\n custody of assets and Business which is disruptive of the running Business. In 1st June the limit \r\n was increased to MSMEs and it is now pre comfortable with 50 thousand crore and 250 crore of \r\n Domestic Turnover in Exports and process of registration is very simple. The PIRP has introduces \r\n in a lightening manner rules and regulation was notified and it is live and any one can approach \r\n the financial Creditor to opt for PIRP. The Courts will take not much time and will not be contested \r\n and cons usual by the corporate debtor. Benefit is MSME business model is viable and feasible\r\n but somehow landed into non compliances or not able to service the debt so all these things are \r\n debtor to come and invest in MSME or anyone to become Partner or to acquire a running Business \r\n just because of the fear pf uncertainties. So PIRM is a definitely a Boon for MSME. Interns of \r\n Investment, adding Partners, Shareholders.
\r\nMad : Why we are not thought about prepackaged Insolvency process for all the Corporates \r\n particularly large corporates and was the logic introduced only for MSMEs and leave out the large \r\n once and probably more important in the Economic Systems.
\r\nRitesh Kavdia : When the prepacked was recommended by the committee, it was recommended \r\n to all the corporate debtors in a phased manner and before it could be implemented the resolution \r\n frame work for MSMEs were very much required. This MSMEs are somewhat in between \r\n corporate individuals sort of structures. Many of them rely on informal structure and there is no \r\n fine line between the corporates and individuals so correct resolutions are required for MSMEs \r\n because only the corporates debtors are more interested in taking their assets. So considering all \r\n this the MSMEs are under great distress and on urgent basis this s the first phase implementation \r\n we have prepacked for MSMEs. If this experiment success we hope that various Schemes to other \r\n corporates as well.
\r\n \r\nNK Dilip: Anything is possible we hopefully we will get Judicial discipline. We are seeing the \r\n situation CRIP fails Liquidation started and then we see back door 230 section. In that \r\n compromise coming under the Companies Act. So we see everything happen as a possibility recent \r\n withdrawal and one time settlement been offered so we need to look at the 80 20 rule the main \r\n provision for success and not get distracted.
\r\nMod : Commercial wisdom and COC role of adjudicating authority is very Minimum in CARP and \r\n there petition stage and even after the creditors the objection tight by a way of Creditor or a \r\n shareholder by directly approaching NCLT and doing objection sake and File \r\n Srinivas Ramji : Transparency is very important and the sailing future has to published otherwise \r\n people don\\'t have an option to know what is examined in the matter. The salient feature of the \r\n resolution plan proved can be published it should not lead to open the doors to large number of \r\n litigation. \r\n NK Dilip : The minority shareholders in this transaction but never in management he is left high \r\n in this resolution to exercise unless as a bidder investing more. It is good order get published prior \r\n to public announcement made. \r\n Mod : Concluding remark, in order to work efficiently we have to have other regulators also \r\n supporting with the same manner with same efficiency. Weather it is Central or State govt. \r\n departments weather it is regulators there is lot of difference everything will fall in line in IBC but \r\n the same reach is not there for ancillary units. So in order to build an Eco System which function \r\n and delivers its objective and faster than ever before.
\r\nEND.......
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\r\n
• Shri. D P Nagendra Kumar, IRS, Principal \r\n Chief Commissioner of Central Tax, \r\n Karnataka Zone
\r\n• Shri. B V Murali Krishna, Additional \r\n Commissioner, Commercial Tax \r\n Department, (e-Governance), GOK
\r\n• Shri. Ravi Raghavan, Senior Partner \r\n (Moderator), assisted by Shri. Brijesh \r\n Kothary, Joint Partner, Lakshmikumaran & \r\n Sridharan Attorneys
\r\n• Shri. Bhojaraj T Shetty, Chairman, \r\n Bengaluru Branch, SIRC of ICAI \r\n
• Shri. Manjesh Gargi, DGM SME, State Bank \r\n of India
\r\n• Shri. Aravind, Associate Vice President, \r\n Tally Solutions
\r\n• Shri. Sagar Agarwal, Co-Chairman, \r\n Karnataka State Development Council \r\n ASSOCHAM and SVP, Transystem Logistics \r\n International Pvt. Ltd. (JV of Mitsui & Co., \r\n Japan & TCI, India)
\r\nOpening Remarks:
\r\n
Uma S Nair, Regional Director - Southern \r\n Region, ASSOCHAM
\r\nWelcome remarks to Dignitaries, Panelists & \r\n Partners
\r\nInaugural Address
\r\nShri. D P Nagendra Kumar, IRS, Principal Chief Commissioner of Central Tax, Karnataka Zone
\r\nWhen we look 4 years back, we are inching towards 4 years completion of GST is quite satisfactory. The \r\n Consolidation of taxes into single tax which was may be too late so the center and State govt. as more or \r\n less settle down in last 4 years. Towards improving GST Compliance which is quite essential for improving \r\n revenue which is the major concerned, which we introduced 4 years back \r\n States had lot of appreciations regard to revenue protection about the predicted revenue assurance is \r\n from the central govt. Fortunately notwithstanding the pandemic the revenue has showing vibrancy from \r\n last October 2021 and what we have logging successfully.
\r\n1 Lakh crore plus in last 8 months successfully. We are under continues stress an account of Pandemic \r\n and lockdown across country. In GST Compliance stake holder consultation is one of the key factor in \r\n driving this reform into the user friendly mode. GST is an electronically admistared Tax and every process \r\n is automated to portal. The GST had faced initial glitches at the time of roll out, has more or less stabilized \r\n in terms of ensuring that all the process are automated.
\r\nLot of changes has bought in 43 GST Council meetings which have positive changes to the basics control \r\n of the process which they have also control successfully by adopting all those changes. <.p>\r\n
A dual Objective is improving the Compliance and Ease of Doing Business. With introduction of their e \r\n Invoicing. 35th GST Council Meeting has introduced e invoicing in India as a Way Forward to improve the \r\n Compliance to facilitate the automated process.
\r\nE Governance of Karnataka Govt. should be complimented for providing some touchstones for them have \r\n validated many of the processes to circulating and roll out of e invoicing in the country.
\r\nEffective from April 2021, slashed 50 crore and above as we are seeing substantially the Tax Payer are \r\n falling to the e Invoicing regime. E Invoicing has a great relief in terms of reducing the cost of the \r\n Compliance to the Tax Payers.
\r\nE Invoicing provides seamless interaction business ERP Solutions visibly the portal to either direct API or it \r\n could be to the app name mode. E Invoicing benefits are already started flowing and the e invoicing will \r\n basically provide data entry errors and it also minimize the mismatch errors and provide auto population \r\n of the outward supply details into the GST TR 1.
\r\nA caution in the auto populated attend will have to be verified with regards correctness of the Credit \r\n away with regards to the various restrictions provide under the Act of GST.
\r\nThe auto population comes quite handy in terms of ensuring that the Tax Payer is aware about its \r\n vendors behavior in terms of Compliance and also calibrate the requirements entitles allowed in GST Act.
\r\nMoving forward the we are looking at the GST e Invoicing to be taken to the universal population that \r\n would be the ultimate goal but to cover the B2B transaction itself when we are touching that MSME \r\n sector effective from 1st April 21 carefully watch the adoption is happening in the larger Tax payer \r\n population.
\r\nThe experience what we are gaining here will go long way to ensure the 2 phase of the e invoicing \r\n whether we introduce to the B2C transaction as well and B2C transaction exclusion is very minimalistic \r\n and QR Code the dynamic report which is made mandatory in the B2C transaction which ia already \r\n embedded into e Invoicing and B2B is also a solution in terms of ensuring the process integrity.
\r\nThe Business will find the benefit of e invoicing meeting the compliance and also payments and inventory \r\n managements.
\r\nGovt. angle we look support from the active Tax payers encouraging the e invoicing systems which would \r\n be win - win solutions for all of us.
\r\nThank you.
\r\nTheme Address
\r\nShri. B V Murali Krishna, Additional Commissioner, Commercial Tax Department, (e-Governance), GOK
\r\nE invoice is a game changer, form the e invoice implementation in 1st October 2020, but in Karnataka we \r\n actually started introducing the digitization information from 2010 onwards itself but the kind of aspect \r\n of uploading a purchase and Sale statements which we were able to achieve the compliance which led \r\n modeling the GST 1 and GST 2 outwards and for reasons it took the back seat.
\r\nWhereas it take care of the e invoicing concept even for the B2C transaction it is not a 36o degree profile \r\n as it will take time\r\n Already captured 55 crore invoice and 1/3 of the tax payers are receiving the Invoices.
\r\nOnce the invoice generated electronically for the common portal is authenticated with the QR Code and \r\n the item number which is already embedded indicated the document of the statement to the Govt. and \r\n the compliant will be reduced.
\r\nWe have travelled from uploading the GST 1 from 2017 and 2018 we migrated to e way bill data and \r\n digitization started for the particular consignment shipments and as of now 180 crore e way bill has \r\n generated in e way portal.
\r\n32 % of the population are generating the e way bill though it is not mandatory, Once make the \r\n mandatory invoicing to all Tax Payers are immediate obligated, to make the portal enable for the tax \r\n payers to come and generate and most of the tax payers well come it.
\r\nWeb based login should be implemented so the tax payers directly login the data and generate e invoice.
\r\nIf we look at the past and todays regime the compliance has reduced day by day in e way bill or e \r\n invoicing portals.
\r\nE Invoicing has bought the compliance, if we look at in April we could reach on lakh fourty five thousand \r\n collections there is leap jump before or after of e way bill or e invoicing.
\r\nE way bill have integrated the app RFID a week back on the Fat Track Toll plazas.
\r\nTechnology is helping to pinned down the Fraudsters and Fraudsters Measures.
\r\nE governance is stabilized so much by bringing transparency and need of the hour is to adopt technology \r\n which will the Audit trial where everyone can be tracked seamlessly.
\r\nE Invoice is ultimate once it comes in place for all transaction as right now it is only B2B and B2G with \r\n some exemptions has to be taken off by giving a easy mode of uploading and for B2C transactions the \r\n web based process which will help ease of doing business and this is how the e invoicing is a Game \r\n changer.
\r\nThank you.
\r\nPanel Speaker
\r\n
Shri. Ravi Raghavan, Senior Partner (Moderator), assisted by Shri. Brijesh Kothary, Joint Partner, \r\n Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys \r\n
Q: Shri. Sagar Agarwal
\r\nWhat is the facility to choose the route by the e way bill generator on depending upon the vehicle using \r\n and lead time fixed for the e way bill?\r\n
A: Shri Nagendra Kumar, IRS
\r\nA; NIC over a period of time, the distance travelled measures for e way bill alive and also facility for \r\n extension for primarily keeping in mind about the deviation and malpractices that is the approach we are \r\n looking at. The over time keeping these issue we cannot customize the individual because of the large \r\n population but certainly we have recommendation to this.
\r\nA: Shri. Murali Krishna, Additional Commissioner
\r\nCertainly they can raise submit their grievance we can see to that and set it right.
\r\nQ: Will RIFD solve this issue considering with the responsibility of the Logistics to give the route if the \r\n options are given to select and takes the longer route because of various conveniences?
\r\nA: RIFD is already integrated and hope it will take over pin to pin
\r\nObjective is to ensure that movement of goods under e way bill is to ensure that there is movement \r\n tracking available and RIFS provides the technology with the visibility of the Vehicle and that option could \r\n be thought off and policy makers will take up and option should be available for you enable in the portal \r\n in a generic manner and suggested to raise this issue and recommendation to NIC.
\r\nQ : On penalty and Tax on the E way bill is 68% at the time no production still tax has to paid and no \r\n solution to go for appeal and no Tribunal Appellate is constituted in Karnataka and request to give some \r\n token penalty but not to the extent of 68% so?
\r\nA: We are al aware that we are in system driven mode and to take the decision making. The reason why \r\n the officer dose the assessment is with regard to correctness of the document and advised to have in GPS \r\n tracking manner or computer online or Mobile app.
\r\nAs we move forward we need to work towards the system where it non discretion. So request to raise the \r\n recommendation and submit certainly we will take it forward.
\r\nTo train the Tax payers at large by generating the e way bill properly and any minor omission such as \r\n truck drivers to educate the person carrying the documents in any such errors instead of convey to you \r\n after 2 or 3 days instead that to flag immediately.
\r\nPanel
\r\nShri. Ravi Raghavan, Senior Partner (Moderator), assisted by Shri. Brijesh Kothary, Joint Partner, \r\n Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys
\r\ne Invoicing is a system wherein the tax payer uploads his invoice details and registers his transaction on \r\n Invoice registration portal ( IRP).
\r\nIRP helps tax payer to get the Invoice reference number (IRN) generated by IRP this will prevent the evading \r\n happening on large scale.
\r\n• Advantages of e Invoice.
\r\n• Creation of Standard
\r\n• Ability to prepopulate returns
\r\n• Better tax payer services.
\r\n• Reduction of Tax evasion
\r\n• Efficiency in tax administration.
\r\nCategories excluded below are added in future?
\r\n• B2C Supplies SEZ Developers included
\r\n• Banking and other Financial Companies
\r\n• Agents
\r\n• Admission of exhibition pf Cinematograph films in multiplex screens
\r\n• GTA service providers
\r\nA: Addition Commissioner ,/b>
\r\n The policy has to take a call on particular and it's a high time all these categories should fall under e \r\n Invoice.\r\nConsequences for Non-Compliance are
\r\nPenalty as per section 122(1) of the CGST Act Rs. 10,000 where he Inter alia\r\n Eligibility of ITC Non position of the Tax Invoice is one of the condition for denial of ITC.
\r\nIf e invoice is not issued that the recipient may not eligible for ITC
\r\n New features in the newly introduced manner for e way bill and vehicle tracking whereas gives \r\n transparency which prevent fraudsters in feature.\r\nRecommendation related Annual Returns FY 2022-21
\r\nA: Shri. Bhojaraj T Shetty, Chairman, Bengaluru Branch, SIRC of ICAI
\r\n• Over the years professional were struck in this issues and never added value to the business \r\n people.
\r\n• Things are happening automation in India
\r\n• Govt. makes system not system driven Tax collection and intention is for Ease of Doing Business \r\n and add value across chain.
\r\n• Dealers and Tax payers enjoy by making honest business and professionals are trained to do \r\n beyond compliance.
\r\n• In the current years turnover is to certified, and 2022-23 total expenditure needs to be certified \r\n and whole reconsolation has to be come out from the Charted Accountants.
\r\n• Professional need to focus to value addition to a business people by helping their business grow.
\r\n• Going forward visiless growth definitely help across the Board with many other Audit will remain \r\n same along with System Audit.
\r\n• RBI and SEBI made it mandatory.
\r\n• ICAI a decade back started training on Certification course Diploma in Information Audit.
\r\nQ: What do mean by Audit Trial
\r\nA: Shri. Aravind, Associate Vice President, Tally Solutions
\r\nAt this part of time it is not anybody's Importance but it will create lot of confusion in business sectors.
\r\nChallenges are:
\r\n• Extremely short notice to implement Audit Trial.
\r\n• Although audit trial has been there since decades sudden enforcement will trigger panic, \r\n Mistrust, and resistance from the business and community.
\r\n• While audit trials aims to track, penalize and discourage fraudulent changes in accounting entries \r\n one should remember that there is an aspect of "Human Error" also involved in this subject.
\r\n• Within the interest of Stakeholders Business men, Accountants, auditors, govt., etc. which \r\n definitely not possible in 6 days.
\r\n• Even if the Software claims it is audit compliant, and even assuming that it is there is no way to \r\n completely ensure that the business will remain complaint since the application can be tampered \r\n by Internal/External persons.
\r\n• Certainly needs detailed deliberation if it is not dwelt properly certainly will hit SME very badly.
\r\n \r\nEND......
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\r\n Friday 31st July, 2020 10:30 am - 01:45 pm
\r\n India holds a great potential to become a vibrant data economy and a good center of data\r\n enter in the world. Our government is working towards bringing more investments in data\r\n centers. - Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and IT\r\n
\r\n- Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon\'ble Minister Law & Justice, Communications and\r\n Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
\r\nThe growth of digital business in India is expected to rise substantially in the coming\r\n years, thus fueling consumption market with digital data consumption expected to\r\n increase. The demand for hyper-scale data centers is on the rise. The market is expected\r\n to see a strong resurgence of growth-related projects across verticals viz., banking,\r\n insurance, telecom, and government segment. While data center investments, private\r\n and public, in India is growing rapidly, cloud is certainly the next big focus. With the new\r\n normal established due to COVID, reliance on technology from enterprises and\r\n consumers has increased. All these factors together make for a tremendous growth\r\n possibility for data centers in India in coming years. However, industry needs to also focus\r\n on legal, policy and regulatory enablers that are essential to promote future investments\r\n in datacenter industry and strengthen Datacenter business in India.
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM being one of the oldest and apex chamber in India, organised \"INDIA\r\n SMART DATACENTRES & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT 2020\" on 31st July\r\n 2020 from 10:30 am\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM brought bring industry Top leaders, stakeholders and policy makers to\r\n discuss the next billion Dollar opportunity in datacenter & cloud business and future\r\n investments in India's Digital Infrastructure including top level discussion around Smart\r\n Datacenters, Opportunities and challenges in managing datacenter business, new hybrid\r\n models of datacenter and cloud, Latest trends in technologies, Future developments in\r\n data center and strategies that will shape the datacenter and cloud industry in India and\r\n thus strengthening India's positioning in the global datacenter market.\r\n
\r\nKey Speakers
\r\n●Shri Som Parkash, Hon\'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of\r\n India Smt. Jyoti Arora, Special Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Electronics & IT,\r\n Government of India
\r\n●Shri Som Parkash, Hon\'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of\r\n India Smt. Jyoti Arora, Special Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Electronics & IT,\r\n Government of India
\r\n●Shri Anurag Dua, Partner, PwC
\r\n●Shri Sunil Gupta, Managing Partner & CEO, Yotta Infrastructure
\r\n●Shri Samuel J. Varghese, Vice President, Global Marketing, CtrlS
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●Shri Kundan Ghodke, General Manager, Sales & Marketing , GPX
\r\n●Shri Manish Israni, Executive VP & CIO, Yotta Infrastructure\r\n
\r\n●Shri Jatinder Singh Pabla, VP Sales & Marketing, STT GDC India
\r\n●Shri Jitesh Nair, Country Manager, Hybrid IT Services, HPE
\r\n●Shri Sachin Waingankar AVP, Cloud, Web Werks
\r\n●Shri Vimal Kaw, AVP, Netmagic Solutions
\r\n●Shri Xavier Kurian, Director, Solution & Alliances, Dell Technologies
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\r\nINDIA DATACENTRE INDUSTRY
\r\n India: Asia\'s next Digital Frontier
\r\n Wednesday 7th October 2020 07:00 - 08:00 pm
\r\n Live on Newsx\r\n
\r\n Session Moderator:\r\n
\r\nShri Rishabh Gulati, Managing Editor, NewsX
\r\n \r\nPanelists:
\r\n1)Shri Darshan Hiranandani, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Data\r\n Centers & Group CEO, Hiranandani Group\r\n
\r\n2)Shri Sharad Sanghi, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Data\r\n Centers & CEO, Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India), NTT Ltd
\r\n3)Shri Sumit Mukhija, Chief Executive Officer, ST Telemedia Global Data Centers\r\n India
\r\n4)Shri Suhaan Mukerji Founding Partner, PLR Chambers
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\r\n First Virtual Meeting of National Council on Auto & Auto Ancillaries
\r\n Held at 11:30 AM on 30th June 2021
\r\n
\r\n The First Meeting of the National Council on Auto & Auto Ancillaries of ASSOCHAM was held through\r\n video conferencing at 11:30 AM on 30th June 2021.\r\n
\r\n\r\n R S Kalsi , Chairman, National Council on Auto & Auto Ancillaries, ASSOCHAM & Senior Executive\r\n Director - Marketing and Sales, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., welcomed all the participants and mentioned\r\n that it is an exciting time when ASSOCHAM has introduced a new structure, which will enable the\r\n Council to work more efficiently and effectively. It will help members to share their thoughts and put\r\n forward their issues & concerns in front of concerned authorities through ASSOCHAM.
\r\n\r\n Auto & Auto Ancillaries is one of the focus areas of ASSOCHAM through which different policy\r\n interventions and Government representations can be taken up. Auto ecosystems like component\r\n manufacturers, OEMs, etc. are important areas. Multiple stakeholders are part of the discussion and\r\n that will make a holistic effort to drive the council towards its successful implementation.
\r\n1)Shri Darshan Hiranandani, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Data\r\n Centers & Group CEO, Hiranandani Group\r\n
\r\n\r\n Auto is one of the important sectors of the Indian economy and the manufacture of transport\r\n equipment accounts for almost 10 per cent to 12 per cent of the gross value added within India\'s\r\n manufacturing sector, and any decline in that area significantly hurts India\'s economic outcomes.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Pooja Ahluwalia from Primus Partners gave a presentation highlighting ASSOCHAM\'s functional\r\n priority on identified 4 pillars and emphasised on deciding 3-4 themes by the council on key areas\r\n which would be focused on during the Year. It was decided that a sample Template for the same would\r\n be sent to members for their views, which will help them in identifying priority themes and setting the\r\n agenda of the council for the Year.
\r\n\r\n Satyakam Arya Co-Chairman, National Council on Auto & Auto Ancillaries, ASSOCHAM &\r\n Managing Director & CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. Said that \"the auto industry, in\r\n fact, was struggling even before the COVID-19. and what has happened with the COVID-19 is many of\r\n those effects have been amplified. In fact, if you take a look back at the automotive industry, globally,\r\n and also in the context of India, I think we are facing three storms together\".\r\n
\r\n\r\n Arya added, \"The first one is the cyclic storm. We\'ve seen that reflected in the volumes or the\r\n market size. The second one is the structural reforms and the third one is the transformational stock\".
\r\n\r\n He further said that \"when we look at the commercial vehicle industry, two years ago, we had sold\r\n 400,000 trucks. Last year, this number came down to 100 per cent. Now, this was the segment, which\r\n was the most effective, but if you look across past reverse the effect of slowing down of the economy\r\n and pandemic has been in double-digit growth. And in most of these sectors, we have gone back 10\r\n years in terms of the size of the market and that\'s a matter of deep concern. This is something which\r\n we must also think about it, later how can we push the growth agenda for the customers\".\r\n
\r\nWhile talking about the structural reforms he said that \"it is getting impacted by the regulations or by\r\n shifting consumer behaviours. COVID-19 has actually amplified the effect of the structures reforms.\r\n We all have to think about, how do we reimagine. There are businesses that we can convert this crisis \r\n but this will require large investments and this will also require advocacy with the government and\r\n other stakeholders of our industry to get the right solution for our industry\".
\r\nHe added, \"The third topic is more long-term in nature and what is getting accelerated day by day.\r\n And that is the transformational stuff, we all are talking about or community views, which will be\r\n carbon neutral, we\'re talking about electrification, we\'re talking about fuel cell. And this will lead to a\r\n dramatic change in the way the industry is organized or structured\".
\r\nArya while discussing about GST issues, said that \"It\'s certainly not just asking for a reduction in\r\n tax, but put it in a different way and we should bring three things together; One comparing the tax\r\n structure of other countries, Second we should bring out the aspect of how the technology gap is\r\n closing now looking at India as compared to Europe or America now, for example, Titanium\r\n DSX, Earlier we had PS4 so vehicles were cheaper and this shows that vehicles have added a huge\r\n amount of average cost so they become expensive and third is per capita income in India compared\r\n to those economies. If we bring these three together then it will show how economical vehicle India\r\n have become.
\r\nFollowing other major suggestions were made during the discussion:
\r\n● The automotive sector provides 37 billion direct and indirect jobs while stimulating job\r\n creation in the other industries as we
\r\n● The sector is expected to account for 65 billion jobs in India by year 2026 as companies\r\n increase production.
\r\n● The sector is expected to account for 65 billion jobs in India by year 2026 as companies\r\n increase production.
\r\n● The industry has faced many challenges including devastating costs.
\r\n● Going to the lockdown challenges, leading the demand-supply equation MSMEs are facing\r\n serious cashflow issues.\r\n
\r\n● The rise in input costs increased the price of vehicles and a huge spike in fuel prices is a double\r\n whammy for the consumers. \r\n
\r\n● An incentive-based policy is needed for scrap over 15-year-old commercial vehicles and\r\n revised axle norms. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is a need to promote localisation. Priorities or Support needed in the sourcing of\r\n automotive components under the Make in India initiative. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There are issues related to GST in the EV sector. There is 5 per cent GST on batteries which\r\n come with the vehicle but GST at the rate of 28 per cent will be applicable when it is sold\r\n separately. There should be parity and GST applicability should be 5 per cent for all cases \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● People are skeptical about their jobs, future, their health; the pandemic is not only impacting\r\n the health, but also the very core of human psychology. Many consumers have started \r\n questioning their consumption patterns; people are shifting their expenses more towards\r\n health care and insurance. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is rising awareness and inclination for savings, more for future protection rather than\r\n gratifying and impulsive needs. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The industry currently is facing multiple challenges like how to manage their various supply\r\n chain issues i.e. shortage of semiconductors, as well costs typically steel import restrictions\r\n through different quality control orders are some of the areas of concern as of now. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Most of the dealers were unable to open their showrooms in May. Even in June, some\r\n dealerships remain closed because of lockdown in those states or towns, this is a time to\r\n closely monitor the local situation and OEMs should continue to support their suppliers and\r\n dealer.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The increase in the cost of raw materials is a major point of concern. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The industry has always stood by the country at times of need and supported the government.\r\n Just like during the first wave, in the second wave also many companies came forward to\r\n support healthcare infrastructure, augments the supply of medical oxygen, and support local\r\n communities. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● It was informed that the Maruti Suzuki has undertaken a mega initiative of scaling up the\r\n production of PSA oxygen generator plants by over 10 times utilizing its expertise. Under CSR,\r\n along with some of its supplier partners, Maruti Suzuki has donated 25 such plants to\r\n government hospitals in various states.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair\r\n
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\r\n Summary Record of
\r\n First Virtual Meeting of National Council on Logistics
\r\n Held at 4:00 PM on 16th July 2021\r\n
\r\n The First Meeting of the National Council on Logistics of ASSOCHAM was held through video\r\n conferencing at 4:00 PM on 16th July 2021.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The meeting was Chaired by Paul V. Johnson, Chairman of National Council on Logistics,\r\n with Jasjit Sethi and Davinder Sandhu, Co-Chairs of the Council. \r\n
\r\nFollowing major issues and suggestions emerged during the discussions:
\r\n● The key objective of this council is to spread awareness about this industry and to ensure that logistics becomes a boardroom subject.
\r\n● Logistics is not just a supplementary function of the economy, it can be a driver of the\r\neconomy. Hence, it requires due attention and recognition by the Government.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is a need to create more awareness about logistics and about the importance\r\nof logistics as an industry that drives benefits to users. If logistics infrastructure cannot\r\nenable efficient, reliable, strategic, price-sensitive, cost of value for money supply\r\nchains, then it is not serving the purpose.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Currently, as various initiatives are being taken by the Government, it is the right time\r\nto raise industry issues before the relevant Government departments and look for\r\nsuitable changes through Government engagements.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● As the logistics sector is very vast, there is a need to create synergy amongst different\r\nsegments of the industry. There is a need to pick up themes, which are long-term in\r\nnature, and not just transactional. Some of such themes could be supply chain and\r\nproductivity, which needs attention continuously and goes beyond the year after and\r\na lot of things can fall under the productivity. It could be related to any infrastructure\r\nincluding ports, terminals, and trucks. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Logistics policy is required to be formulated after taking into account multi-modal\r\nspace, and overall infra and asset utilisation space. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is a need to identify and highlight bottlenecks and ASSOCHAM could be the\r\n window to represent such things to the government to ensure that these bottlenecks\r\n are removed \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● It is a happy development that logistics is being seen by the government as a great\r\n lever for pushing the economy forward. Now logistics is backed by a lot of digitization\r\n and it will bring transparency and efficiency in operations.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is a need to advocate with the public policy authorities to set standards in place\r\n for creating an efficient logistic environment in the country.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The Government has one district one product program. Now, no product can succeed\r\n if its supply chain is not efficient. Any product being made in any district will need raw\r\n material to be moved, and it will also need finished products to be put out in the\r\n market. Logistics and supply chain management can improve the overall program of\r\n the Government.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Skill-building in the logistic sector is a point of concern, particularly, given the fact that\r\n speciality chemical sector is taking rebirth in India, movement of chemicals might see\r\n a big challenge in this country due to lack of skill in this sector.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Logistics sector needs uniformity and seamless connectivity across all the sectors\r\n across transportation; road or sea transportation. The whole data architecture,\r\n movement of goods and services should be seamless. There is a need to see the\r\n business from a customer\'s perspective. The different interpretation of rules by\r\n different agencies is another challenge for the industry.\r\n
\r\nThe meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair
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\r\n Panel Discussion & Ideation Session on
\r\n Strengthening Logistics & Warehousing for Sustainable Growth
\r\n Held on October 27, 2020, from 2:00 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.
\r\n Held at 4:00 PM on 16th July 2021\r\n
\r\n ASSOCHAM organized an online Panel discussion & Ideation Session on Strengthening\r\n Logistics and Warehousing for Sustainable Growth on October 27, 2020. The Chief Guest\r\n at the session was Pawan Kumar Agarwal, Special Secretary, Logistics, Ministry of\r\n Commerce and Industry, Government of India. Deepak Sood, Secretary-General,\r\n ASSOCHAM presented the opening remarks and also moderated the session. Vineet\r\n Agarwal, Senior Vice President, ASSOCHAM and Chairman of the Logistics Council of\r\n ASSOCHAM delivered the industry perspective. Sanjay Rath, Vice President,\r\n Logistics Centre of Excellence, JSW, and Anshuman Sinha, Partner, AT Kearney also\r\n addressed the participants. The session was attended by about 250 members of the\r\n Industry. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Following are highlights of the discussions: \r\n
\r\n\r\n Deepak Sood: \r\n
\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n ● As India focuses on becoming Atmanirbhar, we would see a revamp of domestic\r\n ecosystem and better alignment with the global supply chains - both of which\r\n will be significantly dependent on the robustness of logistics and warehousing.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The industry would soon move from just a service provider to an end-to-end\r\n solution provider to their customer. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The implementation of GST, the continued focus on building industrial corridors,\r\n according infrastructure status to logistics industry including warehousing, thrust\r\n on manufacturing and the promise of the Indian consumption market, all these\r\n factors together have enhanced the investment prospects of the country\'s\r\n warehouse sector.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Despite having low cost drivers, highest truck efficiency, and fairly good roads,\r\nthe cost of logistics is very high as 13 to 18 per cent of our GDP is spent on\r\nlogistics. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is a need of an efficient multimodal transport system and a collaboration\r\n among state governments, central Government, and the industry for developing\r\n infrastructure. Technology-driven changes are needed in this sector. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Vineet Agarwal added:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Our objective through the National Council on Logistics is how we bring out\r\n certain changes that are practical in nature. There is a need to look at more\r\n incremental changes rather than very large interventions for the sector. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The first one is to improve in terms of policy and regulatory issues and the second\r\n is that how to make the sector more attractive.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Besides, standardization and design innovation based on India-centric needs\r\n together with streamlining of processes would reduce time and logistics costs.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● To move on, a body on the lines of RDSO could be set up to ensure that trucks\r\n and wagons, etc are of the same size. The policies of the Centre and States for\r\n things like warehousing should be similar in nature.\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There should be a national policy as going to different states for different\r\n approvals, regulations and permits not only create inefficiencies but also extra\r\n cost in the system. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Yet another major area of improvement is the standardization of\r\ncontainerization of Cargo, which is very poor in our country and needs to be\r\nlooked into for bringing cost of containerization.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n Pawan Kumar Agarwal said:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The national logistics policy will soon be in place and provide a very robust\r\n framework for action to work on improvements in the logistics and supply chain\r\n management for the nation.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● We had to devise our own formulations for the national logistics policy and\r\n therefore it has taken a little longer than what it should have taken, but we have\r\n reached the finality on this and you will soon see the final logistics policy in\r\n place. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The logistics sector appears to be very complex and it is loosely defined and what\r\n logistics encompasses will differ from person to person. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● For commodities like Non- Basmati rice exports, the cost in India is about 14 per\r\ncent whereas the same in other countries like Vietnam is just 5-7 per cent. This\r\nshows a big gap in cost competitiveness. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The issue here is that in many sectors we can find a reference point but in the\r\nlogistics sector there is no such information, neither can we emulate examples of other counties. Therefore, unless we get down to details and go down to\r\nspecific commodities, geographies, modes of transport, concerns, we may just\r\nkeep wandering without achieving much. So unless we define it and identify key\r\nareas we cannot go ahead with implementation. This is precisely what the Govt\r\nis doing for over the past 5-6 months.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There have been seven rounds of discussions on making attempts to zero down\r\nto specific areas of intervention rather than making some very general\r\nstatements. There is a focus to create a plan that is implementable.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Under the plan, the Govt has identified 12 areas that are levers of change that\r\nwould focus on - policy coherence, regulatory coherence, and simplification of\r\nprocesses, use of automation and mechanisation of warehousing, standardization\r\nand unitization of cargo, digital transformation, multi-modality, logistics\r\ninfrastructure, professionalization of human resources, green & clean logistics\r\nand others.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Standardisation of Containerisation of cargo holds a lot of potential for bringing\r\nefficiency. This is not very well understood by the people in the logistics\r\nindustry. These aspects would be covered in the national logistics policy which\r\nwill be announced soon. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There may not be any further action, in many areas, where action has already\r\nbeen initiated and which are in different stages of implementation.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The focus is on ensuring that all this happens in a coordinated manner. There\r\nare issues in logistics at the state level and at the local level, which needs due\r\nattention. States will have to understand and bring focus on logistics of which\r\nwarehousing is going to be an important issue. This coordination arrangement\r\nneeds to be institutionalised to bring in a more robust structure of coordination\r\nat the national level, state level, and between states and the centre.\r\n
\r\n● Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are a very important sector for the\r\n economy and streamlining of processes will help MSMEs reduce logistics costs to\r\n a great extent.
\r\n \r\n● ASSOCHAM may hold master classes for stakeholders and professionals in the\r\n industry at different levels with a focus on creating efficiencies at large
\r\nSanjay Rath added the following:
\r\n\r\n ● From a consumer perspective, it was mentioned that the ongoing pandemic has\r\n changed their whole business environment. The pandemic suddenly stopped the\r\n complete business operations so much so that there was no manpower available\r\n to load and unload the Railways containers.
\r\n\r\n ● The whole supply chain was disrupted, leading to the closing down of the\r\nproduction units. Since the industry is manpower intensive, there is a need to\r\nhave a mechanised kind of system. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● To re-start the production, certain innovations were done for transportation\r\nincluding designing of coastal wagons.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Multimodal transportation and the use of coastal line can reduce the cost. One\r\nof the major reasons of the high logistics cost in India is due to non - use of\r\ncoastal lines.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Further, a very old documentation process is being followed in India which needs\r\nreview along with necessary modifications in regulations for enabling coastal\r\ncargo. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The Steel industry is highly logistics-intensive and logistics cost for the metal\r\nindustry in India is as high as 20-25 per cent of the total cost of production.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● To reduce such a high cost, innovations in logistics cargo, digital transformation,\r\nand scaling up the whole ecosystem of the supply chain like China is needed. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Anshuman Sinha said the following:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● India ranked 44thon World Bank\'s Logistics Performance Index in 2018 and India\'s\r\nlogistics cost ranges in 13-14% of GDP as compared to 8-9% in developed\r\neconomies, which is Indicating inherent inefficiency in the way freight moves in\r\nour county. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There is potential to unlock USD 250 billion capital from supply chains by 5 per\r\ncent reduction in logistics cost. This would require an integrated development\r\nof the logistics sector leveraging the best in class technology, integrated\r\nprocesses, and skilled manpower.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The proposed National Logistics Policy lays down well-defined objectives to\r\nachieve the vision of transforming the Indian logistics sector. The strategic\r\ninitiatives of the policy include integrated logistics services, multi-modal\r\nlogistics infrastructure, logistics needs of the core sectors and logistics for\r\ninternational competitiveness and logistics for emergencies. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● It is expected that these initiatives will achieve improved cost and time\r\nefficiency of specific commodity supply chains, synergetic growth and\r\ntransformation of all transport and allied sectors and optimized multi modal mix,\r\nincrease predictability of delivery and reduced well time, reduced losses on\r\naccount of transport and storage, enhanced business competitiveness of the\r\nmanufacturing sector, and Improve logistics employment opportunities in\r\nquantity and quality.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● There are identified additional ideas to strengthen the proposed National\r\nLogistics Policy. These include integrated logistics services, Multi-modal logistics\r\ninfrastructure, Meeting logistics needs efficiently, and Financing, Monitoring,\r\nand Evaluation.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Sinha, also mentioned key areas of intervention and suggested imperatives,\r\nwhich he elaborated through the presentation and suggested that the\r\nGovernment can also focus its efforts along 3 dimensions i.e. complete ownership\r\ninitiatives, guidelines defining initiatives and program management initiatives.
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\r\n 10thJune 2020
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\r\n ASSOCHAM organized an Industry Discussion in a Webinar Mode with Hon\\\'ble Chairman, TRAI\r\n to bring all stakeholders in the digital eco-system on a common platform to discuss the\r\n opportunities in the sector and the support and interventions required to take the sector to the next\r\n level of growth and transformation\r\n
\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\n\r\n ● Shri R. S. Sharma, IAS, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Shri P Balaji, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Shri R. S. Sarda , Wireless CTO , Huawei India \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Shri Randeep Raina, CTO, Nokia India
\r\n\r\n ● Shri Manoj Kumar Singh, CTO & CRO, Indus Towers\r\n
\r\n● Shri EitanKoter, CEO, Vimmi, Israel
\r\n● Shri Jared Dougherty, AVP, External & Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Asia Pacific\r\n (Singapore)
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\r\n 2nd July 2021, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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\r\n Special Address: Rakesh Nangia, Founder & Chairman, Nangia Andersen India Pvt Ltd.\r\n
\r\nRakesh Nangia gave a special address and instated a brief overview of the overall PLI Scheme.\r\n Below are some highlights given by him:
\r\n\r\n ● Production linked incentive is a very wide base scheme. It is launched with the objective to\r\n encourage domestic manufacturing and to make India - a manufacturing hub of the world.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● This manufacturing sector has placed such a vital role in terms of job creation, substituting\r\n import, acting as a GDP multiplier. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The total amount committed by the government is close to 1.65 lakh crore in the shape of a\r\n subsidy. This subsidy is available and available for 5 years to 6 years, depending on the sector\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The government is giving a fixed outlay - timely movement timing making an obligation is\r\n prerequisite and important.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Nischal S Arora, Partner, Nangia Andersen LLP:
\r\n\r\n He presented PLI Scheme overview for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers including, Sectoral Overview,\r\n Scheme Eligibility, Eligible Investments, and Selection criteria to the participants. Below are some\r\n highlights of the presentation made him:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Mayank Arora, Director, Nangia Andersen LLP\r\n
\r\n\r\n He presented PLI Scheme overview for White Goods Manufacturers including, Sectoral Overview,\r\n Scheme Eligibility, Eligible Investments, and Selection criteria to the participants. Below are some\r\n highlights of the presentation made him:\r\n
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'Outcome-ReportWebinar-on-PLI-Scheme', 1, 0, '2021-07-02', '2021-07-02', '3:00 pm', '4:00 pm', 5, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (147, 'Webinar on Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry', 'Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Schemes are a cornerstone of the Government\'s 'Atmanirbhar Bharat\' mission. Announced with a total outlay of INR 1.97 lakh crores for 13 sectors, PLI Schemes aims to create domestic manufacturing champions and generate employment opportunities.', 'Webinar on Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry \r\n
3rd June 2021; 3:00pm to 4:30pm
\r\n
\r\n Webinar Brief:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Schemes are a cornerstone of the Government\\\'s 'Atmanirbhar\r\n Bharat\' mission. Announced with a total outlay of INR 1.97 lakh crores for 13 sectors, PLI Schemes\r\n aims to create domestic manufacturing champions and generate employment opportunities.
\r\n\r\n One of the PLI Schemes, recently introduced, is for the Food Processing Industry (the FPI Scheme). The\r\n FPI Scheme has an implementation window of 6 years, starting from Financial Year 2021-22 and offers\r\n an aggregate incentive of INR 10,900 crores. The FPI Scheme seeks to support food manufacturing\r\n entities towards significant expansion in their capacities. It also provides support for the branding and\r\n marketing of Indian brands in overseas markets.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM organized a webinar on 3rd June 2021 from 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm jointly with Dhruva\r\n Advisors. The webinar entailed: \r\n
\r\n\r\n I. A comprehensive analysis of the FPI Scheme\r\n
\r\n\r\n II. Coverage, eligibility and exclusions under the FPI Scheme\r\n
\r\n\r\n III. Process and time period for making application for approval under the FPI Scheme and grant\r\n of incentive therein.\r\n
\r\n\r\n IV. The FPI scheme operative period.\r\n
\r\n\r\n V. Areas to look out by the applicants and so on.\r\n
\r\n\r\n VI. Lastly, the Question and Answer session.\r\n
\r\n \r\n ', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'webinar-on-production-linked-incentive-scheme-for-food-processing-industry', 1, 0, '2021-06-03', '2021-06-03', '3:00 PM', '4:30 PM', 5, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (148, 'Banking & Financial Lending Companies E-Summit & Awards', 'The ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking successfully conducted National E-Summit & Awards \\\"Digital\r\n Financial Services: Response to Atmanirbhar Bharat\\\" for giving awards to Banking & Financial Lending\r\n Companies on Thursday, 29th April 2021 (11:00 AM- 03:00 PM).', '\r\n\r\n The ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking successfully conducted National E-Summit & Awards \"Digital\r\n Financial Services: Response to Atmanirbhar Bharat\" for giving awards to Banking & Financial Lending\r\n Companies on Thursday, 29th April 2021 (11:00 AM- 03:00 PM).\r\n
\r\n\r\n Eminent panel members were:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Shri Subhash Chandra Garg, Former Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI; Shri Sunil Mehta, Chief\r\n Executive, Indian Banks\' Association; Shri Ajit Pai, Distinguished Expert and Consultant, Vice Chairman, Niti\r\n Aayog; Shri Ashvin Parekh, Managing Partner, Ashvin Parekh Advisory Services LLP; Shri George Alexander\r\n Muthoot, MD, Muthoot Finance Limited; Shri Vishal Motwani, Head of Customer Solutions, India and South\r\n Asia, SWIFT; Shri Rishi Gupta, MD & CEO, Fino Payment Bank Ltd.; Shri Lalit Mehta, CEO, Decimal Technologies\r\n Pvt. Ltd.; Shri S. Ramann, MD & CEO, National E-Governance Services Ltd.; CA Anil Goel, Founder & Chairman,\r\n AAA Insolvency Professionals LLP; Shri Nirmal Gangwal, Founder & Chairman, Brescon & Allied Partners LLP,\r\n and many more.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM National E-Summit & Awards on Banking & Financial Lending Companies was divided into\r\n following sessions: \r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Inaugural Session \"Digital Financial Services: Response to Atmanirbhar Bharat\".\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Panel Discussion-1: MD & CEO Virtual Round Table \"Robustness of Banking System & Role Of Financial\r\n Lending To Achieve The Vision Of $ 5 Trillion Economy By 2024\".\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Panel Discussion-2: Bad Bank, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) & Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)\r\n \"Is It A Remedy or Malady For New Economy\".\r\n
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\r\n \"Discussion on Monetary Policy\"
\r\n Saturday, 03rd April 2021 (03:30 PM- 04:30 PM)\r\n
\r\n The ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking successfully conducted Shadow Monetary Policy\r\n Committee \\\"Discussion on Monetary Policy\" on Saturday, 03rd April 2021 from 03:30 PM- 04:30\r\n PM\r\n
\r\n\r\n Some of the eminent panelists were:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Shri S. C. Aggarwal, Senior Member, ASSOCHAM & CMD, SMC Group; Dr. Arvind Virmani,
Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India; Shri Rishi Gupta, Co-Chairman,
ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and MD & CEO, Fino Payment Bank Ltd.; Shri Indranil
Sen Gupta, Chief Economist, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Shri Abheek Barua, Chief
Economist & Executive VP, HDFC Bank; Shri. Sibasish Mishra, Director, Acceptance Re
Innovation Technology, and Dr. Charan Singh, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council forBanking.
