Annual Report 2009-10
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Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (A National institute under ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises, Govt of India) ANNUAL REPORT 2009-10 Maganwadi, Wardha, Maharashtra - 442 001, India. Email: [email protected] Website: www.mgiri.org 07152-253512 Fax: 07152-240328 Title Inner Plain Annual Report 2009-10 Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization Maganwadi, Wardha - 442001 Maharashtra, India www.mgiri.org OUR TORCH BEARERS Shri Dinsha Patel Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India President, General Council, MGIRI Shri Dinesh Rai Secretary, Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India Chairman, Executive Council, MGIRI FOREWORD Team MGIRI is truly excited in presenting the Annual Report of 2009-10 because it is the first such report of the new staff. To them it is an exhilarating feeling to be a vehicle to carry forward the mission of Bapu (who founded AIVIA, the earliest version of MGIRI, in 1934) to build Gram-Swaraj with its economy based on rural industries. As directed by the Executive Council MGIRI prepared its basic campus infrastructure so that it could demonstrate innovative avenues of employment generation in crisis-stricken regions like Vidarbha. Innovations became its major agenda: innovation not only in products and processes but also in organising industries in new ways so that they could easily tread the path of quality and productivity. MGIRI’s scientists went into the grass roots schemes like SFURTI and identified the technological bottlenecks. Its innovation agenda became truly demand driven. MGIRI is happy that artisans around the country have shown tremendous enthusiasm in the potential of MGIRI’s technologies to bring about improvement in the fields of khadi, bio- processing, craft and energy. MGIRI is happy that it could address some of the problems most fundamental to the KVIC. The commission’s prompt action in field trial of MGIRI’s most important initiative namely Solar Charkha is indeed laudable. The field trials have indicated that a spinner could be enabled to earn a wage beyond hundred rupees per day. This has brought in rays of hope. MGIRI’s plunge into the basic needs sector (namely food, shelter and clothing), it is hoped, will result in productivity, cost reduction and quality. The pages of the Annual Report, it is hoped, will convince the reader that MGIRI staff have reason to be optimistic. - Director Date: 18-6-2010 5 CONTENT Ch Title / Subtitle Page Foreword 5 1 Emergence of MGIRI as an autonomous national institute 9 1.1 Focus on innovation and new models of industrialization 9 2 Advanced Facility Centre at MGIRI (‘Udyami Kendra’) to provide industrial development 11 support in the region 2.1 Advanced facilities centre in the engineering direction 11 2.2 Design studio 12 2.3 Craft Innovation workstation 12 2.4 Innovation centre 14 2.5 Incubation centre 14 2.6 Quality control & guidance 15 3 MGIRI on innovation front 16 3.1 Field trial of technology : the solar charkha 16 3.2 Prominent MGIRI products under development 17 3.3 Action on the technologies developed in MGIRI during the project of MGIRI (2001-08) 18 3.4 IRIS: Innovation for rural industrial systems 19 3.5 Demonstration of new technologies in MGIRI / other campuses 19 4 New directions of rural entrepreneurship 20 4.1 VIDARBA-I 20 4.2 Innovative enterprise models: The case of Solar Fab Mart (SFM) 22 4.3 Initiatives in the North East 24 4.4 Creation of enterprises through consultancy services 26 5 Other collaborations with the KVIC 27 5.1 Preparation of plan for revamping the Nashik campus 27 5.2 Proposal for establishment of a Centre of Excellence in Khadi Design Development at 27 Ahmedabad 5.3 DPR for natural colour cotton project for KVIC with UAS-Dharwad 28 5.4 Project on Technology transfer of solar charkha in Khadi sector 28 5.5 Project on ‘Muslin khadi’: S&T intervention for revival of the traditional 29 manufacturing technologies 5.6 Project on ‘MGIRI’ skill development centre 29 5.7 Project on Improvement in the existing tools and implements used in KVI sector 30 (Charkha modification / development) 5.8 Major Technology dissemination workshops 30 5.9 Technology inputs into the SFURTI program 30 7 6 Taking technology to the people 31 6.1 Participation in National exhibitions 31 6.2 Seminar / workshops / conferences 31 6.3 Training programmes 33 6.4 Learning about the problems and realities at the grass-roots 34 7 Important visitors 35 8 Authorities of MGIRI and highlights of meetings of authorities 36 8.1 Meeting of the General Council 36 8.2 Meeting of the Executive Council 36 8.3 Members of the Authorities during the FY 2009-10 36 9 Staff affairs 37 10 Financial statements for the year 2009-10 38 11 Rashtra Bhasha Hindi 40 12 Communication 41 12.1 Website of MGIRI 41 12.2 MGIRI’s Newsletter 41 12.3 MGIRI’s FM Radio 41 12.4 Electronic Media Coverage 41 Appendix – I List of members of General Council and Executive Council 45 Appendix – II Audited statement of finance for FY 2009-10 