Goa State Industries Association (GSIA) organised the 4th South India MSME summit on 31.05.2019. Shri. Rajkumar Kamat, President, GSIA & Vice – Chairman JAC was the host of the summit. Summit deliberated on the problems faced by the sector and make recommendations to the government for sustainable growth for MSME's in the country. Hon. Chief Minister of Goa, Dr. Pramod Sawant was the Chief Guest of the event. The summit was presided over by Mr. Basavaraj S. Javali, Chairman JAC & President, Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association, Bengaluru. Shri P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning and Marketing) NSIC was the Special Guest. Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association - Bengaluru Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises, Telangana - Andhra Pradesh Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of India - Hyderabad Tamilnadu Small and Tiny Industries Association - Chennai Kerala Small Industries Association - Kerala Federation of Andhra Pradesh Small and Medium Industries Association, Andhra Pradesh - Telangana Confederation of all India Small & Medium Pesticides Manufacturers Association - Hyderabad The recommendations by the above associations and about 100 delegates, was handed over to Goa Chief minister Sh. Pramod Sawant by the president of Goa State Industries Association.
Name of the program / Meeting held with date and venue :-Participated in the Pledge for Anti-Terrorism and Violence at NSIC-TSC, Hyderabad as per our HO Instruction. Dated 21.05.2019. Brief Description of the activity :- All Employees pertains to NTSC, Hyderabad taken a Pledge for Anti-Terrorism and Violence i.e:- “The people of India, having abiding faith in our County’s tradition of non-violence. All fellow human beings and Values”. Number of participants who participated in the program: - All Employees pertains to NTSC, Hyderabad taken a Pledge for Anti-Terrorism & Violence.
Sh. P Udaya Kumar, DPM, visited NSIC-TSC, Hyderabad, on 17.05.2019. Brief description of the program /meeting: - Director (Planning & Marketing) conducted: - 1.Performance Review of NTSC Hyderabad and South Zone-II. 2.Interacted with all Employees of the Corporation on the New Initiatives & Venturing out for New Verticals in our Organisation.Number of participants who participated in the program:- All the Employees of NTSC Hyderabad and South Zone-II participated and DPM Interacted with MSME Manufacturing units.
Shri Navin Chopra, CGM(SG), NSIC alongwith NSIC employees administered the pledge on World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The focus of World No Tobacco Day 2019 is on "tobacco and lung health." Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) and global partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The annual campaign is focused on raising awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure, and to discourage the use of tobacco in any form.Shri Gaurang Dixit,CGM(Fin),NSIC alongwith other senior officers was also present on this occasion.
Shri P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing) was invited by PIOCCI (Platform for Indian to operate, Co-operate Collaborate and invest) a global business platform for Indian diaspora to address the Non-resident Indians during the IFTAR event of Gulf chapter of PIOCCI on 27th May, 2019. DPM spoke about the existing SME friendly Eco system in India and the opportunities available for SMEs of both the countries to increase the trade between them. Major initiatives taken by the Ministry of MSME including digital initiatives during the last 3-4 years were also briefed by DPM to the gathering of around 200 NRIs. DPM also had a meeting with the Ambassador of India in UAE Sh. Navdeep Singh Suri and discussed about the possibilities of increasing the trade between the SMEs of both the countries.
The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for the year 2019-20. The MOU was signed by Shri Ram Mohan Mishra, AS & DC (MSME) and CMD (NSIC) with Dr. Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary, MSME, Govt. of India in the presence of Ms. Alka Nangia Arora, Joint Secretary, SME, Ms Mercy Epao, Director (SME), Shri P. Udayakumar, Director -P&M (NSIC) and Shri A.K. Mittal, Director-Finance (NSIC). The said MoU envisages provision of enhanced services by NSIC under its Marketing, Financial, Technology and Other support services schemes, for MSMEs in the country. The Corporation projects to increase ‘Revenue from Operation’ by 22% from Rs. 2540 crore in the year 2018-19 to 3100 crore in the year 2019-20. Corporation also projects growth of 32% in ‘Profitability’ during the year 2019-20. NSIC also plans to enhance its activities in the areas of imparting entrepreneurship and skill development training by targeting 45% growth in the number of trainees. Under the scheme of National SC-ST Hub, being implemented by NSIC on behalf of the Ministry, NSIC’s continued endeavour shall be to provide assistance to the SC/ST Entrepreneurs through different interventions and various outreach activities with the overall objectives to increase their participation in public procurement. Dr. A.K. Panda, Secretary, MSME, while appreciating the performance of NSIC, urged the Corporation to create niche activities for itself. He also suggested that greater efforts be made to expand reach of NSIC so as to serve larger number of MSMEs.
Meeting on Strategies for Growth of the Organization for scaling to exponential heights of Business was conducted by Director (P&M) on 11.05.2019 at NTSC Chennai premises . The deliberations were on the scaling of existing business and adding new verticals for the growth of the Organization. All Officers of NTSC Chennai and Officers of Zone –III in Chennai attended.
Smt. Alka Arora, Joint Secretary (SME) and Sh. P.Udayakumar Director (P&M) NSIC visited Bangalore on 07-08, May 2019 and met Secretary, MSME, Government of Karnataka and Commissioner of Industries, Government of Karnataka and held detailed discussion about enhancing the reach of Ministry of MSME schemes with the active involvement and support of State Government. Also discussed about the support of State Government for reviving the MSME DEFEXPO - 2019. Secretary, MSME, GOK, assured to provide all the required support from the Government of Karnataka. Also discussed about the NSSH activities and sought the closer participation of State Government Institutes/Departments to enhance the SC-ST beneficiaries.For reviving the MSME DEFEXPO an Interactive meeting was held with MSME associations office Bearers of all the leading associations of Karnataka viz., KASSIA, FKCCI, Peenya Industries Association, COWE, AWAKE, eMERG,LUB - Karnataka, FISME, ASSOCHEM (Souther Region), CLIK and DHEEP. All the participants gave their suggestions and valuable feedback and appreciated the initiative take by the Ministry for deciding to hold such first consultation meeting at Bangalore.Visited Zonal office and interacted with the officers of the Corporation . CGM, South - I made presentation on achievements of Zone South - I and briefed about the significant achievements of 2018-2019.
A meeting was held with the Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai for collaboration on various MSME interventions like Incubators, Assistance for Start-Ups and introducing Entrepreneurship as a subject in the Engineering courses etc.
Two days residential training program on Self – Empowerment was conducted by Brahma Kumaris at the Om Shanti Retreat Centre, Gurgaon on 03-04 May, 2019 for our senior Management including Director (P&M) and Director (Finance). 40 officers from NSIC and 5 officers from Ministry of MSME attended the program. The topics which were covered during the program were Overcoming Ego, Conflict Resolution, Building Teams – Accumulating Success and Enhancing Decision Making Skills. Mr. Ram Mohan Mishra, CMD NSIC and AS & DC (MSME) addressed the participants and shared his thoughts during the closing session of the program on 04th May, 2019.
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Shri.P.Udayakumar,DPM inaugurates "Self Empowerment" Training Program for Senior officers of NSIC organised at Brahamkumari Retreat Centre (Pataudi,Gurgaon). Also present on this occasion was Shri.AK.Mittal, Director (Finance ), NSIC and officers of MSME -DI and Centre Head of Brahamkumari (Russia) and Centre Head Brahama Kumari (Gurgaon). 37 NSIC are participating the training program.