\r\n Shadow Monetary Policy Committee
\r\n \"Discussion on Monetary Policy\"
\r\n Tuesday, 01st June April 2021 (03:00 PM- 04:30 PM)\r\n
\r\n The ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking successfully conducted Shadow Monetary Policy\r\n Committee \\\"Discussion on Monetary Policy\" on Tuesday, 01st June April 2021 from 03:00 PM\r\n to 04:30 PM. The total number of participants were more than 40.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Some of the eminent panelists were:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Shri S. C. Aggarwal, Senior Member, ASSOCHAM & CMD, SMC Group; Dr. Arvind Virmani,\r\n Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India & Chairman, EGROW Foundation; Shri\r\n Rishi Gupta, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and MD & CEO, Fino\r\n Payment Bank Ltd.; Upasna Bhardwaj, Sr. Economist & Sr. VP, Kotak Mahindra Bank; Shri\r\n Siddhartha Sanyal, Chief Economist & Head- Research, Bandhan Bank, and Dr. Charan Singh,\r\n Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking.
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'shadow-monetary-policy-committee', 1, 1, '2021-06-01', '2021-06-01', '03:00 PM', '04:30 PM', 6, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (151, 'Economic & Financial Covid Task Force', 'The ASSOCHAM successfully conducted the Economic & Financial Covid Task Force ', '\r\n Economic & Financial Covid Task Force
\r\n Thursday, 13th May 2021 (11:30 AM- 12:30 PM)\r\n
\r\n The ASSOCHAM successfully conducted the Economic & Financial Covid Task Force on Thursday, 13th May\r\n 2021 from 11:30 AM- 12:30 PM.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Some of the eminent panelists were:\r\n
\r\n\r\n Shri S. C. Aggarwal, Senior Member, ASSOCHAM & CMD, SMC Group; Dr. Arvind Virmani,\r\n Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India & Chairman, EGROW Foundation; Shri\r\n Rishi Gupta, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and MD & CEO, Fino\r\n Payment Bank Ltd.; Upasna Bhardwaj, Sr. Economist & Sr. VP, Kotak Mahindra Bank; Shri\r\n Siddhartha Sanyal, Chief Economist & Head- Research, Bandhan Bank, and Dr. Charan Singh,\r\n Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking.
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'economic-&-financial-covid-task-force', 1, 1, '2021-05-13', '2021-05-13', '11:30 AM', '12:30 PM', 6, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (152, 'National Council on Railways', 'Railway development has laggedbehind and have hasnot seen any significant development for the past 15 to 20 years. Currently, the Indian railway is handling 30 per centof the overall freight business in India as comapred to 40-50 per cent in 1950', 'Virtual Meeting
\r\nNational Council on Railways
\r\n04:00 P.M. April 10, 2021
\r\nSummary Record of discussions
\r\nA meeting of the National Council on Railways was held through virtual mode on 10th April 2021.
\r\nVivek Lohia, Chairman of the Councilwelcomed the members. He was joined by Sanjeev Kumar, Co-Chairman, and K N Ramesh, Co-Chairman of the Council.
\r\nFollowing is the gist of the discussions:
\r\n \r\n\r\n Railway development has laggedand hasnot seen any significant development for the past 15 to 20 years. Currently, the Indian railway is handling 30 per centof the overall freight business in India as comapred to 40-50 per cent in 1950. Thedeveloped world like USA & China railway is handling 50 per cent of the freight business.
\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n The augmentation of track capacity is far behind as compared to major global players in the railway sector becauseglobal players augmented track capacity substantially. In the passenger segment, in the first 20 to 30 years of independence, we were the leaders as compared to Asian neighbours. Thenour Asian neighbours lead efforts for modernization and resulted to provide far better amenities as compared to Indian Railways. Our Government has now realized that the corrective steps should be takenmuch faster. The initiatives should be in terms of privatization of rail cars and in freight sector allowing private sector participation for making freight business more inclusive.
\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nTrack infrastructure is critical for the growth of Railways. It is the backbone for Railways to develop, but there is a huge challenge from the EPC side. To expedite the projects, it must be done at a comprehensive level as has been done in the road projects.
\r\n\r\n\r\n National Rail Plan is key to progress and preparing a National Rail Plan is a humongous task. There have been ideas for creating innovation fundsas there is no right method to buy digital solutions of the innovation of digitization space. A separate innovation fund in Railways will bring key innovation which will help Railways in long term rather than procuring on L1 basis because that never brings innovation in the product.
\r\nRailways is now embarking on major developments like rolling stock, electrification of tracks, and modernization of stations. The work has been done with large developments. It is a huge opportunity for the Indian industry. There is a need to engage with Railways on a constant and regular basis and bring a major change with how the businesses are done.
\r\n\r\n The National Rail Plan is a vision document and for any organization to grow manifold, hence Railwaysmust work as per its vision document. The NRP is quite comprehensive and modern data built needs to be linked with National Infrastructure Pipeline.
\r\nThe underline issue is the ease of doing business that the industry wants from the Government. The other concerning area is vendor management and there is a need to reassess the vendor management at the micro-level,the regional level, and central levelas it is a large gamut. There are too many vendors and confusingclassification which put many MSMEs out of business due tothe L1 concept.
\r\nThe availability of funds and payment systems needs to be streamlined as many payments are still pending with authorities. It needs to be reassessed with Railway Board for concrete policies on the fast release of payments.
\r\nThe Bank Guarantee management is a major issue for many members like EPC or Rolling Stock Suppliers as bank guarantee lying with Railways has no benefit to them. There must be understanding with Banks that bank guarantee should be automatically lapsed with the document returned or not.
\r\nThe Procurement portal of Indian Railways i.e.,Indian Railway E-Procurement System (IREPS)has done a wonderful job with digitization instead of paperwork.The Government of India announced another platform for procurement through mega procurement portal i.e., Government E-Marketplace (GEM) but it has its limitations that commodities price is getting higher as there is no price variation clause in the Government E-Marketplace portal. If Railways want to migrate from Indian Railway E-Procurement System to Government E-Marketplace,this pricing clausemust be looked into.
\r\n \r\nRDSO functioning needs much more ease of doing business and requires a re-look into micro-level as it involves vendor approval system and other systems. On one hand, Indian Railways wants to modernizewith new technologies, and on the other hand, where there are less than 3 vendors, the approval fee is US$ 12000. On one hand,they are willing to provide green carpet for new technology and on another hand,they have put a restrictive fee for approval in the digital platform. So, there are dichotomies thatthe railwayhas to look into and remove anomalies. There must be a system where these things are looked into threadbare.
\r\nThe Atma Nirbhar Bharat is an excellent initiative thatneeds to be implemented in letter and spirit by giving MSMEs a share like Japan and Korea developed Railways and other sectors. If such initiatives are taken up by Indian Railways, MSME will play an important role.
\r\nThere is a disadvantage for manufacturers as the standards in India by Railways are not comparable with what is being used in the rest of the world. To develop a specific product only for India which cannot be used in other surrounding countries will not be viable from economies of scale point of view. So,to encourage Make in India, Railways should have the same standards as other manufacturers have for exporting to other countries. The Make in India policy is complex and in fact, Railways are not attempting 100 per cent procurement policy the way it should be. we are importing from China and other countries. There is a need to increase standards in the welding department and automatically increase in quality of products with safety.
\r\nBid or contract documents are one-sided in some clauses, for example in DMRC it is based on FIDIC, but conditions are changed. There is a need to look into the document for fairness and equityfor both parties. As the steel prices are going up,there is a need for escalation formula for compensation of cost increased and client can have an actual change in prices and accordingly change the formula percentage to the extent contractors are compensated. It is a situation where the steel is increased by 23 per cent but the overall impact is 60 per cent. There is a need to draw a parallel between Road and Railway work.
\r\nThe new product introduction is extremely difficult for MNCs in India. When the introduction of new technology comes in and is involved in the model of procurement with competition, the lower bidder is given preference, instead, there should be some recognition to new technology with the efficiency. Indian Railways do not provide life cycle cost as it is decided on tender based onthe lower bidder. RDSO and Indian Railways shouldrecognise the contributionofthe industry as it is bringing the latest technologies at the best price which involves engineering investments.
\r\nThere is a need to encourage Indian industry and promote homegrown technology. RDSO should consider giving project-based development orders that are to be completed in a time-bound manner rather than supply-based development orders. Once a development order is given on a particular specification, Railway should be accepting it even if they have changed or revised the specification or the procurement criteria (e.g., bundling of various products under one specification by doing revision).
\r\nRailways should consider amending relevant ISO (International Organization for Standardization) document forthe CCA (Controller of Certifying Authorities) assessment. It should be done based onthe existing capability of the firm in terms of existing P&M (Plant & Machinery), existing Testing facilities, and existing required skill in the company and not to ask the company to invest beforehand for setting up of relevant Plant& Machinery and Testing facility for doing CCA. These things are to be checked after the development of the product and not before. Because many a times development takes time and assets sit idle without any return which discourages for making a huge investment into the business.
\r\nInnovation fundsshould be made available for promoting indigenous technology that will be utilized as per ease of doing business. Railways are in a big way going for green technology by 2030. This will also help Make in India initiatives.
\r\nThe council should identify themes to create linkage with defined priority areas of ASSOCHAM so that the Chamber’s larger agenda is pushed forward throughout the year.
\r\nThe meeting ended with a Vote of Thanks to the Chair.
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\r\nNational Rail Plan-Fast Track India towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat
\r\nDATE: 10th March 2021
\r\nASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on ‘National Rail Plan-Fast Track India towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ on March 10, 2021. The welcome address was given by Vivek Lohia, Chairman, National Council on Railways, ASSOCHAM. Other Key Panellists included Anshul Gupta, General Manager, North East Frontier Railway; V Shanker, Executive Director - Planning, Ministry of Railways; Sushil Nowal, Senior Vice President – Logistics & Planning, JSW Steel Limited; Dr. Manoj Singh, Executive Director- Traffic Transportation (Freight), Ministry of Railways; Manish Puri, MD, RailRunner Innovations Private Limited; Surendra Khare, Sr. GM, Jindal Rail Infra Ltd; Nanduri Srinivas, Director – Operations & Business Development, DFCCIL; Saurabh Sood, Managing Director, GATX India; Lalit Tejwani, CMO, Hind Rectifiers Limited; Amit Agarwal, Vice President – Sales Marketing & Service, Amber Enterprises Pvt Ltd.; Subodh Kumar, Sr. GM, Welspun Enterprises Limited; C L Sah, General Manager, RITES Ltd., and Mangal Dev, Director, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd.
\r\nK N Ramesh, Co-Chairman, National Council on Railways, ASSOCHAM & Executive Director, BEML Limited gave the concluding address.. The session was moderated by Sanjeev Kumar, Co-Chairman, National Council on Railways, ASSOCHAM & COO, Progress Rail Innovations Private Limited.
\r\n\r\n\r\n Vivek Lohia said that “the Rail sector has vast scope for growth. Railways has come out with the National Railway Plan, which lays emphasis to increase the market share of Indian Railways from the present 28 per cent to 42 per cent by FY 2031. It seeks to serve passengers and attract them from alternative modes of transportation. The overall long-term rail development plan has been stated and efficiencies in the railway infrastructure have been identified under this plan. The plan prioritizes the projects and evaluates the funding requirement and the financial strategies for Indian Railways. Steps like DFCs enabling private participation in railways, the introduction of high-speed rails, new and improved technologies, and forward-looking policies will not only help Indian Railways increase its market share compared to alternative modes of mobility like road and water transport but also completely transform Indian Railways to a true world-class transportation system counted amongst best in the world. The freight cost in India is significantly higher around 7 per cent and the global average is 3%, so there is a significant scope of reduction of this cost for the Indian economy to move towards 5 trillion benchmarks. The national rail plan is in the right direction towards achieving this road map.
\r\n \r\nV Shanker said that “as other sectors like aviation have become competitive, there was a need to create a plan to make railways also competitive. The huge unmet demand gradually led to roads, which led to a fall in the share of railways. There is a need to increase railway share from 28 % to 45% and also to reduce theoverall cost of logistics. The objective of the plan is to create demand to bring in a surge in capacity, infrastructure and also enhance rail freight share ahead of its demand. Also to develop capacity by 2030 that will cater to growing demand up to 2050.
\r\nThe objective is to provide an overall long term rail development plan in passenger and freight areas, to assess present and future modal share of railways; to study the rail infrastructure deficiencies and future Infrastructure requirements, demand forecast and its implication on the congested network; identifications of options, evaluation, and prioritization of projects and finally to the assessment of funding requirements and financing strategies. The plan will help in reducing the cost of rail transport by 30 per cent - across the cost spectrum, bringing the infrastructure and business planning on the same platform and lastly the target under the national rail plan will focus on data points – a commodity to customer migration.
\r\n \r\nAnshul Gupta, General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway said that “the focus is on how demands are changing by increasing supply through infrastructure development with a special focus on the northeast frontier region. To ready with forthcoming demand by 2030, we should be able to create infrastructure not only to meet the existing and forthcoming demand but also demand which will be arising in 2050. The Railways can become a growth driver for the Indian economy if we follow these guidelines. On North-East Frontier Railway, speeds are very low and model shares are about 26 per cent because of a lot of infrastructure bottlenecks in this railway zone. Under this plan in the next 10 to 15 years, the northeast region will be a super-hub of economic activities.
\r\n\r\nSanjeev Kumar said that “the kind of exercise that the Government has done with National Rail Plan has probably done for the first time in the history of Indian Railways. It is very futuristic as industry members appreciate the vision and intent of the Government. We are talking about developing capacity infrastructure in such a manner that we build the capacity by 2030 and that will cater to growing demand by 2050. It is a great initiative because most of the time we see any infrastructure sector as we start building the capacity once the demand has come up as in case of roads, real estate, office infrastructure, or any other infrastructure sector has seen demand driving the capacity. Looking at the various funding options and work done by Indian Railways if we achieve 60 per cent, it is a great achievement. It is actually transit capacity enhancement and service provision. It will increase the predictability of customers whether it is freight customers or passengers for an increase of speed.
\r\n\r\n \r\nFollowing major issues and suggestions emerged during the discussions:
\r\n\r\nIf Railways can help in developing tourism circuits with the help of the private sector, a lot of economic activity can be generated in the northeast area. A lot of economic and industrial activities have started with Sikkim as it is now a hub of pharmaceuticals and heavy engineering industry are being set up. The demand will increase in the next few years and how northeast region and other areas/ sections of railways meet this demand should be the focus areas of the National Rail Plan.
\r\n\r\nSafety is important for Indian Railway as Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) will come in a big way for North East Frontier Railway and similarly, TCAS will be implemented on the entire railway network by 2024. It is indigenous technology and already RDSO has come with a plan for more vendors. It is a joint venture of Railway, RDSO, and private industry, and even foreign technology providers from Russia, Japan, and Europe have shown interest to tie up with RDSO to manufacture technology in India
\r\n\r\nThere is a need to achieve a target of doubling model share and there is a need to focus on additional commodities and increasing share of containers in domestic space as there are multiple ways of doing with pricing. Pricing is one way that railways can look and the sector is constantly engaged with railways on trying to achieve the right price to attract more traffic on to the rail.
\r\n\r\nThere is a need to use new technology and wagons which are bimodule in nature like the wagons which work as road vehicles as well as rail vehicles. This is a trial which has been done on Indian Railway system and some Companies are looking to bring this technology to India for future. These ideas are important to increase containerization.
\r\n\r\nThe National Rail Plan is an extremely ambitious plan which looks at a lot of investments in infrastructure whether it is in the form of new freight corridors and new terminals. This will provide ample opportunities to the private sector.
\r\nRailways need to look forward to different and new modern models for private partnership and evolve models for different types of projects whether the project is for the development of terminals, or it is for rolling stock. There is an appetite for taking up terminals and rolling stock and should be looked for the encouragement of private participation.
\r\n \r\nIt is recommended to modify policies for providing opportunities to firms by placing developmental orders to help in establishing and developing the technological capabilities of firms. The Government of India’s initiative to increase local content for developing local suppliers for technological development is essential.
\r\n \r\nThere should be a system under which nodal agencies resolve all queries. To do away with procedural delay in an efficient and transparent manner, a single-window channel is needed which may be done through a digital platform.
\r\n \r\nA centralized agency should be created to efficiently address and evaluate new ideas for implementation and arrange requisite reports on such ventures.
\r\n \r\nDedicated Freight Corridor is looking forward to the facilities which will be developed by the partners. In this regard, DFC has already identified terminals as key points and in the first phase of development, there is an opportunity for private freight terminals. There are a lot of responses that are coming for the development of freight terminals on DFC land. DFC will be coming up with multi-modal logistics parks in Rewari and Kanpur and also in other places where land is in possession of DFC. It will be establishing benchmarks logistic parks which are multi-modal logistic parks and terminals which will serve as benchmarks for the industry to start.
\r\n \r\nThe Railway sector is required to increase cost competitiveness with the freight policies and by bringing additional commodities or by bringing a specialized vehicle for wagons in the system. If the challenges of cost and competence of the rail sector are resolved, it will enable people to move a larger proportion of goods on this network.
\r\n \r\nThe Webinar was attended by 150 representatives of the industry.
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\r\nCOVID19 - Impact & Changing Role of Railways
\r\nMay 9, 2020
\r\nBrief Report
\r\nASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on COVID19 - Impact & Changing Role of Railways on May 9, 2020. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. A K Agarwal, Chairman, River Engineering Pvt. Ltd. Shri Manoj Kumar, VP & Director – Sales & Projects, Hitachi Rail STS shared the Industry perspective and Key Address was delivered by Shri Arunendra Kumar, Former Chairman, Railway Board. Other key Panelists included Shri S P Vavre, Principal Chief Electrical Engineer, Central Railway, and Shri Ghanshyam Singh, Former Member – Traction, Railway Board.
\r\n \r\nDiscussions were focused on the post COVID-19 opportunities in Railways. Dr. A K Agarwal mentioned that “the railway is generally earns its revenue from Passenger and Freight but this crisis has brought another opportunity and learning through Healthcare, Indian railways can think of well-equipped medical coaches in every passenger train”.
\r\nShri S P Vavre mentioned that “the Indian economy is three trillion dollars and continuing for the achievement of newer heights. Railways is moving fast, going ahead with challenges, resilient organization, and lifeline of the country. It is flexible and challenging the train transportation of grains, fertilizers, medical requirements to all parts of the Country”.
\r\n\r\nShri Ghanshyam Singh highlighted that “now considering the size of India we must appreciate that our government authority, our colleagues in the government have managed the Corona pandemic very effectively and in a very well manner. At least I could not believe that our policemen will stand in the grassroots to guard us round the clock, but they have stood even at the cost of their lives. Railways have played a very vital role in dealing with the corona pandemic under the great visionary leadership of Hon’ble Minister of Railways and it came to the forefront to convert the coaches as mobile quarantine centres and mobile hospital units and as I know as of now they have converted approx 5000 coaches into a quarantine centre medical hospital”. He said that “due to this pandemic time tables for goods and passenger trains may change”.
\r\n\r\nHe also added, “In the new Covid 19 scenario, there is a need for passenger coaches design for social distancing, thermal screening of passengers for monitoring the temperature of person. There will be a requirement of oxygen cylinders and guard for cleaning and onboard maintenance. Catering is the important segment for serving food to passengers with care of hygiene and safety. The material is required for sanitization and cleaning the coaches. For the electrical department, there is a need for loco cab improvement for Loco Pilots and Assistant Loco Pilots as there is less space for sanitizing the facility. The industry should come with a technology for providing more space in the cabin. The crew transportation is very important as the requirement to run the train safely and provide confidence to other loco pilots. For maintenance of the locomotives, the manpower is to be reduced by having a modular maintenance system that is self-diagnostic. For traction converters, there can be remote operations to be provided by OEM.”
\r\n\r\nThe product supplier should provide after-sales service to the Railways other than AMCs, warranty and liability services. In the future, there is a need for mechanizing the systems. Our stations have to be reoriented in the lines of airport security checks and the word security checks have to be replaced by the word medical check-ups. On the railway platforms, only those will be allowed to enter who have valid tickets and found medically fit.
\r\n\r\nPost COVID-19 Railway stations should be modified, workplaces should be modified, all persons entering workplaces will be screened, that will scan the temperature of all the persons entering their workplaces. We should connect this temperature scanning machine or equipment with Artificial intelligence and provide such kind of equipment at our every place where there is a possibility of a large number of people coming. With this system of scanning the face of the person and the use of IT tools and Artificial Intelligence, we can filter out those persons who are likely to get infected by COVID-19 or any other infection. This type of innovative approach may be perhaps required in the train.
\r\n \r\nDuring the interactive session, the distinguished panel of speakers also took questions from the participants.
\r\n \r\nThe Webinar was attended by 300 representatives of the industry.
\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n The ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance successfully conducted the 13th Global Insurance E-Summit &\r\n Awards \\\"Role of Insurance Sector in Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan\\\" on Thursday, 24th June 2021 from 11:00\r\n AM to 02:30 PM.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Eminent panel members were:\r\n
\r\n\r\n T. L. Alamelu, Member (Non-Life), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India; Shri\r\n Saurabh Mishra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI; Shri Radhakrishnan Nair, Former Member, IRDAI &\r\n Director, ICICI Bank Limited; Shri G Srinivasan, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance &\r\n Director, National Insurance Academy; Shri Sandeep Ghosh, Leader- Financial Services, EY India Consulting;\r\n Dr. Sandeep Dadia, CEO & Principal Officer, Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers Limited; Shri Vipin Anand, CoChairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance & MD, Life Insurance Corporation of India; Shri Anuj\r\n Mathur, Co-Chairman ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance and MD & CEO, Canara HSBC OBC Life\r\n Insurance Company Limited; Shri Mahesh Balasubramanian, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co.\r\n Ltd.; Ms. G. Bharthi, CEO, Family Health Plan Insurance TPA Limited; Ms. Vibha Padalkar, MD & CEO, HDFC Life\r\n Insurance Company Ltd. & Shri Shankar Garigiparthy, Country Manager & CEO, Lloyd's India Reinsurance\r\n Branch; Shri Yashish Dahiya, Co-Chairman ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance and Co-Founder & CEO,\r\n Policy Bazaar; Shri Ashvin Parekh, Managing Partner, Ashvin Parekh Advisory Services LLP; Shri Ramanan S V,\r\n CEO- India & South Asia, Intellect Design Arena; Shri Anurag Prasad, Co-Founder, Visit Health Private Limited\r\n & Dr. P. Nandgopal, Founder & Mentor, Insurance Inbox and many more .\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM National E-Summit & Awards on Banking & Financial Lending Companies was divided into\r\n following sessions:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Inaugural Session: \"Role of Insurance Sector in Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan\".
\r\n ● Panel Discussion-1: \"MD & CEO Virtual Round Table: Insurance Sector Call for Paradigm Shift\".
\r\n ● Panel Discussion-2: \"Role of Technology in Insurance - InsureTech\".\r\n
\r\n The First Meeting of the National Council on Roads and Highways of ASSOCHAM was held through\r\n video conferencing at 4:30 PM on 20th March 2021.\r\n
\r\n\r\n D.K. Sain, Chairman of the Council welcomed all the participants and felt privileged to chair the\r\n council at a time when India has embarked on the journey to become a US $ 5 trillion economy. He\r\n assured his commitment to driving the council and requested all the members for their support and\r\n valuable suggestions on different aspects of the roads and highways industry. The journey to begin\r\n from US$ 2.3 trillion economy to achieve US$ 5 trillion economy is a long journey, but it is noticeable\r\n that 50 per cent of GDP growth will be coming from the infrastructure sector, for which about INR 111\r\n lakh crore will be spent in next four years and roads will play a major role in this journey.\r\n
\r\n\r\n In his presentation, he mentioned that in the national infrastructure pipeline, road sector is the second\r\nbiggest beneficiary after power with INR 20 lakh crore spending plan by FY 2025, which is about INR 5\r\nLac crore per annum. Roads are the second-largest network globally with 59 lakh km, of which\r\nNational Highways account for 2 per cent of the total road network and carry 40 per cent of total\r\ntraffic and 65 per cent of commercial traffic. As road traffic is heavily loaded, there is a need to improve\r\nroad infrastructure for faster economic growth.\r\n
\r\n\r\nHe mentioned, \"The sector has a CAPEX budget of INR 1.73 Lakh crore this year of which INR 1.22 Lac\r\ncr will come from NHAI and INR 0.51 lac cr will come from other sources. This is 40 per cent of INR 5\r\nLac cr, which is centrally driven, another 40 per cent will come from states and the remaining 20 per\r\ncent from the private sector. NHAI will award 8500 kms this year which is double of last year. The road\r\ncompletion target is of 11000 kms. This year which is about 32Kms per day. The major outlay is for\r\nstates like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, and Assam. InVit of INR 5000 crores for 5 operational\r\nroads have been announced and another 12 highways have been planned to be monetised. There is\r\nan emphasis on ATMS implementation and for new 4 & 6 lanes. The Government has announced a\r\nlabour portal on construction workers and NHAI is strengthening the dispute resolution mechanism.\r\nExport of iron ore has been stopped and import duty on steel has been reduced, which will bring down\r\nthe cost\".\r\n
\r\n\r\nInitiatives for Growth drivers like digital advancement have already begun with Fastag made\r\nmandatory, which will increase freight traffic. Now 100 per cent FDI in the road sector is allowed which\r\nwill bring a lot of money in this sector. Govt has also come up with policy reforms in BOT and HAM\r\nprojects. The Government has made about 30 changes as a part of the reforms agenda. NHAI is\r\nseriously working on addressing key industry issues and there is now an emphasis on the adoption of\r\ninnovative technologies, design, and material.\r\n
\r\n\r\nHowever, there are some focus areas and challenges like INR 97000 cr debt service liability for NHAI\r\nwhich will burden future project funding. Therefore, there is a need for faster asset monetisation and\r\nbring private investment. Further, there are about 888 projects which are delayed. This will require a\r\nbetter project monitoring mechanism. There is a need for single-window clearances, QCBS\r\nimplementation, and policy revision in BOT and HAM projects. All such timely initiatives and proactive\r\naction will bring positive effect in the sector. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Vinod Kumar Agarwal, Co-Chairman of the Council appreciated the efforts and action taken by\r\nthe Government in the recent past. However, he said that there are some issues that are arising due\r\nto a lack of clarity in some of the GST provisions. As a result, contractors and concessioners' are\r\nreceiving notices and the industry is not able to understand as to how to go about it\". The second\r\nissue which is hampering the growth of the industry is related to the high rise of prices of raw materials\r\nlike steel and cement. There should be some mechanism by which prices do not escalate too high. The\r\nGovernment should allow new plants and encourage new entrepreneurs in this segment so as to\r\nensure sufficient availability of these raw materials. Govt schemes like InVit need inventors'\r\nconfidence. This would require clear, simple, and transparent rules so as to decide risk factors in a\r\nproject. Agawal was requested to send a draft letter on these suggestions to ASSOCHAM for taking\r\nup with the Government.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Sandeep Reddy Co-Chairman of the Council suggested having a strong single-window clearance\r\nsystem for speedy implementation of projects. Further, the coordination between Centre and states\r\nshould improve because the centre has embarked on a huge infrastructure plan but the\r\nimplementation part is not vibrant as the same remains with states. Hence, the centre should make a\r\nmechanism where states move implementation faster.\r\n
\r\n\r\nDuring the floor participation, the following major suggestions were made:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The current procurement system is highly leaned towards least priced quotations or bids.\r\n INFRACON portal is not effective as many CVs of experts and individuals are fabricated as no\r\n one can find out which one is right or wrong. Even one individual can have multiple CVs. As a\r\n result, unrealistic lower prices are quoted to grab the Job. Despite the fact that a particular\r\n work can not be done below a certain cost, prices as low as 40% are quoted. Under such\r\n mechanism, the quality of work is compromised. Hence, there should be some minimum cutoff price below which no one can bid for a job. Since the Ministry is a single point authority,\r\n QCBS should also be uniform.\r\n
\r\n● Currently, many agencies are engaged in carrying out the investigation and checking the\r\n roughness of pavement and road surface. But it is a matter of concern to note that different\r\n agencies are giving different results for the same project. Therefore, there should be some\r\n regulatory authority to monitor the authenticity of investigating agencies. Alternatively, only\r\n those agencies should be assigned the investigation job who can give reliable data, else the\r\n whole exercise of the investigation will be misleading for road users.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Balkrishan Goenka, Past-President, ASSOCHAM stated that the\r\n government has given relief to PPP- Toll projects by giving extra time for Toll\r\n collection due to pandemic. \"However, for HAM projects the only way to\r\n compensate for the losses due to the pandemic is to compensate for the cost\r\n incurred for interest during construction. A request is that interest on debt\r\n amounts outstanding at the beginning of March 2020 be compensated at the\r\n MCLR plus 1.25 for a period of 6 months,\" said Goenka, Chairman,\r\n Welspun Group.
\r\n\r\n\r\n ● During the Covid, Govt had announced some measures for a performance guarantee. But now\r\nthe performance guarantee and security which is about 22 per cent is substantially high.\r\nOverall Bank Guarantee exposure should be 10 per cent. As contractors are already providing\r\nperformance security, the provision of advance retention money should be done away with.
\r\n\r\n\r\n ● There has been a good number of initiatives and circulars about the adoption of new\r\n technologies but practically nothing has happened at the ground level. There is resistance at\r\n the bottom line of implementing authorities. ASSOCHAM should keep one focus area on the \r\n use of new technologies. The Government should make it compulsory to apply new\r\n technology, design, and material in certain projects. It was decided that a small group of 4-5\r\n members could discuss and present its findings and suggestions at the next webinar for wider\r\n discussion on the subject. Manpreet Sethi was requested to lead the group along with\r\n prof. Dharamvir and a few more members who could give their valuable suggestions on the\r\n subject.
\r\n● Keeping in view climate change and its impact, guidelines for extreme environmental impact\r\n areas should be revised. Shushil Gupta was requested to give more details about the\r\n issues involved and suggestions in this specific segment, so that views of other members could\r\n also be taken up on this specific subject.
\r\n● It is always good practice to adopt the best international tools. For example, Japan is using\r\n RAP-Recycle Asphalt Payment up to 70 per cent. Though many people in our Govt and private\r\n sector are aware of new technologies but there is a huge problem with their applications.\r\n There is a need to train and encourage all people who are engaged in this area.
\r\n● The reliability of quality control data is a question mark. Hence, there should be some\r\n mechanisms under which payment of bills is clubbed with quality of work.
\r\n● There seems to be misuse of overlays as, despite the good condition of some of the roads,\r\n overlays are being done without milling on it. Some old mindsets people prefer overlaying\r\n instead of recycling.
\r\n\r\n ● In the Post covid scenario raw material has become costly and also there is uncertainly of its\r\n uninterrupted supply. The Government should consider giving some relief to the contractors.\r\n Inverted GST structure is an important issue and there is a need for rationalising GST on input\r\n and output. GST paid on advances against work contract is not justified and it should be\r\n abolished. Tax at source should be removed as it blocks cash flows.
\r\n\r\n D K Sen informed the Sad demise of Patankar, a former member, technical, NHAI and\r\n a members of this Council who contributed immensely. Members of the council conveyed\r\n condolences and kept one minute silence as a mark of gratitude and prayed the almighty to\r\n rest the departed soul in peace.
\r\n The Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.\r\n
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', 'The First Meeting of the National Council on Roads and Highways of ASSOCHAM was held through\r\n video conferencing at 4:30 PM on 20th March 2021.
\r\nD.K. Sain, Chairman of the Council welcomed all the participants and felt privileged to chair the\r\n council at a time when India has embarked on the journey to become a US $ 5 trillion economy. He\r\n assured his commitment to driving the council and requested all the members for their support and\r\n valuable suggestions on different aspects of the roads and highways industry. The journey to begin\r\n from US$ 2.3 trillion economy to achieve US$ 5 trillion economy is a long journey, but it is noticeable\r\n that 50 per cent of GDP growth will be coming from the infrastructure sector, for which about INR 111\r\n lakh crore will be spent in next four years and roads will play a major role in this journey.
\r\nIn his presentation, he mentioned that in the national infrastructure pipeline, road sector is the second\r\n biggest beneficiary after \r\n with INR 20 lakh crore spending plan by FY 2025, which is about INR 5\r\n Lac crore per annum. Roads are the second-largest network globally with 59 lakh km, of which\r\n National Highways account for 2 per cent of the total road network and carry 40 per cent of total\r\n traffic and 65 per cent of commercial traffic. As road traffic is heavily loaded, there is a need to improve\r\n road infrastructure for faster economic growth.
\r\nHe mentioned, \"The sector has a CAPEX budget of INR 1.73 Lakh crore this year of which INR 1.22 Lac\r\n cr will come from NHAI and INR 0.51 lac cr will come from other sources. This is 40 per cent of INR 5\r\n Lac cr, which is centrally driven, another 40 per cent will come from states and the remaining 20 per\r\n cent from the private sector. NHAI will award 8500 kms this year which is double of last year. The road\r\n completion target is of 11000 kms. This year which is about 32Kms per day. The major outlay is for\r\n states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, and Assam. InVit of INR 5000 crores for 5 operational\r\n roads have been announced and another 12 highways have been planned to be monetised. There is\r\n an emphasis on ATMS implementation and for new 4 & 6 lanes. The Government has announced a\r\n labour portal on construction workers and NHAI is strengthening the dispute resolution mechanism.\r\n Export of iron ore has been stopped and import duty on steel has been reduced, which will bring down\r\n the cost\".
\r\nInitiatives for Growth drivers like digital advancement have already begun with Fastag made\r\n mandatory, which will increase freight traffic. Now 100 per cent FDI in the road sector is allowed which\r\n will bring a lot of money in this sector. Govt has also come up with policy reforms in BOT and HAM\r\n projects. The Government has made about 30 changes as a part of the reforms agenda. NHAI is\r\n seriously working on addressing key industry issues and there is now an emphasis on the adoption of\r\n innovative technologies, design, and material.
\r\nHowever, there are some focus areas and challenges like INR 97000 cr debt service liability for NHAI\r\n which will burden future project funding. Therefore, there is a need for faster asset monetisation and\r\n bring private investment. Further, there are about 888 projects which are delayed. This will require a\r\n better project monitoring mechanism. There is a need for single-window clearances, QCBS\r\n implementation, and policy revision in BOT and HAM projects. All such timely initiatives and proactive\r\n action will bring positive effect in the sector.
\r\n \r\nVinod Kumar Agarwal, Co-Chairman of the Council appreciated the efforts and action taken by\r\n the Government in the recent past. However, he said that there are some issues that are arising due\r\n to a lack of clarity in some of the GST provisions. As a result, contractors and concessioners\' are\r\n receiving notices and the industry is not able to understand as to how to go about it\". The second\r\n issue which is hampering the growth of the industry is related to the high rise of prices of raw materials\r\n like steel and cement. There should be some mechanism by which prices do not escalate too high. The\r\n Government should allow new plants and encourage new entrepreneurs in this segment so as to\r\n ensure sufficient availability of these raw materials. Govt schemes like InVit need inventors\'\r\n confidence. This would require clear, simple, and transparent rules so as to decide risk factors in a\r\n project. Agawal was requested to send a draft letter on these suggestions to ASSOCHAM for taking\r\n up with the Government.
\r\n<> Sandeep Reddy, Co-Chairman of the Council suggested having a strong single-window clearance\r\n system for speedy implementation of projects. Further, the coordination between Centre and states\r\n should improve because the centre has embarked on a huge infrastructure plan but the\r\n implementation part is not vibrant as the same remains with states. Hence, the centre should make a\r\n mechanism where states move implementation faster.
\r\nPooja Ahluwalia from Primus Partners gave a presentation highlighting ASSOCHAM\\\'s functional\r\n priority on identified 4 pillars and emphasised on deciding 3-4 themes by the council on key areas\r\n which would be focused on during the Year. It was decided that a sample Template for the same would\r\n be sent to members for their views, which will help them in identifying priority themes and setting the\r\n agenda of the council for the Year.
\r\nDuring the floor participation, the following major suggestions were made:
\r\n● The current procurement system is highly leaned towards least priced quotations or bids.\r\n INFRACON portal is not effective as many CVs of experts and individuals are fabricated as no\r\n one can find out which one is right or wrong. Even one individual can have multiple CVs. As a\r\n result, unrealistic lower prices are quoted to grab the Job. Despite the fact that a particular\r\n work can not be done below a certain cost, prices as low as 40% are quoted. Under such\r\n mechanism, the quality of work is compromised. Hence, there should be some minimum cutoff price below which no one can bid for a job. Since the Ministry is a single point authority,\r\n QCBS should also be uniform.
\r\n● Currently, many agencies are engaged in carrying out the investigation and checking the\r\n roughness of pavement and road surface. But it is a matter of concern to note that different\r\n agencies are giving different results for the same project. Therefore, there should be some\r\n regulatory authority to monitor the authenticity of investigating agencies. Alternatively, only\r\n those agencies should be assigned the investigation job who can give reliable data, else the\r\n whole exercise of the investigation will be misleading for road users.
\r\n● During the Covid, Govt had announced some measures for a performance guarantee. But now\r\n the performance guarantee and security which is about 22 per cent is substantially high.\r\n Overall Bank Guarantee exposure should be 10 per cent. As contractors are already providing\r\n performance security, the provision of advance retention money should be done away with.
\r\n● There has been a good number of initiatives and circulars about the adoption of new\r\n technologies but practically nothing has happened at the ground level. There is resistance at\r\n the bottom line of implementing authorities. ASSOCHAM should keep one focus area on the \r\n \r\n use of new technologies. The Government should make it compulsory to apply new\r\n technology, design, and material in certain projects. It was decided that a small group of 4-5\r\n members could discuss and present its findings and suggestions at the next webinar for wider\r\n discussion on the subject. Manpreet Sethi was requested to lead the group along with\r\n prof. Dharamvir and a few more members who could give their valuable suggestions on the\r\n subject.
\r\n● Keeping in view climate change and its impact, guidelines for extreme environmental impact\r\n areas should be revised. Shushil Gupta was requested to give more details about the\r\n issues involved and suggestions in this specific segment, so that views of other members could\r\n also be taken up on this specific subject.
\r\n● It is always good practice to adopt the best international tools. For example, Japan is using\r\n RAP-Recycle Asphalt Payment up to 70 per cent. Though many people in our Govt and private\r\n sector are aware of new technologies but there is a huge problem with their applications.\r\n There is a need to train and encourage all people who are engaged in this area.
\r\n● The reliability of quality control data is a question mark. Hence, there should be some\r\n mechanisms under which payment of bills is clubbed with quality of work.
\r\n● There seems to be misuse of overlays as, despite the good condition of some of the roads,\r\n overlays are being done without milling on it. Some old mindsets people prefer overlaying\r\n instead of recycling.
\r\n● In the Post covid scenario raw material has become costly and also there is uncertainly of its\r\n uninterrupted supply. The Government should consider giving some relief to the contractors.\r\n Inverted GST structure is an important issue and there is a need for rationalising GST on input\r\n and output. GST paid on advances against work contract is not justified and it should be\r\n abolished. Tax at source should be removed as it blocks cash flows.
\r\nD K Sen informed the Sad demise of Patankar, a former member, technical, NHAI and\r\n a members of this Council who contributed immensely. Members of the council conveyed\r\n condolences and kept one minute silence as a mark of gratitude and prayed the almighty to\r\n rest the departed soul in peace.
\r\nThe Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'national-council-on-roads-and-highways', 1, 0, '2021-03-20', '2021-03-20', '4.30 p.m', '4.30 p.m', 25, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (158, 'COVID19 - Impact and Investment Opportunities in Roads & Highways\r\n ', 'ASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on COVID 19- Impact and Opportunities in Roads & Highways on June 16,\r\n 2020. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, President, ASSOCHAM, Shri B K\r\n Goenka, Immediate Past President, ASSOCHAM Addressed the participants and shared the Industry\r\n Perspective.', '\r\n ASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on COVID 19- Impact and Opportunities in Roads & Highways on June 16,\r\n 2020. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, President, ASSOCHAM, Shri B K\r\n Goenka, Immediate Past President, ASSOCHAM Addressed the participants and shared the Industry\r\n Perspective. Key Addresses was delivered by the Chief Guest Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon'ble Minister for Road\r\n Transport & Highways and MSME, Govt. of India. Concluding remarks & a vote of thanks were given by Shri\r\n Vinod Kumar Agarwal, Co-Chairman, Roads & Highways Council, ASSOCHAM and CMD, G R Infraprojects\r\n Ltd.
\r\n\r\n Discussions were focused on the likely impact of COVID-19 on the overall economy and the post COVID-19\r\n opportunities in Roads & Highways. Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani said \'\'the Ministry of Road Transport and\r\n Highways, has rolled out many schemes and projects for better road connectivity. The ongoing pandemic\r\n has created many challenges in this sector, but we understand that the government, through a series of\r\n initiatives, is working on policies to attract significant investor interest\'\'.
\r\nDr. Niranjan Hiranandani mentioned that the Government of India has given a massive push to infrastructure\r\n development and the highways sector in India has been at the forefront of performance and innovation and\r\n the government has successfully rolled out several projects on the Hybrid Annuity Model.
\r\nShri B.K. Goenka, Immediate Past President, ASSOCHAM, and Chairman, Welspun Group said that \"under\r\n the current economic circumstances, the government has to play an important role. The industry needs a\r\n strong handholding from Government so that we can really become aatmnirbhar in the near future and we all\r\n know that Infrastructure will play an important role in this journey\". He also put forth few important industry\r\n issues for consideration of the Hon\'ble Minister.
\r\nShri Nitin Gadkari said that \"major reforms in the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are being\r\n undertaken in terms of de-centralisation of work and division of power\". He further mentioned that he was of\r\n the opinion that \"we should issue an order whereby without Ministry\'s permission, NHAI should not\r\n constitute any committee. They have become so dependent that every person tries to avert decision-making\r\n at his end. There is also negativity and those who have a positive mindset are afraid to take decisions and\r\n forward it to committees that consume a lot of time\".
\r\nHon\'ble Union Minister also mentioned that \"while in terms of ease of doing business the PM has taken\r\n many decisions and India\'s ranking has also improved in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Rankings,\r\n\r\n still certain steps need to be taken and bring in transparency to improve the working in the system. To\r\n further improve, we will sit together and work on reforms for NHAI. For ease of doing business, we need\r\n positivity, transparency, and a corruption-free system. Performance audits should be conducted and \r\n decision-making should be fast-tracked. He also said that \"MoRTH will fix the responsibility in case when the\r\n court gives a decision against the Ministry and on the basis of that it should be seen who is accountable for\r\n such a decision\".
\r\nHon\'ble Minister also informed about a project management consultancy scheme which has probably been\r\n finalised and it will prove to be very fruitful, be it in terms of technology and other related aspects of the road\r\n infrastructure sector. He further suggested that the cost of construction can be reduced by using different\r\n types of materials. The industry may propose new technology which will be considered by the Government.\r\n Hon\'ble Minister also mentioned that low-hanging fruits like reducing construction costs, revamp of NHAI,\r\n and digital transfer of money by incorporating latest information technology would give relief to the industry.
\r\nShri Deepak Sood mentioned that \"there is a credit guarantee issued by the central government simply to\r\n take care of the MSMEs. So I think we need to flag those issues in terms of how the MSMEs are really going\r\n to get the money, especially if the banks are not really proactive. Shri Sood said construction and real estate\r\n that employs 15 per cent of the total employment of India and after agriculture, of course, being second into\r\n that segment becomes an important segment in terms of being able to proactively push it, so we are looking\r\n for a demand push factor, and of course, we have to thank the honourable minister for is proactiveness in\r\n the road safety\".