49 Appendix – III Participation of MGIRI in exhibitions / artisans meets / international 54 expose Appendix – IV Participation of MGIRI staff in seminars / conferences etc. 55 8 Chapter 1 EMERGENCE OF MGIRI AS AN AUTONOMOUS NATIONAL INSTITUTE Mahatma Gandhi initiated the All India Village Industries Association (AIVIA) in 1934 in Maganwadi, Wardha and was physically present there during 1934-36. He invested his important disciple Dr J C Kumarappa as its Secretary and involved prominent scientists and industrialists like Sir C V Raman, Dr J C Bose and Shri G D Birla as his advisors. Through a special act of Parliament the Jamanalal Bajaj Central Research Institute (JBCRI) was established in 1956, under the KVIC, in the same place as an institution dedicated to R&D for Rural Industries, thus taking over the functions of AIVIA. Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialisation (MGIRI) is a result of revamping of JBCRI into a National Institute to cope with the challenges brought in by globalization. IIT Delhi was involved in this revamping process from 2001 to 2008 through a project under KVIC. Though autonomous functioning of MGIRI started from January 2009 its effective functioning could start only from April 2009 when the first batch of staff joined duty. Thanks to the new enthusiastic staff with industrial background and the timely guidance from the Executive Council that MGIRI could equip itself in terms of a few important employment oriented directions of rural industrialization MGIRI’s scientists focused on equipping the labs. This resulted in the updating of Khadi & Textile, Bio-Processing and Herbal, Chemical, etc. divisions with the needed facilities. A campus with total WI-FI connectivity and modern equipments have helped to motivate the scientists and helped setting targets of innovation, quality-guidance, and entrepreneurisation. 1.1 Focus on innovation and new models of industrialization MGIRI was organised on a hub and spokes model and was ordained to evolve approaches that will make rural industries globally competitive with greater employment generation. To achieve such a vision the MGIRI was to adopt a five-fold strategy: (i) S&T intervention for identifying and solving problems of micro, small and medium industries (ii) Inculcating the culture of innovation among rural industries at the level of products, raw materials, packaging, marketing and linkages (networking) to ensure enterprise- success. (iii) Creating quality consciousness and working out possible quality guidance structures (iv) Evolving community scale technologies on the basis of man-machine approach to achieve productivity without sacrificing employment and (v) Working out HRD strategy to achieve all the above. Taking the guidance of Executive Council, the MGIRI has taken ‘innovation’ as the focus of MGIRI. The innovation vision has to be derived through ‘hands on’ experiences of problem identification from the grassroots and also in applying ‘innovative’ solutions in current situations of industrializations. Thus MGIRI has proposed the process through two projects namely: - Innovations for Rural Industries and System (IRIS) and - Vidarbha's Industrial Development Aimed at Re-stabilisation of Burdened Agriculture (VIDARBA) 9 The newly joined staffs were trained through an innovative orientation programme consisting of: o Visit of backward areas / tribal pockets needing innovative models of industrialization o Visit of KVIC’s campuses (for e.g. Nashik, Dahanu, Borivali) o Meeting with the officials of KVIC to understand what is required from MGIRI o Visit to a large number of Industries to understand their problems o Meeting activists / industrialists / visionaries besides visiting international fairs o Training in basic capabilities like project making, use of modern ICT, innovation techniques The process was carried out during April-November 2009 and has made a durable impression on the staff and sensitised them to the needs and aspirations of rural sector. Inspiration from Vikas Amte at Anandvan, Examining a briquetting plant at Deoli, Warora, Chandrapur district, founded by Wardha Baba Amte MGIRI’s scientists examining a small scale enterprise in Wardha 10 Chapter 2 ADVANCED FACILITY CENTRE AT MGIRI (‘UDYAMI KENDRA’) TO PROVIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN THE REGION With a view to develop innovative industrial models that could be globally competitive, MGIRI has chosen the Wardha region itself to carry out a pilot project on rural industrialization as part of the phase-I of project ‘VIDARBA’. Since Wardha is deficient in infrastructure needed to kick-start the process of industrialization in a few selected directions MGIRI decided to create certain minimum necessary infrastructure under the name of Advanced Facilities Centre (AFC). The AFC is now known by the Hindi name ‘Udyami Kendra’. 2.1 Advanced Facilities Centre in the Engineering Direction Advanced Engineering Work Centre (AEWC) It was noticed that though there is enormous potential for micro enterprises to come up they cannot afford certain advanced facilities (eg.