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Udyog Samachar MSME-Development Institute Kolkata Vol: XII, November 2019 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019 2 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019 From the Desk of Director: This is the last time I am communicating with you in official capacity. After serving the ministry for over 30 long years in various capacity, today I am going to touch the finishing line of my career. This is really a fascinating journey! Full of experience. Learnt a lot during this journey and got the chances to mingle with people of various colours. I am really grateful to my ministry who has given me chances to work in many a places and in every place, gained new experiences which enriched me as an officer and as a human being. I have tried my best to uphold the motto of M/o MSME, sometimes I was successful, rest of the times I learned. I am feeling happy that today I am man with clear conscience. I may not be always kind enough to people near me. Sometimes, I lost my temper and ill behaved with people, which I should not have done. I am really apologetic for all my misbehaviour. Whatever little I have achieved in my career, that was only possible for my team which I led time to time in my career. I will be ever grateful to each of them. I sincerely hope the Institute will touch newer heights after me. My sincere well wishes will always be with this department. I also put forward my best wishes for my entrepreuar friends who are turning around to the global challenges now. They have the potential to change the industrial scenario of Bengal. My best wishes are always with them. Time to bid adieu, wish you all the very best from the core of my heart. Date: 31.10.2019 Ajoy Bandopadhyaya Content A. Director’s Message 03 B. Editorial 04 C. Success Stories 05 D. AV Space 12 E. From the Districts 13 F. Focus District – Andaman & Nicober Island 18 G. News & Views 25 H. Upcoming Events 29 I. Special Feature 30 3 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019 Editorial: Unemployment has been at the centre of public debates in recently. Estimates shows that the potential non-agricultural workforce in India grew at the rate of 17.5 million a year between 2012 and 2018. If provided the relevant skills, they could possibly work in industry, construction and services. Major identified factors responsible for rising numbers of job seekers are 1)Rapid expansion of the working-age population 2) Change in nature of labour supply 3) Declining workforce in Agricultue and Allied Activities. The decline has also been driven by the ‘pull’ of new opportunities that emerge in the towns and cities. A significant number of people who are ‘employed’ according to official statistics could actually have been in ‘disguised unemployment’ in agriculture The size of the manufacturing workforce in India declined by one million between 2012 and 2018, with micro and small firms in the informal sector suffering severe setbacks.India faces a tough challenge in creating decent jobs for its growing young population. To tackle this, action will be needed on multiple fronts including investments in human capital, revival of the productive sectors, and programmes to stimulate small entrepreneurship. We are striving to shift our attention from conventional modes to innovative modes to delve into this problems. We conceptualised ABCDEF project to give thrust on alternatative skill orientation and market linkage utilising the DurgaPuja as an mega event. Presently we are into BANERGISE project linking the MSEs of the NER, North Bengal , A& N Islands with Eastern Region market and further to National /International level. We have introduced awards for Artisans & art based enterprises through 4 U Sharod Samman. Soon we are going to extend such activities in district level award for art based units and to encourage MSEs .To promote BRAND MSME , we are planning to reach upto school level competitions. Udyam Samagam Programmes are also upcoming in district levels. We covered such topics in the present issue. We have covered A & N islands as focus district , which is a little drift from previous issues.A lot of activities are in store . The leadership of MSME-DI, Kolkata is changing and the baton will now be in the hands of experienced senior officer familiar with issues relevant to the state.We hope this will further add flavors to our newsletter in the Annual issue coming up in December 2019.Till then let us swerve together and wait for the inevitable for a better tomorrow. Debabrata Mitra Editor : Sri Debabrata Mitra, Deputy Director (G&C) Sub Editor : Sri Chitresh Biswas, Asstt. Director (Stat) Cover : Panel on Discussion on MSME Issues on Doordarshan, Kolkata. 