\r\nShri Vinod Kumar Agarwal proposed the vote of thanks and said Road transport is the arterial network of our\r\n economy. Having a robust and efficient road system is the backbone essential to the sustainable economic\r\n and inclusive growth of our country. He further mentioned that with the growth of cities and vehicular traffic,\r\n the role of national highways will be critical towards not only decongesting the increasing traffic but also\r\n creating multiple economic hubs through increased mobility. He also said that while the road sector has\r\n seen significant growth, several challenges still persist, area like road maintenance assume much higher\r\n significance given the fact that bad roads not only mean a huge cost impact but also negatively affect the\r\n safety of users. Repair of existing roads is a key challenge both from a time and cost perspective. The\r\n prolonged lane closure for repairs causes a significant hindrance to move traffic. Prefabrication of concrete\r\n slabs offsite and assembling at the project site leads to major time-saving in comparison to repairs carried\r\n out directly on working roads.
\r\nShri Vinod Kumar Agarwal mentioned that in a country like India where the state of roads is a key concern\r\n both in urban areas as well as highways, this technology offers immense advantages to both users as well\r\n as the government agencies responsible for road maintenance. These technologies while providing benefit
\r\n over traditional bitumen roads in terms of cost, durability as well as sustainability are also easier to\r\n implement due to extensive implementation experience across the world and some limited implementation in\r\n India as well. Similarly, the plastic road is another area where the world is learning from experiments being\r\n carried out in India.
\r\nDuring the interactive session, the distinguished panel of speakers also took questions from the\r\n participants.
\r\nThe Webinar was attended by 330 representatives of the industry.
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'covid19-impact-and-investment-opportunities-in-roads-highways', 1, 0, '2020-06-16', '2020-06-16', '', '', 25, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (159, 'Challenges and Opportunities in HAM & BOT Projects', 'ASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on Challenges and Opportunities in HAM & BOT\r\n Projects on April 23, 2021.', '\r\n ASSOCHAM organized a Webinar on Challenges and Opportunities in HAM & BOT\r\nProjects on April 23, 2021. The Webinar was inaugurated by Shri Nitin Gadkari,\r\nHon'ble Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Govt of India. Industry\r\nSpeakers included; Vineet Agarwal, President, ASSOCHAM, B K Goenka, Past\r\nPresident, ASSOCHAM, D K Sen, Chairman, National Council, Roads and\r\nHighways, ASSOCHAM, Vinod Agarwal, Co-Chairman, National Council on Roads\r\nand Highways, ASSOCHAM, TVS Reddy, Co-Chairman, Roads and Highways,\r\nASSOCHAM, Shri Ashutosh Chandwar, Chairman, National Council on Underground\r\nConstruction and Tunneling, ASSOCHAM, and Deepak Sood, Secretary-General,\r\nASSOCHAM.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Following major issues and suggestions emerged from the discussions:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Nitin Gadkari, Hon\'ble Minister of Road Transport and Highways and MSME\r\n during an interactive meeting with ASSOCHAM members said that \'\'a welldeveloped infrastructure enhances the level of economic activity, creates additional\r\n fiscal space by improving revenue base of the Government, and ensures the quality\r\n of expenditure focused on productive areas. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused\r\n a slowdown in India, but its inherent resilience and capabilities will help it transform\r\n into a new India with an accelerated growth path fueled by infrastructure. The\r\n Government has given a massive push to the economy by allocating about $1.4\r\n trillion for infrastructure to be invested until 2025. The highways sector in India has\r\n been at the forefront of performance and innovation and the government has\r\n successfully rolled out several projects on the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) for\r\n building National Highways to speed up the construction of roads in the country by\r\n renewing interest of private developers\'\'.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● The Minister informed that the Ministry is setting up a committee under the\r\nchairmanship of K. Venkataramanan to reduce the dependency on steel\r\nand cement to reduce the cost of construction and look for alternatives.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Gadkari stated that all steel - whether produced from ore, billets, pellets, or\r\nmelting of scrap - would be allowed to be used for National Highway\r\nconstruction, as long as it meets the standards required for specific grades of\r\nsteel. The steel proposed to be used would be tested in NABL-accredited\r\nlaboratories as a third-party check before approval. He informed that his\r\nministry has managed to achieve three world records recently. \'\'Firstly, we\r\nhave managed to achieve a record by constructing 37 km of road per day\r\nduring 2020-21. Secondly, the construction of a 2.5 km four-lane concrete road\r\nwas achieved in a matter of 24 hours. Our ministry also achieved a record by\r\nconstructing a 26 km one-lane road in 24 hours flat. This is due to the efforts\r\nput by our engineers, contractors, and workers\'\'\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Gadkari added that the Ministry has constructed 13,327 KM of National\r\nHighways up to March 2021 as compared to 10,237 Km in March 2020. \"The\r\naward figure is 10,965 km during this period as compared to 8,948 km in the\r\nprevious year. This kind of performance was never done earlier,\" He also\r\nmentioned that the Ministry has decided that all lanes in the fee plazas on\r\nNational Highways shall be declared as \'\'FASTag lane of the fee plaza\'\' with\r\neffect from midnight of 15th February 2021. \"As per NH Fee Rules 2008, any\r\nvehicle not fitted with FASTag or vehicle without valid, functional FASTag\r\nentering into the FASTag lane of the fee plaza, shall pay a fee equivalent to\r\ntwo times of the fee applicable to that category. This has been done to further\r\npromote fee payment through digital mode, reduce waiting time and fuel\r\nconsumption and provide for a seamless passage through the fee plazas,\" He\r\ninformed.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Vineet Agarwal, President, ASSOCHAM stated that the Complexities of\r\ninfrastructure development need to be understood to ensure that the\r\nsupporting frameworks are effective. \"Lack of infrastructure is the primary\r\ngrowth constraint and government looks to the private sector to partner in\r\ndeveloping the same. Designing effective co-working models between the\r\npublic and private sectors would be a step towards efficient delivery,\" he said.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Sharing his perspective, Deepak Sood, Secretary-General, ASSOCHAM\r\nexplained that the highways sector in India has been at the forefront of\r\nperformance and innovation and the government has successfully rolled out\r\nseveral projects on the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) for building National\r\nHighways to speed up the construction of roads in the country by renewing\r\ninterest of private developers. \"Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) and Build\r\nOperate and Transfer (BOT) model is attracting the interest of growing thrust\r\ntowards privatization and private sector participation in the development of\r\npublic infrastructure projects in India,\" he said.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Balkrishan Goenka, Past-President, ASSOCHAM stated that the\r\n government has given relief to PPP- Toll projects by giving extra time for Toll\r\n collection due to pandemic. \"However, for HAM projects the only way to\r\n compensate for the losses due to the pandemic is to compensate for the cost\r\n incurred for interest during construction. A request is that interest on debt\r\n amounts outstanding at the beginning of March 2020 be compensated at the\r\n MCLR plus 1.25 for a period of 6 months,\" said Goenka, Chairman,\r\n Welspun Group.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● D K Sen, Chairman, Roads and Highways Council, ASSOCHAM\r\nmentioned that \"keeping the momentum in infrastructure is important as it\r\ncontributes heavily to the economic growth along with creating a large\r\nworkforce. Under the present Government, the sector has seen a great\r\ntransformation as INR 20 lac crore will be spent in the next 5 years. He\r\nsuggested that some parts of road projects should be constructed through\r\nconcrete so as to fully utilize the large number of equipments for making\r\nconcrete roads\".\r\n
\r\n\r\n ● Shri Vinod Agarwal, Co-Chairman, Roads & Highways Council, ASSOCHAM\r\n stated that \"Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) is an interesting model since it can be\r\n widely applied to many diverse sectors and blends some financing with\r\n performance risk transfer. HAM project by its very nature requires long-term\r\n funding i.e. more than 15 years and hence linking the short-term interest rates\r\n for a long-term tenure project is a structural issue that needs a relook as the\r\n Concessionaires also suffered losses on account of lockdown. Shri Agarwal\r\n also added that \"presently there are not many financial structures available to\r\n the road projects; the primary form of finance is the bank finance in the form of\r\n a Rupee Term loan\".\r\n
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'challenges-and-opportunities-in-ham-bot-projects', 1, 0, '2020-08-23', '2020-08-23', '', '', 25, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (160, 'POST COVID19 - Opportunities in Indian SEZs', 'ASSOCHAM in association with EPCES organized a Webinar on POST COVID-19 - Opportunities in Indian SEZs\r\n at 2.30 p.m. on April 22, 2020.', 'ASSOCHAM in association with EPCES organized a Webinar on POST COVID-19 - Opportunities in Indian SEZs\r\n at 2.30 p.m. on April 22, 2020. Dr. L B Singhal, Zonal Development Commissioner, Noida SEZ & other SEZs of\r\n North India was the Chief Guest and delivered the keynote address. Other key panelists included Shri R\r\n Muthuraj, Development Commissioner, Sri City SEZ, Shri Bhuvnesh Seth, Vice Chairman, EPCES, and \r\n Hiternder Mehta, Co-chair, SEZ council ASSOCHAM.
\r\nDiscussions were focused on the likely impact on the overall economy and the post COVID-19 opportunities\r\n in SEZs. Dr. Singhal mentioned that in a new world order which will emerge post COVID-19, India will offer\r\n tremendous opportunities for investment into new projects in SEZs, as there are easy and fast approvals with\r\n ready infrastructure for both small and large businesses. In the time to come, opportunities in the services\r\n sector like health, aviation, education, and tourism will also increase apart from the manufacturing.. There will\r\n be good opportunities for EOUs as they are capable of creating hubs in different economic activities. EOU\r\n scheme provides an additional advantage of geographical location as these could be set up anywhere in the\r\n country.
\r\nPresently, in India, 240 SEZs are operational with infrastructure development of 40,000 hectare land and\r\n availability of 22,000 hectare land for the establishment of new units into SEZs. All the key approvals relating\r\n to land titles, environment, and infrastructure development of these SEZs are in place. In addition, there exists\r\n an effective single window approval mechanism.
\r\nIndian SEZs provide direct employment to 2.2 million people and 3 times more is the indirect employment due\r\n to backward and forward integration. Investment of approx. USD 77 billion US Dollars has been made so far.\r\n The exports from the operational SEZs for the year ended 31st March 2019 stood over USD 100 Bn.
\r\nHitender Mehta, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM\'s National Council on SEZs mentioned that cost of setting-up\r\n a unit is very competitive (approx. 20% lesser). All imports into, and exports from, SEZs are duty-free. There\r\n is no implication of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the lease rentals paid by the SEZ Units. Moreover, the\r\n SEZ units may sell their goods to the Indian marketplace as well by paying applicable customs duties on such\r\n goods (as if such goods are being imported into India). In addition, a friendly foreign investment regulatory\r\n framework, availability of low-cost labour and raw materials, make the SEZs a best case. These benefits are\r\n attractive enough for the investors seeking to move their manufacturing base/ services operations into India.
\r\nDuring the interactive session, Dr. Singhal also took questions from the participants. The major clarification\r\n provided by Dr. Singhal included queries related to the MHA order on opening the SEZ activities from 20th April\r\n 2020, approval processes for exporters and investors in SEZs, various benefits being offered by SEZ in India,\r\n and current operational issues and future scenarios.
\r\nThe Webinar was attended by 180 representatives of industry, which included participation from Japanese,\r\n Korean, and UK companies. Some participants from UAE and USA also joined the session\r\n It was also highlighted that the Government has done commendable job in managing the lives and livelihoods\r\n by taking timely initiatives. Ministry of Commerce has responded positively by extending foreign trade policy\r\n provisions for one more year. It was expected that in long run India will bounce back and would take a lead in\r\n economic activities.
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'post-covid19-opportunities', 1, 0, '2020-04-22', '2020-04-22', '2.30 p.m', '4.00 p.m', 27, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'); INSERT INTO `events` (`id`, `title`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `registration`, `reg_link`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `start_time`, `end_time`, `sector_id`, `region_id`, `priority`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (161, 'Special Economic Zone Investment Summit - Online', 'ASSOCHAM organized 14th International Special Economic Zone Investment Summit - The Reset of\r\n Globalization and Rising India Opportunity on August 28, 2020.', '\r\n ASSOCHAM organized 14th International Special Economic Zone Investment Summit - The Reset of\r\n Globalization and Rising India Opportunity on August 28, 2020. The discussions were moderated by Shri\r\n Hitender Mehta, Co-Chairman, National SEZs Council, ASSOCHAM. Theme address was given by Shri\r\n Ravindra Sannareddy, Chairman, National SEZs Council, ASSOCHAM. Other key Panelists included Shri\r\n Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi, Director General, Export Promotion Council for EOUs & SEZs; Shri Srikanth\r\n Badiga, Member, Central Governing Council, Export Promotion Council for EOUs & SEZs; Dr. L B Singhal,\r\n Former Development Commissioner, SEZs; Rama Mohan Reddy, Development Commissioner,\r\n Visakhapatanam SEZ; Huw LLewllyn, Head of Property, Admiral Group Plc, UK; Shri Jasveer Singh,\r\n Chief Business Officer, ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms, Shri R Muthuraj, Development\r\n Commissioner, Sricity SEZ; Shri Indranil Dasgupta, CEO, Attivo Economic Zones Pvt. Ltd.; Shri Loknath\r\n Nadar, Business Head - ORIGINS by Mahindra World City, Ahmedabad.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Shri Sannareddy mentioned that there are nearly 5,400 SEZs today, more than 1,000 of which were\r\nestablished in the last five years. Globally, SEZs are equipped with efficient infrastructure, quality services,\r\na favorable business environment, few regulatory restrictions, and a minimum of red tape. They are set up\r\nto generate a circular and cumulative growth process that requires two-way linkages between SEZs and\r\nthe wider economy. India, as a country is endowed with rich and varied resources coupled with a strategic\r\nlocation in the South Asian region and has a vast coastal boundary enabling it to achieve a pivotal role in\r\nserving the global economy. The SEZs aim to create more public-private partnerships and thereby resulting\r\nin the development of world-class infrastructure, augmenting economic activity, enhancing exports and\r\ncreating employment opportunities. In essence, these zones are self-contained and self-integrated zones\r\nhaving their own infrastructure and support services. Now, in the post COVID19 scenario, India is picking\r\nup pace to re-start the economic activities and welcome global investors to set up their business in Indian\r\nSEZs, as there is a ready infrastructure and single Window mechanism for all business operations.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Srikant Badiga, informed that in the global perspective there should be one country one policy for\r\n exports in India and we should have one particular SEZ act like one country one tax. He added,\'\'We should\r\n not confuse the investors with various export schemes. We should bring exports under one authority for\r\n smooth implementation and faster decision-making. The main intention to develop SEZ is the\r\n manufacturing industry as we can learn from Sri City and we should develop similar more SEZs in the \r\n country. A smaller country like Poland has come up with export policy and incentives. India is a wonderful\r\n country with natural resources, human talent, and infrastructure development\'\'. \r\n
\r\n\r\n India has a large population and a manufacturer has a dual advantage as they will have an option for sale\r\n from India and sale in India because of geographical positioning of Far East, Middle East and Europe also.\r\n Some of the US Companies which are based in China are moving out, they should be attracted to\r\n investments in India as nearby countries Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines are giving\r\n competitions for attracting investments.\r\n
\r\n\r\n India has a large population and a manufacturer has a dual advantage as they will have an option for sale\r\n from India and sale in India because of geographical positioning of Far East, Middle East and Europe also.\r\n Some of the US Companies which are based in China are moving out, they should be attracted to\r\n investments in India as nearby countries Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines are giving\r\n competitions for attracting investments.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi mentioned that \'\'it is true that the Globalization has been reset and the wave\r\n of trade liberalization has slowed down. Every economy is trying to protect its market for its own producers\r\n and trying that they should export to other economies. Fear of job losses or actual job losses, especially in\r\n manufacturing, has taken over the advantages accrued to consumers and people because of liberalisation.\r\n From the end of the Second World War, tariffs followed a downward trend that leveled off in both advanced\r\n and emerging market economies during the first part of the 21st century, before starting on an upward\r\n trajectory again in the recent years\'\'.\r\n \r\n
\r\n\r\n The use of regulatory measures and non-tariff barriers such as export subsidies, restrictions on licensing or\r\n foreign direct investment, and domestic clauses in public procurement, has increased, leading to an overall\r\n surge in trade distortions. According to data from the Global Trade Alert database encompassing traditional\r\n and non-traditional trade measures, the number of new discriminatory actions announced by G20\r\n economies has risen steadily since 2012 and surged further in 2018 onwards. Anti-dumping measures and\r\n import tariffs were the two most widely used instruments, together accounting for around 30 per cent of all\r\n of the measures imposed. The use of indirect measures, such as state loans to exporting companies, has\r\n also increased gradually. The rise in protectionism implies that a progressively larger share of global trade\r\n has been affected by trade distortions. Data from the Global Trade Alert database show that by 2017 more\r\n than 50 per cent of exports from G20 countries were subject to harmful trade measures, up from 20 per\r\n cent in 2009. Accordingly, trade growth has decelerated more sharply in those sectors in which extensive\r\n discriminatory measures have been adopted than in sectors that have benefited from trade liberalisation.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Along with these developments, an important thing to note is that public support for trade openness has\r\n declined, while protectionism has increased globally. Perceptions of the risks associated with open trade\r\n have added to the broader list of concerns related to globalisation. For example, free trade is sometimes\r\n believed to have made countries more vulnerable to international crises and spillovers from abroad. Given\r\n its distributional consequences, free trade is also considered to be a factor behind the rising inequality both\r\n within and across countries. However, the merits of free trade are also widely recognised. International\r\n trade allows countries to specialise in the production of goods in which they have a comparative advantage,\r\n while at the same time enabling consumers to enjoy a greater variety of consumer goods. Empirical studies\r\n have found that trade openness has led to higher income per capita across countries, spurring productivity\r\n growth and helping to reduce poverty globally. Nevertheless, the benefits of trade openness and their\r\n distribution across social groups vary between countries. Factors such as the nature of export\r\n specialisation, the degree of product diversification, and the quality of a country's institutions are found to\r\n be important pre-conditions for the benefits of trade openness to be fully realised. Some have also \r\n challenged the benefits of free trade by claiming that \"unfair practices\" have damaged domestic growth and\r\n job creation. Free Trade has also been criticized because some of the countries are putting non-tariff trade\r\n barriers, unfair trade practices and thereby protecting their markets at the same time their companies\r\n reaping the advantages of free trade and fair practices in other countries. Non-tariff barriers and unfair\r\n trade practices of some of the countries have distorted free trade and have led to increasing public support\r\n for protectionism.\r\n \r\n
\r\n\r\n He further added, \"Thus it is true, Globalisation has been reset. Has it provided opportunities to India? For\r\n what? Exports from India or Investment in India. There are two aspects to it. In the backdrop of US-China\r\n trade tensions, it was thought that it will provide opportunities to India for exports in both directions -\r\n exports to China in respect of those products where tariffs were hiked by China on imports from US and\r\n similarly for exports to US in respect of those products where tariffs were hiked by US on imports from\r\n China. Products were identified for exports where India has a production capacity and was already\r\n exporting to other countries. But India had competition from other countries neighboring China for exports\r\n to US as some of the products of China could be routed through these countries easily by passing the\r\n higher tariff by US for imports from China. Similarly, in case of exports to China for the products being\r\n imported from US, there was a competition from rest of the world including Latin America, Europe and other\r\n countries. It is very difficult to start exporting a new product to China. There is a huge regulatory wall. So\r\n whether India is able to take advantage of these opportunities - the jury is still out on this.\r\n
\r\n\r\n He further added, \"Thus it is true, Globalisation has been reset. Has it provided opportunities to India? For\r\n what? Exports from India or Investment in India. There are two aspects to it. In the backdrop of US-China\r\n trade tensions, it was thought that it will provide opportunities to India for exports in both directions -\r\n exports to China in respect of those products where tariffs were hiked by China on imports from US and\r\n similarly for exports to US in respect of those products where tariffs were hiked by US on imports from\r\n China. Products were identified for exports where India has a production capacity and was already\r\n exporting to other countries. But India had competition from other countries neighboring China for exports\r\n to US as some of the products of China could be routed through these countries easily by passing the\r\n higher tariff by US for imports from China. Similarly, in case of exports to China for the products being\r\n imported from US, there was a competition from rest of the world including Latin America, Europe and other\r\n countries. It is very difficult to start exporting a new product to China. There is a huge regulatory wall. So\r\n whether India is able to take advantage of these opportunities - the jury is still out on this.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Second part is the opportunities created because of the rest of the world's concerns against China in the\r\n backdrop of COVID-19. As has been pointed at many places, the multinational companies are acting on\r\n China plus strategy. They want to have production centres located just in China. Even Chinese companies\r\n may also like to have their bases outside China for the resilience of their businesses. Whether India fits in\r\n their plans? Again we have competition from neighboring countries of China. They have those\r\n characteristics which may be of advantages to these MNCs vis-à-vis India. \r\n
\r\n\r\n Thus for both our own companies exporting to US or China, or foreign companies setting up their bases in\r\n India, we have competition from China neighboring countries. Our environment for our own companies and\r\n also for foreign companies has to be better than those China-neighboring countries in every respect. All\r\n factors of production - labour, cost of credit, cost of energy, logistics, regulatory costs, etc. have to be\r\n better than those countries. \r\n
\r\n\r\n It is heartening to note that Government is trying in all these directions. India's WB Ease of Doing business\r\n rank has improved to 63 in 2019 among 190 nations from 142 in 2014. India's impressive progression in\r\n the Doing Business rankings over the past few years is a tremendous achievement, especially for an\r\n economy that is as large and complex as India's. Special focus given by the top leadership of the country,\r\n and the persistent efforts made to drive the business reforms agenda, not only at the central level but also\r\n at the state level, helped India make significant improvements. India's rank in World Bank's Logistics\r\n Performance Index improved from 54 in 2014 to 44 in 2018.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Recently in July 2020, Government launched the Production Linked Incentive Scheme for the promotion of\r\ndomestic manufacturing of critical Key Starting Materials (KSMs)/ Drug Intermediates(DIs) and Active \r\nPharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). Under the Scheme, financial incentives shall be given based on sales\r\nmade by selected manufacturers for 41 products covering all the identified 53 APIs. The outlay of the\r\nscheme is Rs. 6,940 crores over the next 6 years. Eligibility shall be subject to threshold investment in\r\ngreenfield projects. Similarly, the Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics\r\nManufacturing notified on April 01, 2020, offers a production linked incentive to boost domestic\r\nmanufacturing and attract large investments in mobile phone manufacturing and specified electronic\r\ncomponents, including Assembly, Testing, Marking, and Packaging (ATMP) units. The Scheme would\r\ntremendously boost the electronics manufacturing landscape and establish India at the global level in the\r\nelectronics sector. The scheme shall extend an incentive of 4% to 6% on incremental sales (over base\r\nyear) of goods manufactured in India and covered under target segments, to eligible companies, for a\r\nperiod of five (5) years subsequent to the base year.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n Here, SEZs can play an important role. The most important aspect of SEZs is that the country can do all\r\nexperimentation in terms of providing world-class infrastructure, best regulatory processes such as flexible\r\nlabour policies, environment law, etc which sometimes due to different socio-political reasons and fiscal\r\nconstraints, it may not be possible to provide in the entire country. In fact, Special Economic Zones have\r\nbeen playing the roles of engines of the economic growth of the country and contributing approximately\r\n1/3rd to the national export basket. Exports from SEZs during 2019-20 were to the extent of Rs. 8 lakh\r\ncrore - USD 112 Billion, providing direct employment to more than 2.2 million people and attracted\r\ninvestment of Rs. 5,71,735 crore (USD 70 billion). Exports from SEZs in the first quarter of 2020-21 (AprilJune 2020) were Rs. 1,57,325 crore which is down by 28 per cent as compared to the exports of Rs.\r\n1,81,075 crore during the corresponding period of 2019-20. In the first quarter of 2020-21 Software &\r\nServices exports registered a positive growth of 5 per cent by contributing Rs. 1,11,245 crore. However,\r\nmerchandize exports shows negative growth of 45 per cent as compared to the corresponding period of\r\n2019-20\r\n
\r\n\r\n Though Government of India provided certain relaxations and exemptions to SEZs during the lockdown\r\nperiod and further proposals are under consideration, EPCES has taken up a number of requests of its\r\nmembers with the government for consideration. After taking over as DG, EPCES, what I have started is\r\nthe creation of a google spreadsheet of pending issues of SEZ sector pending with different authorities\r\nwhich we have shared with the Department of Commerce as a ready-made To Do list for them to follow up\r\nand the status of different pending issues is updated regularly. Some of the major issues are - permission\r\nto sale in DTA on payment of duty waived off during import of raw materials, permission to do job work for\r\nDTA, continuation of MEIS Scheme, MEIS benefits to apparel & garment sector units, exemption from\r\nhealth cess of 5 per cent on sale of medical product in DTA, Exemption of GST on services rendered and\r\nconsumed within the FTWZ, etc. We are regularly following up with the Government authorities. We have to\r\ndiscuss Baba Kalyani report on SEZs as well with SEZ developers and SEZ units too.\'\'\r\n
\r\n\r\n He added, \'\'I would also to share with the participants here that EPCES has also launched an online\r\nContact EPCES services (https://www.epces.in/enquiry-form.php) whereby any unit or developer facing any\r\ndifficulty or has any suggestions, he can at any time submit his query/suggestion and he will be given a \r\nreference number using which he can find out the status of the action taken on his query /suggestions. This\r\nhas been done because tracking of emails is rather difficult\'\'.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Dr. L B Singhal said that \'\'he would like to address 3 questions in the context to The Reset of Globalization\r\nand Rising India Opportunity i.e. Why should an investor whether Indian or foreigner invest in Indian SEZ?\r\nIf In SEZ why in India? In post Covid situation what kind of opportunity do we have for encashing? Last\r\nyear world investment report was released by UNCTAD, that SEZ as a concept is in 147 countries. There\r\nare 5400 SEZs in operation around the world\". He further added, \"GST has been implemented in the\r\ncountry which is the only scheme in the country wherein ab initio exemption from IGST has been provided\r\nwhether it\'s import or domestic procurement. 100 per cent FDI is allowed to the automatic route. Single\r\nwindow mechanism approval will be given by the board at the Ministry of Commerce\'\'.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Hitender Mehta moderated the session and also informed that presently, 240 SEZs are operational in\r\nIndia with an infrastructure development of 40,000 hectare land and availability of 22,000 hectare land for\r\nestablishment of new units into SEZs. Indian SEZs provide direct employment to 2.2 million people and 3\r\ntimes more is the indirect employment due to backward and forward integration. Most of the States in India\r\nhave 'SEZs' for setting up units in the manufacturing and service sector. The cost of manpower is relatively\r\nlow as compared to other countries. Apart from various central incentives, Indian States also offer\r\nincentives for industrial projects. India's friendly foreign investment regulatory framework, availability of lowcost labour and raw materials, make the SEZs a best case for global investors.\r\n
\r\n\r\n During the interactive session, the distinguished panel of speakers also took questions from the\r\nparticipants\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Webinar was attended by 340 representatives of the industry.\r\n
\r\n ', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'special-economic-zone-investment-summit-online', 1, 0, '2020-08-20', '2020-08-20', '', '', 27, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'), (162, 'Progressive and Futuristic Skill Development: Need of the Hour', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable discussion on the topic\r\n Startup Market & Marketing Excellence', 'India with one of the largest youth population in the world needs to create millions of jobs\r\n every year to reap the advantage of this demographic dividend. Skill Development is the only\r\n solution to sustain this demographic dividend and to prepare the workforce for Industry 4.0\r\n fuelled by increasing urbanization, ubiquitous internet connectivity, and the proliferation of\r\n high-tech technology.
\r\nTo understand the immediate issues faced by the Industry due to labour and workforce\r\n migration and understating the Government\'s readiness to support the skill training sector to\r\n recover after the COVID lockdown, India\'s Apex Chamber, ASSOCHAM, organized a Webinar\r\n on \"Progressive and Futuristic Skill Development: Need of the Hour\" on 21st May 2021 from\r\n 11:30- 1:00 PM.
\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\n●Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon\'ble Minister, Ministry of Skill Development &\r\n Entrepreneurship
\r\n● Dr. Niraj Kumar Pawan, IAS, Chairman, Rajasthan Skill & Livelihoods Development\r\n Corporation
\r\nGirish Kundan Jha, Founder CEO, Skills Asstra Techcon LLP
\r\n● Deepak Pareek, Managing Partner, HnyB Tech Incubations Pvt. Ltd
\r\nManinder Singh, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Skill Development &\r\n Secretary, Bal Bharti
\r\n● Deepak Sood, Secretary-General, ASSOCHAM
\r\nAround 1000 delegates registered from across the country and more than 500 attendees\r\n participated online.
\r\nKey issues discussed:
\r\n● Future of Skilling
\r\n● Role of the stakeholders
\r\n● A new perspective of Skilling
\r\n● New platforms for Skilling
\r\n● Role of the Government in Skilling
\r\n● Issues and challenges in Skilling Post COVID-19
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'progressive-and-futuristic-skill-development', 1, 0, '2021-05-21', '2021-05-21', '11.30 AM', '1.00 PM', 28, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (163, 'Start-up Investors/Funding Opportunities', 'India\'s textiles sector is one of the oldest industries in the Indian economy, dating back to several\r\n centuries
', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable Discussion on the topic Startup\r\n Investors/Funding Opportunities on 2nd July, 2021 from 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
\r\nThe prime objective is to educate, encourage and connect the various Startups with the\r\n Government, Private Equity & Venture Capital Funds, Angel Investors or any other Funding\r\n Opportunities available for them and encourage the Startups.
\r\nTopic for Discussion:-
\r\n● Government Funding Schemes for Startups: Background
\r\n● Startups Funding: Issues, Challenges & Opportunities
\r\n● How to get investment for Startup in early days?
\r\n● To understand the different types of funding opportunities available for startups.
\r\n● Managing Investment in resources, Team-Building and R&D
\r\n● To understand how a startup can approach the various funding companies and\r\n investors.
\r\nKey Speaker :
\r\n● Shri Rohit Bhayana, Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Neelam Dhawan, Co-Chairperson,ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Shri Jeet Vijayvargiya, CEO, Meity Startup Hub, Ministry of Electronics & IT,\r\n Government of India
\r\n● Shri Sudheer Kumar N, Director, Capacity Building Programme Office, ISRO (HQs)
\r\n● Shri Bijith Bhaskar, National Head, Digital Banking, Partnerships & eCommerce, ICICI\r\n Bank
\r\n● Shri Vikram Gupta, Founding Partner, IVY Cap
\r\n● Shri Lloyd Mathias, Angel Investor
\r\n● Shri Sandeep Goel, SVP, Moglix
\r\n● Shri Devroop Dhar, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Primus Partners
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'start-up-investors-funding-opportunities', 1, 0, '2021-07-02', '2021-07-02', '2.00 p.m', '4.00 p.m', 29, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (164, 'Start-up Incubation & Mentors Meet', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable discussion on the topic\r\n Startup Incubation & Mentors Meet inviting various representatives from Incubation
', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable discussion on the topic\r\n Startup Incubation & Mentors Meet inviting various representatives from Incubation\r\n Centers, Industry, Mentors, Industry leaders and Startups for a meaningful discussion\r\n on supporting the Incubation and Industry Linkage and importance of Mentorship for\r\n the growth of a Startup.
\r\nTopic for Discussion:-
\r\n● How to build successful innovation/incubation ecosystems
\r\n● How to create value for incubation center, mentorship for startups.
\r\n●How to activate, connect & transform between Incubators, Mentors and Startups.
\r\n● What kinds of assumptions and expectations do the Startups have from\r\n their Mentors
\r\n● What are the critically important success factors for Mentorship, so that they\r\n contribute to valuable outcomes.
\r\nKey Speaker :
\r\n● Shri Rohit Bhayana, Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Neelam Dhawan, Co-Chairperson,ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Shri Sanjeev Chopra, CEO, Electropreneur Park
\r\n● Shri Ravi Gururaj, Founder/CEO, QikPod
\r\n● Shri Chintan Bakshi, Partner - Incubation, Centre for Innovation Incubation and\r\n Entrepreneurship (CIIE.CO) & Chief Executive Officer at Start-up Oasis
\r\n● Shri Vijay K. Srivastava, Chairman, Indian Academy of Entrepreneurship
\r\n● Shri Varad Rajan Krishna , CEO, The GAIN Accelerator
\r\n●Shri Anupam Jalote , CEO, International Centre of Entrepreneurship and Technology\r\n (iCreate)
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'start-up-incubation-mentors-meet', 1, 0, '2021-07-17', '2021-07-17', '2.00 p.m', '4.00 p.m', 29, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (165, 'Start-up MARKET & MARKETING EXCELLENCE', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable discussion on the topic\r\n Startup Market & Marketing Excellence
', 'ASSOCHAM Startup Launchpad organized a Roundtable discussion on the topic\r\n Startup Market & Marketing Excellence inviting various representatives from\r\n Marketing professionals, Mentors, Industry leaders and Startups for a meaningful\r\n discussion on importance of Marketing for the growth of a Startup.
\r\nTopic for Discussion:-
\r\n● Startup Market & Marketing Excellence: Issues & Challenges
\r\n● Digital Marketing Strategies for Startups
\r\n● Nееd of Digitаl Marketing Strategies
\r\n● How to Build a Perfect Digital Marketing Strategy?
\r\n● Social Mеdiа Marketing Strategy
\r\nKey Speaker :
\r\n● Shri Srikant Sastri, Chairman, I3G Advisory Network and President, TiE Delhi-NCR
\r\n● Shri Sudiip K Goswami, Director & GM - South India & Start-Ups, Dell Technologies
\r\n● Shri Satyarth Priyedarshi, Head of Digital, Tata AIA Life Insurance
\r\n● Shri Vedanarayanan Vedantham, SME Business Head, Razorpay
\r\n● Shri Atit Mehta , Marketing Head, Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd. (BYJU\'S)
\r\n● Deepali Naair, Director, Marketing, IBM India & South Asia
\r\n● Shri Rohit Bhayana, Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Shri Thomas Varghese, Chairman, National Council on Branding & Marketing\r\n ASSOCHAM
\r\n● Neelam Dhawan, Co-Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Startup Council
\r\n● Shri Madhuranath R, Head, Sales and Marketing, Slang Labs
', '', '', 'event-cat-2.jpg', 'start-up-market-marketing-excellence', 1, 0, '2021-07-30', '2021-07-30', '2.00 p.m', '3.30 p.m', 29, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (166, 'National Council on Textiles and Technical Textiles', 'India\'s textiles sector is one of the oldest industries in the Indian economy, dating back to several\r\n centuries
', '● Council Co - Chairman : Ramesh Agarwal, Whole Time Director- Rupa & Company ltd.
\r\n● Council Brief:
\r\nIndia\\\'s textiles sector is one of the oldest industries in the Indian economy, dating back to several\r\n centuries.
\r\nThe industry is extremely varied, with hand-spun and hand-woven textiles sectors at one end of the\r\n spectrum, while the capital-intensive sophisticated mills sector on the other end. The decentralised\r\n power looms/ hosiery and knitting sector forms the largest component in the textiles sector. The close\r\n linkage of textiles industry to agriculture (for raw materials such as cotton) and the ancient culture and\r\n traditions of the country in terms of textiles makes it unique in comparison to other industries in the\r\n country. India\'s textiles industry has a capacity to produce wide variety of products suitable for different\r\n market segments, both within India and across the world.
\r\nASSOCHAM National Council on Textiles & Technical Textiles works towards the holistic development\r\n of textiles industry in India. The objective of the council is to work along with various stakeholders\r\n representing wide variety of sub-sectors of textiles industry like cotton, man-made, wool, silk,\r\n handlooms, Juteand technical textiles etc. Apart from major policy issues such as high cost of power and\r\n logistics, ground water extraction and availability of raw materials, ASSOCHAM has been actively\r\n involved with Government regarding various issues related to GST and Foreign Trade Policy for the\r\n sector.
\r\nASSOCHAM has been at the forefront of facilitating knowledge sharing in various segments of textiles\r\n industry. The council has been at the forefront of Policy advocacy for the sector and has given detailed\r\n inputs for the National Textiles Policy.
\r\n● Event Held :
\r\n● Webinar on \"Impact and Role of Textiles Industry during COVID-19\" with Shri Nihar Ranjan Das,\r\n Joint secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India - 21st April, 2020
\r\n● ASSOCHAM celebrated the National Handloom Day.\"Vocal4Handmade\" social media campaign\r\n with the Ministry of Textiles - 7th August, 2020
\r\n● SAMARTH Project, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Training program under SAMARTH\r\n Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector - October, 2020
\r\n● Event on \"Future Lies in the past : Leveraging India embedded Knowledge to pivot the country\'s\r\n growth story - 18th December, 2020
\r\n● Policy Note :
\r\n● ASSOCHAM Recommendations on the New National Textiles Policy 2020
\r\n- No refund of ITC of capital goods and services in case of inverted rate structure
\r\n- Subsidies by competing counties like China
\r\n- Logistics issues faced by the exporters
\r\n- Change in Labour laws
\r\n- Removal of CAP on TUFS
\r\n- No FTA with Bangladesh
\r\n- Expedite India EU FTA
\r\n● Event Wright up :
\r\n● Event on \"Future Lies in the past : Leveraging India embedded Knowledge to pivot the\r\n country\'s growth story - 18th December, 2020
\r\nThe event was organized during the ASSOCHAM Foundation week with the Hon\\\'ble Minister for\r\n Textiles, Women & Child Development Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani was the Chief Guest along with industry\r\n representatives including Smt. Dipali Goenka, CEO and Joint Managing Director, Welspun India, Shri T.\r\n Rajkumar, Chairman CITI and Chairman, Sri Mahasakthi Mills Ltd. Shri Anjani Prasad, Managing Director,\r\n Archroma India Pvt. Ltd and they discussed about the role of textiles sector for India\'s roadmap towards\r\n a US$5 trillion economy\'
\r\n● SAMARTH Project, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Training program under\r\n SAMARTH Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector - October, 2020
\r\nMinistry of Textiles, Government of India has approved ASSOCHAM to execute training program\r\n under SAMARTH Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector (SCBTS) with a target to train 1000\r\n trainees with the Total Project Cost of Rs.1,38,89,250/- under five sectors.
\r\nThe training program has started on October, 2020 and successfully completed training of around\r\n 200 candidates as on date.
\r\nList of Industry members :-
\r\n1. Shri Balkrishan Goenka, Chairman, Welspun Group
\r\n2. Shri Mohit Jain, Executive Vice Chairman, Indo Count
\r\n3. Shri Kulin Lalbhai, Executive Director, Arvind Mills
\r\n4. Shri Harish Ahuja, Managing Director, Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
\r\n5. Shri Dilip Gaur Managing Director Grasim Industries Ltd.
\r\n6. Shri G.S. Singhvi ,Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Fibers Ltd.
\r\n7. Shri Anjani Prasad, Managing Director, Archroma India Pvt. Ltd.
\r\n8. Shri O.P. Lohia CMD, Indo Rama Synthetics (I) Ltd
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', 'Council Chairman : Ashutosh Chandwar, Chief operating Officer, DRAIPL
\r\nCouncil Co-Chairman : Vinod Shukla, MD, FGS Engineers and Innovators
\r\nSpecial Task Force on Digitalization
\r\nChairman : Sudip Mazumder, Chief Digital & Information Officer, PGP Glass
\r\nCouncil Brief :
\r\nIndia is one of the fastest growing markets for Tunnel construction. The council played pivotal role in\r\n policy making and shaping Government\'s thought process towards creating these national assets.
\r\nASSOCHAM provided conducive platform for stakeholder interactions. Facilitated interactions\r\n between MoRTH, NHA, NHIDCL, key industry stakeholders including developers, consultants,\r\n contractors and technology and solution providers.
\r\nThe Council has been instrumental in bringing changes that will ensure rapid and seamless\r\n development of the National tunnels economically and in time bound manner through enforcement\r\n of EPC Contracts especially for Underground Construction and Tunneling.
\r\nThe council comprises up of a group of eminent industry leaders who have vast experience and\r\n domain knowledge.
\r\nAchievements of the Council
\r\nASSOCHAM\'s recommendations for Enforcement of EPC Contracts for Underground Construction and\r\n Tunneling, have been accepted by Hon\\\'ble Union Minister. Accordingly MoRTH has :
\r\n1. Established a separate tunnel zone within the Ministry
\r\n2. Set up a Panel of Technical experts including exclusively ASSOCHAM nominated industry experts\r\n along with other Academicians and Government organisations. The EXPERT Committee will:
\r\ni) Formulate guidelines for design and construction of tunnels,
\r\nii) Draft SoPs for Geological and Geotechnical investigations, construction, operation and\r\n maintenance of tunnels,
\r\niii) Develop Contract Document (PMC, O&M and Civil Works)\r\n These Guidelines, SoPs and Contract Document will be exclusively for tunneling and\r\n underground projects (would be different from regular on-surface road and Highway contracts)
\r\n3. Setting up Digitalisation Center under the Tunnel Zone in the Ministry.
\r\nShri Nitin Gadkari Hon\\\'ble Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways, Govt of India\r\n acknowledged contribution towards Rs. 5000 Crores savings in the Zojila Tunnel Project at\r\n various forums.
\r\nShri Gadkari congratulated ASSOCHAM for series of discussions and submission of its recommendations\r\n that led to the modification of MORTH EPC contract document for Tunnel construction in India. He\r\n credited ASSOCHAM for its contribution that helped the Nation save Rs. 5000 crores. Zojila Tunnel\r\n construction is underway, after previously four failed tenders, was bid out and awarded @ INR 6,000 cr.\r\n instead of the initial proposal of INR 11,000 cr.
\r\n● Events Held :
\r\n✓ Round Table Discussion with Shri Nitin Gadkari Hon\\\'ble Union Minister For Road, Transport And\r\n Highways 'Enforcement Of EPC Contracts for Underground Construction And Tunneling\' -\r\n February 12, 2020.
\r\n✓ Meetings with Shri. I.K Pandey, DG (RD) & SS, MoRTH and other officials from MoRTH - April 16,\r\n 2020
\r\n✓ Technologies and Policy for Digitalisation of Infrastructure - Interaction with Shri Nitin Gadkari,\r\n Hon\\\'ble Union Minister for Roads, Transport and Highways - October 31, 2020
\r\n● Sector Policy Notes
\r\n✓ Enforcement Of EPC Contracts for Underground Construction and Tunneling
\r\n✓ Technologies and Policy for Digitalisation of Infrastructure
\r\n● Event Write up :
\r\n● Round Table Discussion 'Enforcement of Contracts for Underground Construction and Tunneling\'\r\n With Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Hon\\\'ble Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways On\r\n February 12, 2020.
\r\nIndia has shown substantial improvement in its Ease of Doing Business (scaled up to 63rd\r\n \r\n position) However, in enforcement of the contract which is an element of these ranking there\r\n has been hardly any significant improvement - India moved to a ranking of 163 in 2019 from\r\n 172 in 2017. The element of balancing the risk between the Employer and the Contractor has \r\n to be worked well in Indian Contracts. The subject matter becomes worse when it comes to\r\n underground works as contracts enforced for over-ground projects are applied for all\r\n underground works as well. In international contracts like FIDIC and NEC these risks are based\r\n on the idea of fairness. A balanced risk allocation to the Contractor and to the Employer is\r\n utmost important.
\r\nASSOCHAM had conducted numerous stakeholder consultations. Based on deliberations, a strategy\r\n paper had been compiled which highlights Tunneling industry\'s concerns and recommendations. It\r\n suggests amendments in Principles of Enforcement of Contracts and certain Clauses of the MORTH\r\n standard contract document. This had been projected at the Round Table Discussion in presence of\r\n Hon\\\'ble Minister, followed by interactive session with Hon\\\'ble Minister and Government and PSU\r\n officials.
