MSME-Development Institute Kolkata

Vol: XII, November 2019 Udyami Bangla Vol: XII, November 2019

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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

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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.

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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.

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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. One Awareness Campaign on Safe Food Preparation and Vending was also conducted in a Fair in Kolkata with FSSAI for mela food vendors too. Moreover, a special training was designed and conducted for Divyangjan (intellectual deficient youth) on preparation of hygienic ready-to-eat food and practical vending of these food products with safe and standard norms, in association with NIEPID, Kolkata. The result was very motivating and the parents of these youths were encouraged to initiate these business activities for their children. In addition, standardisation of Terracotta Tiles manufactured by the Cluster Developed at Murlu, was initiated for formulation of specification for market development; and also formulated specification of LPG Oven for mid-day meal programme in school of North 24- Parganas District, with the help of TC Facilities During this period, all the Schemes of MSME was under review and there was some upgradation was in the process in our HQ office. So there was hardly any fund was issued against our ongoing Schemes. Even the routine Training fund was not released to all DIs. Moreover, our major time consuming activities of inspection for single point Registration of NSIC was discontinued. In this new scenario, it was decided in our monthly meeting of Officers, to target outreach areas in each and every Districts of the State; and District Nodal Officers (DNO) were designated from our team of technical officers for interactions with district and block level promotional agencies and stakeholders, so that our future programmes could easily be designed after our Schemes are updated; and targets assigned by HQ office.

It was also observed that, in general, one officer is assigned to deal with specific scheme or activities and his/her absence delays the process on the activities. As experimentation, a group of officers were assigned a number of Schemes and activities to deal with and this team effort not only reduced the time requirements, but the work was not hampered due to absence or shortage of any member of the team. So this team effort was termed as 'Change Management' and it was decided that all officers would be aware of all the Schemes of our Ministry to be part of any team as per the requirements. Though, this was not very easy to implement, but due to active cooperation of all officers, this change management helped the DNOs to great extent, as they needed to deal with all the Schemes in their assigned districts. Further, this change management was also introduced to the ministerial staff of the office too.

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Incidentally, the tanneries and leather units of Kolkata at Bantala were disposing their leather scraps by burning them in open condition and these ash was used as fish-feed and fertilizer. This activity was declared illegal and whole burning activity was banned. To solve this issue the Director MSME GoWB, Shri Vijay Bharti trusted us as the best Consultant to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) and our team of Leather trade officers, specially Shri Sanjeev Azad and Shri Achinta Bhattacharya visited various leather clusters with our Mechanical trade officer, Shri Tapas Roy and came out with a practical and feasible solution of conversation of the waste leather scrap and dust in leather board making as an useful product; and DPR was prepared and handed over to State Govt. Another leather CFC for Micro Tanners was also studied and DPR was prepared by another leather trade officer Shri Sidhartha Nandi. We have earned ₹15L revenue too in these assignments.

With these DPR preparations, the trust of GoWB was further strengthened and two more projects were prepared for Flyash utilisation. In addition, our DNOs identified 200+ Clusters in all districts of West Bengal with the help of DICs and prepared 50 Concept Notes of feasible and potential Clusters and forwarded to HQ office with the consent of State Government. A week long training session was conducted at our office to train Officers of all 23 DICs on preparation of DPRs and a detailed comprehensive study material was prepared and handed over to them for initiating DPR preparation with our DNOs. The financial support for this project was given by GoWB. During this period, as per the instructions of AS&DC, a concept note on business model for agro based SMEs; and a project report for art based cluster; and a value chain analysis of Baruipur surgical instruments manufacturing cluster were prepared after discussion with various stakeholders and submitted to HQ office.

We also assisted Ernst & Young for executing a World Bank programme on survey and conducting meetings with SMEs of West Bengal, for logistics development through National Waterway-1 from Allahabad to Haldia, which was very encouraging. We also worked primarily with Weavers Service Centre, Kolkata, under DC (Handloom) for value addition and product development and formulation of profit sharing with Weavers, tailors, designers and handloom societies by Bar Coding and development of digital marketing with DBT model. To utilise the available land of our closed extension centre of Baruipur, an effort was initiated for setting up of Training cum demonstration Centre of Aromatic oil extraction by FFDC Kanauj, with the help of GoWB. An Awareness Programme was conducted with local farmers and land in KVK was identified for development of nursery. Incidentally, our efforts on Lean Management on two leather clusters and one engineering cluster were very impressive and significant savings were recorded during our study. Some of these units also upgraded their products due to this intervention. Due to these success and achievements, the Additional Chief Secretary, MSME&T GoWB formed State level and District level committees to target about fifty Lean Clusters throughout the state of WB with financial assistance from GoWB. However, the best efforts were given to face-lift our office environment and campus by cleaning garbage and salvaging a water-body, under Swachh Bharat Mission and with the designer concept and physical effort of Shri Subrata Banerjee, such a spectacular beautification has been made, that our office now gives a feeling of happiness and visual satisfaction to anyone, who comes to DI or TC.