4 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019 SUCCESS STORY A different Success Story OUTSTANDING AND INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES – LAST PART by Ajoy Bandopadhyaya, Director MSME-DI, Kolkata It was my latent dream to work in Kolkata Development Institute (DI), when I was posted at Kolkata as Director of MSME Testing Centre in 2014-15. But that was not materialised and my transfer to Imphal was really a shock to me. Many of my well-wisher, colleagues and friends advised me to pass idle time in Manipur, as doing good work may not help me to back to Kolkata again and being a popular officer in Imphal may attract attention of underworld of Manipur, causing unnecessary harassment and monetary demands. But my fate favoured me as well. Our the then DC Shab, Shri S. N. Tripathi visited thrice in my jurisdiction for attending mega events during my small tenure and fortunately understood the conditions on which I was transferred to Manipur by his predecessor. He gave positive indication for my return; as the-then Director of DI Kolkata was scheduled to superannuate in December 2016, i.e. within seven months. However, to my utter surprise, I got my transfer order within a month and my dream came true! Running the office of DI, Kolkata was definitely not a easy task as I knew from my experiences here as Dy. Director, though I was fairly aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the office. I strongly believed, the total output from Kolkata was huge and diverse, but there was hardly any real time documentation and propaganda of the success stories and achievements of the Institute. My first experimentation started with faster intra-communication process through email for better documentation, retrieval of details and paper & time saving in the process, which I earlier initiated in Testing Centre with the active cooperation from my PA, Shri Chityamay Bhattacharya. I got encouraging support from all my teammates and very quickly the standard practice of sending BCC of all mails to me, for information and monitoring, became a habit of our officers and our Digital communication became effective. Our social media publicities and face-lift of website was carried out to popularise information sharing to our target groups. I had a feeling that our office must do some need-based special innovative work for Promotion of Entrepreneurs in addition to routine Action Plan activities assigned by HQ office. So an Innovation Team was formed with Shri Debabrata Mitra, Dy. Director as coordinating officer. Many new suggestions poured in from the officers with due brainstorming in regular monthly meetings and actions also started with some feasible and practicable initiatives. However, I lost my two effective Dy. Directors, Shri K.D. Bhattacharya and Shri D. Mitra and Training Coordinator Shri S.K. Das by a sudden transfer order without my knowledge, which delayed some of the special activities we planned together. But fortunately we reorganised with our remaining strength and continued our plan. From October 2016, additional charge of MSME Testing Centre (TC) Kolkata was assigned to me. Though I was not very effective in managing the TC in my earlier tenure, but now I got active support of Shri Dibyendu Baidya, Dy. Director, who looked after the entire management with the help of Shri Pankaj Jha, Asstt. Director. Shri Jha was handpicked due to my request to set up food testing facilities at Kolkata. From that period onwards, I developed a good synergy with our Tool Room (TR) for better utilisation of our strengths and available manpower. Our Mechanical Officer Shri H.K. Choudhury worked as key linkman in this regard and finally he was deputed to TR. 5 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019 Fortunately, we got good support from CMD, Coal India, who was batch mate of our DC sir and we could coordinate with various subsidiaries of CIL for critical product development for import substitution with the help of TR and promoted testing facilities for their vendors' products and also training of manpower. With the promotion of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, we prepared a proposal for integrated Garbage Disposal System for Bidhan Nagar Municipality and submitted to State Urban Development Authority (SUDA) for development of MSME Entrepreneurs as their service providers. A design standardization and product specifications for WBSIDC Ltd. steel and wooden furniture vendors was developed by CAD based designing for quality upgradation of these MSEs who are supplying to State Government buyers. This assignment was carried out against payment basis and we earned revenue from State Government. With the coordination of DI and TC, a very successful work was carried out on Development of safe food manufacturing and vending system, which was deliberated in State Level Food Festival, ‘Ahare Bangla’, in Kolkata Milan Mela. Introduction of this safe food vending was also demonstrated and Baranagar Municipality and Kolkata Municipal Corporation were apprised for awareness and training of street food vendors.
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