\r\n● Technologies & Policy for Digitalisation of Infrastructure Focus on Tunneling\r\n Chief Guest - Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon\\\'ble Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Govt. of\r\n India, October 31, 2020,
\r\nASSOCHAM with its clear vision of Nation Building has always ventured into issues that need\r\n Government\'s immediate attention. Early this year, we had successfully conducted an exhaustive\r\n Round Table session dedicated to EPC Contract and Tunnel Engineering in India, under the\r\n patronage of the Hon\\\'ble Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways - Shri Nitin Gadkari.\r\n He had emphasised on the need for advanced technology that could expedite construction works\r\n at reduced costs and monitor structural health. Hon\\\'ble Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari has been\r\n kind to accept our recommendations as also acknowledge ASSOCHAM\'s contribution during\r\n his address at the initiation of first blast of Zojila Tunnel.
\r\nTo take step forward, in line with Hon\\\'ble Minister advice, ASSOCHAM had organised captioned webinar\r\n to highlight technologies and policy for digitalisation of infrastructure - Role of BIM in design and\r\n monitoring, AI/ ML in construction, Structural health monitoring, safety through advanced structural\r\n systems and engineering material, Digital Twins etc. The infrastructure fraternity in India will get a firsthand information on the digital Infrastructure, being created all over the Country as part of the CyberPhysical virtual platforms. Hon\\\'ble Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari had Chaired this Session.
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\r\nWelcome Address by Chair - ASSOCHAM National Council on WTO Trade and\r\n Investment:
\r\n● Highlighted Terrific impact created by the pandemic since the industry\r\n gone through the two pandemic (First and Second wave) one after the\r\n other
\r\n● Disruptions like these creates adversities as well as opportunities, India\r\n Inc should diversify the supply chain
\r\n● Emphasis should be on capitalisation of disruptions caused by the\r\n pandemic
\r\n● Elucidate the share of in the Global Trade
\r\n● Find out ways to support Govt as well as industry however there are\r\n issues of land, labour & Capital
\r\n● To be competitive at global level, we should be competitive at Local\r\n Level as well
\r\n● There is certain intervention made by the Government like PLI and\r\n Increase in certain tariffs.
\r\n Welcome Address by Co Chair - ASSOCHAM National Council on WTO Trade\r\n and Investment:\r\n● Highlighted Government efforts to promote local manufacturing and\r\n Import substitution, there should be clear vision for the export led\r\n growth. There are several initiatives which have been taken but more\r\n can be done to unleash the potential
\r\n● Talked about the disabilities which have direct impact on the desirable\r\n investment. This is a one area where we can shape and lead the\r\n dialogue.
\r\n● Despite several trade initiatives, there are several uncertainties and cost\r\n issues for the companies, which needs to be addressed.
\r\nKey Suggestions from the Council members:
\r\n● Need to freeze three items from the agenda so that deliberations and\r\n representation can be made with more focus
\r\n● Inclusion of Cost of Doing business in the agenda
\r\n● Formation of working group under the council to steer the agenda
\r\n● Representation for RODTEP
\r\n● Cautious approach w.r.t Signing FTAs with the countries by considering\r\n what provisions are we going to conceive.
\r\n● Sharing of data with respect to the sectors so that assessment can be\r\n done for future representation.
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\r\nThe objective of Awareness Program on Environment in Schools under the #BREATHEFREE campaign is to combat the air pollution and during this campaign successfully covered more than 10,000 students and academic fraternity in 30 schools by organizing interactive sessions, Do it Yourself (DIY) activities and also by fitting in school buses in Delhi NCR with ‘Minus2point5’ – a device which is attached to the exhaust pipe and reduces air pollution by converting PM2.5 particles in ambient air into coarser dust and making them fall to the ground.
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'globally-air-pollution-is-the-mammoth-challenge-confronting-mankind', 1, 0, '0000-00-00', '0000-00-00', '', '', 50, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (170, '2nd ASSOCHAM Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Awards & Conclave Webinar held on 12th February 2021', '', 'During COVID-19 pandemic, managing diversity is not an option rather it is a business imperative to have sustainable growth in the new socio-economic order. Leaders with deep and unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion are spearheading with empathy and creating new business opportunities for the future. Inclusion culture empowers to push the boundaries on innovation, serve clients better and arethe proven gamechanger. It also enables to attract and develop best talent.
\r\nThe paramount objective is to recognize, applaud, and put spotlight on the exceptional dedication, outstanding accomplishments, and groundbreaking work of some of the nation\'s most iconic inclusive organizations and their towering leadership which demonstrated a comprehensive and proactive approach to lead equality, diversity, and fairness in all aspects of business. to promote Diversity and Inclusiveness at its workplace.
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\r\nThe primary objective of this interactive session involving multiple key stakeholders was to spread awareness to ensure and enable in facilitating barrier free environment for disabled persons through intervention and introducing new and innovative technologies.
\r\n\r\n
Releasing of Knowledge Paper and Addressing by Dr. Vinod Aggarwal, Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
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\r\nBusinesses are embracing digitisation in an attempt to drive on-demand services, better customer experiences and to monetize on market trends. At the centre of this transformation has been public cloud infrastructure, which has emerged as the backbone for innovation-driven growth.
\r\nThe Changing Operating Environment
\r\nOne of the larger, unforeseeable challenges emerging from the pandemic was of establishing “remote Work” for an entire workforce. Public Cloud services enabled fast & smooth migration to “working from home” by enabling connectivity from anywhere and supporting essential services such as video conferencing & real-time communication. With a lot of organizations rolling-out permanent “remote-work”, Cloud services are here to stay.
\r\nASSOCHAM in partnership with Seqrite, organised a webinar titled “Assume Data Breach and Prepare” on Thursday, 22nd October, 2020 from 03:00 – 05:00 pm.
\r\nCloud adoption though has left businesses exposed to unseen and unpredictable cyber threats. Security assessment for emerging capabilities such as the Cloud is limited as compared to the unlimited loopholes that attackers can leverage to launch large-scale attacks. Therefore, businesses need to start building a strong security culture by assuming that a breach will happen anytime.
\r\nKey Takeaways:
\r\n1. Cloud security risks & challenges
\r\n2. Some examples of vulnerabilities and how they have been used in attacks
\r\n3. Assume breach mentality and how to use it to protect cloud workloads
\r\n4. The need for Zero Trust. Made for the cloud!
\r\n5. Security is everybody\'s business
\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\n· Shri Deepak Talwar, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Cyber Security &
\r\n· National Security Officer, Microsoft
\r\n· Shri Himanshu Dubey, Director, Quick Heal Security Labs, Panel Discussion
\r\n· Shri Vidur Gupta, Partner, EY
\r\n· Shri G Narendra Nath, Joint Secretary, NSCS
\r\n· Shri Kuldeep Raina, Vice President & Head of Global Sales, Seqrite
\r\n· Shri Gaurav Kataria, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Sai Life Sciences
\r\n· Shri Vasanth B Pai, Program Head & Function Head: ISG Assurance & ISG Data Privacy Protection, Tech Mahindra
\r\n· Shri Subhajit Deb, CISO, Dr. Reddy\'s Laboratories
\r\n· Shri Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Group CIO, Apollo Hospitals
\r\n· Shri Rajesh Uppal, Member Executive Board (HR, IT, Safety & Digital), Maruti Udyog Ltd
\r\n· CA. Ramanand Jha, AVP-Risk Management & Governance, Havells India
\r\n· Shri Shivkumar Pandey, Group CISO, BSE
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'virtual-discussion-assume-breach-and-prepare', 1, 0, '2020-10-22', '2020-10-22', '03:00 pm', '05:00 pm', 51, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (173, 'Women in Cyber\r\nMaking a difference\r\nAwards and Conclave', 'To honor and felicitate Women, who are doing exemplary work in the field of Cyber Security in India, ASSOCHAM has initiated an Award \\\"Women in Cyber: Making a difference\\\". EY was the Knowledge Partner to this Award.', 'To honor and felicitate Women, who are doing exemplary work in the field of Cyber Security in India, ASSOCHAM has initiated an Award “Women in Cyber: Making a difference”. EY was the Knowledge Partner to this Award.
\r\nDr. Gulshan Rai, Former National Cyber Security Coordinator, Former Director General, Cert-In is the Jury Chairperson and Members include Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, Dr. Charru Malhotra, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Administration and Mini Gupta, Partner, EY.
\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\nSheenam Ohrie, Vice President, Dell Digital and CIO Leader, APJ, Dell Technologies
\r\nMini Gupta, Partner, EY
\r\nSantha Subramoni, Global Head, TCS Cyber Security Practice
\r\nJyoti Arora, Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India
\r\nShri Deepak Talwar, National Security Officer, Microsoft & Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Cyber Security
\r\nRitu Dube, Global Head, Pre-sales and solutions, GRC and Data Privacy, TCS Cyber Security Practice
\r\nShri Vidur Gupta, Partner, EY (Knowledge Partner)
\r\nDr. Charru Malhotra, Associate Professor, IIPA
\r\nShri Manoj Abraham IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Kerala
\r\nRama Devi Lanka, Director, Emerging Technologies, IT Electronics & Communication Department, Government of Telangana
\r\nSatyavathi Divadari, Chief Cyber Security Architect, Micro Focus
\r\nSailaja Vadlamudi, Application Security Lead, SAP Labs India
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\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\n1) Jobbin James, Sr. Manager Sales Engineering, APAC, Sonicwall
\r\n2) Rahul Arora, Country Manager – Strategic Sales, Sonicwall
\r\nKey Points:
\r\n1) Secure remote connectivity in today’s environment
\r\n2) Zero Trust Network Access and how
\r\n3) Importance of advanced endpoint detection and mitigation
\r\n4) Why Cloud Email Security should be a top priority of CISOs
\r\n5) Secure Wifi in times of pandemic
\r\nDigital transformation has become the priority agenda for most governments and this vision cannot be achieved without a fully-developed cybersecurity infrastructure in place. India is an exciting region where great strides are being made in digital transformation. While this new era of hyper connectivity has opened up greater avenues for growth and development, it provides more opportunities for threats to get through and risks for businesses, individuals and complexities and new volumes in cyberattacks. Along with this, attackers are getting increasingly sophisticated and are employing cutting-edge techniques to breach organizations.
\r\nThe year 2019 saw an unprecedented wave of cyber-attacks. This year is likely to present new challenges arising out of the COVID- 19 crisis, where new technologies scale and come online, exacerbating cyber risk and affecting every business, government and individual. With these many evolving challenges, 2020 represents to be more collaborative, being inclusive, and rethink to be digitally ready to embrace new technologies Work-life balance with all possible technical innovations and digital trust is going to cement higher growth for the business and social life.It\'s time to focus on data privacy, build responsible AI that is ethical and inclusive, and create digital safety and security to make a more resilient and more trusted digital world
\r\nASSOCHAM organised 14th International Cyber Security Virtual Conclave: CySecCon 2020 on 18th September 2020. It had discussion around cybersecurity and the impact they are having on industries including government, energy, financial services, healthcare and more. The platform enabled the security community, business leaders, Technocrats, and stake holders from Government and InfoSec to come together and present the latest approaches, technologies and strategies that drive progress in the industry.
\r\nKey Speakers:
\r\n· Shri Deepak Talwar, National Security Officer, Microsoft & Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Cyber Security
\r\n· Shri Vineet Agarwal, Sr. Vice President, ASSOCHAM and Managing Director, Transport Corporation of India Limited
\r\n· Genie Sugene Gan, Head of Public Affairs, Asia-Pacific, Kaspersky
\r\n· Shri Manish Sinha, Manager Sales Engineering- Security & Enterprise Business, Netscout
\r\n· Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Estonia
\r\n· Shri Iddo Moed, Cyber Security Coordinator, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Israel
\r\n· Dr. Tobias Feakin, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, International Security Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,Government of Australia
\r\n· Lt. Gen Shri Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India
\r\n· Shri Manish Sinha, Manager Sales Engineering- Security & Enterprise Business, Netscout
\r\n· Shri Dipesh Kaura, General Manager - South Asia, Kaspersky
\r\n· Shri Vishal Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, SecureThings
\r\n· Dr. Gulshan Rai, Former National Cyber Security Coordinator
\r\n· Shri Vidur Gupta, Partner, EY
\r\n· Shri Venkat Krishnapur, VP Engineering & Managing Director McAfee India
\r\n· Shri Bithal Kumar Bhardwaj, Group CISO, GMR Group
\r\n· Shri Jayant Gupta, CISO HPCL
\r\n· Shri Rahul Aggarwal, Partner, PwC
\r\n· Shri Narender Nath, ITS, Joint Secretary, NSCS
\r\n· Shri Subhajit Deb, CISO, Dr. Reddy\'s Laboratories
\r\n· Dr Yask, CISO, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
\r\n· Shri Rahul Arora, Country Manager, Strategic Sales, Sonicwall
\r\n· Sailaja Vadlamudi, Director Security & Data Privacy, SAP Labs
\r\n· Shri Bharat Panchal, Chief Risk Officer, India, Middle East & Africa, FIS Global
\r\n· Shri Aloke Kumar Dani, Consulting & Delivery Leader – IBM Security Services
\r\n· Shri Rohit Mahajan, President, Risk Advisory, Deloitte
\r\n· Shri Satadal Chakraborty, Senior Service Manager, Professional Services, SWIFT
\r\n· Shri Sujay Vasudevan, Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions (C&I), Mastercard
\r\n· Shri Nitin Bhatnagar, Director, PCI Security Standards Council
\r\n· Shri Vaibhav Gupta, Director Seller Risk Strategy, Paypal
\r\nThe term Homeland Security denotes ensuring the safety and security of the nation and its citizens. In today’s rapidly changing world, this translates to providing protection against a wide range of vulnerabilities - from terrorist attacks and cyber threats, to natural disasters.
\r\nThe Government of India has been spearheading the national initiative to bring into the country, cutting edge technologies which can augment India’s ability to monitor, control and resolve internal security threats. In particular, the Government has expressed keenness in harnessing India’s strong IT skills and is adopting emerging technologies to bring about a change in the way homeland security is being re-defined today.
\r\nDuring the SMARTec India 2020 Exhibition, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has successfully organized a webinar on the subject on SecurityTech: Technology as Enabler for Security on Monday, 28 September, 2020 / 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm.
\r\nDr. Muktesh Chander, IPS, Special Commissioner - Delhi Police addressed the webinar by delivering as the Special Address.
\r\nShri Kunwar Vikram Singh, Chairman, CAPSI
\r\nShri Anil Puri, CMD, AP Securitas Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nShri A. L. Narasimhan, Vice President - Strategic Business Alliances, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nShri Sandeep Kumar, CEO, Magal Security Systems (India) Ltd.
\r\nShri Anil Dhawan, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Homeland Security & Managing Director, DB Secure Solution Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nShri Brijendra Kumar, PartnerJustice & Security Practice Lead, KPMG India were other key Speakers at the webinar.
\r\nAround 500 delegates registered from across the country Security Associations like CAPSI and APSA in India with active participation of more than 100 attendees participated online where the stalwarts from industry and Government deliberated upon the discussion on SecurityTech: Technology as Enabler for Security.
\r\nThe discussion was held around the following topic:
\r\nHomeland Security: Policies & New Challenges
\r\nPrivate Security: Issues & Opportunities
\r\nRole of Technology in Smart Policing
\r\nEmergency Management including natural disasters & pandemics
\r\nCritical Infrastructure Protection
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'webinar-securitytech-technology-as-enabler-for-security', 1, 0, '2020-09-28', '2020-09-28', '', '', 52, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (176, 'Webinar \"Aatma Nirbhar Bharat:\r\n Enhancing Self Reliance in\r\n Defence Production\" (Discussion\r\n on Draft DAP 2020)', 'The Associated Chambers of\r\n Commerce and Industry of India\r\n (ASSOCHAM) has successfully\r\n organized a webinar on on the\r\n subject on \"Aatma Nirbhar Bharat:\r\n Enhancing Self Reliance in Defence\r\n Production\" (Discussion on Draft\r\n DAP 2020) on Thursday, 13th Aug,\r\n 2020 from 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm.', 'The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has successfully organized a webinar on on the subject on \\\"Aatma Nirbhar Bharat: Enhancing Self Reliance in Defence Production\\\" (Discussion on Draft DAP 2020) on Thursday, 13th Aug, 2020 from 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm.
\r\nShri Sanjay Jaju, Joint Secretary (DIP), Ministry of Defence, Government of India, was addressed the webinar as Guest of Honour.
\r\nShri Salil Gupte, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Aerospace & Defence & President, Boeing India.
\r\nDr. S. C. Kansal, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Aerospace & Defence & Chairman, SMPP Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nCmde Siddharth Mishra (Retd.), Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL).
\r\nShri Rajinder Bhatia, President &
\r\nCmde Mukesh Bhargava, Member of Board, L&T Defence.
\r\nShri Ashish Saraf, Head of Airbus Helicopters, India & South Asia, Airbus.
\r\nShri Vaibhav Gupta, Director, MKU Ltd.
\r\nShri V. Sundaram, Director - CODISSIA, Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre (CDIIC) & Immediate Past President, CODISSIA.
\r\nShri Nilaya Varma, Co-Founder and CEO, Primus Partner were other key Speakers at the webinar.
\r\nAround 350 delegates registered from across the country with active participation of more than 200 attendees participated online where the stalwarts from industry and Government deliberated upon the discussion on Aatma Nirbhar Bharat: Enhancing Self Reliance in Defence Production during a pandemic which has brought the world to a standstill.
\r\nThe discussion was held around the following points -
\r\nDraft DAP-2020
\r\nDPP 2020 vs DAP 2020
\r\nIndia as a Self-Reliant in Defence Manufacturing
\r\nMaking India a Defence Export Hub
\r\nChallenges and Opportunities of Indian Defence Industry
\r\nWay forward for Simplification of Acquisition Procedure for Private Defence Industry
\r\nDiscussion on list of items banned for Imports
\r\nThe Offset Policy which aims at driving the Foreign OEMs responsibilities Discussion on Strategic Partnership Policy
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'webinar-aatma-nirbhar-bharat-enhancing-self-reliance-in-defence-production-discussion-on-draft-dap-2020', 1, 0, '2020-08-13', '2020-08-13', '', '', 52, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (177, 'ASSOCHAM International\r\n Conference on \"AEROENGINES\r\n INDIA: An Engine of Aatmanirbhar\r\n Bharat\"', 'As India is moving on with its path of\r\n modernization of its Armed Forces,\r\n the one prominent gap that remains\r\n and has been acting as a major\r\n obstacle is the inability to design and\r\n develop wholly indigenous modern\r\n Aero-engines which account for\r\n about one-third of the cost of the\r\n system', 'As India is moving on with its path of modernization of its Armed Forces, the one prominent gap that remains and has been acting as a major obstacle is the inability to design and develop wholly indigenous modern Aero-engines which account for about one-third of the cost of the system. India’s defence aeroengine market could be split broadly into four different segments, this includes fighter/combat aircraft, transport aircrafts, rotorcraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles. If we take the timeframe of around 10-15 years, one can map out upcoming procurement and with the assumption of aeroengines encompassing 25-30% of the total cost of a single platform, one could assume that the market potential for aero-engine and related activities.
\r\nKey Points/Takeaways: Draw ecosystem for aeroengines.
\r\nDiscover the entire family of aero engines.
\r\nFind lead integrators and sub system manufacturers.
\r\nIntegrate DRDO/GTRE with HAL and industry.
\r\nFind synergies and make recommendation.
\r\nIntegrate efforts of BRD and HAL with private industry.
\r\nIntegrate civil and military MRO.
\r\nFind synergies amongst OEMs and industry for setting up MRO.
\r\nExplore PPP model with DRDO/GTRE, HAL, BRD and private industry.
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'assocham-international-conference-on-aeroengines-india-an-engine-of-aatmanirbhar-bharat', 1, 0, '2021-02-04', '2021-02-04', '', '', 52, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (178, 'INDO PACIFIC Defense & Security\r\n Expo & Conference', 'The Indian ocean region is an area of\r\n interest to global powers because of\r\n 28 states, spans across three\r\n continents and covers17.5% of\r\n global land area.', 'The Indian ocean region is an area of interest to global powers because of 28 states, spans across three continents and covers17.5% of global land area.
\r\n●The Indian Ocean holds 16.8% of the world’s proven oil reserves and 27.9% of proven natural gas reserve.
\r\n●Indian Ocean economies accounted for 35.5% of global iron production and 17.8% of world gold production in 2017.
\r\n●The region was also responsible for 28% of global fish capture in 2016, and there has been a continuous increase in fish capture in the region since the 1950s.
\r\n●This has created a successful basis for export industries in a number of countries. For example, Indonesia and India accounted for around 4.5% of global frozen fish exports in 2017. India has pacts with six Nations that have interest in the Indo-Pacific region. They are US, France, Singapore, South Korea, Australia and Japan. Advanced discussions are also on with Russia to ink the pact
\r\nsoon. India and the UK are also in the final stages of signing a defence logistics sharing pact. Through these logistics pacts India would not only have access to the entry and exit points in the Indian Ocean, but reach and presence at strategic locations in the Indo-Pacific.
\r\nEarlier in July 2020, India and Indonesia signed an MoU on ‘Maritime Safety and Security’ as part of their Indo-Pacific visions to establish rules-based. This MoU will strengthen cooperation by augmenting information exchange mechanisms. This real time Maritime Domain. The MoU will also provide a venues to improve inter-operability and carry out joint search and rescue when required.
\r\nThe Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as the Quad, is an informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, Australia and India that is maintained by semiregular summits, information exchanges and military drills between member countries. The forum was initiated as a dialogue in 2007 by then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, with support from India, US and Australia.
\r\nInternational webinars and technical Presentations
\r\n●INAUGURAL SESSION
\r\n●Cooperation and Capacity. Building in the Indo-Pacific.
\r\n●Strategic Collaborations in the Indo Pacific Region for a Better World.
\r\n●Synergizing a Regulatory Ecosystem for Conformal Trade.
', '', '', 'event_img-1.jpg', 'indo-pacific-defense-security-expo-conference', 1, 0, '2021-03-18', '2021-03-20', '', '', 52, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (179, 'Webinar DAP 2020:\r\n \"Making India a Global\r\n Manufacturing Hub\"', 'The Government of India has been\r\n tirelessly working towards ensuring\r\n seamless flow in acquisition and\r\n maintenance of defence platforms.', 'Government of India has been tirelessly working towards ensuring seamless flow in acquisition and maintenance of defence platforms. The first Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) was promulgated in the year 2002 and has since been revised periodically to provide impetus to the growing domestic industry and achieve enhanced selfreliance in defence manufacturing.
\r\nOn 28 September, 2020 Hon‟ble Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh unveiled the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) - 2020 in New Delhi. DAP 2020 has been aligned with the vision of the Government of Atmanirbhar Bharat and empowering Indian domestic industry through Make in India initiative with the ultimate aim of turning India into a global manufacturing hub. With the new Foreign Direct Investment policy announced, DAP 2020 has adequately included provisions to encourage FDI to establish manufacturing hubs both for import substitution and exports while protecting interests of Indian domestic industry.
\r\nThe Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has successfully organized a webinar on the subject on DAP 2020: “Making India a Global Manufacturing Hub” on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm.
\r\nShri Shripad Yesso Naik, Raksha Rajya Mantri (Minister of State for Defence) Ministry of Defence,
\r\nGovernment of India addressed the webinar as the Chief Guest.
\r\nShri Sanjay Jaju, Joint Secretary (DIP), Ministry of Defence,
\r\nGovernment of India, addressed the webinar as Special Address.
\r\nMajor General P. K. Saini, VSM, Technical Manager (Land Systems), Ministry of Defence, Government of India addressed the webinar as Keynote Address.
\r\nDr. Mayank Dwivedi, Director, DIITM, DRDO HQ, Ministry of Defence, Government of India addressed the webinar as Keynote Address.
\r\nShri Ashok Wadhawan, Head Land Systems, Defence & Aerospace, Adani Enterprises.
\r\nShri William Blair, Vice President and Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin India Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nDr. Subba Rao Pavuluri, Chairman & Managing Director, ANANTH Technologies Ltd.
\r\nDr. S. C. Kansal, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Aerospace & Defence & Chairman, SMPP Pvt. Ltd.
\r\nShri Salil Gupte, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Aerospace & Defence & President, Boeing India.
\r\nShri Neeraj Gupta, Managing Director, MKU Ltd.
\r\nAshmita Sethi, President & Country Head, Pratt & Whitney, UTC India
\r\nShri Sharadhi Chandra Babu P, CEO & Executive Director, AXISCADES Engineering Technologies Ltd.
\r\nColonel K. V. Kuber, Indian Army Veteran, Director, Aerospace & Defence, Ernst and Young LLP were other key Speakers at the webinar.
\r\nAround 200 delegates registered from across the country and Industry Associations in India with active participation of more than 170 attendees participated in the online discussion on DAP 2020: “Making India a Global Manufacturing Hub.
\r\nDiscussion on the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020: Making India a Global Manufacturing Hub
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\r\nCouncil Chairman : K Narayana Rao (KNR), Dy. MD, GMR industries Ltd
\r\nCouncil Co Chairman : Gaurav Bhatia, Executive Director, Bird Group
\r\nAshmita Sethi, President and Country Head Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies Corp India
\r\nCouncil Brief:
\r\nThe civil aviation industry in India has emerged as one of the fastest growing industries in the country during the last three years. India has become the third largest domestic aviation market in the world and is expected to overtake UK to become the third largest air passenger* market by 2024.
\r\nThe main objective of the ASSOCHAM National Council on Civil Aviation & Airport Infrastructure is to promote the cause and interests of civil aviation sector and bring it on the global map as a cost-effective, competitive and efficient sector of economy. With a view to create a platform for all the stakeholders and for the conclusive growth & development of the Aviation sector, the division works with the Government, National & International development organizations, Government Agencies and the Industry Players.
\r\n \r\nEvent Held :
\r\n \r\nWebinar onCOVID-19: Impact & Opportunities for the Aviation Sector - 12th September, 2020
\r\n \r\nEvent Write up :
\r\n \r\nWebinar on COVID-19: Impact & Opportunities for the Aviation Sector - 12th September, 2020
\r\n \r\nIndia’s Apex Chamber, the ASSOCHAM had organized a Webinar Discussion on the subject “COVID-19: Impact & Opportunities for the Aviation Sector” amongst the stakeholders on 12th September, 2020.
\r\nShri K. Narayana Rao, Chairman,ASSOCHAM National Council on Civil Aviation & Airport Infrastructure, Shri Sanjay Kumar, Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer IndiGo, Shri Bharat Malkani Chairman and Managing Director Max Aerospace & Aviation Pvt. Ltd. & President, MRO Association of India, Shri Amitabh Khosla, Country Director India, International Air Transport Association (IATA), Shri Salil Gupte, President, Boeing India, Shri Remi Maillard, President, Airbus India & Head of South Asia, Shri Amber Dubey, Joint SecretaryMinistry of Civil Aviation Government of India, Vandana Aggarwal, IES, Senior Eco. Advisor Ministry of Civil Aviation Government of India, Dr. Ankur Bhatia, Co- ChairmanASSOCHAM National Council on Civil Aviation & Airport Infrastructure, were the key speakers at the webinar.
\r\nAround 300 delegates registered from across the country with active participation of more than 200 attendees participated online.
\r\nKey Issues Discussed:
\r\nSub-Optimal airport capacity.
\r\nFinancial burden on airlines.
\r\nAncillary industries impact.
\r\nGovernment Regulatory & Policy Initiatives.
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The Corporate Social Responsibility concept in India is governed by Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules made thereunder wherein the criteria has been provided for assessing the CSR eligibility of a company, Implementation and Reporting of their CSR Policies.
\r\nASSOCHAM, with rich legacy of 101 years of serving the nation, has always risen to challenge and extending its services well beyond the industry and trade. Its core values of serving the society at large have always been driven by its highly esteemed members.
\r\nASSOCHAM CSR Foundation facilitates and guides overall CSR programs, focusing, projects, publication & other activities focusing on socio-economic development indicators...
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The objective is to ensure future buildings move towards environment friendly methods of design, construction and operations.Energy Efficiency Centre :\r\n \r\n An Energy Efficiency and Conservation Promotion, Guidance, Counselling and Consultancy Centre functioning at ASSOCHAM disseminates information about energy efficiency measures and provides guidance in financing energy efficiency projects.\r\n
\r\n ASSOCHAM is committed to provide value-added service to its members. The Chamber’s members are provided with an opportunity to play an essential role in contributing to shaping of India’s Economic, Trade, Fiscal and Social policies by sharing actionable insights. The Chamber is known for its close-connect with its members, providing them with a platform to share their views on current and future policies.
', 'Platform to interact with leaders of the Indian and global industry, economists, scientists, bankers, and social activistsAligned with the vision of creating a New India, ASSOCHAM works closely with the Government, industry, and civil society. The Chamber is an agile and forward-looking institution, leading various initiatives to enhance the global competitiveness of the Indian industry.
\r\nWith more than 100 National and regional councils, ASSOCHAM is an impactful representative of the Indian industry. ASSOCHAM Councils and taskforce focus on different sectors and growth segments, working with the Central and State Government stakeholders. The Chamber focuses on aligning critical needs and interests of the industry with the growth aspirations of the nation through policy advocacy and advisory practices.
\r\nMembers are offered various networking opportunities to discuss innovative solutions to trends and challenges, help unlocking the full potential of the Indian ecosystem. The Chamber organizes multiple conferences/ seminars/ workshops and interactive sessions with the policymakers. ASSOCHAM has the honour of hosting Policymakers, Foreign Business Delegations, World Leaders, Renowned Industrialists, Economists, Investors, Scientists, Bankers, and social activists. It also frequently organizes delegations to countries of key trade and business importance, coordinating trade and investment promotion and providing the Indian industry with strategic global linkages with the international business community.
\r\nOur eminent members are from the leading companies in India, major business houses including MSMEs, Public Sector Undertakings, Women Entrepreneurs, Multinational Companies, Banks, Financial Institutions, Start-ups and Professionals Firms to mention a few. These thought leaders are engaged to bring in best practices and insights that can help the industry address challenges and chart a robust growth path for the country. ASSOCHAM continuously strives to provide the highest value addition to its entire cross-section of members, even offering them a range of specialized services.
\r\nAligned with its focus on inclusive development, the Chamber also supports civil society through citizenship programmes. ASSOCHAM’s member network leads initiatives in various segments such as empowerment, healthcare, education and skilling, hygiene, affirmative action, road safety, livelihood, life skills, sustainability, to name a few.
\r\nASSOCHAM’s mission is to impact the policy and legislative environment to foster balanced economic, industrial, and social development.
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-- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `pastpresidents` -- CREATE TABLE `pastpresidents` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `name` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `designation` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `image` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `slug` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `status` int(11) NOT NULL, `deleted` int(11) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -- Dumping data for table `pastpresidents` -- INSERT INTO `pastpresidents` (`id`, `name`, `designation`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani', 'Managing Director, Hiranandani Group', 'niranjan-past-president.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (2, 'Balkrishan Goenka', '', 'bkg-pic.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (3, 'Sajjan Jindal', '', 'SajjanJindal.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (4, 'Sunil Kanoria', '', 'sunilk.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (5, 'Dilip Modi', '', 'DilipModi.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (6, 'Dr. Swati Piramal', '', 'SwatiPiramal.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (7, 'Sandeep Jajodia', '', 'SandeepJajodia.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (8, 'Anil Agarwal', '', 'AnilAgarwal.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (9, 'Mahendra K.Sanghi', '', 'MahendraSanghi.jpg', '', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (10, 'R. 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He explained that during the second wave, Delhi faced an acute shortage of Oxygen during the treatment of patients, but this time they are well prepared. “The demand had gone as high as 700-750 tons per day. This time, even in worst situations, we would be able to generate more than 50 percent of the requirement from Delhi itself,” he said.
\r\nHe informed that the government has already installed more than 50 PSA plants which are capable to generate around 250-300 tons of oxygen required in hospitals daily.
\r\n\r\n“The government has already made an arrangement of 37000 beds with oxygen supply attached to it dedicated to handle only COVID cases if it arises. Even during the second wave we had made arrangements for 23000 beds. This time we have also made arrangements to have intensive care units (ICU) in the hospital itself where the beds are arranged,” he said. He further explained that the Delhi government has already taken steps to add around 7000 more beds which would happen over a period of six months.
\r\nThe Minister said that Delhi government has changed the benchmark for handling COVID cases in Delhi. “Unlike the national average of 5 percent COVID cases which is considered safe while testing, we have kept the limit at 0.5 percent. At 5 percent we would announce a complete lockdown. At the moment, we get around 1 patient for every 1000 patients we test. If we get 5 patients then we would activate the first level of response.”
\r\nDr Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Central Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM & CMD, Radico Khaitan Ltd stated that the Delhi government took several steps which were replicated in the other parts of the country. “Delhi Government was the first to set up a plasma bank by introducing the plasma therapy. Also, the model of home isolation which was first adopted by the Delhi government was replicated by other states as well,” he said while lauding the efforts of the Delhi Government.
\r\nDr Sudhir Kalhan, Chairman, Healthcare Council ASSOCHAM, and Senior Consultant & Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital stated that due to efforts taken by the Delhi Government countless lives were saved. “The casualty rates would have been higher if the government had not taken stringent measures like introducing a complete lockdown,” he said.
\r\nDr Kalhan revealed that the government has also increased the testing and vaccination efforts due to which the number of cases has also dropped sharply. “Vaccination is the key. Also the government is also taking immediate steps in places where they detect a case. This has helped reduce cases in Delhi,” he said.
\r\nDr Vivek Nangia, Chief of Pulmonology - cluster 1, Max Healthcare and Principal Director & Head - Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital informed that COVID appropriate behaviour is very essential to prevent the third wave from coming. “We need to continue wearing the mask, maintain social distancing and ensure that there is no overcrowding. Next two – three months would be very important for us,” he said.
\r\nDr Nangia stated that it is very important to get vaccinated. “Even abroad in places where the vaccination drive is low, there has been maximum number of cases reported. Africa is already passing its third wave and so are some parts of Europe,” he said.
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He explained that during the second wave, Delhi faced an acute shortage of Oxygen during the treatment of patients, but this time they are well prepared. “The demand had gone as high as 700-750 tons per day. This time, even in worst situations, we would be able to generate more than 50 percent of the requirement from Delhi itself,” he said.
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\r\n\r\n“The government has already made an arrangement of 37000 beds with oxygen supply attached to it dedicated to handle only COVID cases if it arises. Even during the second wave we had made arrangements for 23000 beds. This time we have also made arrangements to have intensive care units (ICU) in the hospital itself where the beds are arranged,” he said. He further explained that the Delhi government has already taken steps to add around 7000 more beds which would happen over a period of six months.
\r\nThe Minister said that Delhi government has changed the benchmark for handling COVID cases in Delhi. “Unlike the national average of 5 percent COVID cases which is considered safe while testing, we have kept the limit at 0.5 percent. At 5 percent we would announce a complete lockdown. At the moment, we get around 1 patient for every 1000 patients we test. If we get 5 patients then we would activate the first level of response.”
\r\nDr Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Central Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM & CMD, Radico Khaitan Ltd stated that the Delhi government took several steps which were replicated in the other parts of the country. “Delhi Government was the first to set up a plasma bank by introducing the plasma therapy. Also, the model of home isolation which was first adopted by the Delhi government was replicated by other states as well,” he said while lauding the efforts of the Delhi Government.
\r\nDr Sudhir Kalhan, Chairman, Healthcare Council ASSOCHAM, and Senior Consultant & Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital stated that due to efforts taken by the Delhi Government countless lives were saved. “The casualty rates would have been higher if the government had not taken stringent measures like introducing a complete lockdown,” he said.
\r\nDr Kalhan revealed that the government has also increased the testing and vaccination efforts due to which the number of cases has also dropped sharply. “Vaccination is the key. Also the government is also taking immediate steps in places where they detect a case. This has helped reduce cases in Delhi,” he said.
\r\nDr Vivek Nangia, Chief of Pulmonology - cluster 1, Max Healthcare and Principal Director & Head - Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital informed that COVID appropriate behaviour is very essential to prevent the third wave from coming. “We need to continue wearing the mask, maintain social distancing and ensure that there is no overcrowding. Next two – three months would be very important for us,” he said.
\r\nDr Nangia stated that it is very important to get vaccinated. “Even abroad in places where the vaccination drive is low, there has been maximum number of cases reported. Africa is already passing its third wave and so are some parts of Europe,” he said.
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He explained that during the second wave, Delhi faced an acute shortage of Oxygen during the treatment of patients, but this time they are well prepared. “The demand had gone as high as 700-750 tons per day. This time, even in worst situations, we would be able to generate more than 50 percent of the requirement from Delhi itself,” he said.
\r\nHe informed that the government has already installed more than 50 PSA plants which are capable to generate around 250-300 tons of oxygen required in hospitals daily.
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\r\nThe Minister said that Delhi government has changed the benchmark for handling COVID cases in Delhi. “Unlike the national average of 5 percent COVID cases which is considered safe while testing, we have kept the limit at 0.5 percent. At 5 percent we would announce a complete lockdown. At the moment, we get around 1 patient for every 1000 patients we test. If we get 5 patients then we would activate the first level of response.”
\r\nDr Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Central Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM & CMD, Radico Khaitan Ltd stated that the Delhi government took several steps which were replicated in the other parts of the country. “Delhi Government was the first to set up a plasma bank by introducing the plasma therapy. Also, the model of home isolation which was first adopted by the Delhi government was replicated by other states as well,” he said while lauding the efforts of the Delhi Government.
\r\nDr Sudhir Kalhan, Chairman, Healthcare Council ASSOCHAM, and Senior Consultant & Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital stated that due to efforts taken by the Delhi Government countless lives were saved. “The casualty rates would have been higher if the government had not taken stringent measures like introducing a complete lockdown,” he said.
\r\nDr Kalhan revealed that the government has also increased the testing and vaccination efforts due to which the number of cases has also dropped sharply. “Vaccination is the key. Also the government is also taking immediate steps in places where they detect a case. This has helped reduce cases in Delhi,” he said.
\r\nDr Vivek Nangia, Chief of Pulmonology - cluster 1, Max Healthcare and Principal Director & Head - Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital informed that COVID appropriate behaviour is very essential to prevent the third wave from coming. “We need to continue wearing the mask, maintain social distancing and ensure that there is no overcrowding. Next two – three months would be very important for us,” he said.
\r\nDr Nangia stated that it is very important to get vaccinated. “Even abroad in places where the vaccination drive is low, there has been maximum number of cases reported. Africa is already passing its third wave and so are some parts of Europe,” he said.
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He explained that during the second wave, Delhi faced an acute shortage of Oxygen during the treatment of patients, but this time they are well prepared. “The demand had gone as high as 700-750 tons per day. This time, even in worst situations, we would be able to generate more than 50 percent of the requirement from Delhi itself,” he said.
\r\nHe informed that the government has already installed more than 50 PSA plants which are capable to generate around 250-300 tons of oxygen required in hospitals daily.
\r\n\r\n“The government has already made an arrangement of 37000 beds with oxygen supply attached to it dedicated to handle only COVID cases if it arises. Even during the second wave we had made arrangements for 23000 beds. This time we have also made arrangements to have intensive care units (ICU) in the hospital itself where the beds are arranged,” he said. He further explained that the Delhi government has already taken steps to add around 7000 more beds which would happen over a period of six months.
\r\nThe Minister said that Delhi government has changed the benchmark for handling COVID cases in Delhi. “Unlike the national average of 5 percent COVID cases which is considered safe while testing, we have kept the limit at 0.5 percent. At 5 percent we would announce a complete lockdown. At the moment, we get around 1 patient for every 1000 patients we test. If we get 5 patients then we would activate the first level of response.”
\r\nDr Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Central Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM & CMD, Radico Khaitan Ltd stated that the Delhi government took several steps which were replicated in the other parts of the country. “Delhi Government was the first to set up a plasma bank by introducing the plasma therapy. Also, the model of home isolation which was first adopted by the Delhi government was replicated by other states as well,” he said while lauding the efforts of the Delhi Government.
\r\nDr Sudhir Kalhan, Chairman, Healthcare Council ASSOCHAM, and Senior Consultant & Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital stated that due to efforts taken by the Delhi Government countless lives were saved. “The casualty rates would have been higher if the government had not taken stringent measures like introducing a complete lockdown,” he said.
\r\nDr Kalhan revealed that the government has also increased the testing and vaccination efforts due to which the number of cases has also dropped sharply. “Vaccination is the key. Also the government is also taking immediate steps in places where they detect a case. This has helped reduce cases in Delhi,” he said.
\r\nDr Vivek Nangia, Chief of Pulmonology - cluster 1, Max Healthcare and Principal Director & Head - Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital informed that COVID appropriate behaviour is very essential to prevent the third wave from coming. “We need to continue wearing the mask, maintain social distancing and ensure that there is no overcrowding. Next two – three months would be very important for us,” he said.
\r\nDr Nangia stated that it is very important to get vaccinated. “Even abroad in places where the vaccination drive is low, there has been maximum number of cases reported. Africa is already passing its third wave and so are some parts of Europe,” he said.
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With several states easing restrictions on lockdowns, the employment intensive construction industry should witness resumption in operations by the middle of June..
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We have witnessed that farmers income has grown and in fact it is much-much better than compared to some other states and is even better than the national average.”\r\n Dr Sahoo reiterated that his government is committed to usher in a sustainable and inclusive growth in the agriculture sector. “Samrudhi, our new agriculture policy aims to cash on the untapped potential of the state's agriculture sector while ensuring an environmentally, economically and technologically inclusive growth. It also encompasses development of warehousing, quality testing infrastructure for better marketing of the crops as logistics plays an important role in agricultural production and supply chain management ultimately enhancing food safety, quality and help market farmers produce more effectively.”\r\n \r\n Highlighting some of the steps being taken, he said, “The existing network of procurement centres are being strengthened to benefit small and marginal farmers. We are imparting knowledge on use of technology to help our farmers with the help of our officers, experts in terms of emerging agriculture issues and solutions.”\r\n \r\n He further said that agri logistics is the backbone of agri-business which enables connectivity between production and consumption centres. “Our department is promoting farmers-producers organisations (FPOs) and agriculture production clusters for holistic development in production, value addition and organic market.”\r\n The Minister also said that Agriculture Department is actively involved in aspects like implementation of policies aimed at doubling farmers income, providing financial incentives for crop persification and online marketing of various products.\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, C. Udayabhaskar, Chief General Manager/OIC, NABARD, Odisha said that while Odisha is a goldmine for horticulture, dairy, fisheries, oilseeds and pulses, there is an urgent need to develop backward linkages, motivate the farmers, provide them with technical knowhow and capacity building.\r\n \r\n Highlighting various production level issues that are needed to be resolved to win away farmers from paddy and focus on other potential crops like banana, oilseeds, coconut, mango and others, he said, \"\\Unless these production level issues are taken up, it will be very difficult to create a logical, viable agri logistics system. So that said, we need to build up the agri infrastructure.”\r\n \r\n He added, “For Odisha to become self-sufficient to produce in a particular scale, the state also needs to solve issues like lack of cold storage system which is a key part of agri logistics.”\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a need to welcome the startups and have an incubation center and suggested to redevelop and repair the Center of Excellence in Khordha. “It is not in a proper shape after the cyclone and requires redevelopment and repairs. We can develop it as a very good back house for exports and we also need to have commercial, cargo flights that can take this agri produce, huge opportunities are waiting for Odisha.”\r\n \r\n Other speakers who addressed the ASSOCHAM webinar included - Dhaval Raval, Chairman, ASSOCHAM–Agriculture Sub Council, Western Region; A. Kakra, Agri Sector Head, PwC; Dr P.K. Agarwal, Vice Chancellor, Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT) and Prof. (Dr) Pravat Kumar Roul, Managing Director, APICOL.\r\n \r\n \r\n ', 'Odisha govt. is taking many steps to ensure better supply-chain management in agriculture sector to boost exports & increase farmers\\\' income, state agri minister, Dr A.K. Sahoo said at an ASSOCHAM webinar.\r\n\r\n ', '', '2021-08-10', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (2, 'Delhi-govt.-to-subsidise-private-LMO-facilities-to-tackle-oxygen-shortage-Satyendar-Jain', 'Delhi-govt.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Delhi govt. to subsidise private LMO facilities to tackle oxygen shortage: Satyendar Jain', '\r\nSpeaking at the event, Mr Jain stated that the Delhi Government would be offering an incentive scheme to hospitals for setting up liquid medical oxygen (LMO) storage facility in their premises. “We would be offering an incentive of Rs 1 lakh per ton to these hospitals. So if the hospital sets up a 50 ton LMO storage facility which would usually cost them around Rs 70- 80 lakhs, Rs 50 lakhs would be given by the Delhi Government now,” he said.