Since, the fund for our regular training programmes were not received in 2018-19 due to up- gradation of Schemes, we received request and fund from Minority Finance Corporation, GoWB to conduct Entrepreneurship Development Programme for the youths of Minority Community. We had repeated discussions with MFC to understand their needs and it is understood that most of their beneficiaries are school dropouts and they may get fund from

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MFC at a much subsidised interest rate, if they are taught financial record keeping of their business dealings. It was really a challenging assignment to prepare study materials and PPT presentation in Bengali; and to make them aware about financial discipline. Never the less, the challenge was accepted by Shri Sitanath Mukherjee, Asstt. Director and five programmes were organised for these minority community participants. These programmes were very successful and further three more training programmes were conducted in this FY. Many of these trainees have received their fund from MFC and started their micro units. Similarly, Paradip-Haldia-Barauni Pipeline Division of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. approached us for arranging training of women participants at Jukia Village of Purba Medinipur, through which their pipeline is laid. The participants were selected in consultation of Jukia Gram Panchayet and sixty rural women were trained for six week for Readymade Garment Manufacturing and Food Processing. IOCL provided them necessary machines and assured marketing support too. The innovative design and theme concept of Shri Subrata Banerjee was already experimented during my tenure as Dy. Director in Kolkata and an excellent Skill Development Training of artisans was conducted for interior and exterior decoration with the help of a Kolkata Durga Puja organiser using sheet metal for designing the pandal. The same process was carried out in 2017 Durga Puja and glass cullet and waste glass were collected from CDGI Firozabad to design a thematic pandal in Kolkata and skill development was continued on new items and concepts. During Durga Puja 2018, terracotta craftsmanship was selected for skill and design development to such perfection that the huge 13 feet high Godess idols were made in terracotta including the whole interior and exterior designing if the pandal. That was a real perfection and mix of Technology and skill, which was even acknowledged and an Appreciation Certificate was awarded by AS&DC(MSME) to our team for that innovating and thematic creation and skill development. That appreciation was real motivator for our office and the same Initiative was proposed for 2019 Durga Puja in district level and skilling of artisan clusters was planned an ABCDEF (Art Based Cluster Development and Enterprises' Festival) initiative using our new scheme components. In this effort, five Pandals were decorated in Kolkata, Siliguri and Coochbehar districts and more than 100 artisans and rural youth have been trained successfully.

As an appreciation and effective promotion of creative entrepreneurs, a competition was organised on four item categories of Gift items, Designer outfits, Costume Jewelry and Eco- friendly bags. This Initiative was branded as 4U (Udbhabani Udyog Utkarshta Utsav) Sharod Samman and publicities were made in social media, Press Club release, through DICs, Associations and various trade fairs. The products of these craftsmen and entrepreneurs were evaluated by a panel of experts from other organisations and best ten products in each category were awarded for promotion of their competence. With the available experienced Officers of DI, Kolkata in various N.E States; and Kolkata being the Export/Marketing Hub for all the N.E States, a Synergy has been proposed as “BANERGISE” (Bengal And North Eastern Region Green Innovators & Social Enterprises) with 07 Sister States, Sikkim, A&N Island and North Bengal to motivate prospective export-worthy enterprises through National Seminars and to organize Mega-Export Trade Fair in Kolkata to showcase their products to the exporters and foreign buyers. Mostly the MSEs of Handicrafts, Hand-looms, Organic & Herbal Produces and Eco and water Tourism have been targeted in this effort. The Initiative was designed as per the funding pattern of P&MS scheme and approved by HQ office. We have already completed three National Level Seminars at Mizoram, Tripura and Andamans; and there are encouraging response from these Workshops and many exports worthy MSEs and Tourism entrepreneurs have shown their keen interest to join Mega-Export Trade Fair in Kolkata.

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To promote the Brand MSME by propagating Schemes, incentives and support systems of our Ministry, 05 (Five) weekly episodes of one hour duration were telecast live in Doordarshan Bangla, where questions were replied through WhatsApp, SMS and e-mail to the prospective and existing entrepreneurs and other viewers. This was the maiden effort from our end to promote our Brand on main stream electronic media and there was a huge response mostly from the rural viewers, who not only got awareness but their queries were answered and clarified.

Every Journey of a thousand miles is covered with numbers of single steps...but ends one day!

Now, I am completing my memorable journey of officially assisting MSMEs, all the lively entrepreneurs, due to my superannuation on 31st October, 2019. I am grateful to my colleagues, my teammates, my seniors for all the cooperation and assistance they have asserted in this service life of 30+ years. Fortunately, I have achieved several milestones and those give me immanence satisfaction and nostalgia. Though, there are certain frustrations and failures too in my service life, which I have not expressed in these five episodes of recollection of my memories, but I cherish the success of the entrepreneurs, who came in my contact and I could help them in whatever little way, with my knowledge and ability. I have also excluded numbers of interesting live stories of budding entrepreneurs, their courage to take risk, their perseverance, their struggles, their success and their failures, which I witnessed; and hope this monthly e-magazine, which is only one year old, will continue to publish those stories to motivate our youth to think differently.

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A Dream comes true Dreamztech Solutions INC Regd. Office : AQ-7, 6th Floor, Ambient Building, Sector V ,Near Technopolis, Bidhannagar, West Bengal 700091. Email : [email protected] Website : www. dreamztech.com Phone : +91 (033)-4004 0627

DreamzTech is an enterprise solution provider with expertise in New Age Technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Enterprise Mobility, Progressive Web App Platform, Cloud Apps & Security, Data Analytics, Augmented Reality & Custom Web design & development. DreamzTech is Registered IBM & Amazon partner and recognised by Deloitte as one the fastest growing company in APAC and India.

The journey started with two dreamers, Krishnendu Ghosh and Kuntal Mazumder. Two batchmates, who passed out from West Bengal University of Technology in 2005 palnned to do something on their own. When people were thriving for lucrative IT relted jobs, these two young men took the harder path of building their own business in IT sector. With the faith and confidence on their own capabilities, they formed a startup named Dreamztech Solution.

They never looked back. With their experience and expertise in executing complex digital transformation and mission critical programs they served enterprise businesses worldwide. In theirown words “We’re dedicated to our clients, guided by our values and powered by our people. That has let us rapidly grow from a 2-person startup to a global team of hundreds.”

Today, DreamzTech offices are located in USA, UK, India & Singapore with client presence worldwide & the India division has the offices in Kolkata & Pune and is one of the most promising IT and consulting services company worldwide. They have a team of software engineers working in the service and product Industry to help enterprises transform their legacy systems through strategic consulting, and solutions, including those in mobility and cloud computing.

