Global silk body elects Indian as Secretary General

• It can ensure better collection, documentation and dissemination of information on global and national sericulture industry for the benefit of the stake holders across the globe.
• It can also play a pivotal role in re-defining need-based research, technology, HRD and marketing linkages of silk and silk based products at international level for the benefit of its member countries
• How does ISC benefits India?
• India can play a major role in framing policy actions on sericulture development globally which can help in bringing stability and sustainability in her domestic sericulture industry.
• Through collaborative R&D activities by the member countries, potential genetical traits presently scattered in different geographical regions could be aggregated for enhancing global silk production and productivity.
• ISC can be effectively utilized as a forum for promoting silk as a natural, eco-friendly and fibre and strive to promote increased use of silk and silk based products across the globe. Incidentally, it can also help in promoting the brand ‘Indian Silk’, through the Silk Mark, among the global consumers.
• India would have greater role in channelizing funds from international funding agencies to its member countries and also to many sericulturally developing countries in South America, Africa and Asia.
• Under the banner of ISC activities, some of the R&D Institutes in India could be elevated to international standards by forging fruitful collaboration with other reputed R&D institutes of the world.
• India, being among the leading producers of silk from among the member countries of ISC can offer its large pool of expert service and training facilities to other silk producing countries. It can act as the centre for any major initiatives globally.
• ISC would provide a larger platform for sharing expertise among the silk producing countries.
• India would also strive to enhance the membership base of the countries at an international level.
• ISC would be used as a platform for the congregation of silk producing and processing countries for better value realization
• India being a main silk producing country to avail the advantages of technological innovations in silk reeling, processing and finishing technologies developed in other countries.
• India would be able to import improved machineries on reeling, processing and finishing from other countries to enhance of quality of Indian Silk products for domestic and export markets

The appointment of Member Secretary as Secretary General of International Sericultural Commission and shifting the head quarter of this prestigious international intergovernmental organization to India is considered as a land mark event and is seen as a much-sought-after opportunity for India to be a global leader for sericulture development.

International Sericultural Commission (ISC)