\r\n \r\nHe explained that during the second wave, Delhi faced an acute shortage of Oxygen during the treatment of patients, but this time they are well prepared. “The demand had gone as high as 700-750 tons per day. This time, even in worst situations, we would be able to generate more than 50 percent of the requirement from Delhi itself,” he said.
\r\n \r\nHe informed that the government has already installed more than 50 PSA plants which are capable to generate around 250-300 tons of oxygen required in hospitals daily.
\r\n \r\n“The government has already made an arrangement of 37000 beds with oxygen supply attached to it dedicated to handle only COVID cases if it arises. Even during the second wave we had made arrangements for 23000 beds. This time we have also made arrangements to have intensive care units (ICU) in the hospital itself where the beds are arranged,” he said. He further explained that the Delhi government has already taken steps to add around 7000 more beds which would happen over a period of six months.
\r\n \r\nThe Minister said that Delhi government has changed the benchmark for handling COVID cases in Delhi. “Unlike the national average of 5 percent COVID cases which is considered safe while testing, we have kept the limit at 0.5 percent. At 5 percent we would announce a complete lockdown. At the moment, we get around 1 patient for every 1000 patients we test. If we get 5 patients then we would activate the first level of response.”
\r\n \r\nDr Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Central Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM & CMD, Radico Khaitan Ltd stated that the Delhi government took several steps which were replicated in the other parts of the country. “Delhi Government was the first to set up a plasma bank by introducing the plasma therapy. Also, the model of home isolation which was first adopted by the Delhi government was replicated by other states as well,” he said while lauding the efforts of the Delhi Government.
\r\n \r\nDr Sudhir Kalhan, Chairman, Healthcare Council ASSOCHAM, and Senior Consultant & Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital stated that due to efforts taken by the Delhi Government countless lives were saved. “The casualty rates would have been higher if the government had not taken stringent measures like introducing a complete lockdown,” he said.
\r\n \r\nDr Kalhan revealed that the government has also increased the testing and vaccination efforts due to which the number of cases has also dropped sharply. “Vaccination is the key. Also the government is also taking immediate steps in places where they detect a case. This has helped reduce cases in Delhi,” he said.
\r\n \r\nDr Vivek Nangia, Chief of Pulmonology - cluster 1, Max Healthcare and Principal Director & Head - Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital informed that COVID appropriate behaviour is very essential to prevent the third wave from coming. “We need to continue wearing the mask, maintain social distancing and ensure that there is no overcrowding. Next two – three months would be very important for us,” he said.
\r\n \r\nDr Nangia stated that it is very important to get vaccinated. “Even abroad in places where the vaccination drive is low, there has been maximum number of cases reported. Africa is already passing its third wave and so are some parts of Europe,” he said.
\r\n\r\n ', 'The Delhi government is leaving no stone unturned and is taking all necessary steps which includes offering subsidies to private players who are setting up oxygen facilities to handle the COVID 19 situation said, Mr Satyendar Jain, Minister of Health, Gov', '', '2021-08-05', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (3, 'Arunachal-Pradesh-govt-seeking-policy-for-farm-land-expansion-with-fencing-provision-Minister', 'Arunachal-Pradesh.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Arunachal Pradesh govt. seeking policy for farm-land expansion with fencing provision: Minister', 'State must address production-level issues, develop backward linkages & build up infrastructure to realize agri sector's untapped potential: NABARD Official', 'Arunachal Pradesh requires policy for area expansion with fencing provision for large scale crop cultivation, state agri minister, Tage Taki said in an ASSOCHAM webinar.', 'Noting that his government is facing various issues in implementing agriculture sector related policies of the Centre, Taki said, “About 60 per cent of Government of India's budgeting system for agriculture sector is for post-harvest activities, whereas here we need about 80 per cent of budget for area expansion.”\r\n \r\n He further said that currently, whatever agriculture production is being done in Arunachal Pradesh is majorly for self-consumption. “Unless there is large scale cultivation, we cannot go for exports and for that we need to perk up post-harvest infrastructure which includes setting up cold storages and collection centres.”\r\n \r\n Sharing a new policy of his government i said, “This year in our Agriculture Department we have implemented a new policy, ‘one district one product\' for large scale production as part of Government of Indias clarion call for Aatmanirbhar Bharat and we are getting support from NABARD.”\r\n \r\n He urged the industry to help the state get Organic Certificate for its organic produce from Government of India and regarding the issues being faced by the industry, he urged them to come up with suggestions and conduct coordination meeting and the government would tweak the rules if required.\r\n \r\n Talking about the state's agriculture potential he said that Arunachal Pradesh can produce world's most exotic fruits, medicinal plants to cater to the entire world's requirements and help bring down import bills of edible oil.\r\n \r\n In his address during the ASSOCHAM webinar, ishra, deputy general manager, NABARD stated the various funds and schemes that are being provided even though there are plenty of challenges like transportation, lack of post-harvest infrastructure and others that are being faced by the farmers in Arunachal Pradesh.\r\n \r\n “NABARD on its part, is providing funds to the farmers in the state to increase the productivity so that they can fetch better price and market their produce in a better way,” said Mishra.\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, chairman, ASSOCHAM North-East Regional Council, Mahendra Agarwal said, “Lack of infrastructure is one of the biggest bottle necks for the development of agriculture in the state. Availability of adequate credit for agriculture operation is also a major concern faced by the state's farmers. The government has launched several schemes to promote agriculture in the state and industry would work in tandem with the authorities to realise the state's agriculture potential.”\r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-07-31', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (4, ' Time-bound-roadmap-with-security-by-design-approach-needed-for-O-RAN-Govt.', 'Time-bound.jpg', 'press-release1', ' Time-bound roadmap with security by design approach needed for O-RAN: Govt.', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to avoid repeating the mistakes made in the past, a top Government of India official said in a virtual summit organised by ASSOCHAM along with Open RAN Policy Coalition, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Keidanren-Japan Business Federation and BSA-The Software Alliance.\r\n \r\n \\\"As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,\\\" said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, .', 'Telecom sector needs to implement a time-bound roadmap with security by design in various components of open radio access network (O-RAN), Nat\'l Cybersecurity Coordinator said in a virtual summit.', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to avoid repeating the mistakes made in the past, a top Government of India official said in a virtual summit organised by ASSOCHAM along with Open RAN Policy Coalition, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Keidanren-Japan Business Federation and BSA-The Software Alliance.\r\n \r\n \"As far as the Indian government's stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,\\\" said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Office.\r\n \r\n Dr Pant said, \"Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.\\\"\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, \\\"We are also promoting \'Make in India\' and \'Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.\\\"\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; ish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and deep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n \\\"The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,\\\" said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how they\'ve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, \\\"I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.\\\"\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some 'real issues\'.\r\n \r\n \\\"/Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,/\\\" he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n \\\"The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,\\\" he said.\r\n \r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting - International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara - Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong - Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran - Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod - President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani - Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl - VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin - Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan - President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara - Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa - Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n About ASSOCHAM:\r\n ASSOCHAM initiated its endeavour of value creation for Indian industry in 1920. It was established by promoter Chambers, representing all regions of India. Having in its fold over 400 Chambers and Trade Associations and serving over 4.5 lakh members across India. ASSOCHAM has emerged as the fountainhead of Knowledge for Indian industry, which is all set to redefine the dynamics of growth and development in the Knowledge Based Economy. More information available on www.assocham.org\r\n \r\n For further details, please contact:', '2021-07-29', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (5, ' ASSOCHAM-takes-over-as-new-secretariat-of-Condom-Alliance', 'Condom-Alliance.jpg', 'press-release1', 'ASSOCHAM takes over as new secretariat of Condom Alliance\r\n\r\n ', 'New Delhi, 28th July 2021: Apex industry body is proud to be the new secretariat for Condom Alliance, a shared value collective of condom market players and other stakeholders to improve the well-being of young people in India today. This partnership is a significant win and is in spirit of the country's commitment towards SDG 17 that focusses on goal oriented global partnerships as well as SDG 3 that focusses on ensuring good health and well-being. It is a significant step towards securing the health of the nation's youth population.', 'ASSOCHAM is new secretariat for Condom Alliance, a shared value collective of condom market players and other stakeholders to improve the well-being of young people in India.', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: At a time when the economy is coming back to normal, Government of India's Chief Economic Advisor Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian said that Government choices are clearly driven by hope. If you see the reforms and seminal reforms that have been done over the last year and a half you will see clear signals that the policy reforms that the government has taken are clearly driven by hope, even as a lot of commentary seems to be driven by excessive fear.\r\n \r\n Dr Subramanian said that he had suggested a V shaped recovery after the first quarter numbers that showed a 24 odd percent decline. \\\"We are very glad to note a V shaped recovery in economic growth. As a matter of fact India is the only country among large countries, which have had two consecutive quarters of growth,\\\" he said at the 2nd national e-conclave on Productive Use Of Financial Resources \\\"Roadmap For Economic Rebound\\\" organized by ASSOCHAM.\r\n \r\n Underlining the importance of Corporate Bonds in country's overall economy, Shri G. Mahalingam, Whole-Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India said that during the difficult Covid times SEBI has been taking a large number of measures to alleviate the sufferings of the listed companies and these measures are in the forms of relaxations in compliances, relaxations in fundraising and relaxations in facilitating right issues etc\r\n \r\n \r\n He also underlined the development of Corporate Bond Market in the country to strengthen the financial system of the country. \\\"What needs to be developed in the country in a big way is the Corporate Bond Market. We have been talking about this for some time but I see a flurry of action in the last few months where the Government is playing a proactive role, RBI too is in favour of it, while SEBI has taken few measures in this direction.\\\"\r\n \r\n The conclave, which had participation from industry experts including Shri Ashvin Parekh, Managing Partner, Ashvin Parekh Advisory Services LLP, Dr. Charan Singh, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking, discussed productive use of financial resources & its gap, impact of economic stimulus, role of financial institution to restart the economy, sustainable financing, digital revolution, coverage of unbanked being financed by non-institutional lenders and to address the problems and questions of stakeholders. A knowledge report -Productive Use of Financial Resources prepared by ASSOCHAM in partnership with Ashvin Parekh Advisory Services - APAS was also released during the conclave.\r\n About ASSOCHAM:\r\n ASSOCHAM initiated its endeavour of value creation for Indian industry in 1920. It was established by promoter Chambers, representing all regions of India. Having in its fold over 400 Chambers and Trade Associations, and serving over 4.5 lakh members across India. ASSOCHAM has emerged as the fountainhead of Knowledge for Indian industry, which is all set to redefine the dynamics of growth and development in the Knowledge Based Economy. More information available on www.assocham.org\r\n \r\n ', '2021-07-28', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (6, ' Time-for-Govt.-to-appoint-NCLT-Members-NCLAT-chief-Justice-(Retd.)-M.M.-Kumar', 'Time-for-Govt.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Time for Govt. to appoint NCLT Members & NCLAT chief: Justice (Retd.) M.M. Kumar', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.\r\n
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'GoI should implement capacity building measures and ensure efficient, quick appointments of NCLT members and president & chairman of NCLAT, Justice (Retd.) M.M. Kumar, past-president, NCLT said at an ASSOCHAM virtual summit..', '\r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n \r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-07-15', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (7, 'Vaccination-following-Covid-protocols-only-can-avert-3rd-wave:-Experts', 'vaccination-following-covic.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Vaccination & following Covid protocols only can avert 3rd wave: Experts', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'Vaccination and strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols can avert 3rd wave of the pandemic, experts said in an ASSOCHAM webinar.', '\r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n \r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-07-14', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (8, 'Economy-treads-cautiously-optimistic-on-pent-up-demand-ASSOCHAM', 'Economy-treads.jpg', 'press-release1', ' Economy treads cautiously optimistic on pent-up demand: ASSOCHAM', '
New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'Indian economy is finding demand back on back of a strong activity in construction-related business, consumer durables and FMCG in rural segment, as per an ASSOCHAM assessment.', ' \r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'>\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-07-09', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'); INSERT INTO `press_releases` (`id`, `slug`, `image_path`, `image_alt`, `head_title`, `head_content`, `descp`, `long_desc`, `press_release_date`, `deleted`, `status`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (9, 'Govt.-committed-to-safeguard-farmers-interest-address-seed-industry-issues-P-Rupala', 'Govt.-committed.jpg', 'press-release1', ' Govt. committed to safeguard farmers interest address seed industrys issues P Rupala', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'GoI is committed to safeguard farmers\' interests, they are primary stakeholders in agri sector related issues, said Union Minister, Parshottam Rupala at an ASSOCHAM virtual seminar.', '\r\n
Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n \r\n
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'Integration of MSMEs is critical for financial viability of Global Value Chains, stated P.C. Sarangi, MoS, MSME Ministry, GoI in an ASSOCHAM webinar organised on Int\'l MSME Day.', ' \r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n haring his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n \r\nSharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-26', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (11, '-Of-19.11-lakh-health-claims-reported-as-on-June-22-insurers-have-settled-15.39-lakh-claims-IRDAI', 'Of-19.11-lakh-health-claims.jpg', 'press-release1', ' Of 19.11 lakh health claims reported as on June 22, insurers have settled 15.39 lakh claims: IRDAI', '
New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'After second Covid-19 wave, insurance cos. have settled about 80% i.e., over 15.39 lakh health claims exceeding Rs 15,000 crore as on June 22, an IRDAI official said at an ASSOCHAM e-summit\'\r\n ', ' \r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-24', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (12, 'New products needed to mitigate capital market risk: SEBI', 'New-products.jpg', 'press-release1', ' New-products-needed-to-mitigate-capital-market-risk-SEBI', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', ' Investors\' risk appetite differs, so it's important for market regulator to come out with newer products from time to time, V.S. Sundaresan, ED, SEBI said at an ASSOCHAM virtual event.', ' \r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he addedp\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said\r\n \r\n sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-23', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (13, ' IT-SEZs-key-towards-providing-opportunities-to-biz-people-in-north-east-DoNER-Minister', 'IT-SEZs-key-towards.jpg', 'press-release1', ' IT SEZs key towards providing opportunities to biz & people in north-east DoNER Minister', 'New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'Creation of SEZs is key to provide opportunities to businesses and people in the north-east India, Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh said at an ASSOCHAM virtual conference.', '\r\n Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”\r\n \r\n He stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.\r\n \r\n Noting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”\r\n \r\n Stating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.\r\n \r\n P. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir\r\n \r\n “The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.\r\n \r\n He also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.\r\n \r\n Gurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”\r\n \r\n Sharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.\r\n \r\n “Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.\r\n \r\n He also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.\r\n \r\n In his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers\r\n \r\n “The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.\r\n \r\n Sharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.\r\n \r\n Amid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-22', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (14, 'covid-19-triggering-severe-complications-in-diabetic-patients-correct-dose-duration-of-steroids-can-halt-fungal-infections-experts', 'Covid-19-triggering.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Covid 19 triggering severe complications in diabetic patients correct dose duration of steroids can halt fungal infections Experts', '
New Delhi, 29th July 2021: The telecom industry should create a time-bound roadmap at the earliest and ensure that security by design in the various components of open radio access network (O-RAN) is implemented to.
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“As far as the Indian governments stand is concerned, we welcome the proposal of the Open RAN forum as it is in keeping with the commitment made in the first Quad Leaders\' Virtual Summit to cooperate on critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity coordinator at the Prime Minister's Offic
', 'ASSOCHAM successfully organized another edition of the webinar series on \'Illness to Wellness\' campaign, themed around Diabetes Care & Management During Post COVID-19 Era', '\r\n
Dr Pant said, “Recognising the importance of secure and reliable telecom network infrastructure, we also welcome the opportunity for a discussion between our government and industry on the development of a robust O-RAN ecosystem and the associated benefits it will provide to our economies.”
\r\n \r\nHe stated that India is now fast tracking its 5G deployment efforts and is aware of the open technologies and the global initiatives that intend to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common open architecture and standardize interfaces that are viewed as the foundation of next generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers during an innovation and open market competition.
\r\n \r\nNoting that Government of India is absolutely clear that open and virtualized RANs are the future of mobile networks, he said, “We are also promoting Make in India and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat\' and have also issued a directive for trusted telecom products from trusted sources to address the Supply Chain issue. Finally in view of our shared attributes, as political democracies, market economies and pluralistic societies, the Quad provides a strong case for cooperation in Open RAN.”
\r\n \r\nStating that Indian telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier options beyond the traditional equipment vendors by using the O-RAN technology, he said that this dialogue would further complement initiatives being processed under the Quad critical and emerging technologies working group.
\r\n \r\nP. Balaji, chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Digital Communications moderated the panel discussion which saw the participation of C.P. Gurnani, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra; Takayuki Morita, President & Chief Executive Officer, NEC Corporation; Manish Mangal, Global Business Head-Network Services, Tech Mahindra and Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir.
\r\n \r\n“The 1st Quad Open RAN Forum supported by Assocham, brought together Governments and industry leaders to discuss Open RAN deployments and how transition to Open RAN can promote competition and technological neutrality in the global telecoms ecosystem. The Policy coalition will work on creating an enabling business and policy environment to support the development and adoption of ORAN, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of vendors,” said Balaji.
\r\n \r\nHe also said that there is a lot of excitement now on the Open RAN deployments and invited the members of the illustrious panel to share their experiences and how theyve been moving this whole agenda of Open RAN and open network architecture forward.
\r\n \r\nGurnani in his address said, “I think the time for Open RAN is now as the investments made by the industry in setting up labs, setting up those systems are definitely challenging the physical RAN, the proprietary systems, the proprietary radios.”
\r\n \r\nSharing his perspective, Morita said that NEC is working on various Open RAN related projects and while a lot of commercial initiatives are going on there is a need to resolve some ‘real issues\'.
\r\n \r\n“Of course, we have to overcome and solve real issues such as the PCO, open interoperability and throughput issues that will be resolved over a period of time,” he added.
\r\n \r\nHe also said that there are several concerns about integration issues because of open features.
\r\n \r\nIn his address, Kohli shared how to take the cross-industry learnings and scale advantage to benefit the telecom ecosystem as well as the customers.
\r\n \r\n“The telecom industry will be lagging behind unless it adopts the software to run on the same computer platform, which the whole world is running on and the future has to be about adopting all innovation, which is happening beyond just the telecom industry, and bring it to this sector. So that way, it benefits the whole industry,” he said.
\r\n \r\nSharing his views, Mangal said that the Open RAN is fundamentally shifting the ability for the carriers to bring innovation to the customers at a very faster pace, while at the same time driving the cost of providing the service.
\r\n \r\nAmid others who addressed the forum included - Alex Botting – International Director, Open RAN Policy Coalition; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan; Marc Ablong – Deputy Secretary of National Resilience & Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs, Government of Australia; Anne Neuberger - Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, National Security Council, White House, Government of the US; Arun Bhikshesvaran – Chief Executive Officer, Radisys; Ashraf Dahod – President & Chief Executive Officer, Altiostar; Naoki Tani – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation, NTT Docomo; Shawn Hakl – VP for 5G Security, Microsoft; Tareq Amin – Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile; Sumit Dhawan – President, VMWare; Yasuo Tawara – Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Sean Heather - Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Shinichi Urakawa – Chair, Sub-committee on Digital Economy, Keidanren.
\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-21', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (15, 'consumer-confidence-showing-signs-of-pick-up-in-q2:-assocham', 'Consumer-confidence.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Consumer confidence showing signs of pick up in Q2: ASSOCHAM', 'New Delhi, 10th September 2021: Ahead of the festive season, there are signs of improved consumer confidence in several key sectors of the economy, including contact services like hospitality while activities in construction and renovation have been on a pick-up for the past few months leading to return of migrant workers for gainful deployment, an ASSOCHAM assessment has noted.Our feedback from our member companies, including those in the SMEs points towards steady pick-up in economic activities with notable gains visible in retail trading, malls, food business and inter-state travel. With most of the states allowing entry of fully vaccinated people without RTPCR tests for Covid-19.', 'Ahead of the festive season, there are signs of improved consumer confidence in several key sectors of the economy, including contact services like hospitality while activities in construction and renovation have been on a pick-up for the past few months ', '"Our feedback from our member companies, including those in the SMEs points towards steady pick-up in economic activities with notable gains visible in retail trading, malls, food business and inter-state travel. With most of the states allowing entry of fully vaccinated people without RTPCR tests for Covid-19, the tourist activities have picked up in states like Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Goa. Hopefully, the Covid situation would remain under control with a sharp rise in daily vaccination, leading to further pick up in tourist activities in states like Rajasthan and Goa. After a washout of the winter tourist season in Rajasthan and Goa, we expect the ensuing winter to turn for better," ASSOCHAM assessment note said.
\r\n \r\nThough on a low base, the Indian economy should close the financial year 2021-22 with a double-digit growth, sustaining the catch-up mode. The bounce back as witnessed during the first quarter of the current fiscal should consolidate into a sustainable trend, going forward.
\r\n \r\nSharing the positive feedback, the ASSOCHAM Secretary General, Deepak Sood said, consumer demand is visible and turning into business volumes. "This would be reflected in the second quarter results of corporate India. We should see definite improvement in industries like paints, consumer durables, passenger vehicles and engineering goods."
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The feedback with the exporters also showed a positive outlook for the current financial year. Exports to Europe, the US and several Asian destinations would definitely look up. Prospects for exports of metal and other engineering goods, textiles, chemicals and agri products appear bright. "While there is a good demand in the developed nations, the issue of concern relates to increasing cost of cargo movement by ship liners. Hopefully, this should play out as the supply bottlenecks are eased."
\r\n', '2021-09-10', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'); INSERT INTO `press_releases` (`id`, `slug`, `image_path`, `image_alt`, `head_title`, `head_content`, `descp`, `long_desc`, `press_release_date`, `deleted`, `status`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (16, '-india's-fintech-market-projected-to-grow-to-rs.6,207-bln-by-2025-:-dr-bhagwat-kishanrao-karad,-minister-of-state-for-finance,-government-of-india', 'India-s-fintech.jpg', 'press-release1', ' India's fintech market projected to grow to Rs.6,207 bln by 2025 : Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Minister of State for Finance, Government of India', 'India's fintech market valued at Rs.1,920 billion (bln) in 2019 is expected to grow to Rs.6,207 billion by 2025, stated Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Government of India at an ASSOCHAM event.\r\n\r\n Speaking at ASSOCHAM's 2nd edition of Annual FinTech & Digital Payments 2021 event, Dr. Karad applauded, that India has been ranked no 1 in terms of digital transactions owing to the introduction of various reforms in the industry by Hon'ble Prime minister Narendra Modi & Hon'ble Minister of Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman', 'India's fintech market valued at Rs.1,920 billion (bln) in 2019 is expected to grow to Rs.6,207 billion by 2025, stated Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Government of India at an ASSOCHAM event.', 'India is a leader in adopting financial technology amongst emerging markets. The country recorded an adoption rate of 87% in March 2020 as compared to 64% global average. Skilled workforce & technological environment in India make it a great destination to develop financial technology,” said Dr. Karad.
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“Fintech sector has managed to grow even during the challenging times of pandemic. Financial Inclusion played an important role during the pandemic for the government. It was the prime means of distributing around 1.70 lakh crore direct benefit transfers to 800 million people under the PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojana,” added the Minister.
“The Government of India is making tremendous efforts to build a strong & safe financial technology ecosystem and we are confident that the public private partnerships will increase financial inclusion and provide modern financial services to all the Indians,” he said further.
Shri Vineet Agarwal, ASSOCHAM President said, “Covid-19 had an unprecedented impact on macro and micro economic environment and the financial systems at a global scale. Hence, it is critical for us to focus on how financial resources are best used to safeguard the growth cycle of the economy and inpiduals and businesses against disruptions. The theme of today’s conclave – Fintech for the underserved, is important as it highlights the key role of digital financial services in achieving the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision on Atmanirbhar Bharat and a $5 Trillion economy. A strong, robust and professionally managed banking, financial lending and FinTech companies will make this dream a possibility”.
“Technology is a key enabler of a digital economy and has the potential to play a central role in enhancing access to finance for small enterprises. Fintech is re-defining business models across different segments, improving service delivery and digital financial inclusion. In 2020, the retail digital payments are at 52% against just 6% in FY14 and issuance of physical cheques is down from 78% to 33%. Today the country has leapfrogged a generation to move directly to Aadhar and biometric based payment mechanism,” he added.
“The biggest impact of this technology is however on the creation of a digital framework for financial inclusion. Use of Aadhar based payment systems like UPI Bhim for DBT has greatly reduced inefficiencies, leakages and cost for government programs. In FY-21, about 100 crore beneficiaries received 3 lakh crores directly into their bank accounts, this is a milestone for the country as the money is reaching the right person at the right time. Govt transfers are not only making lives easier for the underserved but also creating an eco-system for B2B transactions,” he added.
Other eminent speakers at the conclave include industry luminaries such as, Shri Vivek Belgavi, Partner & Leader FinTech, PwC India (Knowledge Partner) Shri Nikhil Sahni, pisional President, Mastercard - South Asia, Shri Manoj Adlakha, SVP & CEO, American Express Banking Corp India, Shri Jeremy Sturchio, Vice President, Government Engagement, Asia Pacific, VISA, Shri V. R Govindarajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Perfios, Ms Richa Mukherjee, Co-Chairperson ASSOCHAM Fintech Council and Director- Public Policy & Corporate Affairs - PayU India discussed on the future of Digital Payments in the country.
The conclave also saw the release of a report titled “FinTech for the Underserved: Future of FinTech and Payments to drive Financial Inclusiveness”. The report is prepared in collaboration with PwC as knowledge partner. Another highlight of the conclave is the Fintech awards to recognise and support the best in the sector. Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Former Secretary to Government of India served as the jury chair to select the winners from a long list of entries.
ASSOCHAM Awards 2021 – FinTech & Digital Payments:
\"The Production Linked Incentive Scheme would be a booster push for the textile industry, not only for committing new investment in the sector but also scaling up the existing capabilities for enhanced output, rightly estimated by the government, at Rs 3 lakh crore over the next five years,\" ASSOCHAM Secretary General, Deepak Sood said.
\r\nHe said that with a focus on Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat, the PLI scheme is playing a catalyst role in realising the objectives set out in the flagship programmes for making India a global hub for manufacturing across different segments of the industry. Amongst these, the textiles sector is of paramount importance for creating employment and value addition to the overall economy.
\r\nSood said that given the Government's focus on strengthening the domestic ecosystem, to manufacture for India and the world, the PLI Scheme has proved a big hit amongst the industry, including global majors in sectors like textiles, electronics, telecom and pharmaceuticals. \"Decisive results of the scheme would be evident in the short to the medium term\", he said.
\r\n \r\n ', '2021-09-08', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (18, 'sensible-dietary-pattern-balanced-diet-key-to-improve-nutritional-status-boost-immunity-to-minimise-severity-of-infections-diseases:-experts', 'Sensible-dietary-pattern.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Sensible dietary pattern,balanced diet key to improve nutritional status & boost immunity to minimise severity of infections & diseases: Experts', 'New Delhi, 07th September 2021: Providing access to healthy snacking thereby sticking to a sensible dietary pattern aimed at improving digestive system can help minimize transmission of diseases as we navigate these unprecedented times, said diet, health, and nutrition experts in an ASSOCHAM webinar held on National Nutrition Week 2021.', '\r\n Providing access to healthy snacking thereby sticking to a sensible dietary pattern aimed at improving digestive system can help minimize transmission of diseases as we navigate these unprecedented times, said diet, health, and nutrition ex', '"A healthy diet, physically activity, stress and sleep management are critical to keep our immune system strong," stressed the experts in a webinar on 'Nutritious and Balanced Diet: Key to Success,' organised by ASSOCHAM as part of a series on Illness to Wellness.
\r\n \r\nHighlighting the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on people, renowned nutritionist,Ishi Khosla said, "I am experiencing in my practice that due to the pandemic, even people with common problems like diabetes and obesity are finding it hard to deal with the issues arising out of Covid-19 induced lockdowns whereas earlier they were being able to cope up with such disorders."
\r\n \r\nShe also said that cooking food in gut-friendly oils like rice bran (for frying), mustard, coconut, cold-pressed ground nut, sesame oils, clarified butter can help improve gut health. "Need to use different oils for cooking during the day to get benefits of variety of nutrients."
\r\n \r\nSharing her thoughts on National Nutrition Week 2021's theme of 'Feeding smart right from the start,' nutrition and wellness consultant and founder, Nutrition Nectar,Sheela Krishnaswamy said, "Nourishment for first 1,000 days can help prevent many diseases and the child goes on to grow and develop into a fit and healthy adult, this needs to be focussed upon to create healthy inpiduals."
\r\n \r\nShe added that parents need to be aware about promoting healthy eating habits among children thereby providing healthy alternatives like nuts and seeds, cut fruits etc to create an environment for healthy foods and beverages that would help reduce intake of foods high in saturated fats.
\r\n \r\n"There is a need to stick to a sensible and healthy eating pattern to take care of all aspects and organs of the body and not merely look at weight control," further saidKrishnaswamy.
\r\n \r\nIn his address, Anil Rajput, chairperson, ASSOCHAM National Council on CSR said that "Sedentary lifestyles, stressful work and an unhealthy diet are collectively impacting health of many people in the working age-group and the role of a healthy and nutritious diet in preventing and controlling NCDs cannot be overstated"
\r\n \r\nHe stated that "A recent report by Thought Arbitrage Research Institute for ASSOCHAM titled 'Non-Communicable Diseases in India' highlights the gravity of the situation and states that NCDs in India contributed to 6.3 million deaths in 2017, and the condition is getting even more perilous since then."
\r\n \r\n"Consumption of a balanced and nutritious diet is simply a matter of discipline and responsibility towards self, the family and eventually towards the society. It entails eating fresh fruits and vegetables, minimal consumption of heavy, oily food, reduced sodium and sugar intake along with regular exercise," said Rajput.
\r\n \r\nHe also added that "A healthy mind and body can launch a formidable defence against various ailments and healthy inpiduals can deliver superior value for the nation and positively impact its output".
\r\n \r\nAs a health expert, Total Care Control, founder and director, Dr Rajesh Kesari stated, "We are what we eat i.e., for our physical growth and development we need nutrients and that comes from the food we eat which has to be a balance of both macro and micronutrients-carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals etc. An imbalance of these critical nutrients leads to ailments and diseases."
\r\n \r\nNoting that physical activity helps glucose levels remain normal, Dr Kesari said that regular exercise helps release anti-depressants and there are many other benefits of following a fitness regime as many prevalent non-communicable diseases that are leading to mortality can be curbed simply by doing more of physical activity.
\r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-09-07', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (19, 'up-govt.-has-allotted-1100-plots-to-apparel,-toy-manufacturers-and-msmes-along-the-yamuna-e-way-region:-satish-mahana-signs-of-pick-up-in-q2:-', 'UP-Govt-has-allotted-1100.jpg', 'press-release1', 'UP Govt. has allotted 1100 plots to apparel, toy manufacturers and MSMEs along the Yamuna e-way region: Satish Mahana', ' New Delhi, 26th August 2021: The Uttar Pradesh Government has allotted 1100 plots to apparel, toy manufacturers along with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and other industries in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) area, Industrial Development Minister, Satish Mahana said at an ASSOCHAM virtual conference today.', ' The Uttar Pradesh Government has allotted 1100 plots to apparel, toy manufacturers along with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and other industries in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) area, Industrial Development ', '"Today, I feel very proud to share that during past 4-4.5 years, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the most preferred investment destination," said Mahana addressing the ASSOCHAM Members in a virtual conference on 'Building State Capabilities for Global Value Chain-Uttar Pradesh'.
\r\n \r\nHe said that there has been a lot of change and transformation in Uttar Pradesh as far as industrial development is concerned owing to the zero-tolerance policy of the Government in terms of law and order.
\r\n \r\nHighlighting the industry-friendly policies of UP, Mahana said, "Trust between the government and the industry is of utmost important, while we are facilitating all support, still if you have any concerns, I will request you to approach me and my department anytime and we will help resolve all the issues."
\r\n \r\nHe said that earlier the link was missing between the industry and the government as there was trust deficit and approaching concerned officials in the Industries Department was quite difficult.
\r\n \r\n\"But now the Chief Minister, me as the industry minister and my department's officials are always ready to support industrialists, coordinate with them, provide them resources and security," added Mahana.
\r\n \r\nTerming UP as the land of opportunities, Mahana said, "We have fertile land, as fast as our infrastructure is building up, I am sure that UP is now the largest industrial state across the country."
\r\n \r\nHe also said that it is really advantageous for Uttar Pradesh that both the Dedicated Freight Corridors - Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor will pass through the state.
\r\n \r\nHe said that state government had designed its new industry policies based on the interactions with industry leaders and incorporated most of their suggestions and recommendations. "Even during the Pandemic whenever it was felt that there is a need to tweak the policies as per the situation, we did that."
\r\n \r\nHe however urged the industry to coordinate with key departments to get their issues resolved at the earliest.
\r\n \r\n"I would like to request the industry that to ensure better coordination, they should also engage with relevant departments for issues related to different sectors be it power, environment, tax and others because we take up these issues at our level and bring to their notice but simultaneously if you also engage with the concerned departments, it will help resolve the issues as early as possible," said the Minister.
\r\n \r\nHe also said that UP is far-far ahead of the many states in terms of industrial development. "Earlier, many of the textile units in UP got shunted due to primitive machinery and related issues, which pushed the state backwards but now we are moving ahead in line with the requirement of the current times which includes setting up of IT, ITeS and other industries."
\r\n \r\nAmid others who addressed the ASSOCHAM virtual meet included - Rajesh Bhatia, Chairman, UP State Development Council and CFO, UFLEX Ltd.; Kushagra Nandan, Co-Chair, UP State Development Council and Co-Founder & MD, SunSource Energy; Anupam Mittal, Co-Chairman, UP State Development Council & Principal Architect Director, ARINEM Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd; Vikash Gupta, Managing Director, Threesixty and Motilal Sethi, Chairman & Managing Director, Saroj International Limited & Regional Chairman (North) CLE.
\r\n \r\n ', '2021-08-26', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (20, '-rbi-extends-lending-outreach-to-those-affected-most-by-covid-19;-great-equitable-move:-assocham-', 'rbi-extends.jpg', 'press-release1', ' RBI extends lending outreach to those affected most by Covid-19; great equitable move: ASSOCHAM', 'The decision of the RBI Monetary Policy Committee to stay on course with the accommodative stance with a focus on the \"equitable distribution\" of liquidity sends an important message from the central bank to be reaching out to those affected the most by Covid-19 pandemic, through increased and wider windows for soft lendings,\" ASSOCHAM, Secretary General, Deepak Sood said today.', ' \"The decision of the RBI Monetary Policy Committee to stay on course with the accommodative stance with a focus on the \"equitable distribution\" of liquidity sends an important message from the central bank to be reaching out to those affected the most b', 'The increase in the threshold to Rs 50 crore from Rs 25 crore for Resolution Framework 2.0 is a pragmatic decision and would help ease the pressure off the small to mid-sized entities," the ASSOCHAM Secretary General said. “We would like to thank RBI governor Shaktikant Das for accepting ASSOCHAM’s recommendations to provide urgent relief to the worst impacted hospitality sector and extend support to the struggling MSME segment”.
\r\n \r\nHe said the decision to enhance the G-SAP limit to Rs 1.20 lakh crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal is a firm signal to the money market of the RBI being in command of the situation even in the midst of a global health emergency.
\r\n \r\n"RBI has been stellar in its performance right through this pandemic crisis with the result that all participants of the financial markets - stocks, bonds, banks, forex - have shown a great amount of resilience and adaptability to the ever-changing situation. Its coordination with the government has been excellent with the result that the fiscal and monetary arms of the system are in perfect sync to face the storm".
\r\n \r\nThe RBI's macro projections of 9.5 per cent growth and retail inflation of 5.1 per cent for FY' 22 are in line with the current situation marked by calibrated opening of the economy, to be helped by increasing penetration of vaccination and the ensuing uptick in the rural demand.
\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-06-04', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (21, '-assocham-seeks-wage-support,-interest-subvention,-other-measures-to-enable-industry-face-covid-19-challenges-', 'ASSOCHAM-seeks-wage.jpg', 'press-release1', ' ASSOCHAM seeks wage support, interest subvention, other measures to enable industry face Covid-19 challenges', 'New Delhi, 02nd June 2021: Recommending a slew of relief measures including regulatory easing, an ASSOCHAM paper has said government should consider wage support mechanism and interest subvention for the MSMEs which are reeling under severe impact of Covid-19 that has shown its heightened fury in the second wave.\r\n \r\n Even as the states are in the process of easing lockdowns, the trade and industry would need an all-round support to pick up their business thread again, after halt or near-halt of their operations since middle of April, stated the recommendations report that ASSOCHAM submitted to the Government.', ' \"Recommending a slew of relief measures including regulatory easing, an ASSOCHAM paper has said government should consider wage support mechanism and interest subvention for the MSMEs which are reeling under severe impact of Covid-19 that has shown its ', 'ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood said, wage and job protection measures have been further extended by several countries, including the US. After all, consumption, especially the non-discretionary, has to be ensured by protecting earnings of people even in the lockdowns. Government intervention is critical. "This is time to support and spend without giving too much focus on the fiscal parameters. I am sure, the RBI and the government are constantly working on innovative solutions to keep infusing cash into the system despite an understandable revenue pressure".
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Sood referred to the latest industry interactions with the Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal who said the government is reaching out to all the major stakeholders to face the extraordinary situation arising out of once-in-hundred-years pandemic. Sood also lauded RBI announcement to include hospital infrastructure like oxygen plants to be included in the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme, which should see at least doubling of its present ceiling of Rs 3 lakh crore.
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He added, "The Government's Ease of Doing Business and Competitive Manufacturing focus needs to go in overdrive with reforms to the Electricity Act, Unified Tariff and Unbundling of Natural Gas, removal of old and redundant laws so that we can have a fantastic economic rebound post pandemic."
\r\n \r\nThe chamber study also sought an interest subvention for the trade and industry so that they can revive themselves with minimum disruptions. It said the government and the RBI should "consider an interest subvention scheme with a validity till March 31, 2022, especially, for the micro and small business segment. Similarly, NPA norms should be relaxed for MSMEs, if not for all industries. As cash flow cycles have been affected and businesses have not been able to realize receivables on time, it will be helpful if one-time relaxation in recognizing NPAs is provided, extending the past due norm from 90 days to 180 days".
\r\n \r\nAt the same time, Sood stated this is an opportune time for India to drive its focus on enhancing Ease of Doing Business and Competitive Manufacturing, with reforms to the Electricity Act, Unified Tariff and Unbundling of Natural Gas, among others. There are many obsolete laws, which need to be immediately repealed, to push forth the economic rebound post the pandemic.
\r\n \r\nThe Law Commission of India’s – Third Interim Report, under its study titled the “Legal Enactments: Simplifications and Streamlining” listed many old and redundant laws such as Sick Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act 1972, Gift-Tax Act 1958, Local Authorities Pensions and Gratuities Act 1919, among others.”
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The paper also expected the RBI to continue with its accommodative stance for the policy rates in the ensuing meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee in the wake of an unexpected rage of the second wave of the pandemic.
\r\n \r\nThe document also made out a case for changes in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to allow the existing corporate promoters to participate in the bids for revival of the debt-ridden companies referred to the insolvency procedures. "While industry requests for the extension of the NCLT moratorium until 31st March 2022, the Government should also consider to take away the sec29A where the sponsor cannot take its assets".
\r\n \r\nFor the industries to reboot, fresh guidelines will have to be issued to protect the lives and livelihood. Standard operating procedures for industries will help companies operate across state lines and regions. Inputs should be sought from all stakeholder groups, taking into consideration operational structures of various industries. The Government should work on creating transport bubbles so that businesses can function, by safely managing the transportation of employees and other resources.