Krish (Industry name of Krishnendu Ghosh) is currently the Chief Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer for Dreamztech Solutions Inc. As a driven technology leader, he is responsible for managing Dreamztech’s corporate growth as a leading provider of global IT consulting & client services. During his tenure as MD, Dreamztech’s employee base has grown to over 250+ who are working from India, United Stated, South Africa, Singapore & United Kingdom. A natural communicator with Exceptionally strong presentationskills and strong ability to provide cost-effective but high impact solutions, maximising the value of technology investments helps him to manage great client relationship management. In last 2 financial Years, Krish has established partners in different vertical markets and helped to grow Channel Revenue to 40% of overall revenue and negotiated Company’s largest contract for long-term renewal. Dreamztech is now worth around $4 million.

The journey and rapid growth of Dreamztech is really inspiring for the technology startup sector and for those young enterprising mind.

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AV SPACE

Know MSME schemes from DC (MSME) himself:

During an interview session with Mr. Mukesh Mohan Gupta, President, CIMSME on a special programme called MSME Helpline produced by CIMSME, New Delhi, the AS&DC(MSME) himself elaborated on different MSME Schemes.

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New Initiative on GeM:

The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Federal Bank on 23rd October 2019 to offer a number of services including transfer of funds through GeM Pool Accounts (GPA), advising of Performance Bank Guarantees (e-PBG) and Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) to the registered users on the portal. The MoU will facilitate a cashless, paperless and transparent payment system on the portal and would create an efficient procurement system for government entities.

GeM is also working with Banks, TReDs, and SIDBI to provide bill discounting and financing of working capital where the cost of capital is linked to the performance & rating of a seller on GeM. This will help the sellers in general & the MSMEs in particular to access easy credit and do better business with the government. In addition, GeM is contemplating the creation of EMD pool account for making it easy for sellers to comply with the EMD requirements while responding to bids.

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Govt. to launch EDCs for MSMEs in all districts:

In a major relief for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced that stressed MSMEs would not be declared non- performing assets (NPA) till March 31, 2020.

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Promotion of Brand MSME through Doordarshan:

This office is promoting Brand MSME in general and various initiatives undertaken by MSME-DI, Kolkata in particular through episodes aired by Doordarshan and uploading videos in You Tube.

1st Episode – 19.09.19 -

nd 2 Episode – 26.09.19 -

rd 3 Episode – 10.10.19 - MSME

4th Episode – 17.10.19 – অপচ

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FROM THE DISTRICT

DARJEELING

PROGRAM ON SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Siliguri Industrial Estate Development Association(SIEDA), Siliguri and Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India(EDII), Kolkata jointly organized a sensitization workshop on Energy Efficiency for MSME for the industry members of SIEDA and also another Awareness programme on National Award scheme, 2019 with support from Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development , Govt of India and Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai at Association Building on 3rd September,2019. During the program Mr. T.K.Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br.MSME-DI, Siliguri given a talk on the schemes of DC(MSME)under Ministry of MSME. Approximately 55 Nos of participants attended the program.

VDP ORGANISED BY SUB DIC SILIGURI

One Vendor Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs under National SC/ST Hub Scheme was organized by Sub District Industries Centre, Siliguri at Hardware Merchant Association Building, Siliguri on 04.09.19. In the program Mr. T. K. Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br.MSME-DI, Siliguri given a talk on the schemes of DC(MSME) and one Power Point Presentation was delivered on Public Procurement Policy. Mr. Subir Roy, Cluster Development Manager, EDII, Kolkata, Mr. S.R.Gupta, Br.Manager, Syndicate Bank, Siliguri, Mr.G.K.Chowdhury, Officer in charge, Sub DIC, Siliguri also delivered talks during the program. Seventy two numbers of participants attended the program.

VDP ORGANISED BY GM, DIC DARJEELING AT KURSEONG

One Vendor Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs under National SC/ST Hub Scheme was organized by General Manager, District Industries Centre, Darjeeling at Naya Bazar, Town Committee Hall, Kurseong, Dist- Darjeeling in association with Vernajyoti Educare, Kolkata on 05.09.19. In the program Mr.T.K.Banerjee given a talk on the schemes of DC(MSME) and one Power Point Presentation was delivered on Public Procurement Policy. Mr.S.K. Chettri, Lead District Manager, Darjeeling, Officials from Vernajyoti Educare, Kolkata,

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Mr. S.Das, Assistant Director, DC(Handicrafts), District officer, KVIB, Darjeeling, Bank official, Mr.L.T.Bhutia, GM, DIC, Darjeeling and other Managers of DIC, Darjeeling was present in the program and also delivered talk during the program. Sixty number of participants( all from SC/ST community) attended the program.

AWARENESS PROGRAM

One day Awareness Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs under National SC/ST HUB organised by Sub District Industries Centre, Siliguri, Dist-Darjeeling (under MSME & T. Deptt, Govt of WB) on 26.08.19 at Marketing Hall of Agricultural Marketing Deptt., Champasari, Siliguri , Dist- Darjeeling. Mr. P.K. Das, Deputy Director I/c, Br. MSME-DI, Siliguri delivered a lecture on promotion & development of MSMEs. Mr. T.K. Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br. MSME-DI, Siliguri given a talk on the schemes of DC(MSME) during the awareness programme and also requested participants to come forward to setup their units. The other dignitaries also spoke during the programme were Mr. S.K. Chettri, LDM, Darjeeling, Mr. Rabindra Hansdah, DDM, NABARD, Darjeeling, Mr. G.K. Chowdhury, Officer in charge, Sub DIC, Siliguri and other managers & IDOs of Sub DIC, Siliguri. Total participants attended the program was 73 (SC- 68, ST-5).

