Manmohan Singh's call to focus on its role at SME Cluster Conclave
04 May '07
3 min read
He also referred to the interesting new experiment of Twinning of Clusters as in the India-Italy Cluster Development Cooperation and said that UNIDO was also exploring new applications of Industrial cluster based approaches focussing on corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation in micro enterprises.
On behalf of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), Shri Rajeev Ranjan, Chief (Joint Secretary)/NMCC, stated that the National Strategy for Manufacturing drawn up by NMCC had been accepted by the government for implementation and that enabling SMEs to achieve competitiveness was one of the key elements of this strategy He further indicated that Strategy had identified the following areas for priority action viz, textiles & garments, food processing, IT hardware & electronics, leather & footwear, automobiles & auto-components and chemicals & petrochemicals including pharma.
Other speakers included Mr. Jamil Ashraf, Executive Director, Sandhar technologies; Mr. H.P. Kumar, Chairman & Managing Director, NSIC; Mr. Rakesh Rewari, Deputy Managing Director, SIDBI; and Mr. S. Sandilya, Chairman, CII Economic Affairs Committee & Chairman, Eicher Group.
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