\r\nFor providing relief to the worst hit hospitality sector, the document has suggested for allowing GST Input Credit for restaurants: The restaurant industry is the only sector that is not allowed claim tax credits under the current GST regime. This undermines the stated objective of bringing more businesses into the \r\n Alternatively, the Government should give an option of dual tax structures – 5% with no GST input or 12% with GST input credit allowed. For giving a much-needed boost to the realty sector, it has recommended reduction in stamp duty as also property tax by half at least for three years. The pandemic induced economic situation might need restructuring of certain stressed enterprises, including takeover, for their quick revival. It is recommended that stamp duty and other levies on corporate restructuring transactions, be made uniform across States @1% of the relevant transaction value subject to a maximum levy of Rs 10 crore per state. We expect to see resumption at construction sites of roads and residential buildings from June 15, though several states like the national capital have permitted such activities from June 1 with Covid 19 guidelines," said ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood. He said it would take about two weeks for the contractors to put together again the material and manpower at the sites after disruptions of about 40 days in major states like Delhi, Maharashtra, UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and Haryana, among others. "The major challenge is bringing back the construction workers, most of whom have gone to their native places in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan during the lockdowns," Sood said. He said though steady decline in fresh coronavirus cases should restore confidence of the workforce,it would take extra effort to give them a sense of safety. Fast vaccination of the labour force would be a big morale booster for them and their families. The ASSOCHAM would urge upon the state governments to place migrant labourers, wanting to return back to big cities, priority in vaccination.We would also urge the Centre to give special vaccine allocations for the construction workers. Not only would it help faster restoration of economic activities in the construction industry employing about 40 million people, but also be a great move towards equity in vaccination\". Resumption in construction would also kickstart several other industries such as cement, steel, PVC pipes and cables and electricals, the chamber said.In fact, the resumption should be facilitated before the onset of the rainy season, Sood said. He said the construction industry was amongst the fastest growing in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020-21, registering an expansion of 14.5 per cent. A large part of the growth was pent up demand. Sood said he would expect early resumption in government projects like national highways, expressways, buildings under different flagship schemes. The National Highways Authority of India, like after the first wave, is expected to lead the way again as the second wave loses sting. However, contractors, especially in the mid-size segments would urgently need working capital support, which must be extended to them by the banks. Banks should also see how SME construction firms can be accommodated in flagship schemes like Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme,\" the ASSOCHAM Secretary General said. The Chief Guest of the conference was Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The other prominent panelists including Shri R. Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO - Guest of Honor, Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India, Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM, Dr. Lovneesh Chanana, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on IT/Ites & eCommerce, Shri Ashwani Rana, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on IT, Ites & eCommerce, Shri José Ignacio LATORRE, Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Provost's Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Shri Simone Severini, Director, Quantum Computing, Amazon Web Services and Professor, Physics of Information, University College London (UCL), Shri Darshan Hiranandani, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Data Centers and many more from government department, corporate world and industries. Highlighting some of the government's initiatives, Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India says, "The government has undertaken mapping of the people, groups and resources in the country that could work in quantum technology. We already have good capability and more have to be cultivated. We launched a modest program with 200 crore rupees over 3 years with the idea of cultivating capabilities in the system to be ready for bigger things. Ministries like Meity, ISRO, DRDO have been working towards quantum technologies in different capacities. The union budget 2020 announced a national mission on quantum technologies and applications with a total outlay of Rs. 8000 crores for a period of five years. We have already set up 25 hubs of cyber physical systems across the country. The architecture, structure and processes of which is radically different from the way we have been doing things in the past and best practices and learning of which will be duplicated in the quantum mission". Shri. R. Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO thanking Assocham for organising the Indian Quantum Technology Conclave says, "This event is where the country's quantum technologists, scientist, academia and Industry can share a platform to witness the enormous quantum potential in the country. India is not new to the fundamental research of quantum mechanics and has gifted many eminent quantum scientists to the world. The beauty of quantum science is its speed and security. The Indian government has taken timely action and quantum technologies is one of the nine verticals identified by the Hon'ble Prime Minister's science, technology and innovation advisory council. The govt also launched the national mission motivation for quantum technologies and application where ministries, industries, institutes and academia have joined hands to enable a quantum enabled nation by unlocking the quantum potential of the country". Addressing the conclave, Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India says, "Quantum as a set of technologies is broader than computing including communications and sensing among others. The kind of problems we are facing today like climate change, pandemics, optimising our national resources, energy needs for the growing economies around the world, these are planet scale problems and are different in nature and scientist and technologists are looking at quantum computing to solve some of these exponentially complex problems. The need for developers, students and companies to get involved in the quantum journey is now". Emphasising on its part of continued efforts to combat Covid-19, . Deepak Sood Secretary General, ASSOCHAM said, "The quantum technology market provides a foundation for improving all digital communications, applications, content, and commerce. The global quantum technology market which is expected to reach $21.6B by 2025 provides tremendous growth opportunities for Indian Market too. India is ideally placed today to become a global research partner in this field, as is evident through the work of several research groups on quantum science and technologies across the country. We need to work together with multiple stakeholders, whether it is start-ups, research institutions or developers or Government to put Quantum at the right direction." Having confidence in India's path forward will be driven by achieving world-class scientific solutions Sood further added, "We at ASSOCHAM recommend the need to accelerate the quantum computing-led research and development work and enable new scientific discoveries. We need to involve our researchers and work with subject matter experts. We need more Quantum Computing Applications Lab in India which can offer Quantum Computing as a Service to government ministries and departments, researchers, scientists, academia, and developers to enable advances in areas like manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and aerospace engineering. I am confident that Government and industries efforts in quantum computing will play a key role in scientific advancements and learning." \"Going forward the government will provide an ecosystem to help sports industries serve not only Indian requirements but also meet global demands,\" said the Minister while addressing the business leaders in an ASSOCHAM virtual meet on Building Odisha State Capabilities for Global Value Chain. Showcasing Odisha as an attractive destination for investors, he added, \"Odisha has the cheapest per unit cost of production in the country, we are willing to provide all the facilities and subsidies to the industry.\" Talking about the tourism potential in Kalahandi District of Odisha he said, \"People go to London and Switzerland for vacation, instead you should visit Kalahandi which is an attractive tourist destination having several natural and cultural attractions. You will get to meet the local tribal people in person and will learn about their challenges and hardships.\" In his address at the ASSOCHAM virtual meet, Hemant Sharma, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industries Department, Government of Odisha said \"From the global value chain point of view, Odisha is emerging as one of the most important destinations for business. Traditionally known as a mineral rich state, every mineral known to mankind is mined in Odisha and every mineral is required for any industry in the world. This resource business has led to a very intensive process of industrialization in the state of Odisha, particularly in the last two decades.\" He added, \"Odisha also enjoys locational advantages, we have a 480 kilometers long coastline and many ports, so for any industry that wants to plug into the global value chains, whether it is for supply of goods, product goods, finished goods or for raw materials, we enjoy a unique identity in terms of the linkages to the outside world.\" Highlighting the large pool of skilled manpower, he said, \"Odisha is a land of human resources having the most productive and most skilled workers in any industrial areas across India.\" Sharma further said that Odisha is emerging as the most important destinations for businesses and industry owing to its low cost of doing business and ease of doing business in terms of clearances, licenses and permits together with a positive policy framework, robust infrastructure and mechanism. Other key speakers included - Soham Misra, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Iron & Steel Sub Council-East & Director, Amalgam Steel; Deepak Gulahti, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National on Ease of Doing Business and Group Logistic Director, Vedanta; Bhakti Raj, Head, Kalinganagar Project, The Tata Power Co. Ltd. & ASSOCHAM Member; Bibhu Prasad Mishra, Executive Vice President (Corporate Affairs), Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.; Srikanth Badiga, Director, Phoenix India and ASSOCHAM Member and Rajesh Kharbanda, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Sports & Fitness Industry and Managing Director, Nivia. Speaking at the event, Dr. Chatterjee stated that Technology is one of the key focus areas for the government of West Bengal. "Our honorable CMMamata Banerjee's policy focuses mainly on big data analysis and decimation, animation and gaming, cyber securities, drones, artificial intelligence, quantum computing to name a few," he said. Dr. Chatterjee stated that the Honorable West Bengal Chief Minister has promoted the Bengal Silicon Valley in New Town which is fast becoming a satellite city. "Another 100 acres of land has been marked for extending the existing Silicon Valley in phase II," he informed. He explained that West Bengal has the highest number of MSME's in the country which is a progressive step towards global business expansion. "West Bengal recognizes the need for uniform global standards, international set of laws, inclusive labor laws, and industrial codes. This will in turn help in reducing the non-pecuniary costs associated with international trade. West Bengal has comprehended and fast adapted to this," he added. Ravi Agarwal, Chairman, Eastern Region Council President Rupa Co. and Director Neo Metaliks Ltd stated that West Bengal is the new development story. "The state is pivotal in India's striding towards a $5 trillion economy. The geopolitical position of the state serves as a gateway to South East Asia and beyond," he said. Debashree Duttagupta, Chairman, ASSOCHAM HealthCare Sub Council-East and MD, East India Pharmaceuticals stated that Bengal has always been regarded as the Birthplace of Pharmaceutical industry in India with Bengal Chemical set up way back in the year 1901. "West Bengal has the potential to contribute in a big way to India's pharma exports. The government has been taking a lot of initiatives due to which larger pharmaceutical companies would be attracted to West Bengal," he said. Himanshu Priyadarshi, Director-Public Policy and Government Affairs, Pepsico & ASSOCHAM member stated that the West Bengal has all the factors to attract top industries to the state. "The state has been growing at 8 percent year on year. West Bengal is the 6th largest in terms of their GDP size. It has all the factors conducive for industries like the Food processing. The literacy rate of West Bengal is around 76 percent. Another big aspect is that women form a large percentage of the workforce here," he said. Pepsico has invested around Rs 800 crores in West Bengal. Karn Agarwal, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM SEZ, Industrial Park Council stated that West Bengal's location and its roadways having its connectivity all the way to Assam and Myanmar, it certainly brings in competitive advantage to the industries. "There is also a lot of potential in utilizing its waterways for getting connected to Bangladesh and other important ports. Because of all these factors, West Bengal has become the warehousing hub for the east," he said. Darshan Hiranandani, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Hydrocarbon and Managing Director & CEO, H-Energy stated that West Bengal has a huge opportunity to develop its waterfront. "There is around 80 kms of no development zone of water front near Hooghly. Most countries don't have a water front. Look at Dubai, how effectively they have developed it. The water front at West Bengal has a huge potential for development and additional jobs can also be created around it," he said. . Hiranandani also mentioned that while land acquisition is difficult subject for any state government, some changes can be done to solve the problem. "Where land is available for industry, 55 percent of the ground coverage can be allowed for development. This would double the land available for warehousing and logistics which will bring in a lot of jobs," he said. The steel industry is one of the most traditional and fundamental industries supporting many others, like oil & gas, power generation, construction, etc. We are looking forward to industry support towards the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision for ,Local Goes Global' and Make in India for World, which can boost the share of manufacturing in real GDP to 25 per cent and exports to US$ 400 billion. Also, in order to decongest domestic ports, the government is taking appropriate measures, added Shri Kulaste. While delivering the welcome address, . Vineet Agarwal, president, ASSOCHAM said, "The steel sector faces some major challenges. It is important to reduce costs, improve co-ordination and engagement with stake holders and the focus should be on integrating forward and backward linkages in the steel industry. The steel industry is central to the government target of $5 Trillion economy and for that there must be generation of additional demand from downstream. Digitization of supply chain and green supply chain opportunities also needs to capitalize for a sustainable value chain". Other industry experts at the session included Dr. Vinod Nowal, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Iron & Steel and Deputy Managing Director, JSW Steel Ltd., Shri V R Sharma, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Iron and Steel and Managing Director, JSPL. Shri Ranjan Dhar, Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Iron and Steel , Chief Marketing Officer(CMO) AM/NS India. Shri Vivek Bhatia, MD & CEO, thyssenkrupp Industries India, Shri Baikuntha Sahoo, General Manager , Ezyhaul, Shri Bidyut Chakraborty, Partner -Mining & Metals Advisory, KPMG. ASSOCHAM is organizing a series of sessions under the central theme "Global Value Chain: Backward & Forward Integration" from 24th to 28th August 2021. The virtual meet brings together policy makers, manufacturing companies, research organisations, technology enablers, and MSMEs in an effort to generate opportunities for India to enter the $1-trillion manufacturing base for domestic consumption, as well as shape its global manufacturing value chain for exports. Speaking at the event, Shri Khuba stated that this is a huge opportunity for business houses to tap the sector for the period of next nine years. "India till recently was only importing the solar power manufacturing equipment to generate solar power, however, a lot has changed since then. The central government has adopted a 360-degree view to address all the issues and clear all the roadblocks to achieve the target," He explained. Shri Khuba informed that the government wants to achieve self-sufficiency or Aatmanirbharta in the field of renewable energy. "The government is also putting together a policy framework in this regard. However, I firmly believe that all this is not possible without the active participation of all the stakeholders," He said. Shri Amitesh Sinha, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Renewable Energy stated that India has a clear road map on part of demand visibility. "So, solar energy would contribute almost 300 GW to the renewable energy target that the country aims to achieve. India needs to add around 25 GW of Solar energy capacities every year. Apart from this, we are also moving towards a green hydrogen ecosystem," he said. He also explained that the government is now focusing its attention on solving the supply side problems on how manufacturing equipment can be supplied and how India can become Aatmanirbhar in this particular sector. "The earlier efforts were not encouraging to the solar equipment manufacturers. Now with the government deciding to impose 40 percent basic customs duty on solar modules and 25 percent on solar cells from 1st April 2022, imports would become more expensive and local manufacturing would be encouraged," he said. Shri Saurabh Singhal, Director and Partner, Auctus Advisors, ASSOCHAM's energy consulting partners stated that currently the solar manufacturing space is dominated by China and while India has limited capacity in downstream value chain, it has no presence in the upstream. "The government in the recent past has taken several commendable measures mostly focused on downstream value chain. Like the 40 percent basic custom duty on imported modules will restrict imports of cells. Also the Rs 4500 crores budget allocation on the PLI scheme will incentivize effective module production," he said. He further stated that to reduce the dependence, India needs to follow a roadmap with realistic targets to promote manufacturing of all components across the value chains. "For the industry to come up with the manufacturing capacity, the government also needs to ensure the demand for domestic products and enable cost competitiveness," he added. Shri Vineet Agarwal, Managing director of TCI and President, ASSOCHAM stated that domestic manufacturing ecosystem is critical for self-reliance and Atmanirbhar Bharat. "Indigenous manufacturing of the equipment will reduce the recurring forex outgo of anywhere between $2.5 and $5 billion per annum to meet the projected demand of 450 GW by 2030. It will create 50,000 direct and 1.25 lakh indirect jobs, along with opportunities for MSME's in the associated supply chain. And will ensure energy security without depending on other countries and create resilient supply chains," He said. Shri Agarwal explained that despite these policy push by the Indian Government, the the global industry is highly concentrated, and competitiveness of domestic manufacturing will require comprehensive and sustainable policy support. "The PLI scheme introduced by the government will help in creating the right ecosystem and help India go up the value chain," he said. Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM stated that while the Indian solar power generation industry has immense potential, a robust domestic supply chain of solar equipment manufacturing will promote self-reliance and energy security as also preserve valuable forex reserves. "Government of India has announced and implemented several initiatives to boost the solar manufacturing industry. ASSOCHAM and its members, we laud government's efforts," he said. He further informed that despite policy directions, India's domestic manufacturing capacity has been unable to keep pace with the growing solar generation capacity. "An end-to-end a domestic supply chain is critical in making India's solar equipment cost-competitive in the global market. Additional measures are needed especially in the upstream segments to ensure a sustainable integrated supply chain," He said. \"Prime Minister's address to the nation has provided a clear direction to India's vaccination programme with an avowed objective of providing free jabs to all adults, while providing a window for those willing to pay through private sector hospitals. The revised policy would remove all procedural bottlenecks for availability of vaccines to the states,\" ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood said. He said the extension of the Pradhan Mantri Ann Kalyan Yojana, providing free ration to 800 million people till Diwali would instil a great sense of food security to the economically weaker sections of the society. \"The decision should also help return of migrant workers back to cities as the case loads of coronavirus has reduced considerably and the process of unlocking has begun in several states\". Sood said the Prime Minister should be complimented for continuing to utilise services of the private sector hospitals in procurement and administration of vaccine doses within the overall guidelines. \"The window has proved to be of help to the corporates to get their work force vaccinated to enable resumption of businesses\". Sood said, the ASSOCHAM would continue to work with the government in ensuring that the Indian economy gets re-booted at the earliest with full safety of the people. In a review meeting to assess the possible impact of the cyclone Yaas and preparedness of all stakeholders, under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, and Food & Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal, ASSOCHAM shared suggestions as part of preventive measures to tackle potential adversities due to the cyclone. Noting that collaboration between the Centre and states is running at an optimum level, Goyal said, "Both central and state governments are working together hand-in-hand to ensure a very orderly planning, relief and rehabilitation measures in wake of cyclone Yass." He said that similar effort gave very good results during cyclone Tauktae as positive feedback and confidence building measures came out of a similar meeting during cyclone Tauktae. "Owing to the active participation of all various stakeholders, I think by and large we were able to handle the 'very severe' cyclone Tauktae well. Those who did not listen to the instructions that were given, there were some casualties, some unfortunate events for which all of us feel extremely sad," he said. He urged various stakeholders to ensure completely zero casualty situation and added, "We must ensure that relief material gets properly channelised and the real beneficiaries get the same post cyclone also." He said that there is a need to ensure there is minimum outage of power and communication. "Industries should keep support staff on standby to coordinate with authorities to ensure rescue and help can reach on time." Highlighting the preparedness of Indian Railways, the Minister said, "Railways has made elaborate plans and arrangements. We have also kept lot of rescue equipment on standby like accident relief trains, medical relief vans, electric tower wagons and well-equipped diesel locomotives have been kept ready at strategic locations with mobility options to tackle trouble spots. Coaching trains have been cancelled in a large measure so that nobody is caught in the cyclone. Food, water, medical aid has also been kept ready at important stations." The top-level meeting also saw presence of Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Mansukh Mandaviya along with senior officials from the respective ministries and agencies including National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Coast Guard, Indian Navy who shared their respective views on preparation and response for cyclonic storm Yass that may hit Odisha and West Bengal coasts on May 26. Highlighting the steps taken by his ministries, Pradhan stated that as a precautionary measure all vital installations and major industrial units of steel and petroleum ministries along the east coast will be operating on minimum manpower for next 2-3 days. He also assured that there will be no lack of supply of life-saving medical oxygen by steel industry to hospitals and health facilities to states even in the aftermath of the cyclone. Mandaviya, in his address emphasised that apart from preparedness, both communication and coordination among all agencies is equally important. The ASSOCHAM President assured the government of working together with all the concerned agencies to ensure that least disruption is caused by the cyclone amid Covid-19 pandemic. "Apart from the region being hit, the residual impact of cyclone is on a much-much larger area. Thus, there is a need to monitor and see that there is not much of an impact on north-Bengal due to cyclone Yass so that there is limited impact on north-east," said Agarwal.\r\n
The ASSOCHAM chief also suggested use of more technology to help get more real-time and proper information on the cyclone and its path.
\r\n \r\nSood commended the government for being proactive and convening such meetings which is helpful for industry to prepare itself in view of such calamities. "Coordination and collaboration between all stakeholders are the only way forward, and government at the centre and in states need to work together with industry to ensure that impact is minimised."
\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ', '2021-05-24', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (30, 'govt-committed-to-bolstering-ipr-ecosystem-in-india:-minister', 'businessman-holding-blue-mechanical.jpg', 'press-release1', 'Govt committed to bolstering IPR ecosystem in India: Minister', 'New Delhi, 05th October 2021: The Government of India is committed towards bolstering the ecosystem of patents, design, trademarks, GI (Geographical Indication) systems; encouraging innovation, research and development (R&D) in the country to achieve the vision of `Atmanirbhar Bharat`, Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Mr Som Parkash said at an ASSOCHAM virtual event today.\r\n ', 'Govt committed to bolster IPR ecosystem, MoS Commerce & Industry at ASSOCHAM webinar', 'New Delhi, 05th October 2021: The Government of India is committed towards bolstering the ecosystem of patents, design, trademarks, GI (Geographical Indication) systems; encouraging innovation, research and development (R&D) in the country to achieve the vision of `Atmanirbhar Bharat`, Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Mr Som Parkash said at an ASSOCHAM virtual event today.
\r\n"Industry must work in a mission mode along with the Government of India to achieve the ambitious target for the country to be ranked in the top 25 nations of Global Innovation Index (GII)," said Mr Parkash while inaugurating an ASSOCHAM IP Excellence Awards-cum-Conference on Role of Intellectual Property in Atmanirbhar Bharat.
\r\nHe said that with India getting ranked 46th by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the Global Innovation Index 2021 rankings, up from 48th place in 2020, it is a 'great achievement'.
\r\nHe highlighted the various programs and initiatives undertaken by the Government for propelling innovations - Startup India, Accelerating Growth of New India's Innovations (AGNIi), new intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and others.
\r\nSharing some key steps taken by the Government, he said, "Fee Concessions like 10 per cent rebate on online filing, 80 per cent fee concession for start-ups and small entities together with making IPR filing procedures more compact, time-bound, user-friendly and compatible for e-transactions." \r\n He said that resultantly, the number of patents granted have seen exponential growth of 572 per cent i.e., from 4,227 in 2013-14 to 28,391 patents in 2021.
\r\n"Similarly, for examination of the trademark applications it used to take 72 months in 2016, now in 2020 it takes just 12-24 months, so we are making all efforts," said Mr Parkash.
\r\nSharing his thoughts on ASSOCHAM's IP Excellence Awards, the Minister said, "Such awards will certainly contribute towards innovation and IP creation in the country as it not only recognises the innovative ideas of individuals and institutions but also serve as great inspiration for others."
\r\nHe congratulated the winners, complemented them for building an IPR ecosystem in India and said, "I hope you would continue doing such exemplary work and wonderful job in this field."\r\n
\r\n ', '2021-10-05', 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'), (31, 'karnataka-emerging-as-hub-of-datacentres-in-india', 'karnataka-emerging .jpg', 'Karnataka emerging ', 'Karnataka emerging as hub of datacentres in India', 'Bengaluru, 06th October 2021: With support from the state government and the Centre, Karnataka and its capital city Bengaluru are emerging as major stakeholders in growth of datacentres in India, Dr C.N. Ashwathnarayan, Minister for Higher Education; IT & BT, Science & Technology; Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Livelihood, Government of Karnataka said at an ASSOCHAM virtual event', 'State emerging as major stakeholder in datacentres\' growth, said Karnataka IT minister', '“We welcome feedbacks and suggestions especially from industry bodies such as ASSOCHAM to make Karnataka the datacentre hub of the country. The Government of India has taken-up localization of data keeping in mind the safety, security, privacy concerns and the accelerated pace of digitalization due to the impact of Covid-19 will trigger a strong demand for datacentres,” said Dr Ashwathnarayan addressing the 2nd Edition of “India Smart Datacentres & Cloud Infrastructure Summit 2021 organized by ASSOCHAM.
\r\nEarlier delivering her inaugural address at the ASSOCHAM conference, Ms Anupriya Patel, Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry highlighted the initiatives being undertaken by the Government to address the emerging opportunities for datacentres in the country.
\r\nIn her address, Ms Patel said that the Hyperscale datacentre scheme is likely to attract INR 3 lakh crore investment in the next 5 years. “Digital India is a priority for the government. An incentive scheme worth 12,000 crores in the works to facilitate installation of datacentres in the country. The government also aims to attract 3 lakh crores investment in the next 5 years as part of the Hyperscale datacentre scheme and intends to provide 3-4% of capital investment as incentive along with faster approvals.”
\r\nShe added, “The Datacentre Policy 2020 is an important step towards driving the necessary regulatory and structural reforms in the industry. The policy will drive ease-of-doing business in the sector, attract more investments and facilitate capacity building. MEITY’s draft policy for datacentres will also provide infrastructure status to the sector.”
\r\nIn his address, Mr Vineet Agarwal, ASSOCHAM President said, “A new wave of revolution and transformation characterised by digitalisation has emerged. India is among the frontrunner in digital economy and datacentres are the backbone of any digital activity. The Government of India has been quite proactive in making sure that the datacentre industry is moving in the right directions. The Indian datacentre market is expected to attract investment of $5 billion by 2026. With the right investments and policies ASSOCHAM strongly believes that industry will achieve Government of India’s dream of making India a Global Data Hub.”
\r\nSharing his views, Mr Deepak Sood, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM said, “With an average 14.6 GB per month, India has the second highest mobile data consumption in the world. The size of the digital population and growth of digital economy necessitates a strong growth in datacentres. With the digital economy estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2025 there is a huge potential for investments in datacentres in India. The Datacentre and Cloud council at ASSOCHAM has been working towards achieving government of India’s vison of Making India a Global Datacentre hub, promote investment in the sector, propel digital economy growth, enable provisioning of trusted hosting infrastructure to fulfil the growing demand of the country and facilitate state of the art service delivery to citizens.”
\r\nLeading experts and industry captains attending the summit also engaged in a positive exchange of views and ideas.
\r\n“Being one of the largest and fastest growing economies in Asia-Pacific and the world, India presents numerous opportunities in the digital age. Datacentres offering Interconnected Digital Infrastructure with a global footprint and dense ecosystem of Telecom Service Provides, ISPs, Cloud Service Providers, Internet Exchanges and Businesses across verticals are well-positioned to be a critical part as well as a driving force of the digital revolution in India, helping businesses to leverage the digital infrastructure to grow their business domestically and globally,” Mr Manoj Paul, Managing Director- EquinixIndia.
\r\n“India is currently undergoing a digital revolution. This evolution needs datacentres. With the right environment - India has the ability to be the green data processing capital of the world,” Mr Darshan Hiranandani, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Datacentres.
\r\n“India’s datacentre needs are growing exponentially because of increasing data consumption and creation by both enterprises and individuals. The onset of 5G and access to cheaper mobile phones and data plans have accelerated this trend leading to the rapid adoption of OTT platforms, e-commerce, and social media. On the enterprise front, the growing trend of migration from captive datacentres to colocation service providers has been among the primary drivers along with the evolving use cases around emerging technologies such as AI/ML and IoT. demand a new breed of data infrastructure. With the government’s push towards Digital India, the digitalization game will be taken to a new level, and so will the need for a robust, top tier quality, highly scalable, and cost-efficient datacentre infrastructure. These factors, coupled with the focus on data localization, will only lead to the need for global datacentre campuses in India. These are exciting times, and the industry must prepare itself today to drive the transformation of tomorrow. We, at Yotta, are very optimistic and bullish about these trends and have geared ourselves for future capacity creation accordingly,” Mr Sunil Gupta Co-Founder & CEO, Yotta Infrastructure.
\r\n“Due to increased demand from BFSI, transportation, logistics, e-commerce, and government sector, the India market is witnessing tremendous investment from Colocation service providers which is further fuelled by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several global collocation and datacentre service providers have expressed keen interest in the Indian datacentre sector, which is expected to help the sector develop and this would further promote the growth of a variety of allied sectors such as telecommunications, IT Infrastructure and construction, and thus catalyse the development of the entire economy,” Mr Amit Singh, Partner, Advisory Services, PwC.
\r\nMr Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Chairman, CtrlS and Cloud4C also shared insights on the importance of datacentres, opportunities and way forward.
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Successive Indian governments have made great efforts and taken\r\n comprehensive measures to empower various marginalized groups in society, such as Scheduled\r\n casts and scheduled tribes, women, disabled, among other sections.\r\n India is focused on empowering women by facilitating their access to skilling, economic resources,\r\n employment opportunities, property and other productive assets and mentoring. The country has\r\n also instituted various measures to support marginalized classes in education, skilling and\r\n employment.\r\n India has also made massive progress in ensuring women\'s empowerment through a variety of\r\n measures aimed at helping those sections that were oppressed. These include schemes to promote\r\n girl-child education such as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, etc., and\r\n campaigns to bring awareness to the most remote areas.\r\n In recent years, government initiatives such as Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala\r\n Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, Jal Jeevan Mission, Direct Bank transfers, among others, have played a\r\n huge role in empowering the vulnerable sections of society by providing them with a much-needed\r\n safety net.', 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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Today, India has a vibrant corporate\r\n sector engaged in a wide variety of fields such as Information Technology, Pharmaceuticals,\r\n Telecom, and Media, etc. The country also boasts of a strong MSME sector that forms the backbone\r\n of the country\'s economy.\r\n While India has a thriving business community, entrepreneurship in India needs interventions to\r\n address challenges and create a robust growth path. With rising interest from global investors,\r\n Indian businesses, including startups, are disrupting traditional models and identifying new niches\r\n with innovative products, agile business models and exceptional execution techniques.', 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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Initiatives such as Telehealth, Aarogya Setu app helped the government tackle the surge\r\n of the virus while E-commerce supported both consumers and businesses.\r\n Over the years, the Indian government has been working to promote and increase the use of digital\r\n tools as a means of increasing transparency and reach. The Digital India mission was launched to\r\n improve digital infrastructure in the country for efficient delivery of government services. Since then,\r\n the government has been utilizing the digital framework in the country for critical initiatives such as\r\n DBT transfers, GST, Arogya Setu, Cowin app, etc.\r\n Technology is also helping businesses access new markets, drive efficiencies and support the overall\r\n growth of the economy. Digitalization is also helping bridge the gap between rural and urban India,\r\n facilitating improved access to healthcare, education, and financial sectors. Digitization has also\r\n become vital for the survival and future growth of all companies, especially MSMEs that should aim\r\n to make technology an integral part of their business strategy. ', 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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Lorem Ipsum has been the industry ', 'digitalization', 'url', 'https://google.com', 1, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'); -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `privacy_policies` -- CREATE TABLE `privacy_policies` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `description` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `status` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '1', `deleted` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -- Dumping data for table `privacy_policies` -- INSERT INTO `privacy_policies` (`id`, `title`, `description`, `status`, `deleted`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'ASSOCHAM Terms of Services and Privacy Policy
', '\r\n \r\n ', '1', 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:11', '2021-10-27 04:21:11'); -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `profiles` -- CREATE TABLE `profiles` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `name` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `short_designation` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `long_designation` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `image` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `linkedin_url` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '#', `short_desc` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `long_desc` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `expertise` varchar(150) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `slug` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `status` int(11) NOT NULL, `deleted` int(11) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -- Dumping data for table `profiles` -- INSERT INTO `profiles` (`id`, `name`, `short_designation`, `long_designation`, `image`, `linkedin_url`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `expertise`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'Vineet Agarwal', 'PresidentVineet Agarwal is the President of apex industry body ASSOCHAM\r\n (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) and\r\n Managing Director, Transport Corporation of India Ltd. (TCIL).
\r\n\r\nVineet Agarwal is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, USA and\r\n completed the Owner President Management program from Harvard\r\n Business School.
\r\nHe is also the founding National President of the Young Leaders\r\n Council at the All India Management Association. He served as a\r\n director on Young President Organization\'s (YPO) international board\r\n and was previously a member of the Global Agenda councils at the\r\n World Economic Forum, board member of the HBS Club of India and at\r\n many other institutions.
\r\nHe has also been involved in various non-government organizations in\r\n the areas of creating AIDS awareness programs in association with the\r\n Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
\r\nIn 2014, he was awarded - \'Young CEO of the Year\' by CEO magazine\r\n and in 2017. He was named among 200 young entrepreneurs nominated\r\n by Government of India under the \'Champions of Change\' initiative. He\r\n was also awarded \'CEO of the Year 2018\' by the Indian Institute of\r\n Material Management.
', 'Logistics & WarehousingA leading first-generation entrepreneur, Sumant Sinha is the Founder,\r\n Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power - one of India\'s largest\r\n clean energy companies.
\r\nSumant founded ReNew Power in January 2011,\r\n with a vision to transform the way energy is produced and consumed in India.\r\n Since then, under his leadership, the company has grown exponentially and\r\n is today one of India\'s premier renewable energy companies with an\r\n aggregate portfolio of more than 10 GW spread over more than 100\r\n sites. ReNew has been funded by marquee investors including Goldman\r\n Sachs, CPPIB (largest Canadian pension fund), ADIA (sovereign wealth\r\n fund in Middle East) and JERA (leading Japanese utility), and has raised\r\n more than USD 6 billion of capital, both equity and debt.
\r\nReNew has emerged as one of the leading asset creators in the country over the last 5 years. It now generates one per cent of India\'s total electricity annually, and in doing so helps mitigate half a per cent of India\'s carbon emissions in a year.
\r\nSumant is a passionate advocate for solutions related to climate change and\r\n sustainable development and has spoken at various thought leadership\r\n platforms, such as World Economic Forum at Davos, Climate Week NYC,\r\n CERA Week and other forums organized by Financial Times, ORF as well\r\n as leading global universities. He has written more than 150 opinion articles\r\n in leading global and Indian publications on the pressing issues of climate\r\n change, renewable energy and sustainable economic growth. Sumant has\r\n recently written a book - Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a\r\n Carbon-Constrained World which is about the past, present and future of\r\n the world\'s energy systems in the context of the world\'s changing climate\r\n and spells out a playbook to create a carbon light future for India. Former\r\n Vice President Al Gore describes the book as \"a compelling roadmap to a\r\n better, cleaner future for India-and other developing regions of the world\".\r\n Sumant is a member of the Stewardship Board on Shaping the Future of\r\n Energy at the World Economic Forum and serves as the Chair of the Climate\r\n Group\'s India Advisory Board. He also serves on the Board of Directors of\r\n the US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), and chairs CII\'s\r\n Renewable Energy Council. Sumant is a member of the Advisory Committee\r\n of the India Climate Collaborative- a platform promoting policy advocacy and\r\n thought leadership on climate change. He is on the Board of Governors of\r\n IIM Calcutta, IIM Sirmaur, IIT Delhi and Columbia University\'s School of\r\n International and Public Affairs (SIPA).\r\n
\r\n For his achievements in entrepreneurship and clean energy, Sumant has\r\n won several awards including \"Chairman Of The Year\" at the Stevie\r\n International Business Awards 2020, The Entrepreneur India\'s Entrepreneur\r\n of the Year award, 2019, the coveted \"Economic Times Entrepreneur of the\r\n Year Award\' 2018, \"EY Entrepreneur of the Year\", 2017\" and \"Outstanding\r\n Start-up of the Year\"- Forbes India Leadership Awards 2017 for ReNew\r\n Power.
\r\n After starting his career in the Tata Administrative Service, Sumant worked\r\n as an investment banker with Citicorp and ING Barings in the US and UK,\r\n before heading finance in one of India\'s largest conglomerates, the Aditya\r\n Birla Group. He was also COO of Suzlon, India\'s largest wind turbine\r\n company. Sumant has a Master\'s degree in International Affairs from\r\n Columbia University, a degree in business management from the Indian\r\n Institute of Management Calcutta and also a B. Tech from the Indian Institute\r\n of Technology Delhi.
', 'Renewable Energy\r\n Born in 1950, Dr. Hiranandani, is son of a Padmabhushan honored ENT specialist Dr. L H Hiranandani. He did schooling from Campion School, Mumbai and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Hons.) with a distinction of standing Second from Mumbai University. He did his F.C.A. from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.He started his career as a chartered accountant professor, then enteredinto the world of business by venturing into textiles in the late seventies, and in 1981, he forayed into real estate business with the foundation of Hiranandani Group.\r\n
\r\n He is known as \'Builder Extraordinaire\' and as the Man responsible for changing the skyline of Mumbaiwith the delivery of landmark project \'Hiranandani Gardens\' Powai.The Hiranandani\'s pioneered the concept of developing mixed-used integrated townships model with vibrant community living its very own reason of existence. The Hiranandani Group under his astute leadership set the benchmark in terms of Quality Construction, Precision Engineering, Technology & Innovation, Timely Delivery and Holistic Development. The Group has diversified into Commercial,Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Infrastructure, and Organised Retail. The group has recently forayed into Industrial parks and Logistic sector under the brand name \'GreenBase\'. Displaying extraordinary qualities as developer, as also a perfectionist in terms of quality, brilliance and untiring zest for excellence, the group has spread its footprints in the newer markets like Thane, Panvel, Alibaug, Khandala, Chennai, Ahmedabad,Nashikand Pune to sum up the current developments.\r\n
\r\n With his profound knowledge, sharp business acumen and an ambitious attitude, he has been conferred with the leadership role across various prominent business organisation and chambers by Industry pundits. He has played a leadership and advisory senior positions in various industry bodies Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI); Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC); Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI); Confederation of Real Estate Developers\' Association of India (CREDAI). He has also been Member of the Task Force for reforms in Housing & Urban Development of Government of India; as also Member of the Study Group on Slum Rehabilitation Scheme, Government of Maharashtra. He has been Convener of the Key Group representing Business Community in the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II) as also Member of the Working Group on Urban Housing for the Ninth Five Year Plan.\r\n
', 'Real EstateIn last 26 years, Deepak has worked for the industry and government -\r\n in India and abroad, gaining and sharing valuable experience across\r\n sectors and geographies. He has worked for Foseco, (Burmah Castrol\r\n Company), Larsen and Toubro (L&T), Total Fina Elf, ABB and\r\n Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
\r\nIn addition, he has closely worked with Ministries, both at the Centre and in States and has sound understanding of India\'s governance and industrial ecosystem. He led the Global Business Fairs Division, National Committees on - FMCG, Branding, Marketing, and Knowledge Management.
\r\nHe has\r\n worked extensively in the areas of Power Generation and Automation,\r\n Preventive Maintenance, Asset Management, Farm\r\n Mechanisation, Sugar Manufacturing, Mining and Capital Goods to\r\n name a few.
\r\nDeepak feels, the key to his success has been the hands-on Industrial\r\n experience during his early years. He continues to keep connect with\r\n the technical side and also keeps up with latest developments in most\r\n sectors.
\r\nHe has been involved, since inception, with the core team of \"Make in\r\n India\" and actively participated at all meetings helping promote India\r\n opportunity, including organising some of the largest business meets\r\n of the Country in India and abroad.
\r\nHe has worked with multiple\r\n Ministries and Department, globally, especially Ministry of Commerce\r\n and Industry (MOCI), Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises,\r\n Ministry of Railways and Department of Industrial Policy and\r\n promotion (DIPP) among others.
\r\nMore recently, he was deputed to Government of Karnataka, as the CEO\r\n of Invest Karnataka Forum (IKF) set up by the State, as a Section 8 \r\n Company, to promote the State, across sectors for inward investments.\r\n He very actively led the global campaign chaired by the State Industry\r\n Minister. IKF also provided advisory services to Industries Department,\r\n Karnataka to improve its score on the Ease of Doing Business Index\r\n (EoDB) and closed on some very major investments.
\r\nHe was nominated\r\n for the State Level Single Window Project Clearance Committee\r\n (SLSWCC) for land allocation and projects up to 500 crores\r\n investments, chaired by the Industry Minister. He was also part of the\r\n State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) for large projects\r\n chaired by the Chief Minister.
\r\n\"Working on the other side of the table is an extremely challenging but\r\n highly enriching experience\". It helps develop understandings that are\r\n otherwise very difficult to comprehend. \"
\r\nHe has been a speaker at multiple seminars, conferences and training\r\n programs and mentors young students, early stage Start-ups.\r\n Sustainable living and giving back to society is an important aspect\r\n of his life. Deepak takes this work very seriously.
', 'EmpowermentWith a rich resource base, Uttar Pradesh is country’s 3rd largest economy, contributing nearly 8% to national GDP. The state has India’s largest consumer base with population size of nearly 24 Cr. UP has a major advantage of demographic dividend (56% of its population size under working age group), which will be a key driver for future growth.
\r\nUttar Pradesh is now proudly placed 2nd on the EoDB rankings under the Business Reforms Action Plan of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The remarkable jump of 10 positions in ease of doing business rankings over the last 3 years clearly explains the tremendous efforts put in by the Govt of UP to readily transform the investment climate in the State.
\r\nInvestment opportunities in UP are in the following sectors: Food Processing, Handloom & Textile, IT&ITES, Tourism, Defense& Aerospace, Civil Aviation, Renewable Energy, Films & Entertainment, Electronics Manufacturing, MSME, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics & Warehousing, Hotel Industry etc.
\r\nASSOCHAM has reconstituted Uttar Pradesh State Development Council for the year 2021. Going forward, we will enhance our focus on knowledge, policy advocacy, sector development and capacity building. ASSOCHAM aims to drive more initiatives to support our members, the industry at large, and the Government to drive the country\'s socio-economic growth.
\r\nASSOCHAM Uttar Pradesh State Development Council’s focus will be to give more fillip to Food Processing, Handloom & Textile, IT& ITES, Tourism, Renewable Energy, Films & Entertainment, Electronics Manufacturing, MSME, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics & Warehousing, Export, Hotel Industry etc. by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders from these sectors in the State.
\r\n ', 'uttar-pradesh-regions-category.jpg', 'Rajesh Bhatia', 'CFO, UFlex Ltd.', 'rajeshbhatia.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'uttar-pradesh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (8, 'Pondicherry', 'Pondicherry---Header.jpg', '', '', '', 'pondicherry-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Pondicherry', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (9, 'Goa', 'GOA---Header.jpg', 'Goa State Council', 'Goa, the smallest state of India, has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states, two and a half times as high as the GDP per capita of the country. The Eleventh Finance Commission of India named Goa the best-placed state because of its infrastructure.', 'Goa, the smallest state of India, has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states, two and a\r\n half times as high as the GDP per capita of the country. The Eleventh Finance Commission of India\r\n named Goa the best-placed state because of its infrastructure.\r\n ASSOCHAM Goa State Council is committed to work diligently by focusing on the pragmatic solutions for the problems faced by the local level industries and commerce. Be it compliance burden,\r\n licensing issues, permission, etc. The Council works closely with the State Government & Industry\r\n on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for\r\n the industry through a wide spectrum of specialised services.\r\n Previously, Major activities done by ASSOCHAM Goa Council is in the sector of Agro-Food Processing, Fisheries, Tourism, including frequent flagship summits / conferences and research papers.\r\n Key Sectors identified by ASSOCHAM Goa Council for the upliftment and development of the state\r\n are Agro & Food Processing, Fisheries, Logistics, Tourism, Start-ups & MSMEs and IT/ITes to organize focused activities.\r\n ', 'goa-regions-category.jpg', 'Manguirsh Pai Raikar', 'CMD, Brown packaging Systems Pvt. Ltd. And RCPR Co', 'manguirshrai.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Goa', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (10, 'Jammu & Kashmir', 'J_K---Header.jpg', 'Jammu & Kashmir UT Development Council\r\n ', 'J&K has ideal agro-climatic conditions for horticulture and floriculture together an enormous\r\n assortment of flora and fauna. .', 'J&K has ideal agro-climatic conditions for horticulture and floriculture together an enormous\r\n assortment of flora and fauna. Besides, the cost of setting up operations is comparatively lower than\r\n other states/UTs. The GSDP grew at a CAGR of 10.51 per cent, during 2011-12 to 2018-19 to reach Rs\r\n 1.57 trillion (US$ 24.42 billion). The UT also offers significant potential in hydro power sector.\r\n Considering the strong potential in the UT, ASSOCHAM formed a J&K UT Council to identify\r\n opportunities and implement strategies aimed at holistic growth & development of J&K. Main\r\n objective is to build a strong and diverse council for J&K towards revamping the economy by\r\n covering all the thrust sectors for overall sustainable growth and development of the UT.\r\n ', 'jammu-kashmir-regions-category.jpg', 'Manik Batra', 'Director, Batra Group', 'Manikbatra.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Jammu-Kashmir', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (11, 'Madhya Pradesh', 'MP---Header.jpg', 'Madhya Pradesh State Council', 'ASSOCHAM Madhya Pradesh State Council is dedicated to focus more at the micro level industries\r\n and commerce ecosystem for the betterment of Indian Industries.', 'ASSOCHAM Madhya Pradesh State Council is dedicated to focus more at the micro level industries\r\n and commerce ecosystem for the betterment of Indian Industries. It works closely with the State\r\n Government & Industry on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for the industry through a wide spectrum of specialized services.\r\n Key Sectors identified by ASSOCHAM Madhya Pradesh Council for the upliftment and development\r\n of the state are Agro & Food Processing, Renewable Energy, Tourism, Start-ups & MSMEs to organize focused activities by organising flagship summits/conferences and conducting research papers in all relevant sectors.\r\n ', 'madhya-pradesh-regions-category.jpg', 'Girish Agarwaal', 'MD, Dainik Bhaskar group', 'Girishaggarwal.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'madhya-pradesh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (12, 'Maharashtra', 'MH---Header.jpg', '', '', '', 'maharashtra-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Maharashtra', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (13, 'Chandigarh', 'Chandigarh---Header.jpg', 'Chandigarh Development Council', 'Chandigarh, apart from acting as capital of Haryana and Punjab, the city is also a Union Territory. It is\r\n one of the early planned cities in post-independent India and is internationally known for its architecture and urban design.', 'Chandigarh, apart from acting as capital of Haryana and Punjab, the city is also a Union Territory. It is\r\n one of the early planned cities in post-independent India and is internationally known for its\r\n architecture and urban design. The UT administration, Chandigarh is committed to create a progressive business environment.\r\n The city is emerging as a hub to various commercial areas like service industry, education,health,Information technology, food processing etc. To attract investment in the city, government has introduced various sectoral policies. Also, Chandigarh has well-developed social, physical and industrial infrastructure and connectivity.\r\n Keeping the potential in view, ASSOCHAM formed a Chandigarh Development Council to closely work with UT administration for the economic and industrial development of Chandigarh.', 'chandigarh-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Chandigarh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (14, 'Bihar', 'Bihar---Header.jpg', '', '', '', 'bihar-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'bihar', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (15, 'North East', 'North-East---Header.jpg', 'North East', 'North East of India is among the fastest emerging business destination and the road of the growth and prosperity of India passes through the region. With distinct advantage of the region and the able leadership of the various state governments and availability of abundant natural resources, skilled manpower North East as a region is being noticed by National ', 'North East of India is among the fastest emerging business destination and the road of the growth and prosperity of India passes through the region. With distinct advantage of the region and the able leadership of the various state governments and availability of abundant natural resources, skilled manpower North East as a region is being noticed by National and International Partners. Most north-eastern states are growing in double digits with enormous potential to expand in areas as diverse as organic food to renewable energy. The region is also a vantage entry point for the South-East Asian markets. The resource-rich north east with its expanses of fertile farmland and a huge talent pool could turn into one of India's most prosperous regions. However the fullest potential of the region and of the state has not been utilized.\r\n Keeping the strong potential of the north east in view, ASSOCHAM North East Council chaired by M K Agarwal, Managing Director, Meghalaya Cements Ltd., aims to draw a roadmap including Promotion of Innovation, Exhibitions, Conferences along with organizing panel discussions, round table meeting etc.\r\n \r\n', 'north-east-regions-category.jpg', ' M.K. Agarwal', 'Managing Director, Meghalaya Cements Ltd.', 'M.K. Agarwal.jpg', 'url', 'https://www.google.com', 'North-East', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (16, 'Haryana', 'haryana-header.jpg', 'Haryana State Development Council', 'Haryana is one of the major and well-developed states of our country and makes significant contribution towards India's agriculture, industry, and commercial output', 'Haryana is one of the major and well-developed states of our country and makes significant contribution towards India's agriculture, industry, and commercial output. The state has made impressive strides over the years to carve out a niche for itself in the fields of engineering, automobiles, textiles, leather, information technology, electronic hardware, and hi-tech industries. The contribution of the primary, secondary and tertiary sector to state's GVA in FY20 were 16 per cent, 33 per cent and 51 per cent, respectively.\r\n\r\n Haryana emerged as a preferred investment destination for domestic as well as international investors due to its suitable climatic conditions & conducive business environment. Today it is home to several multinational companies and corporate houses.\r\n ', 'haryana-regions-category.jpg', 'Vijay Sharma', 'Director, Jindal Stainless', 'Vijaysharma.jpg', 'url', 'https://www.google.com', 'Haryana', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (17, 'Tamil Nadu', 'Tamil-NaduHeader.jpg', 'Tamil Nadu State Development Council', '-ASSOCHAM Tamil Nadu Secretariat focus is on giving more fillip to Automobile Sector, Textile Sector, Healthcare & Pharma Sector, MSME Sector, Agri & Food Processing Sector', 'ASSOCHAM Tamil Nadu Secretariat focus is on giving more fillip to Automobile Sector, Textile Sector, Healthcare & Pharma Sector, MSME Sector, Agri & Food Processing Sector, ESDM Sector by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders from these sectors in the State of Tamil Nadu. The scope of the State Councils. Going forward, will enhance our focus on knowledge, policy advocacy, sector development and capacity building. ASSOCHAM aims to drive more initiatives to support our members, the industry at large, and the Government to drive the country\\\'s socio-economic growth. ASSOCHAM Tamil Nadu Council will facilitate & guide to conduct programs, projects, publication & other activities focusing on socio-economic development indicators with an objective to serve our members & non-member partners in the State of Tamil Nadu.', 'tamil-nadu-regions-category.jpg', 'Karl-Alexander Seidel', 'Chairman CEO & Head, Daimler Bus India, Daimler I', '', 'url', 'https://www.google.com', 'tamil-Nadu', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (18, 'Rajasthan', 'Rajasthan---Header.jpg', 'ASSOCHAM Rajasthan State Development Council', 'This Council is founded to enhance a collaborative environment of business and commerce, across the state of Rajasthan.', 'This Council is founded to enhance a collaborative environment of business and commerce, across\r\n the state of Rajasthan. It works in synchronisation with ASSOCHAM National and Central Region\r\n Development Councils.