COOCHBEHAR EDP ORGANISED BY UTTAR BANGA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA, PUNDIBARI Special lecture on “ Strengthening the sense of Agri – Entrepreneuship among the Agricultural Graduates through different schemes of MSME department , Govt of India was delivered by Mr.T.K.Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br.MSME Development Institute, Siliguri on 12.09.19 at Dr. Pranab Gayen Memorial Hall, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya. The program was organized by Faculty of Agriculture ( The Faculty of Agriculture under Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya accredited by Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Uttar Banga Krishi

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Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar. In the program approximately 70 Nos of BSc(Agri) and BSc(Hort) Hons, all 4th Year students and (i) Prof. T.K.Hath, Dean (ii) Prof. D. Mukherjee, Department of Social Science , Agri. Chemistry (iii) Prof. Kaushik Pradhan, Co-ordinator, Department of Agri. Extensions was present in the program.

JALPAIGURI VDP ORGANISED BY DIC JALPAIGURI

One Vendor Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs under National SC/ST Hub Scheme was organized by General Manager, District Industries Centre, Jalpaiguri (under MSME & T. Deptt, Govt of West Bengal) on 17.09.19 at Prayas Hall of Jalpaiguri Municipality, Jalpaiguri. Mr. T. K. Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br.MSME-DI, Siliguri given a speech on the schemes of DC(MSME) particularly for SC/ST beneficiaries during the programme and also requested participants to come forward to setup their units.Mr. Banerjee also delivered one Power Point Presentation on Public Procurement Policy. The other dignitaries also spoke during the programme were Mr. Sanjit Saha, a successful entrepreneur (M/s Sonai Furniture), Mr. Chandan Paul, GM, DIC, Jalpaiguri and other managers & IDOs of DIC, Jalpaiguri. 73 numbers of participants ( all from SC/ST community)attended the programme.

AWARENESS PROGRAM

One day Awareness Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs under National SC/ST HUB scheme on MSME Activities organised by General Manager, District Industries Centre, Jalpaiguri (under MSME&T Deptt, Govt. of West Bengal) on 29.08.19 at Prayas Hall of Jalpaiguri Municipality, Jalpaiguri . Mr. T.K.Banerjee, Assistant Director, Br.MSME-DI, Siliguri given a elaborative speech on the schemes of DC(MSME) particularly for SC/ST beneficiaries during the awareness programme and also requested participants to come forward to setup their units. The other dignitaries also spoke during the programme were Additional District Magistrate, Jalpaiguri, Mr. D. Sarkar, LDM, Jalpaiguri, Mr. Manoj Tamang, Karmadhykhya, Mr. Chandan Paul, GM, DIC, Jalpaiguri and other managers & IDOs of DIC, Jalpaiguri. Total Eighty participants attended the program.

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HOWRAH Seminar on VDP

Shri S. K. Mandal, Asstt. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata attended the Seminar on VDP (under SC-ST HUB of NSIC) at Sarat Sadan, Howrah, organised by DIC-Howrah on 29.08.19, in presence of GM, DIC, Howrah, Manager, Metro Rail, Kolkata, Manager, NSIC, Kolkata, Dy. Manager, GRSE, Kolkata, Other DIC, Howrah Officials and around 40 MSE- Participants. A PPT presentation was delivered by Shri Mandal on PPP-2012 & MSME-DI Activities.

Seminar on VDP

Shri S. K. Mandal, Asstt. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata attended the Seminar on VDP (under SC-ST HUB of NSIC) at O/o BDO, Uluberia-I, Howrah, organised by DIC on 20.09.19, in presence of GM, DIC, Howrah, GM, NSIC-TSC, Howrah, Chief Manager, NSIC-TSC, Howrah, Dy. Manager, GRSE, Kolkata, Other DIC, Howrah, Officials and around 50 MSE- Participants. A PPT presentation was delivered by Shri Mandal on PPP-2012 & MSME-DI Activities. During the Seminar, also discussed with both the GMs of DIC & NSIC and explored various aspects of organising forthcoming District Udyam Samagam (DUS) and ZED Awareness Programme etc. for the District of Howrah. The participants were also made aware of such programmes, in advance, to avail the benefits and promote entrepreneurship. Visit of UNIDO-EESL officials to Foundry Cluster Units at Dashnagar

A team of UNIDO-EESL Officials visited Foundry Cluster Units at Dashnagar, Howrah on 21.09.2019 (Saturday) for Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting under GEF-5 UNIDO Project “Promoting Market Transformation for Energy Efficiency in MSMEs” with national (Mr Debajit Das, National Project Coordinator from UNIDO) and international experts (Mr Stefan Meintzky, International Evaluator for Austria). Officials of MSME-DI, Kolkata (Shri M. Guha, Dy. Director and Shri S. K. Mandal, Asstt. Director) accompanied the team and attended the meeting- cum-field visits. Initial meeting was held at Foundry Cluster Association at Dashnagar, Howrah (along with Association President, Secretary and Concerned Entrepreneurs of the Cluster) and followed by field visits of two units, M/S. Raghunath Iron Foundry, Dashnagar, Howrah and M/S. Sri Durga Iron Works, Liluah, Howrah. Both the units are having Single Blast Cupola Furnace like most other units

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IMC at Adyapeath Annada Polytechnic College

A Two-days IMC was conducted by MSME-DI, Kolkata at Adyapeath Annada Polytechnic College, Dakshineswar, 24-Pgs (N) for the Students of the College on 16.09.19 to 17.09.19. Shri S. K. Mandal, Asst. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata attended the IMC on 16.09.19 at Adyapeath, in presence of Respected Brahmachari Mural Bhai, President, Dakshineswar Ramkrishna Sanga, Adyapeath, Shri Gopal Saha, Honb’le Chairman, Kamarhati Municipality, Shri S. K. Sahah, Chief Manager, NSIC-TSC, Howrah, Bank Manager, SBI, Dakshineswar, Bank Manager, UBI, Dakshineswar, Bank Manager, CBI (Canara), Dakshineswar, Dr. S. K. Das, System Manager, Calcutta University and other Officials of MSME-DI, Kolkata and Adyapeath Annada Polytechnic College, Dakshineswar. Around 210 students participated the IMC. A motivation lecture with Govt. Scheme opportunities was delivered by Shri Mandal along with other dignitaries for the benefits of the students towards promotion of entrepreneurship. A Study- cum-Industry visit was arranged in the 2nd day as a part of the IMC. Shri Tapas Roy, Investigator, MSME-DI, Kolkata had co-ordinated the IMC.

