DR H CHATURVEDI DIRECTOR BIMTECH GREATER NOIDA ADDRESS IN SEMINAR – MENTOR ON ROAD FOR INDUSTRIES

NOIDA ROHIT SHARMA
DR H CHATURVEDI DIRECTOR BIMTECH GREATER NOIDA ADDRESS IN SEMINAR – MENTOR ON ROAD FOR INDUSTRIES

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Mr. Jagat Shah, a renowned expert on International Trade visited BIMTECH to interact with the students on the topic “ease of doing business & innovative approaches to make in India for global market”. Mr. Jagat Shah is an eminent thought leader in the domains of start-ups, MSME, Export – Import and Entrepreneurship and he is coming to BIMTECH at our special request. There were other eminent speakers also in this interactive session including Mr. Ajay Sahai, DG& CEO, Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) and Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Executive Director, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH).

The inaugural session began with welcoming of guests by students and professors. During inaugural ceremony Prof Abha Rishi gave a brief about the topic and the speakers followed by a warm welcome speech by Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director of BIMTECH.

The session began with Mr Rakesh Kumar addressing the crowd on the trend of export of handicrafts in India. He informed the audience about the new export markets opened lately for Indian handicrafts. He also talked about technology upgradation centre set up at 11 major clusters for further upgradation of the quality of handicraft articles. He also enlightened students about how China is an emerging market for Indian exports.

Next, Mr Ajay sahai, Talked about how India shifted from agriculture sector to services sector skipping the middle stage of manufacturing sector. He expressed his concern towards unemployment due to weaker manufacturing sector. In his speech Mr Sahai quoted “Make in India is an invitation for both the domestic players and foreign entities. Make in India can be successful provided manufacturing is good enough to compete with imports”. He then notified that people in India work more as compared to China but productivity in China is 60% more therefore labour cost per unit is lower in China. He then acknowledged that knowledge based sector (biotechnology, Pharma and Nano technology) has huge potential for Make in India project.

Mr Jagat Shah discussed about global marketing of diverse products. He then gave a brief background of Make in India. He stated his uneasiness about unchanged share of manufacturing sector to Indian GDP in last 25 years. He then suggested how traders can be encouraged to manufacture in India. He informed how eight states together are contributing over 70% to all India GDP from Manufacturing. He also talked about the importance of Digital India scheme to Make in India. He then cited that Clean India, Smart India, Digital India and Skill India are all integrated part of Make in India. In close up he talked about his philosophy “Action @ speed of thought”.

The students made full use of this interactive session by asking interesting questions and gaining in-depth information and knowledge about the subject. The session was concluded by presenting of mementos to the guest speakers   by Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi as a token of gratitude, followed by a warm Vote of thanks by Mr Anuj Sharma.