\r\nThe council meets to deliberate and formalize on critical issues being faced by the industry and\r\n submit recommendations to the Government. It contributes significantly to the growth of the region\r\n and shape the Centre and State Governments\' policies. The Chairman and Co-Chairman of council\r\n and committees, represent ASSOCHAM at high-level meetings with ministers, senior Government\r\n officials, policymakers and regulators to discuss sectoral issues, emerging trends and help define an\r\n actionable roadmap.
\r\nRole of the council is to promote the vision and mission of ASSOCHAM state-wide and to ensure the\r\n strategies agreed upon by members are implemented, monitored and evaluated.
\r\n ', 'rajasthan-regions-category.jpg', 'Ajay Data', 'Managing Director, Data Group of Industries', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Rajasthan', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (19, 'Andhra pradesh', 'andhra-pradesh.jpg', 'Andhra Pradesh State Development Council', 'ASSOCHAM Andhra Pradesh Secretariat focus will be to give more fillip to Marine & Aqua Sector, MSME, Hospitality & Tourism, Agri & Food Processing, by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders from these sectors in the State of Andhra Pradesh.', 'ASSOCHAM Andhra Pradesh Secretariat focus will be to give more fillip to Marine & Aqua Sector, MSME, Hospitality & Tourism, Agri & Food Processing, by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders from these sectors in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\n\r\nASSOCHAM Andhra Pradesh Council will facilitate & guide to conduct programs, projects, publication & other activities focusing on socio-economic development indicators with an objective to serve our members & non-member partners in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
\r\nHe is a seasoned professional offering 28 years of rich and varied experience in Infrastructure Industry with focus in Stakeholder Management, Procurement, Project Management & Techno-commercial Operations, cost and time management for projects, value engineering, innovative thinking. Extensive business background in multi-cultural environments with sound understanding of the basic framework of operations in the Construction industry and repeatedly produced sustained business and revenue growth in challenging markets. Exhibiting a high level of personal commitment and focus on meeting challenges and achieving business and project objectives. Possess the ability to select, establish and lead teams of professional and support personnel to create focussed and harmonious Companies. He is on the board of Advisor on GreenKo Group, Axis Energy, etc. He is an active member on various associations and consultative committees for development of the State of Andhra Pradesh. He is an Associate at Greenko Group, ACE Urban (previously L&T Infocity), HES Infra Ltd
', 'andhra-pradesh-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'andhra-pradesh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:07', '2021-10-27 04:21:07'), (20, 'Western Region', 'western-region-regions-header.jpg', 'Western Region Development Council', 'Western Region of India is among the fastest emerging business destination and the road of the\r\n growth and prosperity of India passes through the region.', 'Western Region of India is among the fastest emerging business destination and the road of the\r\n growth and prosperity of India passes through the region. With distinct advantage of the region and\r\n the able leadership of the various state governments and availability of manpower West as a region\r\n is being noticed by national and international partners. Most West states are growing in double\r\n digits with enormous potential to expand in areas from Agro-Food Processing to Renewable Energy.
\r\nElaborating on the priorities for the year 2021-22 and beyond, ASSOCHAM Western Region\r\n Development Council would like to work closely with state governments towards re-vamping and\r\n rebooting the economy by covering all the thrust sectors for overall sustainable growth and\r\n development of the western states. Main aim of the council is to build a strong foundation for the\r\n industries and commerce at western states, to lead in terms of growth and promoting sustainability.
\r\nASSOCHAM Western Region Development Council covers the four Indian States Gujarat, Madhya\r\n Pradesh, Goa & Maharashtra. The WR Development Council meets 3-4 times in a year to deliberate\r\n upon and concretise the views on the important issues brought to its no-tice for submission to the\r\n Government. In addition, the Council organises various events and helps Chamber to mobilise\r\n resources. The WR Development Council have immensely contributed to the growth of the industry\r\n sectors and shaping the policies of the Governments.
\r\nKeeping the strong potential of the industries and commerce of Western State Region in view,\r\n ASSOCHAM Western Region Development Council aims to draw a roadmap including Promotion of\r\n Innovation, Exhibitions, Conferences along with organising panel discussions, round table meeting etc.
', 'western region.jpg', 'Jaxay Shah', 'MD, Savvy Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'western-region', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (21, 'Telangana', 'telangana-header-regions-header.jpg', 'Telangana State Development Council', 'ASSOCHAM Telangana Secretariat focus is on giving more fillip to Pharma & Life Sciences, IT, ITES &\r\n Startup, Agriculture & Allied Industries, Food Processing, MSME, Real Estate, Renewable Energy &\r\n New Energy Technologies
', 'ASSOCHAM Telangana Secretariat focus is on giving more fillip to Pharma & Life Sciences, IT, ITES &\r\n Startup, Agriculture & Allied Industries, Food Processing, MSME, Real Estate, Renewable Energy &\r\n New Energy Technologies by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders\r\n from these sectors in the State of Telangana.
\r\nASSOCHAM Telangana Council will facilitate & guide to conduct programs, projects, publication &\r\n other activities focusing on socio-economic development indicators with an objective to serve our\r\n members & non-member partners in the State of Telangana
', 'telangana-regions-category.jpg', 'Ravi Kumar Reddy Kataru', 'Chairman and Managing Director, Axis Energy Group', 'Ravi Reddy (Telangana).jp', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Telangana', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (22, 'Northern Region', 'northern-region-regions-header.jpg', 'Northern Region Development Council', 'Northern region, one of the largest regions in India constitutes 30.8 percent of country\'s total area\r\n and 31 percent of the country\'s population', 'Northern region, one of the largest regions in India constitutes 30.8 percent of country\'s total area\r\n and 31 percent of the country\'s population, contributing over 26 percent to the national GDP. This\r\n region has numerous unique strengths such as significant pool of highly skilled and unskilled labour,\r\n abundance of natural resources, vast land banks, growing infrastructure, continuous government\r\n support and many more. Together, these factors make the region a viable investment destination.
\r\nKeeping in view the strong potential of Northern Region, ASSOCHAM formed a Northern Region\r\n Development Council which is currently covering the 3 Indian States i.e Haryana, Himachal Pradesh\r\n and Punjab & 2 UT's i.e Chandigarh and Jammu & Kashmir.
\r\nInternational Tractors Limited (Sonalika), Vice Chairman, Amrit Sagar Mittal & Suneet\r\n Kochhar, Director, Khanna Paper Mills took the charge of ASSOCHAM\'s Chairman & Co-Chairman for\r\n Northern Region Development Council.
\r\nElaborating on the priorities for the year 2021-22 and beyond, ASSOCHAM Northern Region\r\n Development Council will work closely with the State Governments of the northern region as an\r\n equal partner for the holistic and sustainable growth of the industry sectors in the region.
', 'northern-region-regions-category.jpg', 'Amrit Sagar Mittal', 'Vice Chairman, Sonalika Group', 'Amritsagar.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Northern-Region', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (23, 'Himachal Pradesh', 'Himachal---Header.jpg', 'Himachal Pradesh State Council', 'Himachal Pradesh, known as Land of Gods, famous for its topographic\r\n diversity, pristine natural beauty is one of the fastest growing states in\r\n India.
', 'Himachal Pradesh, known as Land of Gods, famous for its topographic\r\n diversity, pristine natural beauty is one of the fastest growing states in\r\n India. The State Government of Himachal Pradesh offers a wide range of\r\n policy and fiscal incentives for businesses under the Industrial Policy, 2017.\r\n The state has also undertaken other policies such as Tourism Policy 2005\r\n and IT Policy 2001 for up gradation of these sectors in the state.
\r\nThe state has the fastest-growing regions in the pharmaceutical industry in\r\n India and suitable agro-climatic conditions which support cultivation of\r\n multiple crops, vegetables and fruits around the year.\r\n
\r\nTourism is another key sector of Himachal Pradesh and contributes 7 per\r\n cent to the state GDP.
\r\nConsidering a strong potential in the state ASSOCHAM formed a Himachal\r\n State Council. India's leading Herbal & Ayurveda service provider,\r\n Exporter & manufacturer, Jitender Sodhi, Chairman & Managing\r\n Director, Ayush Group of Companies India has taken charge as the\r\n Chairman of ASSOCHAM Himachal Pradesh Council.
\r\nElaborating on the priorities for the year 2021-22 and beyond, ASSOCHAM\r\n Himachal State council would like to work as an equal partner with State\r\n Government by working closely towards revamping the economy by\r\n covering all the thrust sectors for overall sustainable growth and\r\n development of the state. Main aim of the council would be to build a strong\r\n and diverse council for Himachal Pradesh which will lead in growth and\r\n sustenance of the sectors in the State.\r\n
', 'himachal-pradesh-regions-category.jpg', 'Jitendra Sodhi', 'CMD, Ayush Group of Companies', 'sodhi.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Himachal-Pradesh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (24, 'Central Region', 'Central-Region.jpg', 'Central Region Development Council (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Rajasthan)', 'ASSOCHAM Central Region Development Council consists of four State development councils namely\r\n Delhi State Development Council, Uttar Pradesh State Development Council, Rajasthan State\r\n Development Council and Uttarakhand State Development Council', 'ASSOCHAM Central Region Development Council consists of four State development councils namely\r\n Delhi State Development Council, Uttar Pradesh State Development Council, Rajasthan State\r\n Development Council and Uttarakhand State Development Council. The CRDC Council aims to\r\n facilitate the sustainable development of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand through\r\n providing timely inputs on policy advocacy, sector development and capacity building. It works to\r\n deliberate upon and concretize the views on the important issues brought to its notice for\r\n submission to the Government. In addition, the Council organizes various activities and helps\r\n Chamber to mobilize resources. The CRDC Council will contribute to the growth of the industry\r\n sectors and shaping the policies of the State Governments.
', 'central-region-regions-categor.jpg', 'Lalit Khaitan', 'CMD Radico Khaitan Ltd', 'lalitkhaitan.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Central-Region', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (25, 'Chhattisgarh', 'Chattishgarh-Regions.jpg', 'Chhattisgarh State Development Council', 'Chhattisgarh is in the central part of India. The state shares its border with Madhya Pradesh and\r\n Maharashtra in the west, Uttar Pradesh in the north, Odisha and Jharkhand in the east, and Andhra\r\n Pradesh in the south.', 'Chhattisgarh is in the central part of India. The state shares its border with Madhya Pradesh and\r\n Maharashtra in the west, Uttar Pradesh in the north, Odisha and Jharkhand in the east, and Andhra\r\n Pradesh in the south. At current prices, Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Chhattisgarh stood\r\n at Rs 3.62 trillion (US$ 51.39 billion) in 2020-21. GSDP (in Rs.) of the state at current prices grew at a\r\n CAGR of 9.97% between 2015-16 and 2020-21. Chhattisgarh stands fourth among Indian states in\r\n rankings based on ease of doing business and reforms implementation, according to a study by the\r\n World Bank and KPMG.
\r\nBeing the state with the highest proportion of raw materials and resources, ASSOCHAM is playing a\r\n leading role in accumulating the leaders of the industry through its continuous efforts. ASSOCHAM\r\n aims to be the pioneer in the state for developing and establishing the Mining, Thermal and\r\n Education industries. It has also proposed a series of virtual events to evolve the mining and metal\r\n industries of the state.
\r\nASSOCHAM is contributing more and more - not only in laying the foundation for the industries but\r\n also in promoting social development with a focus on overall progress of the region.
', 'chhattisgarh-state-regions-category.jpg', 'Pankaj Malhan', 'CEO, Vedanta Steel', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Chhattisgarh', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (26, 'Uttarakhand', 'Uttarakhand---Header.jpg', 'Uttarakhand State Development Council', 'Uttarakhand has emerged one of the fastest growing states in India, by virtue of the massive growth\r\n in capital investment arising from conducive industrial policy and huge tax benefits. ', 'Uttarakhand has emerged one of the fastest growing states in India, by virtue of the massive growth\r\n in capital investment arising from conducive industrial policy and huge tax benefits. Between 2015-\r\n 16 and 2019-20, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) expanded at a CAGR of 9.39% to reach Rs.\r\n 2.54 trillion (US$ 35.99 billion). The state is blessed with natural resources due to its hills and forests.\r\n Its agro-climatic conditions support horticulture-based industries and plenty natural resources of\r\n water makes it an 'energy state' to tap the hydropower electric potential of over 25,000 MW. As of\r\n April 2019, Hydropower generation installed capacity in the state was recorded to be 1,815.69 MW.
\r\nUnder the State's Vision 2030, The tourism sector is considering development of spiritual and\r\n religious theme-based circuits for tourism which will create more employment in the economy.\r\n Agriculture and MSME sectors also are expected massive expansion in the future which will help in\r\n the development of the State. Simultaneous efforts to develop two other sectors—renewable\r\n energy in the form of small hydro-power and expansion of IT to all parts of the state economy—will\r\n make the growth plan sustainable and strengthen its fundamentals.
\r\nUttarakhand has been consistently ranked amongst the top states in India by DPIIT in its assessment\r\n for Ease of Doing Business and ranked no. 1 amongst hill states in India. Moreover, Uttarakhand\r\n ranks #1 in Export Preparedness Index 2020 under Himalayan states category. Total export from the\r\n state stood at US$ 2.28 billion during 2019-20.
\r\nASSOCHAM Uttarakhand State Development Council aims to drive more initiatives to support its\r\n members, the industry at large, and the state Government to drive the socio-economic growth.\r\n Going forward, we will enhance our focus on policy advocacy, sector development and capacity\r\n building.
\r\nOur focus will be to give more fillip to Food Processing, IT& ITES, Tourism, Renewable Energy, Films\r\n & Entertainment, Electronics Manufacturing, MSME, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics & Warehousing,\r\n Export, Hotel Industry etc. by engaging with the Government and interfacing with Industry Leaders\r\n from these sectors in Uttarakhand.
', 'uttarakhand-regions-category.jpg', 'Surender Kumar Sharma', 'Chief Executive Officer, Patanjali Food & Herbal P', 'Surenderkumar.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Uttarakhand', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (27, 'Eastern Region', 'east-north-east-development-regions-header.jpg', 'Eastern Region Development Council', 'West Bengal is the fourth largest growing state in terms of economic growth rate, with a constant\r\n progress towards betterment.', 'West Bengal is the fourth largest growing state in terms of economic growth rate, with a constant\r\n progress towards betterment. It also ranks as the sixth highest contributor to India's GDP. The state\r\n is strengthening its economic, social and infrastructural position and is emerging as an investor's\r\n paradise, as "Brand Bengal".
\r\nConsidering the strong potential of the state, ASSOCHAM formed Eastern Region Council. For the\r\n year 2020-21 and beyond, ASSOCHAM Eastern Region council would like to work closely with State\r\n Government towards revamping the economy by covering all the thrust sectors for overall\r\n sustainable growth and development of the state. Main aim of the council would be to build a strong\r\n and diverse council for the eastern region which will lead in growth and sustenance of the sectors in\r\n the State.
', 'eastern region.jpg', 'Ravi Agarwal', 'Neo Metaliks', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Eastern-Region', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (28, 'Southern Region ', 'Southern-Region.jpg', 'Southern Region Development Council', 'ASSOCHAM has reconstituted Southern Region Development Council for the year 2021. The scope of\r\n the Southern Regional Councils going forward is to enhance focus on knowledge, policy advocacy,\r\n sector development and capacity building. ', 'ASSOCHAM has reconstituted Southern Region Development Council for the year 2021. The scope of\r\n the Southern Regional Councils going forward is to enhance focus on knowledge, policy advocacy,\r\n sector development and capacity building. ASSOCHAM aims to drive more initiatives to support our\r\n members, the industry at large, and the Government to drive the country\'s socio-economic growth.
\r\nASSOCHAM Southern Region focus will be to give more fillip to Manufacturing, MSME, CSR &\r\n Sustainability, Energy & Environment, Women Empowerment, HR, Logistics and Supply Chain,\r\n Taxation, Corporate Law & ESDM by engaging with the Southern State Government and interfacing\r\n with Southern Industry Leaders from these sectors.
\r\nThis Council facilitates & guides to conduct programs, projects, publication & other activities\r\n focusing on socio-economic development indicators with an objective to serve our members & nonmember partners in the Southern States with following objectives:
\r\nPolicy advocacy and Meetings with Govt.
\r\nPromote industry-government partnership through social and environmental initiatives as\r\n per suggested by Government and interest of members
\r\nRecognition of efforts of Private Sectors through organize of Conference and Awards
\r\nTo prepare and publish the knowledge papers/Studies
', 'southern-region-regions-category.jpg', '- B.V. Naidu', 'Managing Partner, StartupXseed Ventures and Founde', 'bvnaidu.jpg', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'Southern-Region', 0, 1, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'), (29, 'West Bengal', 'West-Bengal---Header.jpg', '', '', '', 'west-bengal-regions-category.jpg', '', '', '', 'file', 'abc.pdf', 'West-Bengal', 0, 0, 1, '2021-10-27 04:21:08', '2021-10-27 04:21:08'); -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `region_council_leaderships` -- CREATE TABLE `region_council_leaderships` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `region_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `name` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `image` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `aboutus` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `designation` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `deleted` int(11) NOT NULL, `status` int(11) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `secretariats` -- CREATE TABLE `secretariats` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `image` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `name` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `designation` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `status` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `deleted` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -- Dumping data for table `secretariats` -- INSERT INTO `secretariats` (`id`, `image`, `name`, `designation`, `status`, `deleted`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'Avinash-Sharma.jpg', 'Avinash Sharma', 'Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (2, '', 'Bharat Kr.Jaiswal', 'Regional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (3, 'D-S-Rajora.jpg', 'D S Rajora', 'Assistant Secretary General', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (4, '', 'Gourav Mahajan', 'Regional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (5, 'Harish-Sharma.jpg', 'Harish Sharma', 'Chief Account Officer', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (6, 'Jaidev-Sharma.jpg', 'Jaidev Sharma', 'Joint Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (7, 'Kavita-Sharma.jpg', 'Kavita Sharma', 'Joint Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (8, 'Kuntal-Kar.jpg', 'Kuntal Kar', 'CFO & CS', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (9, 'Manju-R-S-Negi.jpg', 'Manju R.S. Negi', 'Senior Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (10, '', 'Meenakshi Sharma', 'Assistant Secretary General ', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (11, '', 'Nahid Alam', 'Deputy Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (12, 'Neeraj-Arora.jpg', 'Neeraj Arora', 'Senior Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (13, 'Nirupama-Sharma.jpg', 'Nirupama Sharma', 'Joint Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (14, 'Perminder-Jeet-Kaur.jpg', 'Perminder Jeet Kaur', 'Regional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (15, 'Rajesh-Kumar-Singh.jpg', 'Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh', 'Deputy Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (16, 'Sandeep-Jain.jpg', 'Sandeep Jain', 'Joint Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (17, 'Santosh-Parashar.jpg', ' Santosh Parashar', 'Additional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (18, 'Siddhartha-Mishra.jpg', 'Siddhartha Mishra', 'Joint Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (19, 'Uma-Shashikumar-Nair.jpg', 'Uma Shashikumar Nair', 'Regional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (20, 'Varun-Aggarwal.jpg', 'Varun Aggarwal', 'Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (21, 'Vipul-B-Gajingwar.jpg', 'Vipul B Gajingwar', 'Regional Director', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'), (22, 'Basudev-Mukherjee.jpg', 'Basudev Mukherjee', 'Assistant Secretary General', 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:12', '2021-10-27 04:21:12'); -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `sectors` -- CREATE TABLE `sectors` ( `id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `sector_name` varchar(150) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `header_banner_img` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_description` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `short_desc` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `stories_title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `stories_description` varchar(700) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `image` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_image` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_leader_name` varchar(200) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_leader_designation` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `sector_leader_image` varchar(25) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `read_more_link_type` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `read_more_link` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `slug` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `deleted` int(11) NOT NULL, `status` int(11) NOT NULL, `featured` int(11) NOT NULL, `pin_featured` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci; -- -- Dumping data for table `sectors` -- INSERT INTO `sectors` (`id`, `sector_name`, `sector_title`, `header_banner_img`, `sector_description`, `short_desc`, `stories_title`, `stories_description`, `image`, `sector_image`, `sector_leader_name`, `sector_leader_designation`, `sector_leader_image`, `read_more_link_type`, `read_more_link`, `slug`, `deleted`, `status`, `featured`, `pin_featured`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'Data Centre', 'Data Centre', 'sector-Data-Centre.jpg', '\r\nData centres have assumed tremendous importance in the last decade as India continues to become\r\n more and more digital. They contribute significantly to several National benefits including the ways\r\n businesses are done, reduction in fossil fuel use by reducing travel for trade & domestic transactions,\r\n man-day savings involved in day-to-day activities, IT enabled services, speed of communications,\r\n employment generation and several others. IT infrastructure and data centres are vital in translating\r\n the country\'s vision of emerging as \'Digital India\'.
\r\nASSOCHAM Data centre Council has been established to create an opportunity for members to\r\n interact, exchange ideas, hold open discussions, and provide feedback on Data centre and cloud\r\n business in India. The Committee regularly forms recommendations which are submitted to\r\n Government Agencies/Departments for further consideration and for the benefit of the whole\r\n industry. The main aim of the council is to work towards attracting the global Data Centre companies\r\n to invest in India and make India a hub of Data Centres in the World.
', 'Data centres have assumed tremendous importance in the last decade as India continues to become', '', '', '', 'data-centers-sector-category.jpg', 'The Indian automobile industry is one of the largest growing markets in the world and contributes highly to the country\\\'s manufacturing facilities. It has been adding more than 7% to the national GDP, nearly 22% of manufacturing GDP and providing around 7-8% percent of the total employment in the country. India\'s automotive industry is one of the beacons of the country\'s industrial performance and power.
\r\n \r\nIndia\'s emergence as a global auto hub bears testimony to the technical competence, world class scale and entrepreneurial drive of both OEMs and suppliers alike. Many of them have built strong international brands, with significant exports and a significant presence in both developing and developed markets. It has shown the ability to learn from the best in the world while continuously retaining focus on efficient cost structures and value for money products.
\r\n \r\nThe Indian Government\'s intention to move from fossil fuel to clean fuel going forward is a positive step towards positioning us at the forefront of the global quest for clean mobility. The onus of preparing the nation for clean mobility is however not on the government alone. Auto-component suppliers need to swiftly catch up on green technology and business readiness by technology acquisitions, collaborations, and capability demonstrations. The National Council on Auto & Auto Ancillaries of ASSOCHAM aims at putting forth industry issues before the Government for the growth and development of the sector.
', 'The Indian automobile industry is one of the largest growing markets in the world and contributes highly to the country\'s manufacturing facilities.', 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.', 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry\'s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.', 'sector-Auto-_-Auto-Ancillaries.jpg', 'auto-auto-ancillaries-sector-category.jpg', 'The logistics sector in India is unorganized and fragmented with many stakeholders private and public, small and large. Despite the recognition of logistics being a critical driver of economic development, logistics cost in India is very high as compared with more efficient global environments. There is a need to develop a robust policy framework for the sector to ensure the ease of doing business across states.
\r\n\r\n Today, supply chain remains at the despatch level. The Charter of the Council is to create awareness about its importance and aims to bring it to the board level. The Council closely works with the different Government Departments to resolve industry issues towards ease of doing business.
\r\n ', 'The logistics sector in India is unorganized and fragmented with many stakeholders private and public, small and large.', 'The logistics sector in India is unorganized and fragmented public', ' Today, supply chain remains at the despatch level. The Charter of the Council is to create awareness about its importance and aims to bring it to the board level. The Council closely works with the different Government Departments to resolve industry issues towards ease of doing business.', '', 'logistics-warehousing-sector-cover.jpg', 'Under the Aegis of the IT/ITes Council, ASSOCHAM has been organizing platforms where the stakeholders discuss the way forward for the promotion of Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Robotics to push further growth of the economy and achieve USD 5 Trillion Dollar economy.
\r\n\r\nProposed Way Forward:
\r\n\r\n ● To Proactively engage with Government agencies on formulation of policies and implementation guidelines related to emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain etc.
\r\n \r\n ● To forge partnerships with Key agencies such as Ministry of Electronics and IT, Science and Technology, Commerce and Industry, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Telecom and NITI Aayog to promote entrepreneurship and adoption and application of emerging technologies for inclusive growth.
\r\n ● To advise on issues related to policy and regulatory issues affecting the IT and ITES industry in India.
\r\n ● To work with other councils to integrate the efforts related to policy advocacy and thought leadership on cyber-physical systems such as Industry 4.0, logistics, Skilling, smart cities etc.
\r\n ● To facilitate sharing of knowledge and best practices through thought leadership engagements.\r\n
ASSOCHAM National Council on Manufacturing & Capital Goods is actively engage in government policy discussion and contribute with concrete recommendations in consultation with the industry members. Besides, the council also raises industry concerns at different forum of the ministries, departments as well as states. The council has been recommending through representations of various sub-sectors, interacts closely with the industry members, subject experts, and sectoral associations of different manufacturing sector. Also, the Council holds activities like conferences, roundtable discussions, seminars etc. at National Level as well as regional/state level. The broad objective to hold activities are as follows:
\r\n\r\n ● Short term and long-term policy recommendations to Central Government, State Governments and Independent Agencies.
\r\n \r\n ● The council conducts industry survey to assess the business.
\r\n \r\n ● Interaction with Leading Industry representatives, Government Officials, Policy Makers, Multilateral Agencies.
\r\n \r\n ● Platform to exchange ideas & discuss challenges and opportunities during discussions.
A robust banking sector will help India in achieving the Hon\'ble PM\'s vision of $5 trillion economy for\r\n which it has to be \\\'functionally strong and professionally managed to meet the needs of a growing\r\n Indias\'.
\r\n\r\n The mandate of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking covers the aspects such as the major\r\n issues and challenges being faced the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging the gap\r\n between the industry, regulator and policy maker. This includes conducting regular council meetings,\r\n webinar, summit, e-summit and round table discussions under the guidance of Chairman & CoChairman of the council. The ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking covers the functions of Public\r\n policy advocacy, think tank, awareness & training program and is fully committed in providing their\r\n valuable inputs to the relevant Policy Makers & Regulators on the issues being faced by the industry\r\n and its resolution plan.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders, regulators and policy makers which are directly or indirectly involved in\r\n the council includes Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance, World Bank, IFC, IFSCA, NABARD,\r\n SIDBI, NHB, RRBs, Co-Operative Banks etc.
\r\n ', 'A robust banking sector will help India in achieving the Hon\'ble PM\'s vision of $5 trillion economy for\r\n which it has to be \'functionally strong and professionally managed to meet the needs of a growing\r\n India\'s.', 'A robust banking sector will help India in achieving the Hon\'ble PM\'s vision of $5 trillion economy for\r\n which it has to be \'functionally strong and professionally managed to meet the needs of a growing', ' The mandate of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking covers the aspects such as the major\r\n issues and challenges being faced the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging the gap\r\n between the industry, regulator and policy maker. This includes conducting regular council meetings,', 'banking-financial-services-sector-category.jpg', 'banking-financial-services-sector-category.jpg', 'Railways Council focuses on identifying opportunities and challenges in the sector for which regular discussions are organized on every key aspect of the Railways. The Council is working closely with Government and creating awareness among the industry on key developments taking place and giving industry inputs to the Government for policy and regulatory reforms towards modernization of Indian Railways both in passenger and freight transportation operations and bringing ease of doing business with Railways.\r\n
', 'Railways Council focuses on identifying opportunities and challenges in the sector for which regular discussions are organized on every key aspect of the Railways.', '', '', '', 'railway-sector-category.jpg', 'The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Council at ASSOCHAM is intensively involved with issues pertaining to protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. It has taken decisive steps in raising the levels of awareness about Intellectual Property Rights amongst the citizens of India. In this regard, ASSOCHAM’s constructive contributions span various capacity building exercises and training programs for the industry, the judiciary, and the law enforcement agencies. Further, the IPR council is a platform for continuous interaction between the industry and the Government with a view to providing an interface for businesses to resolve their issues pertaining to IPRs.
\r\n\r\n
Under ASSOCHAM National Council on IPR, ASSOCHAM IPFC(AIPFC) is working to create awareness about the role of Intellectual Property for comprehensive awareness & training in IPR to all stakeholders. AIPFC has been involved to enable MSMEs for identifying their intellectual property and to provide services such as IP protection, Counseling & Advisory services to leverage their business venture to excellence. It has been extensively involved in providing strategic Policy & Advocacy services to the MSMEs for the management of their IPRs & Technology. AIPFC is focusing on enabling MSMEs in understanding, identifying & use intellectual property rights for building competitive advantage and business excellence.
', '', '', '', '', 'ipr-sector-category.jpg', 'Insurance is an industry that not only contributes to the financial growth and infrastructure\r\n development of a country but also keeps its gross domestic product (GDP) secure. Foreign Direct\r\n Investment (FDI) in Indian insurance companies is raised to 74% from the existing 49%.
\r\n\r\n The mandate of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Insurance covers the aspects such as the major\r\nissues and challenges being faced the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging the gap\r\nbetween the industry, regulator and policy maker. This includes conducting regular council meetings,\r\nwebinar, summit, e-summit and round table discussions under the guidance of Chairman & CoChairman of the council. The Council covers functions of Public policy advocacy, think tank,\r\nawareness & training program and is fully committed in providing their valuable inputs to the\r\nrelevant Policy Makers & Regulators on the issues being faced by the industry and its resolution\r\nplan.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders, regulators and policy makers which are directly or indirectly involved in\r\nthe council includes Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, Ministry of Finance, etc.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Insurance is an industry that not only contributes to the financial growth and infrastructure\r\n development of a country but also keeps its gross domestic product (GDP) secure. ', '', '', '', 'insurance-sector-category.jpg', 'The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 is the bankruptcy law of India which seeks to consolidate the existing framework by creating a single law for insolvency and bankruptcy. It is a key pillar of the ecosystem responsible for implementation of the Code that consolidates and amends the laws relating to reorganization and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner for maximization of the value of assets of such persons, to promote entrepreneurship, availability of credit and balance the interests of all the stakeholders.
\r\n\r\nThe mandate of the ASSOCHAM National Council for IBC & Valuation covers the aspects such as the major issues and challenges being faced the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging the gap between the industry, regulator and policy maker. This includes conducting regular council meetings, webinar, summit, e-summit and round table discussions under the guidance of Chairman & Co-Chairman of the council. The Council covers the functions of Public policy advocacy, think tank, awareness & training program and is fully committed in providing their valuable inputs to the relevant Policy Makers & Regulators on the issues being faced by the industry and its resolution plan.
\r\n \r\nThe various stakeholders, regulators and policy makers which are directly or indirectly involved in the council includes Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, National Company Law Tribunal, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Ministry of Finance, etc.
', '', '', '', '', 'insolvency-bankruptcy-sector-category.jpg', 'For businesses to grow sustainably, they require an effective regulatory and legal framework. In a\r\n continuously changing national and global business environment, corporate entities require to be\r\n regulated in accordance with evolving economic trends while also considering the interests of\r\n investors and other stakeholders. Several laws have been amended in the last decade to keep the\r\n Indian legal structure up to date with the fast-changing environment. Failure to adhere to the\r\n regulatory framework may result in various adverse consequences, which could be devastating to\r\n the business. In this context, the vital is to change and evolve the legal frameworks which are critical\r\n to running a successful business.
\r\nThis council is an important wing of ASSOCHAM which contributes by way of conducting reviews of\r\n existing laws and policies, analyses the scope of amendments in the light of emerging international\r\n laws and offer recommendations and suggestions for amendments to bring out positive impact for\r\n well-being of the overall state of economy in the country.\r\n
', 'For businesses to grow sustainably, they require an effective regulatory and legal framework. In a\r\n continuously changing national and global business environment, corporate entities require to be\r\n regulated in accordance with evolving economic trends', '', '', '', 'legal-affairs-regulatories-sector-cover.jpg', 'The objective of ASSOCHAM National Council on Council on Leather, Non-Leather and Accessories is\r\n to provide valuable inputs and suggestions on behalf of industry for policy change towards facilitating\r\n an industry-friendly environment and building an appropriate ecosystem for encouraging\r\n manufacturing from India as it is also a major sourcing hub and a big potential market for attracting\r\n FDIs.
\r\n \r\nThrough policy advocacy, conferences, seminars, council meetings, strategy papers,\r\nrecommendations, etc, the ASSOCHAM will pursue these objectives along with government's policy\r\nto accommodate and drive the high growth of Leather, Non-Leather and Accessories Industry
', 'The objective of ASSOCHAM National Council on Council on Leather, Non-Leather and Accessories is\r\n to provide valuable inputs and suggestions on behalf of industry for policy change towards facilitating\r\n an industry-friendly environment and building an', '', '', '', 'Leather,-non-leather-and-accessories.jpg', 'India is home to 1,531 operating mines and produces 95 minerals - 4 fuel-related minerals, 10 metallic minerals, 23 non-metallic minerals, 3 atomic minerals and 55 minor minerals. The Metals and Mining sector in India is expected to witness a major reform in the next few years, owing to reforms such as Make in India Campaign, Smart Cities etc. Government has initiated various reforms such as Mineral Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which would open a new era in Indian coal & mining sector, especially to promote \\\"ease of doing business\\\" and the National Mineral Policy 2019 which was launched for transparency, better regulation and enforcement and balanced socio-economic growth of the sector along with the National Infrastructure Pipeline in 2019 which plans to invest Rs 100 lakh crore (US$ 1.43 trillion) over the next five years. there is significant scope for new mining capacities in iron ore, bauxite and coal and considerable opportunities for future discoveries of sub-surface deposits. ASSOCHAM National Councils on Mines and Minerals is formed with the objective to take regularly take up National and Global issues of prime importance to the interests of its members. It continuously interacts with the Central and State Governments and play an important role in the shaping various policy formulation.
', '', '', '', '', 'mines-minerals-sector-category.jpg', 'In view of the tremendous significance of the MSME Sector, ASSOCHAM has constituted the separate dedicated National Council for development of MSMEs. The MSME Council strives for growth and development of the sector countrywide. To channelize its activities and achieve its ultimate objectives & future roadmap, the council holds periodical discussions/meetings with Government and likeminded organizations.
\r\nThe Council has organized multiple sector-specific summits over the years across the country to address issues such as Modernisation, Financing, Digitization, Technology, IPR, Marketing, Branding etc which are directly related to MSMEs. The Council also organizes MSMEs National Excellence Award, Service Excellence Award and MSME Expo annually.
', '', '', '', '', 'msme-development-sector-category.jpg', 'Non-Banking Financial Services & Infrastructure Financing play a pivotal role in stability and sustainably of the Indian economy. NBFC sector has, over the years, evolved considerably in terms of size, operations, technological sophistication and entry into newer areas of financial services and products.
\r\n\r\nThe mandate of ASSOCHAM National Council for NBFC & Infrastructure Financing covers the aspects such as the major issues and challenges being faced by the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging the gap between the industry, regulator and policymaker. This includes conducting regular council meetings, webinar, summit, e-summit and round table discussions under the guidance of Chairman & Co-Chairman of the council. The ASSOCHAM National Council for NBFC & Infrastructure Financing covers the functions of Public policy advocacy, think tank, awareness & training program and is fully committed in providing their valuable inputs to the relevant Policy Makers & Regulators on the issues being faced by the industry and its resolution plan.
\r\n \r\nThe various stakeholders, regulators and policy makers which are directly or indirectly involved in the council includes Ministry of Road, Transport & Highways; Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance, NHAI, HFCs, MFIs, etc.
', '', '', '', '', 'nbfc-sector-category.jpg', 'ASSOCHAM National Council on Quality and Productivity, works closely with the government, both\r\n at the central as well as state levels, for promoting innovation - led productivity and establishing a\r\n robust quality ecosystem in the country. The council is providing handholding services to implement\r\n the national strategy for standardization (INSS) underlines the role of a harmonized, dynamic and\r\n mature standards framework in establishing a robust quality ecosystem in the country, and the need\r\n to position standards as a key driver of all economic activities relating to goods and services. The\r\n objective of the council is to stimulate and promote productivity and quality consciousness among\r\n industry.
\r\n\r\n The Council will intend to create a compendium of quality-related sectoral recommendations that\r\n will aid industrial competitiveness, leading to greater demand for Indian products and services\r\n thereby leading to export promotion and import substitution.
', 'ASSOCHAM National Council on Quality and Productivity, works closely with the government, both\r\n at the central as well as state levels, for promoting innovation - led productivity and establishing a\r\n robust quality ecosystem in the country.', '', '', '', 'quality-productivity-sector-category.jpg', 'India\'s energy consumption is on a constant rise and the focus is on moving towards sourcing energy from cleaner and efficient sources to reduce depletion of conventional means. The National Council on Renewable Energy at ASSOCHAM aims at highlighting and solving issues that make the transition of energy to newer sources an effortless process.
\r\n\r\nThe council is a group of eminent industry leaders across the country. The stakeholders involved in the council are RE developers, Solar Module Manufacturers, Generators, Consultants, associations etc.
', '', '', '', '', 'renewable-alternative-energy-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The rapid pace of urbanization in India has resulted in severe shortage of housing and basic services\r\n like potable water, drainage system, sanitation facilities, electricity, roads and appropriate disposal\r\n of solid waste. It is projected that urban population will increase to 600 million by 2031. The current\r\n housing deficit in India stands at 19 million units, which, in the absence of any meaningful\r\n intervention, is slated to double to 38 million units by 2030. 95% of this deficit is in the Economically\r\n Weaker Sections and Low-Income Group segments, which technically puts the figure at a staggering\r\n 18 million units in this category.
\r\nAgainst the backdrop of impending large-scale urbanization in India over the next few decades, it is\r\n important to identify, evaluate the needs of, and address the challenges faced by the largest chunk\r\n of urban housing consumers with the most pressing needs. Given the magnitude of housing shortage\r\n and budgetary constraints of both the Central and State Governments a multipronged approach\r\n such as involvement of Private Sector, Cooperative, Non-Governmental Sector, Industrial Sector and\r\n Institutional Sector will be required to promote rental housing. The Government\'s mission Housing\r\n for All by 2022 is a significant step in the right direction to transform the Affordable Housing\r\n paradigm in India. The Government of India has taken several initiatives for housing for all. However,\r\n more such initiatives are further required to provide housing for all.
\r\nTherefore, with a view to discussing various key aspects of brining growth with stability and to\r\n create a vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive housing market in India, ASSOCHAM\'s Real Estate Council\r\n closely works with the Government and industry to bring together all concerned groups in housing\r\n segment to a common platform to provide impetus towards providing housing for all. The Council\r\n addresses industry issues in Housing, Housing Finance, and urban development segments.
', '\r\n\r\n The rapid pace of urbanization in India has resulted in severe shortage of housing and basic services\r\n like potable water, drainage system, sanitation facilities, electricity, roads and appropriate disposal\r\n of s', '', '', '', 'real-estate-sector-category.jpg', '
For further details, please contact d.s.rajora@assocham.com', '', '', '', '', 'Real-Estate-Housing-Urban-Development', 0, 1, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:09', '2021-10-27 04:21:09'),
(25, 'Roads & Highways', 'Roads & Highways', 'roads-and-highways.jpg', '
India with a total road network of 5.5 mn Km comprises of national & state highways and urban &\r\n rural roads. National highways account for 2% of the total road network and carry over 40% of total\r\n traffic. The Government of India has given a massive push to infrastructure by allocating about $1.4\r\n Tn for infrastructure to be invested until 2025. The government has forecasted an investment of\r\n $350 bn towards road infrastructure in the North-East region of India during 2020-2025. The market\r\n for roads and highways is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 36.16% during 2016-2025, on account of\r\n growing government initiatives to improve transportation infrastructure in the country. Almost 40%\r\n (824) of the 1,824 PPP projects awarded in India until December 2019 were related to roads.
\r\n\r\nThe highways sector in India has been at the forefront of performance and innovation. The\r\n government has successfully rolled out over 60 projects worth over $10 bn based on the Hybrid\r\n Annuity Model (HAM). HAM has balanced risk appropriately between private and public partners\r\n and boosted PPP activity in the sector. The Government, through a series of initiatives, is working on\r\n policies to attract significant investor interest. A total of 200,000 km national highways are expected\r\n to be completed by 2022.
\r\n\r\nIt is important for India\'s infrastructure to gear up for the future by developing roads and highways\r\n of the global standards. This Council aims to focus on promoting new technology amongst the\r\n industry and work with Government to create an enabling framework for private sector to partner\r\n with Government in development of road infrastructure projects and also support the Government\r\n in developing roadmap for the industry
', 'India with a total road network of 5.5 mn Km comprises of national & state highways and urban &\r\n rural roads. National highways account for 2% of the total road network and carry over 40% of total\r\n traffic. The Government of India has given a massive ', '', '', '', 'roads-highways-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Globally, SEZ have been established in many countries as testing grounds for the implementation of\r\nliberal market economy. These are also viewed as instruments to enhance the acceptability and the\r\ncredibility of the transformation policies, to attract domestic and foreign investment and for the\r\nopening of the economy. In India, 240 SEZs are operational with an infrastructure development of\r\n40,000-hectare land and availability of 22,000-hectare land for establishment of new units into SEZs.\r\nSEZs in India have tremendously contributed to boosting exports, increasing investment flows,\r\ncreation of world class infrastructure and employment opportunities.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Most of the States in India have 'SEZs' for setting up of units in manufacturing and service sector.\r\n The cost of manpower is relatively low as compared to other countries. The Government has\r\n undertaken several steps to improve ease of doing business in India. Apart from various central\r\n incentives, Indian States also offer incentives for industrial projects.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM National Council on SEZs, Industrial Parks & Warehousing closely works with the Central\r\nand State Governments for policy and regulatory issues towards business-friendly environment. It\r\nacts as a catalyst for business promotion and investment linkages between domestic and global\r\nindustry.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Globally, SEZ have been established in many countries as testing grounds for the implementation of\r\n liberal market economy.', '', '', '', 'sez-industrial-park-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM has been actively participating in the promotion of Skill Development programs in\r\n various parts of India and has emerged as the fountain head of knowledge for Indian Industry which\r\n is all set to redefine the dynamics of growth and development of Skill Based Economy. As an Apex\r\n Chamber, ASSOCHAM is also the founder and promoter of NSDC.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Chamber has already imparted various skills-upgradation training, assessment and its evaluation\r\n under various Government schemes covering about two lakh trainees. ASSOCHAM being a\r\n responsible Chamber is promoting Skill Development through its discussions and events on various\r\n important policy matters related to Skills.\r\n
\r\nSingh has 15+ years of experience in the domain of training and skill development starting from\r\n FIITJEE to undertaking several independent projects. He has anchored multiple training initiatives\r\n which have benefitted more than 20000 youth. He was Instrumental in establishing 13 private\r\n universities and colleges in India. His book Brentwood careers guide was released in 2013 by Hon\'ble\r\n Education Minister of India Shri. M.M. Pallam Raju. In 2014, he launched an automated career \r\n counselling platform for career seekers. He has been a regular guest faculty to institutions and\r\n delivered lectures on motivation and entrepreneurship in more than 50 schools and colleges across\r\n India. Singh has represented India in International education events in Dubai, New Zealand and\r\n Saudi Arabia and facilitated training and placement of more than 20000 youth.