PASCHIM BARDHAMAN MEETING ON MACHINERY SPECIFICATION SET UP FOR REFRACTORY BRICKS CLUSTER

A meeting was held on 30/8/19 at Conference Hall of MSME-DI, Kolkata to set up Specifications of Rotary Kiln and associated machinery in respect of Refractory Bricks Cluster, Paschim Burdwan. Officials from MSME-DI, Kolkata and Durgapur, DIC, Paschim Burdwan, WBSEPS, Kolkata (IA), Cluster SPV, Paschim Burdwan and Govt. College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology (GCECT), Kolkata were present in the meeting. Both, Shri S. K. Mandal, Asstt. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata and Shri R. C. Das, Associate Professor, GCECT, Kolkata placed their individual exploration about collection of quotations and specification details of Rotary Kiln from various sources. After detailed discussion on the available inputs, the members of the meeting concluded on the specifications of Rotary Kiln and associated machinery according to the need of the cluster. The draft specifications are prepared as per attachment for needful consideration in the forthcoming Purchase Committee/ Tender Committee Meeting to be conducted by DIC, Paschim Burdwan shortly.

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FOCUS DISTRICT – ANDAMAN & NICOBER ISLANDS

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, located in the east of the Indian mainland geographically, float in splendid isolation in the Bay of Bengal. Once a hill range extending from Myanmar to Indonesia, these picturesque undulating islands, islets numbering around 572, are covered with dense rain-fed, damp and evergreen forests and endless varieties of exotic flora and fauna. Most of these islands (about 550) are in the Andaman Group, 28 of which are inhabited. The smaller Nicobars, comprise some 22 main islands (10 inhabited). The Andaman and Nicobars are separated by the Ten Degree Channel which is 150 Kms. wide.

Introduction: The Andaman & Nicobar Islands have been inhabited for several thousand years, at the very least. The earlier archaeological evidence yet documented goes back some 2,200 years; however, the indications from genetic, cultural and linguistic isolation studies point to habitation going back 30,000 – 60,000 years, well into the Middle Palaeolithic. In the Andaman Islands, the various Andamanese people maintained their separated existence through the vast majority of this time, diversifying into distinct linguistic, cultural and territorial groups. By the 1850s when they first came into sustained contact by outside groups, the indigenous people of Andamans were: the Great Andamanese, who collectively represented at least 10 distinct sub groups and languages; the Jarawa: the jungle (or Rutland Jarawa); the Onge; and the Sentinelese (the most isolated of all the groups). The indigenous peoples of the Nicobars (unrelated to the Andamanese) have a similarly isolated and lengthy association with the islands. There are two main groups: the Nicobarese, or Nicobari living throughout many of the islands; and the Shompen, restricted to the interior of Great Nicobar.

These islands also boast of freedom fighting days’ historically significant landmarks viz. Cellular Jail, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, Viper Island, Hopetown and Mount Harriet. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been declared as two of the 218 endemic bird area of the world. As many as 270 species and sub-species of birds have been reported existing in these islands, 106 of them being endemic. The Andaman Wood Pigeon, Andaman Padauk and Dugong are declared as State Bird, State Tree and State Animal respectively. There are about 96 Wildlife Sanctuaries, nine National Parks and one Biosphere Reserve in the islands. These islands are blessed with the bounties of both south- west and north-east monsoons.

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Brief History of Andaman & Nicober: The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are of great historic and strategic significance for the country and added many glorious chapters to the freedom struggle of the country. These are called “the Islands of the Marigold Sun” by many philosophical writers profusely. There is no land connection, no dust, no haze, no loo and tranquillity prevails in the sea. If we gaze at the history of Andaman & Nicobar from bird’s point of view it seems to be divided in three phases as under:

Pre-British: Andaman & Nicobar is an archipelago of 572 Islands spread over from Cape Negrais in Burma (North) to Achin Head in Sumatra (South) for about 780 Km. and it’s wid this nowhere more than 32 miles covering an area of 8249 Sq. Km., located in the long trade route of India, Burma and the Far East. The southernmost point of India i.e. Indira Point is situated in Campbell bay in Great Nicobar Island. The northern point is adjacent to Myanmar whereas the southernmost is approaching Indonesia. Thus, these pristine Islands are far from their mother land country in the midst of the Andaman Sea but within the close quarters of some South East Asian Countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Jawa, Sumatra, Malaysia etc.

These islands were on the ancient sea trade route between China and west lands and known to the world from ancient times. The Malays used these islands for piratical practice and trade of Andamanese slaves and knew them by the term Handuman, which most likely preserves the very ancient Hanuman of Ramayana epic carried down to the Malays in story and translation (Census Report 1901 by Sir Richard Temple). The name ‘Andaman’ might be the derivation of Malay term ‘Handuman’ as suggested in the report.

The furious 10 degree channel divides the territory in two different identical regions the northern part is Andaman and southern part is Nicobar. The word Nicobar seems to be corruption of the South Indian Term ‘Nakkavaram’ (land of naked people) under which name they are mentioned in the great Tanjore inscription of AD 1050 and the name has been regularly used from the time of Marcopolo (A. D. 1292) onwards. Pre-Independence: After eruption of Industrial Revolution due to technological shift in Europe, most of the European countries were engaged in settling their colonies in the region less travelled. In this era almost all powers of Europe started to send their voyages in search of new markets. In this continuum the Andaman & Nicobar too was not left untouched and the French, Portuguese, Dutch, English started to enter these islands under their policy of colonialism and imperialism. Later the East India Company took a serious view of the events of high sea piracies and murders of ship-wrecked crews along the coast of Andaman. Aggrieved by the situation, Lord Cornwallis sent Lt. Archibald Blair and Lt. Colebrook in 1788 to survey the Islands to explore a suitable place for settlement.

The first settlement of a free colony was established in 1789 at Chatham Island by Lt. Blair, now part of Port Blair, although it was then called as Port Cornwallis. Gradually this settlement too had to be abolished miserably in 1796 due to unhealthy climate and high mortality rate. For the next 60 years, there was hardly any settlement in these Islands. But due to the continued harassment and killings of shipwrecked crews, the idea of setting one naval set up at Andaman again cropped up. Finally, the 1st movement of Indian Independence in 1857, which was sparked initially at Barrackpore Cantonment by revolt of sepoys in leadership of Mangal Pandey followed by other areas and soon converted into full fledged first war of independence to overthrow British from India, prompted the British Government to form an ‘Andaman Committee’ to examine a suitable site for a penal settlement. On the recommendations of the committee the settlement had been re-established at old Port Cornwallis i.e. present Port Blair in 1858.

The aborigines naturally could not tolerate the occupation of their land by new comers resulting to frequent confrontations between aborigines and new comers. The Battle of Aberdeen, the great war of liberation occurred on 17th May 1859, was the most determined

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Prior to construction of the Cellular Jail, male convicts were kept in Viper Island and female convicts in a barrack at South Point. Gradually, depending upon prolonged good conduct, convicts were allowed to live in free style in villages. They could marry female convicts or bring their wives from mainland, cultivate land for supporting their livelihood. The construction of Cellular Jail was started in 1896 and it was completed by 1906.

During 1909 to 1922, a large number of revolutionaries like Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his elder brother, of Nasik conspiracy case, Ullashkar Dutta, Barindra Kumar Ghosh – brother of revolutionary and Yogi Sri Aurobindo of Alipur Bomb case, Wamanrao Joshi of Jackson murder case, Babu Sohan Singh with about 40 companions of Lahore conspiracy case, Mujtaba Husain of Mandalay conspiracy case, Sachindra Nath Sanyal of Banaras conspiracy case and others were sent to this jail. These political prisoners faced inhuman treatment and torture, 8 to 10 of them died because of brutality; many lost their mental balance and became physically handicapped.

The deplorable conditions of the penal settlement and that of prisoners in Cellular jail, spread among the Indian public through the correspondences of these revolutionaries. A large number of Moplah rebels from Malabars, were deported and they were allowed to bring their families to settle in separate villages. These Moplah communities had started a rebellion against British Raj in 1921. Among the other prisoners who were brought at that period, Rampa revolutionaries from West Godavari and Visakhapattanam districts and Tharawady Rebels of Burma are worth mentioning. A large number of Bhantus from the then United province were also transported. Before 1932, political activities against British Govt. in the form of revolutionary movement again erupted in the country severely and due to this reason the Govt. withdrew its policy of not sending the political prisoners to Cellular jail. Some of the prominent figures among these revolutionaries were Shri Batukeshwar Dutta of Legislative Assembly bomb case, Shri Jai Dev Kapur of 2nd Lahore Conspiracy case, Lok Nath Ball, Ananta Singh and Ganesh Ghosh of Chittagong Armoury Raid case and Shambu Nath Azad of Travancore Bank dacoity case and others.

During 2nd world war, Japanese occupied these islands on 23rd March, 1942 without getting any resistance from British. On 6th November 1943, Japan announced that they had decided to hand over A&N Islands to the Provisional Government of Azad Hind. On 29th December 1943 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the head of the state of Azad Hind Government landed on this Indian soil and on 30th December he hoisted the tri-coloured Indian National flag at Gymkhana ground, Port Blair. He decided to name these islands as Sahid and Swaraj islands respectively. Allied forces recaptured the islands on 8th October, 1945. The penal settlement was closed and a general amnesty was awarded to all convicts and they were offered to repatriate to their homes in mainland when 4,000 convicts took the advantages of this offer. On the 15th August, 1947 these Islands became part of independent India.

Post-Independence:- On 15th August 1947 the Inhabitants of Andaman & Nicobar Islands also had a sigh of relief and after a long struggle with British they became Independent and internal part of India. There is no discrimination in society on the basis of caste, creed, region and language. Their common link language is Hindi and they live with co-operation. The settlers belong to different socio-cultural zones of main land, different caste, creed, language, region, dialects, social customs and values, but their circumstances made them the new valued accustomed inhabitants of these islands where vision is broad on the basis of nationalism rather than the trivial issues of caste, creed, regional language etc. and emerged as a new modern Andaman that now we can claim as the gems in the garland. The main