', 'ASSOCHAM has been actively participating in the promotion of Skill Development programs in\r\n various parts of India and has emerged as the fountain head of knowledge for Indian Industry.', '', '', '', 'skill-development-sector-category.jpg', 'The Government of India launched Start-up India in 2016 with an objective to boost start-up culture\r\n and create an environment of entrepreneurship in India. India is working for a start-up ecosystem\r\n based on the mantra Of the Youth, By the Youth, For the Youth Innovation & start-up are two\r\n strong pillars that directly contribute to nations\' economic wealth as well as social development. The\r\n basic narrative behind forming this ASSOCHAM National Council on Start Up is to build a booming\r\n start-up and entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country and to play a vital role in bridging the gap\r\n between the Industry and Government.\r\n Objectives:\r\n ● Strengthen Start-up Ecosystem in the country through policy research and recommendations to\r\n Government of India and State Governments to ensure ease of starting - doing - closing new\r\n businesses\r\n ● Attract most innovative start-ups to collaborate with corporate and grow\r\n ● Help corporate to identify suitable budding start-ups for forging business partnerships and work\r\n with start-ups at the co-working space\r\n ● Help investors to select potential budding start-ups for investing\r\n ● Work with Central government and state governments to create enabling ecosystem for growth of\r\n start-up and employment generation\r\n ● Serve as a Knowledge Centre for preparing and empowering potential entrepreneurs in India\r\n through various capacity building programs and convert job seekers to job creators.
', 'The Government of India launched Start-up India in 2016 with an objective to boost start-up culture\r\n and create an environment of entrepreneurship in India.', '', '', '', 'startup-sector-category.jpg', 'Affirmative action refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization\r\n favouring groups based on their gender, race, creed or nationality in areas in which they were\r\n excluded in the past such as education and employment.
\r\nASSOCHAM Affirmative Action policies are aimed at increasing opportunities for those groups of\r\n people which have been neglected by the society. They are mainly focused on providing employment\r\n and education opportunities.
\r\n ', 'Affirmative action refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization\r\n favouring groups based on their gender, race, creed or nationality in areas in which they were\r\n excluded in the past such as education and employment', '', '', '', 'social-inculsion-sector-category.jpg', 'India\'s collective share in global exports of sports goods & physical fitness equipment, is less than 1%\r\n has remained stagnant in last 5 years. Sports goods industry has potential to employ millions of\r\n people in India given the labor-intensive nature of industry it has a tremendous potential to boost\r\n employment in SME sector. The Central government in the Union budget for 2021-22 allocated Rs\r\n 2,596.14 crore to sports, less by Rs 230.78 crore -- or, 8.16 per cent -- allocated in the previous\r\n financial year during which hardly any sports activity was held due to Covid-19 pandemic. The Indian\r\n sports and fitness goods market exhibited moderate growth during 2015-2020. IMARC Group\r\n expects the Indian sports and fitness goods market to grow at a CAGR of 8.6% during 2021-2026.\r\n ASSOCHAM has been appointed as Industry Chamber for Sports Goods & Gym Equipment by DPIIT,\r\n for undertaking a study.
\r\nThe objective of the ASSOCHAM National Council on Sports & Fitness Industry is to provide valuable\r\n inputs and suggestions on behalf of Industry for policy change in the Sports & Fitness Industry\r\n towards facilitating an Industry friendly environment.
\r\nThrough policy advocacy, conferences, seminars, council meetings, strategy papers,\r\n recommendations, etc, the ASSOCHAM will pursue these objectives along with Government\'s policy\r\n to accommodate and drive the high growth of Sports & Fitness Industry.
\r\n ', 'India's collective share in global exports of sports goods & physical fitness equipment, is less than 1%\r\n has remained stagnant in last 5 years.', '', '', '', 'sports-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM National Council on Textiles & Technical Textiles works towards the holistic\r\n development of textiles industry in India. The objective of the council is to work along with various\r\n stakeholders representing wide variety of sub-sectors of textiles industry like cotton, man-made,\r\n wool, silk, handlooms, Jute and technical textiles etc. Apart from major policy issues such as high\r\n cost of power and logistics, ground water extraction and availability of raw materials, ASSOCHAM\r\n has been actively involved with Government regarding various issues related to GST and Foreign\r\n Trade Policy for the sector.
\r\nASSOCHAM has been at the forefront of facilitating knowledge sharing in various segments of\r\n textiles industry. The council has been at the forefront of Policy advocacy for the sector and has\r\n given detailed inputs for the National Textiles Policy.
\r\nJain has graduated from Babson College, USA, specializing in Marketing, Economics, Finance &\r\n Entrepreneurial Studies. He has more than 20 years of rich experience in Global Marketing and\r\n Entrepreneurship and vast expertise in overseas business.
\r\nHe is the Promoter and Executive Vice Chairman of Indo Count Industries Limited, one of the India\'s\r\n leading Home Textile Manufacturer/Exporter. As a second-generation entrepreneur in Textiles, He\r\n incubated and forayed Indo Count Industries Limited into the Home Textile segment and\r\n transformed Indo Count from a yarn manufacturer to a specialist end-to-end complete bedding\r\n providers.
\r\nJain has been honoured with various awards for his young and dynamic leadership and for his\r\n contributions towards textile sector viz. \"India\'s Young Business Leader Award 2017 - Top Forty\r\n UNDER 40 and recently, bestowed with Economic Times Business Leader 2020-21 - Youth Icon\r\n Textiles Award for his extraordinary service and dedication to his profession.
', 'ASSOCHAM National Council on Textiles & Technical Textiles works towards the holistic development of textiles industry in India.', '', '', '', 'textiles-technolgoy-textiles-sector-category.jpg', 'India is one of the fastest growing markets for Tunnel construction. The ASSOCHAM National Council\r\n on Tunnelling and Underground Construction has played a pivotal role in policy making and shaping\r\n Government\'s thought process towards creating these national assets.
\r\nASSOCHAM provided conducive platform for stakeholder interactions. Facilitated interactions\r\n between MoRTH, NHA, NHIDCL, key industry stakeholders including developers, consultants,\r\n contractors and technology and solution providers.
\r\nThe Council has been instrumental in bringing changes that will ensure rapid and seamless\r\n development of the National tunnels economically and in time bound manner through enforcement\r\n of EPC Contracts especially for Underground Construction and Tunnelling.
\r\nThe council comprises up of a group of eminent industry leaders who have vast experience and\r\n domain knowledge.
', '', '', '', '', 'underground-construction-tunneling-sector-category.jpg', 'The core function of ASSOCHAM Wellness Council is to facilitate communication between Wellness\r\n Council Industry Members and respective stakeholders, to increase awareness of the health and\r\n wellness issues that impact individuals and businesses and to identify and create business\r\n opportunities between Individuals and business houses
\r\nThe various stakeholders which are directly or indirectly involved in the council includes Ministry of\r\n Health & Family Welfare, Ministry of AYUSH, NABH, Spa Industry, Wellness Centers, Fitness Centres,\r\n Yoga centres, Cosmetologists etc.
', 'The core function of ASSOCHAM Wellness Council is to facilitate communication between Wellness\r\n Council Industry Members and respective stakeholders', '', '', '', 'wellness-sector-cover.jpg', '\r\n Oil and gas sector is among the eight core industries in India and plays a major role\r\n in influencing decision making for all the other important sections of the economy.\r\n India's economic growth is closely related to its energy demand, therefore, the need\r\n for oil and gas is projected to grow more. In the last couple of years, the government\r\n has undertaken several forward-looking policy initiatives to drive investments and\r\n enhance transparency across the O&G value chain. Hydrocarbon Exploration\r\n Licensing Policy with Open Acreage Licensing Policy was introduced that allows E&P\r\n companies flexibility to select blocks of their choice and shift to the revenue-sharing\r\n model from the PSC model. Further, with an aim to boost production from marginal\r\n fields, Discovered Small Field policy was introduced. Enhancement of City Gas\r\n Distribution networks is also on the priority list as there has been an increase in the\r\n number of Geographical Area (GA) licenses. ASSOCHAM National Councils on\r\n Hydrocarbon regularly take up National and Global issues of prime importance to\r\n the interests of its members. It continuously interacts with the Central and State\r\n Governments and play an important role in the shaping various policy formulation.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Oil and gas sector is among the eight core industries in India and plays a major role\r\n in influencing decision making for all the other important sections of the economy. ', '', '', '', 'hydro-carbons-petro-chemicals-sector-category.jpg', 'ASSOCHAM National Council for IR & HR Policies and Reforms, as an important arm of the apex\r\n chamber, while discharging its functions and aligning to the its vision and mission, deliberates on the\r\n issues and concerns which emerge from time to time by way of policy suggestions and\r\n recommendations which are broadly covered under its purview. The council works with government,\r\n ministries, and regulators at central and state levels as well as with the office of ILO in India and aligns\r\n to their respective mandates of industrial policies, labor reforms, and programs towards- growth of\r\n productivity, employment, human resources, and competitiveness. The council through its advocacy\r\n program- establishes and promotes national and international best practices, assists regulators and\r\n authorities in setting up and advancing the standards, sensitizes the government and stakeholders to\r\n adopt policies and programs which are the best for the sustainability of Human resources. Also, the\r\n council creates knowledge awareness, caters to training and development needs of human resources\r\n in the country to educate, enable, excel, and empower them in various formats across the country,\r\n and recognizes the extraordinary contribution of professionals.
\r\n ', 'ASSOCHAM National Council for IR & HR Policies and Reforms, as an important arm of the apex\r\n chamber, while discharging its functions and aligning to the its vision and mission, deliberates on the\r\n issues and concerns which emerge from time to time by', '', '', '', 'industry-relations-policies-sector-category.jpg', 'There is a dire need that the deadweight losses and risks are addressed to extremely protect the organizations, individuals and country as a whole against financial frauds and economic crimes. The type and face of financial and corporate scams have evolved with the shifting velocity of development around the world. Despite the huge spends of budget on forensic, audit, judiciary, and security organisations to frauds, the victims have always been scrambled.To grapple with emerging threats, uncertainties, risks, and volatility due to frauds and also, to build the true business resilience, ASSOCHAM believes that improvisation of internal and external fraud vigilance and intelligence system, a comprehensive and timely review and revision of the laws, regulations and enforcement are the pressing need of corporates and economy.
\r\nThe key to ensuring that organisations survive and flourish in a highly complex and cutting-edge competitive environment is to conduct critical, unbiased, and independent examinations of business systems and processes. Internal audit and risk managementas a major function of professionals in organisations, give senior leaders and governing bodies of entities with information that allows them to make informed decisions.
\r\nThe National Council on Internal Audit and Risk Management is a focused wing that functions toenable and empower the corporate stakeholders to combat the challenges of rising fraud risk challenges posed by various internal and external forces that impact the resources and creditability of organisation. Also, the council closely works with various sectoral regulators and provide policy measures to control the risks of fraud in the country. The council conducts the capacity building program for senior management towards enabling equipping and empowering them to manage better therisks in their organizations, control the environment, improve operational effectiveness and governance, and stay compliant with applicable standards, laws, and regulations. The council also submit its suggestions, and recommendations in the process of standard setting to the government and regulators on various related policy matters based on global regulatory changes on timely basis.
', '', '', '', '', 'internal-audit-risk-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM as a premier industry body is playing a significant role in promulgating Agriculture sector\r\nvia modern and traditional channels.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders which are directly or indirectly involved in the council include - Ministry of\r\nAgriculture and Farmers\' Welfare, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of\r\nJal Shakti, Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizers, SFAC, APEDA, NDDB, ICAR, CSIR, NCCD, MPEDA etc.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The core functions of Agriculture Council include Public policy advocacy, Promotion of innovation,\r\nTraining and Research Programmes, Exhibitions, Conferences along with organising workshops,\r\ntraining programmes, panel discussions, round-table meetings etc.\r\n
', 'ASSOCHAM as a premier industry body is playing a significant role in promulgating Agriculture sector via modern and traditional channels', '', '', '', 'agriculture-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n National Council on Animation & Sports Technology has been set up to bring India\'s focus towards\r\n unexplored territory of sports Technology and games and animation.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM believes that the development in sports technology needs to be accelerated and this\r\nCouncil has been created with an aim to take up important issues within the industry and to have an\r\nindustry friendly policy for the sports tech sector.\r\n
\r\n', 'National Council on Animation & Sports Technology has been set up to bring India\'s focus towards\r\n unexplored territory of sports Technology and games and animation.', '', '', '', 'animation-sports-sector-category.jpg', '
For further details, please contact varun.aggarwal@assocham.com', '', '', '', '', 'animation-sports-technology', 0, 1, 0, 0, '2021-10-27 04:21:10', '2021-10-27 04:21:10'),
(42, 'Arbitration & Mediation', 'Arbitration & Mediation', 'sector-arbitration-and-meditation.jpg', '\r\n \r\n
\r\n Considering the overstressed judicial system with the huge backlog of cases in the Courts,\r\nArbitration is gaining importance globally. With a lot of commercial disputes, it is necessary to have a\r\nproper arbitration mechanism for faster resolution of disputes.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The ASSOCHAM has formed its National Council for Arbitration in the year 2018 and K K Sharma,\r\nSenior Advocate has been nominated as the chairman of the National Council for Arbitration,\r\nASSOCHAM.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Council has been organizing various national and international conferences on various topics of\r\nArbitration, its Procedure and Enforcement of Foreign Awards. It has been successful in inviting\r\nvarious Barristers, QCs in its conferences for exchange of knowledge and experience. The Council is\r\nalso actively involved in addressing various industries on the issue of resolving the disputes and has\r\nbeen encouraging the industry to approach the Arbitrator instead of Court.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Considering the overstressed judicial system with the huge backlog of cases in the Courts,\r\n Arbitration is gaining importance globally', '', '', '', 'arbitration-mediation-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Branding and Marketing council of ASSOCHAM is a platform to discuss issues, emerging trends &\r\nchallenges in Branding and Marketing and to raise the members\' issues through representation with\r\nthe Government. The council also brings together the brightest minds in marketing together in this new\r\ninnovative digital world.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The council\'s main activities include: Quarterly Council meetings, skill building programs and thought\r\nleadership / knowledge publication for all stakeholders.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Branding and Marketing council of ASSOCHAM is a platform to discuss issues, emerging trends &\r\n challenges in Branding and Marketing and to raise the members\' issues through representation with\r\n the Government.', '', '', '', 'branding-marketing-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Capital markets play a crucial role in the economic development of a country, by providing financial\r\nresources required for the long-term sustainable development of the economy. India is one of the\r\nfastest growing wealth management markets in the world. The Indian equity market is expanding in\r\nterms of market capital, widening the field for brokerage firms, new products segments, and the\r\ngrowth of derivatives trading.
\r\n\r\n This Council jointly works with the Government for creating a conducive policy and regulatory\r\nenvironment leading to new opportunities in Indian Capital Market for the Investors. The Council\r\nthrough various programmes also aim at creating a larger pool of informed investors and\r\nsimultaneously encouraging a greater number of common people to participate in the corporate\r\neconomy through various investment instruments and to familiarize them with the basic\r\nfundamentals of investment and risk management and their rights and responsibilities to build\r\nconfidence among them to invest in corporate securities so that not only the corporate markets\r\ngrow but so does the Indian economy.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Capital markets play a crucial role in the economic development of a country, by providing financial\r\n resources required for the long-term sustainable development of the economy', '', '', '', 'capital-market-investors-proctection-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Recent Trends in Business Environment in India indicate that Indian economy is witnessing major\r\npolicy changes due to covid-19 pandemic. In this situation, role of the CFO\'s has become a vital asset\r\nfor the companies. Over the years, their role has been changed and evolved from managing numbers\r\nto taking strategic decisions. Increasing changes in technology have also created a strong need to\r\nmitigate risks and develop a set of internal controls that ensure the processes, policies, and\r\nprocedures to protect the valuable corporate assets and keep the company secure and intact.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The National Council for CFO's aim is to provide a platform to the CFO\'s to discuss the changes,\r\ndeliberate issues, and represent consolidated views on the challenges being faced by the Industries\r\nwith the appropriate government authorities.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Recent Trends in Business Environment in India indicate that Indian economy is witnessing major\r\n policy changes due to covid-19 pandemic.', '', '', '', 'CFOs-Forum.jpg', '\r\n India is the third largest producer as well as the third largest consumer of electricity. The energy\r\nsector consumes about 70 percent of the domestic coal produced. ASSOCHAM\'s National Council on\r\nCoal has Leading minds from Coal Industry. The objective of the council to act as nodal agency for\r\nhighlighting sectoral issues to the government and help in promoting research and dissemination of\r\nSustainable Coal Mining practices.
\r\n\r\n The Council identifies issues and challenges in coal which affect investments, profitability and\r\nmarket participation. Council has strongly advocated the opening of Commercial coal mining in India\r\nthrough various stakeholder consultations, meeting with senior government officials and necessary\r\nrepresentation submitted to the Government along with related concerns of the industry such as\r\navailability of Coal, transportation, use of modern mining techniques.\r\n
\r\n ', 'India is the third largest producer as well as the third largest consumer of electricity.', '', '', '', 'Coal.jpg', '\r\n India is among the apex producers of several commodities and has a long history of trading in\r\ncommodity derivatives. Commodity derivatives have a significant role in the price risk management\r\nprocess. The Indian commodity derivatives market has already unleashed forces to bring about\r\ninstitutional changes in marketing practices, but it is imperative to bring the sizeable section of the\r\npopulation, rendered vulnerable by price volatility of commodities, under the umbrella of benefits of\r\nthe market. Improvement and upgrading of support services including risk management strategies\r\nare integral to the governance holistic development of the commodity market.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Purpose/Narrative of the Council:\r\n For the Growth and development of Commodity Market. Create awareness and education\r\namongst investors. Provide support to the Government\'s mission of making Indian financial\r\nsector strong and bring growth momentum.\r\nTo highlight business opportunities in Commodity Market with existing & new Members and\r\ninteract with Govt. Authorities.\r\n
\r\n ', 'India is among the apex producers of several commodities and has a long history of trading in\r\n commodity derivatives.', '', '', '', 'commodity-market-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Globally, the bond markets are regarded as the largest and deepest source of capital for companies.\r\nIn India, the real sector consisting of NBFCs has a very small dependence on bonds, thereby making\r\nit heavily reliant on bank and shadow bank credit. The policy direction of taking India to a USD 5\r\ntrillion economy by 2024-25 will need a substantial part of corporate resources to come from the\r\nbond market.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders, regulators and policy makers which are directly or indirectly involved in\r\nthe council includes Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of\r\nFinance, etc.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The mandate of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Corporate Bond Market covers the aspects such\r\nas the major issues and challenges being faced the stakeholders and to play a vital role in bridging\r\nthe gap between the industry, regulator and policy maker. This includes conducting regular council\r\nmeetings, webinar, summit, e-summit and round table discussions under the guidance of\r\nChairperson & Co- Chairperson of the council. The ASSOCHAM National Council for Corporate Bond\r\nMarket covers the functions of Public policy advocacy, think tank, awareness & training program and\r\nis fully committed in providing their valuable inputs to the relevant Policy Makers & Regulators on\r\nthe issues being faced by the industry and its resolution plan.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Globally, the bond markets are regarded as the largest and deepest source of capital for companies.', '', '', '', 'Corporate-Bond-Market.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM, with rich legacy of 100 years of serving the nation, has always risen to challenge and\r\nextending its services well beyond the industry and trade. Its core values of serving the society at\r\nlarge have always been driven by its highly esteemed members.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM CSR facilitate & guide to conduct overall CSR programs, projects, publication &\r\nother activities focusing on socio-economic development indicators with an objective to serve our\r\nmembers & non-member partners with following objectives:\r\n
\r\n\r\n ▶ Policy advocacy and Meetings with Govt.
\r\n▶ Promote industry-government partnership through social and environmental initiatives as\r\nper suggested by Government and interest of members
\r\n▶ Recognition of efforts of Private Sectors through organize of Conference and Awards
\r\n▶ To prepare and publish the knowledge papers/Studies\r\n
\r\n At present, ASSOCHAM CSR driving its agenda comprising of Swachh Bharat, Environment\r\nProtection and Sustainability, Air Pollution, Health, Hygiene and Preventive Healthcare, Inclusion and\r\nDiversity including Women Empowerment, Road Safety, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH),\r\nQuality and Digital Education for ALL & other domains with paramount attention.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Regular meetings through different platforms will strengthen the relationship with members and\r\npartners to serve our mutual interest in the path of Nation Building.
', '', '', '', '', 'CSR-Council.jpg', '\r\n As the Country faces ever growing threat to its economy, financial sector, key government\r\ndepartments and major infrastructure, cyber world is posing an imminent threat to the internal\r\nsecurity. ASSOCHAM believes that the vision of our Hon\\\'ble Prime Minister of Digital India can only\r\nbe truly fulfilled with adequate measures for cyber security.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM along with the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, for the past many years, through\r\nthe Annual Summit on Cyber & Network Security, being officially Supported by the Ministry of\r\nElectronics & IT, Government of India has created a platform for the Central Ministries, State\r\nGovernments, Academia, Industry and other global stakeholders to come together and deliberate on\r\nthe way forward.\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM has institutionalized its initiatives in this area by naming its two annual summit as\r\nINDISEC and CySecCon covering Cyber Security and usage Technology in this area.\r\n
\r\n ', 'As the Country faces ever growing threat to its economy, financial sector, key government\r\n departments and major infrastructure, cyber world is posing an imminent threat to the internal\r\n security.', '', '', '', 'Cyber-Security-&-Cyber-Law.jpg', '\r\n India\'s aerospace and defence sector is at critical juncture today. The country\'s capital expenditure\r\nfor defence procurement is expected to exceed $250 billion over next 10 years, primarily to replace\r\nsoviet-era vintage equipment. Faced with challenges of military belligerence around its immediate\r\nneighbourhood, the Government of India is taking steps to bolster position as a major aerospace and\r\ndefence power.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Government of India, over the past few years, has demonstrated its commitment towards the\r\ndevelopment of indigenous defence manufacturing capabilities by launching and promoting the\r\nMake in India initiative for the defence sector. However, a whole lot more is required to be done to\r\nfacilitate growth in this area. If India is to achieve the long -standing goal of 70% indigenisation in\r\nthe defence sector, private enterprises must be given equal opportunity to participate in the\r\nmanufacturing process. This can be accomplished only through the creation of a vibrant and\r\nbalanced defence production ecosystem, such that private enterprise is incentivised to develop large\r\nscale R&D and manufacturing capabilities.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The objective of the ASSOCHAM National Council on Aerospace & Defence is to provide valuable\r\ninputs and suggestions on behalf of Industry for policy change in the Aerospace & Defence sector\r\ntowards facilitating a industry-friendly environment. Through policy advocacy, conferences,\r\nseminars, council meetings, strategy papers, recommendations, etc, ASSOCHAM will pursue these\r\nobjectives along with government\'s policy to accommodate and drive the high growth of the\r\nAerospace & Defence Sector.\r\n
', 'India\'s aerospace and defence sector is at critical juncture today. The country\'s capital expenditure\r\n for defence procurement is expected to exceed $250 billion over next 10 years, primarily to replace\r\n soviet-era vintage equipment.', '', '', '', 'defence-aerospace-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Under the aegis of National Digital Communications Council, ASSOCHAM actively participated in the\r\nformulation of the Policy and was the only chamber that has organized an Industry Workshop on the\r\nimplementation model of the National Digital Communications Policy 2018. This year, we would\r\ncontinue our endeavour in this direction focusing more on 5G and its use cases, technologies like\r\nIOT, financial health of the Sector and its further growth.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Pleased to inform that our recommendation of 2 years moratorium on Spectrum Payment was\r\naccepted by the Ministry.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Key Focus Areas would be: Financial Health of the Sector; AGR issue; Customs Duty Reduction;\r\nRefund of GST Credit; No GST on Government levies; NDCP Implementation; Rationalization of\r\nDuties & Levies; Review Definition of AGR; Shared duct infra; Common Telecom infra, etc;\r\nInfrastructure & Ease of Doing Business; ROW Portal; Alignment of State Policies with ROW Rules;\r\nMandatory Testing of Equipment; Issues to manufacturing; Spectrum & Emerging Technologies;\r\nEarly allocation of E&V band; IoT/M2M, 5G, WiFi; Security; Privacy & Data Protection; Network\r\nSecurity; OTT Framework and PPDR.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Under the aegis of National Digital Communications Council, ASSOCHAM actively participated in the\r\n formulation of the Policy and was the only chamber that has organized an Industry Workshop on the\r\n implementation model of the National Digital Communic', '', '', '', 'digital-communications-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n India has great potential to be a thriving market for Direct Selling and can become an investment\r\ndestination for Direct Selling Companies. This would, however, require unveiling of proactive industry\r\nfriendly policies by the Government. The guidelines issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs\r\nhave been of great help to the industry. However, while the Direct Selling Industry offers ample\r\nopportunities for creating entrepreneurs, there are many issues of the industry which are yet to be\r\nresolved.\r\n
\r\n\r\n Keeping in view the challenges and emerging growth prospects of Direct Selling Industry and its\r\nincreasing role in Self Reliant India, ASSOCHAM\'s National Council on Direct Selling presents views of\r\nthe Industry to the Central and State Governments. The council focuses on a dialogue between\r\nGovernment and all stakeholders on the ease of doing business which will bring about paradigm\r\nchanges for the Industry in India.\r\n
\r\n ', 'India has great potential to be a thriving market for Direct Selling and can become an investment\r\n destination for Direct Selling Companies. This would, however, require unveiling of proactive industry\r\n friendly policies by the Government.', '', '', '', 'direct-selling-consumer-affair-sector-cover.jpg', '\r\n India has bold aspirations: to become an empowered country and to improve quality of life for its\r\ncitizens. Education plays a pivotal role in the process of training and developing knowledge, skill and\r\ncharacter of people. The country has been a center of exemplary institutions aiming at quality\r\neducation such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the Indian Institutes of Technology\r\n(IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).\r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM strongly believes that it is the actual players in the industry that have the responsibility\r\nof playing an active role in helping the Government in policy making. It is through its Expert\r\nCommittees and National Councils on different business interests that ASSOCHAM can orchestrate\r\ndirected deliberations, which often result in important ideas that, if made a policy decision, can\r\nimpact the operation of our nation in that aspect. ASSOCHAM\'s National Council of Education is just\r\none of these bodies which endeavour to observe, analyze and recommend the trajectory on which\r\nwe all wish to see India moving on.\r\n
\r\n\r\n With the vision of India 2030 in mind and the challenges that we have in front of us, the National\r\nCouncil of Education formed 3 committees to work on different areas:
\r\n 1. Revamping Higher Education: Partnering the progress and growth
\r\n2. Skilling Architecture: Setting the Eco-System for Employability
\r\n3. Rural Transformation through Education: The Road Ahead\r\n
\r\n The committees identify the issues that have contributed to stalling of growth of Higher Education,\r\nSkilling and Rural Development in the country and provide possible solutions to tackle them.\r\n
\r\n ', 'India has bold aspirations: to become an empowered country and to improve quality of life for its\r\n citizens.', '', '', '', 'education-sector-cover.jpg', '\r\n To discuss the future roadmap of the growth of Electronics industry and to make India as a\r\nManufacturing Hub, ASSOCHAM, India\' Apex Chamber for Commerce and Industry has created a\r\nplatform where Centre, state and industry come together to discuss the way forward.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Committee intends to target the following segments: IT hardware and Mobile Devices,\r\nConsumer Electronics and Durables like TV, washing Machines, Refrigerators, ACs, Industrial\r\nelectronics, Telecom equipment, Auto electronics, Components, Medical Electronics, Defence\r\nElectronics etc. The Committee is well represented by the leading players of the industry. It has been\r\nactively providing a platform for interaction of the industry and the policy makers, in an effort to\r\nfacilitate a smooth, transparent and efficient working of the industry. The committee discusses\r\npolicies with the various stakeholders & industry experts for recommending appropriate measures\r\nto promote investments and opportunities in the sector.\r\n
\r\n ', 'To discuss the future roadmap of the growth of Electronics industry and to make India as a\r\n Manufacturing Hub.', '', '', '', 'electronics-hardware-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM Empowerment Council is pro-actively working towards creating platform for women\r\nworldwide to speak, share, connect & collaborate for business beyond borders and robustly\r\nencouraging and empowering women in business, industry and commerce across all sectors.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The private sector and business community will be crucial in helping bridge the gap between skills\r\nand jobs and enable access to decent work for women. Vocational and technical training, life skills\r\nand financial literacy programmes for women to help them develop marketable skills and better\r\ndecision-making abilities cannot be undertaken in a meaningful way without the involvement of\r\nindustry. Companies can also invest in women entrepreneurs through microfinance and bring their\r\ngoods and services into supply chains. Enhancing women\'s access to the internet and ICT can create\r\na merging market of connected women who can be linked to business opportunities.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders which are directly or indirectly involved in the council includes Niti Ayog,\r\nUN Agency, World Bank Asian Development Bank, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, ILO, UN Women\r\netc.\r\n
\r\n ', 'ASSOCHAM Empowerment Council is pro-actively working towards creating platform for women\r\n worldwide to speak, share, connect & collaborate for business.', '', '', '', 'empowerment-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n India has made significant progress in the growth of Fintech products and services. particularly in\r\nareas such as payments lending and investment and advisory services. ASSOCHAM Fintech\r\nCommittee is constituted with the objective of making Fintech related regulations more flexible and\r\nenhance entrepreneurship. Fintech refers to technology-based business that compete against,\r\nenable and collaborate with financial institutions. ASSOCHAM Fintech Committee works closely with\r\ngovernment financial regulators and public sector firms to take several actions for adoption and\r\npromotion of Fintech.\r\n
\r\n ', 'India has made significant progress in the growth of Fintech products and services. particularly in\r\n areas such as payments lending and investment and advisory services.', '', '', '', 'fintech-sector-cover.jpg', '\r\n FMCG sector is the key contributor of the Indian economy. This fourth largest sector of Indian\r\neconomy provides employment to around 3 million people. These products are daily consumed by\r\nevery strata of the society irrespective of social class, income group, age group etc. Revenues of the\r\nFMCG sector reached $52.75 bn in FY18 and are estimated to reach $103.7 bn in 2020. There are\r\nthree main segments - food and beverages, and personal care which accounts for 19%, 31% and 50\r\n% respectively. The urban market contributes 60% and semi-urban and rural segments contribute\r\nover 40% of the overall revenues of the FMCG sector in India. Demand for quality goods and services\r\nhave been going up in rural areas of India, on the back of improved distribution channels of\r\nmanufacturing and FMCG companies.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The vision behind forming the council is to position ASSOCHAM as a premier organization in\r\npromulgating FMCG sector via modern and traditional channels. ASSOCHAM\'s FMCG council aims to\r\npromote emerging trends in FMCG sector, to promote FMCG in rural belt and to focus on building a\r\nstrong supply chain network.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders involved in the council includes government bodies like Ministry of\r\nConsumer Affairs and MoFPI, regulatory bodies like FSSAI and Central Drug Standard Control\r\nOrganisation, representatives from the FMCG industry, retailers etc. Some of the key agendas\r\npersuaded are Legal Metrology, FSSAI Labelling and Display Regulations, Advertisement Claims etc.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The core purpose of FMCG council includes Public policy advocacy, Promotion of innovation,\r\nTraining and Research Programmes, Exhibitions, Conferences along with organising workshops,\r\ntraining programmes, panel discussions, round-table meetings etc.\r\n
\r\n ', 'FMCG sector is the key contributor of the Indian economy. This fourth largest sector of Indian\r\n economy provides employment to around 3 million people.', '', '', '', 'fmcg-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The ASSOCHAM\'s Council on Food Processing and Value Addition plays a key role in bridging the gap\r\nbetween Government and Industries, providing platform to the industries to represent them in front\r\nof Government, policy advocacy, outreaching the various initiatives of Government schemes and\r\ncreating awareness to the populace to ensure last mile delivery. The Council has been working with\r\nthe inclusion of all stakeholders like industry members, Government, Multilateral Agencies for the\r\ngrowth and business sustainability of the food industry. Presently, ASSOCHAM has been\r\npromulgating effective plastic waste management, extended producer responsibility and sustainable\r\nfood business. Apart from policy advocacy role, the Council also conducts various international and\r\ndomestic exhibitions, meetings, promotional events, roundtables on food processing emerging\r\ntrends.\r\n
\r\n ', 'The ASSOCHAM\'s Council on Food Processing and Value Addition plays a key role in bridging the gap\r\n between Government and Industries', '', '', '', 'food-processing-value-addition-sector-cover.jpg', '\r\n The Indian Media & Entertainment industry has been hitting new milestones and has stepped onto a\r\nmatured phase in terms of growth. ASSOCHAM Entertainment Division has been leading the\r\npotential of this sector for the last 15 years. It interfaces extensively with the entire gamut of the\r\nentertainment industry to work on issues which ought to be represented to the government as well\r\nas studies and explores the various commercial nuances of this growing and vibrant sector.\r\n
\r\n ', 'The Indian Media & Entertainment industry has been hitting new milestones and has stepped onto a\r\n matured phase in terms of growth.', '', '', '', 'entertainment-media-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n Government Procurement is an integral part of governance and financial management system of any\r\ncountry and it accounts for a substantial amount of global and national expenditure. Across the\r\ncountries, public procurement accounts for about 15 percent of the GDP and in India its estimates\r\nare around 25% of GDP. A well-functioning and efficient public procurement system is necessary for\r\nthe development process, which makes the need for integrity in public procurement not merely an\r\nethical requirement but an economic too.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The Government procurement process in India is quite complex given the federal framework for\r\npublic service delivery. The constitutional arrangements across the Union and State governments,\r\nautonomous and statutory bodies, public sector undertakings and the local governments demand a\r\nbroad range of requirements for providing public services. Hence, there is need to understand the\r\nregulations, rules and their applicability for procurement of various goods and services. \r\n
\r\n\r\n This Council focuses on the opportunities and challenges faced by stakeholders for which regular\r\ndiscussions are organized on every key aspect of the procedure of public procurement. The Council\r\nis working closely with various Government departments and creating awareness among the\r\nindustry on key developments taking place towards enhancement of transparency, capabilities, and\r\ncompetencies in the system by creating an enabling environment, particularly, when the\r\nGovernment of India is focusing on public procurement preference to make in India.\r\n
\r\n ', 'Government Procurement is an integral part of governance and financial management system of any\r\n country and it accounts for a substantial amount of global and national expenditure.', '', '', '', 'government-procurement-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The global automotive industry is at the cusp of a paradigm shift from internal combustion engine\r\nvehicles to zero emission vehicles. This is primarily due to the stringent regulatory interventions by\r\ngovernments worldwide in response to increasing greenhouse gas emissions and depleting air\r\nquality. India, too, is actively going ahead for cost-effective and viable solutions to the problem of\r\npoor air quality in several cities. With the Government of India\'s plan to introduce electric vehicle in\r\na big way and to produce only electric vehicle by 2030, the electric mobility sector has assumed\r\nmajor significance. Thus, it is imperative for these stakeholders to come together to drive EV\r\nadoption. In a similar way, the government needs to consider the holistic EV ecosystem while\r\ndeveloping the regulatory agenda.\r\n
\r\n\r\n This Council aims at putting forth industry issues before the Government for smooth transition to\r\nElectric Vehicles as it would present challenges for the stakeholders. The Council undertakes policy\r\nand regulatory issues of the members and organizes discussions on various business opportunities\r\nthat the sector offers for investments and in planning for the shift to EV. \r\n
\r\n ', 'The global automotive industry is at the cusp of a paradigm shift from internal combustion engine\r\n vehicles to zero emission vehicles.', '', '', '', 'green-mobility-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The core function of ASSOCHAM Healthcare Council is to address the challenges faced by India in the\r\nhealth sector and to strengthen Public and Private healthcare Initiatives.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The council is actively working towards the goal of robust healthcare system of India by\r\nstrengthening public health, to make sure adequate reach of basic healthcare services & Skilling and\r\nupgrading medical workforce skills in the needed geographies. \r\n
\r\n\r\n The various stakeholders which are directly or indirectly involved in the council includes Ministry of\r\nHealth & Family Welfare, Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Council of Medical Research,\r\nPublic and Private companies, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Institutions, Primary Healthcare\r\nCentres (PHCs), Insurance Companies etc.\r\n
\r\n ', 'The core function of ASSOCHAM Healthcare Council is to address the challenges faced by India in the\r\n health sector and to strengthen Public and Private healthcare Initiatives.', '', '', '', 'healthcare-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The central and state governments perceive modernization and upgradation as one of the key focus\r\nbesides creating a supporting infrastructure for the long term. The Ministry of Home Affairs has\r\ntargeted development of India\'s Homeland Security focused infrastructure, like creation of a\r\ncentralized comprehensive database called National Information Grid (NATGRID) by combining the\r\nindividual databases of several government agencies, setting up of the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal\r\nTracking Network and Systems) and modernization programs for providing better equipment and\r\ntraining to the security forces deployed with the task of internal security in India.\r\n
\r\n\r\n India offers a large potential for firms looking to leverage the opportunities apparent in this sector in\r\nthe country on account of the following factors:\r\n● High GDP growth
\r\n● Challenging relationships with neighbors
\r\n● Outdated equipment and systems
\r\n● Increased spending on modernizing military capabilities and infrastructure
\r\n● Focus on creating and enhancing support Infrastructure
\r\n● Emerging public-private participation opportunities\r\n
\r\n The Hydropower Council at ASSOCHAM has been instrumental in policy advocacy -'The need for\r\n Development of Large Hydropower Plants in India'. \r\n
\r\n\r\n ASSOCHAM has taken lead in addressing the concerns of stressed Hydropower Industry, provided\r\nconducive platform for multi-stakeholder interactions including officials from the Government of\r\nIndia, Government agencies, CPSUs, SPSUs and Hydropower fraternity.\r\n
\r\n\r\nOver the years, ASSOCHAM has organised series of interactions with Power Secretary, Cabinet\r\nSecretary, Energy Advisor - Niti Aayog, CEA chairman and Round Table Discussions with Hon'ble\r\nMinister of Power. The Council has also Worked closely with CEA on various related issues.\r\n
', 'The Hydropower Council at ASSOCHAM has been instrumental in policy advocacy The need for\r\n Development of Large Hydropower Plants in India.', '', '', '', 'hydro-power-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n ASSOCHAM National Council on Environment and Climate Change is targeted to be the voice of the\r\n organizations that have been working in these fronts incessantly for many years. The council with\r\n the support of chief HSSE officers from innovative companies, sustainability consultants,\r\n environment professionals, and related stake holders from all around the globe is set towards the\r\n noble cause. One of many aspects of the council involves capacity building, training programs and\r\n workshops related to environment policies, sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement,\r\n climate change, government advisory and consultative services. It would result in providing a forum\r\n to share ideas and best practices. Members are encouraged to discuss how they work to deliver\r\n products and solutions along these principles at their core and how they can help integrating\r\n environment and climate change ethics into R&D, strategy, and marketing functions.\r\n
', 'ASSOCHAM National Council on Environment and Climate Change is targeted to be the voice of the\r\n organizations that have been working in these fronts incessantly for many years.', '', '', '', 'environment-climate-sector-category.jpg', '\r\n The ASSOCHAM National Council on Wine and Beer represents alcohol beverage companies in India.\r\n As the unified voice of member companies in the alcohol beverage industry, ASSOCHAM\'s vision is to\r\n provide support and work proactively and collaboratively with policymakers for them to frame\r\n equitable, reasonable and implementable legislation, and share best practices to enhance the image\r\n of the industry as a responsible contributor to the economy, society and as driver of sustainable and\r\n profitable growth of the industry.\r\n
', 'The ASSOCHAM National Council on Wine and Beer represents alcohol beverage companies in India.\r\n As the unified voice of member companies in the alcohol beverage industry.', '', '', '', 'Wine-and-Bear.jpg', '\r\n The civil aviation industry in India has emerged as one of the fastest growing industries in the\r\n country during the last three years. India has become the third largest domestic aviation market in\r\n the world and is expected to overtake UK to become the third largest air passenger market by 2024.\r\n
\r\n\r\n The main objective of the ASSOCHAM National Council on Civil Aviation & Airport Infrastructure is to\r\npromote the cause and interests of civil aviation sector and bring it on the global map as a costeffective, competitive and efficient sector of economy. With a view to create a platform for all the\r\nstakeholders and for the conclusive growth & development of the Aviation sector, the division works\r\nwith the Government, National & International development organizations, Government Agencies\r\nand Industry Players.\r\n
\r\n ', 'The civil aviation industry in India has emerged as one of the fastest growing industries in the\r\n country during the last three years.', '', '', '', 'civil-Aviation-&-airport-infrastructure.jpg', '\r\n Market size of Chemicals & Petrochemicals sector in India is worth around $178\r\n bn. market is projected to reach $300 bn by 2025. Chemicals industry in India is\r\n highly diversified, covering more than 80,000 commercial products. It is broadly\r\n classified into Bulk chemicals, Specialty chemicals, Agrochemicals,\r\n Petrochemicals, Polymers and Fertilizers. India's proximity to the Middle East\r\n countries which are the world's source of petrochemicals feedstock and makes\r\n for economies of scale. Demand of chemical products is expected to grow at\r\n approximately 9% p.a. during 2020-25. Government has initiated various\r\n reforms such Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) -Notifying\r\n Chemical & Petrochemical Products in furtherance of the order, Scheme for\r\n setting up plastic parks, centres of excellence, Chemicals Promotion and\r\n Development Scheme, Proposed New PCPIR Policy 2020-35. ASSOCHAM\r\n National Councils on Chemical and Petrochemical is formed with the objective\r\n to take regularly take up National and Global issues of prime importance to the\r\n interests of its members. It continuously interacts with the Central and State\r\n Governments and play an important role in the shaping various policy\r\n formulation.\r\n \r\n
', 'Market size of Chemicals & Petrochemicals sector in India is worth around $178\r\n bn. market is projected to reach $300 bn by 2025.', '', '', '', 'Chemical-&-Petrochemical.jpg', 'Corporate Governance has turned out to be a critical component globally for protecting and balancing the interest of not only shareholders but also stakeholders through transparency, disclosure and accountability.
\r\nThe council is one of the most important and dynamic think-tanks of ASSOCHAM which broadly contributes by way of regular dialogues for introducing and promoting the international best practices in the field of corporate governance. While closely working with and promoting the mandate of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the council puts forth impactful suggestions and recommendations on policy matters towards bringing out necessary amendments in the legal provisions of Companies Act, 2013 as well as standard which come under the purview of related regulators including SEBI, ICAI, ICAI-CMA, ICSI. The council addresses to the legal challenges faced by the corporates in India on a regular basis by carrying out advocacy of Companies Act, 2013, bridging between stakeholders across states in the country. The council aims at educating and sensitizing the corporate stakeholders for making best use of the provisions under Companies Act, 2013 and thereby, assist them to avail benefits of being fully compliant to the regulatory requirements. The council meets its objective contribute to the vision and mission of chamber by an active participation and contribution of various task forces which are constituted from time to time.
\r\n \r\n ', 'Corporate Governance has turned out to be a critical component globally for protecting and balancing the interest of not only shareholders but also stakeholders through transparency, disclosure and accountability', '', '', '', 'corporate-affairs-sector-cover.jpg', '