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31 Fish (Production in 2015-16): Marine fish 37125 MT Inland 200MT 32 Major crops in Andaman & Nicobar Islands (during 2015-16) Area (Hect.) Production (Mt.) Coconut (M/nuts) 21915 .50 131.60 Areca nut 4623.50 10327.50 Paddy 6100.00 20517.00 Pulses 1418.50 921.50 Oil seed 42.50 9.35 Vegetables 5335.00 36250.00 Fruits 3946.00 31130.00 33 Power - Installed capacity (as on 2015-16) 109448 KWH Main source of power is DG sets. However, 1 Hydro Plant in N&M and 1 Solar Plant in SA Rural : 40624 KWH Dist.(at Garacharma) is existing and one more Solar Plant is in process at Attam Urban: 68824 KWH Pahad near NT pool under Garacharma ward No.18 34 No. of Industrial Estates 8 35 No. of large and medium scale enterprises Nil 36 No. of MSEs registered as on 31.03.2016 2996 37 No. of employment through MSEs as on 31.03.2016 18573 38 Cumulative Investment (Amount Rs.in lakh) 16829.44 39 Cumulative Production through MSEs as on up to 17th Sep,2015 (Amount Rs.in Lakhs) 33829.87 40 No. of Departmental training Centers under Directorate of Industries 11 41 No. of Engineering colleges 1 42 No. of ITI 2 43 No. of Rajkiya Mahavidyalaya 1 44 University campus (Extension) 1 45 No. of Medical Colleges 1 46 CPSU (Forest Plantation & Development 1 47 Air port 1 (Port Blair) 48 Telephone Exchanges 51 49 Head Post Office 1 at Port Blair city Sub Post offices 26 (7-N&M, 15-SA, 4-NIC) 50 Employment Exchange 1 at Port Blair 51 Transport vehicles (During 2015-2016) Motor cycle/scooter/moped 79098 Lorry/truck 2730 Bus 1074 Car/taxi/Omni & Jeep (LMV) 23334 Auto 4072 Others 821 TOTAL 111129 52 Shipping Transport(as 31.03.2016) A. Passenger vessels: Mainland 5 Inter-Island 5 B. Foreshore: Pax-cum-cargo vessels 17 C. Cargo vessels: 5 D. Pax-cum vehicle ferry: 14 E. Landing ferry 2 F. Harbour ferry service: Ferry vessels/motor lunch G. Other type of vessels/charter vessel for Inter-Island 14 53 Air transport services from Port Blair to mainland Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Visakhapatnam. 54 Helipads 18 (8-SA, 3 N&M, 7 Nicobar) 55 Shipping transport services from P/Blair to mainland Kolkata, Chennai and Visakhapatnam. 56 Diglipur, Mayabunder, Havelock, Niel Island, Shipping transport services from Port Blair to inter Island Hut Bay, Long Island, Rangat & Nicobar group of Islands 57 Road transport from Port Blair to Island (ATR) Baratang, Rangat, Mayabunder, Diglipur

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Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor is the Administrator of the Union Territory of A & N Islands. Besides the Chief Secretary, Secretaries and Commissioners deal with different subjects and assist the Hon’ble Lt. Governor and the Chief Secretary in development and policy frame work of the Islands. There various offices of Central Govt. that assist the promotion and development of the Island in their respective area. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory is divided into 3 districts, namely, North & Middle Andaman, South Andaman and Nicobar District. The Administrative head of each District is the Deputy Commissioner.

There is 1 Lok Sabha seat, 1 Municipal Council, 9 Tehsil (1 - Port Blair town), 70 Gram Panchayats, 7 Panchayat Samitis and 2 Zilla Parishads in the Union Territory. The details of Districts, Tehsils and Panchayati Raj Institutions are given below:

District, Tehsil and Panchayati Raj Institutions

Sl. No. Districts Tehsil Gram Panchayat Panchayat Samiti Zilla Parishad 1 North & Middle Andaman Diglipur 15 1 1 Mayabunder 8 1 - Rangat 14 1 - 2 South Andaman Port Blair town 6 1 1 Ferrargunj 19 1 - Little Andaman 5 1 - 3 Nicobar District Car Nicobar - - - Nancowry - - - Great Nicobar 3 1 - TOTAL 70 7 2 Source: Directorate of Economic & Statistics Census-2011

Economy

Agriculture A total of 48,675 hectares (120,280 acres) of land is used for agriculture purposes. Paddy, the main food crop, is mostly cultivated in Andaman group of islands, whereas coconut and areca nut are the cash crops of Nicobar group of islands. Field crops, namely pulses, oilseeds and vegetables are grown, followed by paddy during Rabi season. Different kinds of fruits such as mango, sapota, orange, banana, papaya, pineapple and root crops are grown on hilly land owned by farmers. Spices such as pepper, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon are grown under a multi-tier cropping system. Rubber, red oil, palm, noni and cashew are grown on a limited scale in these islands.

Industry

There are 1,374 registered small-scale, village and handicraft units. Two units are export- oriented in the line of fish processing activity. Apart from this, there are shell and wood-based handicraft units. There are also four medium-sized industrial units. SSI units are engaged in the production of polythene bags, PVC conduit pipes and fittings, paints and varnishes, fiberglass and mini flour mills, soft drinks, and beverages, etc. Small scale and handicraft units are also engaged in shell crafts, bakery products, rice milling, furniture making, etc.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation has spread its wings in the field of tourism, fisheries, industries, and industrial financing and functions as authorised agents for Alliance Air. The Islands have become a tourist destination, due to the draw of their largely unspoiled virgin beaches and waters.

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Tourism Andaman and Nicobar Islands are developing into a major tourism hub with exotic-looking beaches and pristine islands having equally exotic names, wonderful opportunities for adventure sports like snorkelling and sea-walking.[28] Plans to develop various islands under NITI (National Institute of Transforming India) Aayog is also in progress. Luxury resorts with participation from the Government are set up to plan in Avis Island, Smith Island and Long Island.

In Port Blair, the main places to visit are the Cellular Jail, Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Andaman Water sports complex, Chatham Saw Mill, Mini Zoo, Corbyn's cove, Chidiya Tapu, Wandoor Beach, Forest Museum, Anthropological Museum, Fisheries Museum, Naval Museum (Samudrika), Ross Island and North Bay Island. Viper Island which was earlier visited is now kept closed by the administration. Other places include Havelock island famous for Radhanagar Beach, Neil Island for Scuba diving/snorkeling/sea walking, Cinque Island, Saddle peak, Mt Harriet and Mud Volcano. Diglipur, located at North Andaman is also getting popular in 2018 and many tourists have started visiting North Andaman as well. The southern group (Nicobar Islands) is mostly inaccessible to tourists.

Indian tourists do not require a permit to visit the Andaman Islands, but if they wish to visit any tribal areas they need a special permit from the Deputy Commissioner in Port Blair. Permits are required for foreign nationals. For foreign nationals arriving by air, these are granted upon arrival at Port Blair.

According to official estimates, the flow of tourists tripled to nearly 430,000 in 2016-17 from 130,000 in 2008–09. The Radha Nagar beach was chosen as Asia's best beach in 2004.

Additional Information: The comparative isolation of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the mainland, scattered landscape, difficult communication system, heavy reliance on government departments for supply of inputs and smaller base of local market are the main impediments to the rapid growth of the economy. However, the union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands has immense potential for achieving higher growth aided mainly by extensive marine resources, high literacy rate, conducive work environment and strategic location. In achieving this goal, government efforts need to be supplemented by private initiatives where the banking sector has an important role to play. This will help in further improving the well-being of masses in the islands.

MSME-DI, Kolkata promotes MSEs through its various programmes. For any queries regarding MSMEs in Andamn & Nicober Islands, feel free to contact:

Shri Chandramouli Jangam District Nodal Officer, Andamn & Nicober Islands Assistant Director (EI) Branch-MSME-DI, Portblair +91 9441347829; [email protected]

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NEWS & VIEWS

MSME-DI, Kolkata seeks comments and suggestions on downfall in export to improve the export from the state of West Bengal

MSME-DI, Kolkata has set up an Export Facilitation Cell (EFC) under the control of Development Commissioner (MSME), New Delhi. The main functions of the EFC are to explore the untapped potential of the MSME sector to boost export from Domestic Tariff Area and Special Economic Zone by promoting MSMEs and clusters.

As per the guidance of Development Commissioner (MSME), Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India, this office has received the statistical data from the Director General of Computer Intelligence & Services, M/o of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India, Kolkata. As per the report, the total export from the state of West Bengal is appended as under:

Sl. No. Year Total Export Value (in USD) 1 2014-15 9087997428 2 2015-16 7470298842 3 2016-17 8236253097 4 2017-18 9290317817 5 2018-19 10057134387

From the statistical data, it is observed that over all export from the state of West Bengal has been declined in the year 2015-16 & 2016-17 during last five years. The top 10 exported commodity data for the last 5 years received from DGCI, Kolkata, Govt. of India is given bellow. From the statistical data, the following trends are observed in respect of Top ten commodities as appeared in the Data under reference.

Sl. ITCHS Item description Nature of trend 1 71131910 JEWELLERY OF GOLD UNSET Downfall in four years from 2015-16 to 2018-19. 2 72071920 MILD STEEL (M.S.) BILLETS Downfall in 2015-16. 3 03061790 OTHER SHRIMPS AND PRAWNS Downfall in 2018-19 4 85451100 ELECTRODES OF A KIND USED FOR FURNACES Downfall in 2015-16 & 2016-17. POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE: 5 39076100 No downfall HAVING A VISCOSITY NUMBER OF 78 ML/G OR HIGHER 6 27101930 HIGH SPEED DIESEL (HSD) Downfall in 2015-16 & 2018-2019. 7 42023120 WALLETS AND PURSES OF LEATHER Downfall in 2015-16, 2017-18 & 2018-19. 8 42032910 GLOVES FOR USE IN INDUSTRY Downfall from 2015-16 to 2018-19. 9 72023000 FERRO-SILICO-MANGANESE Downfall from 2015-16 to 2018-19. 10 27101920 AVIATION TURBINE FUEL (ATF) Downfall from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

WE desire to analyse the reasons for downfall in the overall export and downfall in export of top 10 exported commodities from the state of West Bengal during the last five years. We request to give your valuable comments on downfall in export in both the cases as stated above and suggest remedial measures to improve the export from the state of West Bengal.

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Extension Centre of Central Footwear Training Centre (CFTI) , Agra is coming up soon in Kolkata

It is really a good news that the proposal for establishing a fully equipped Extension Centre of Central Footwear Training Centre (CFTI), Agra at the campus of MSME Development Institute, Kolkata has been approved by the HQ and in fact Rs 473.10 lakhs has already been released towards non-recurring Grant-in-Aid .We hope that the proposed training centre is likely to start functioning by early 2020.

Summary of Recommendations’ made by the Expert Committee on MSME constituted by the Reserve Bank of India

The Expert Committee on Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises constituted by the Reserve Bank of India has submitted its report. The Report is already uploaded on the website of RBI (Reports/Publication Section). The Chapter 9 of the Report presents a ‘Summary of Recommendations’ made by the Committee vis-à-vis the specific agencies responsible for taking measures in respect of each of those recommendations..

I. Group policies for death and accident cover for MSME entrepreneurs need to be developed with insurance cover significantly higher than the cover currently offered by PMSBY and PMJJBY schemes. As Group policies, these would involve significant reduction in premium payable. Coverage could be offered in slabs so that there are different sub-products (for a Micro entrepreneur vs a Medium entrepreneur). A portion of the sum assured could be assigned towards settling workers’ dues at the unit. The insurance cover would require no subsidy support from the Government and could be configured as an incentive for MSMEs which have been formalised, for instance, through GST enrolment or MSME registration or under the Shops and Establishments Act.

II. Active efforts, in campaign mode, are needed to extend coverage under PMSBY and PMJJBY to all MSME employees.

III. Workers at urban and rural formalised MSEs need to be specifically covered under PMJAY/ Ayushman Bharat scheme. Thereafter, MSME-DIs and DICs may be involved in an intensive campaign to assist enrolment of workers of MSEs and their families under the PMJAY/ Ayushman Bharat scheme so that health cover of ₹5 lakh becomes available to them. For MSE entrepreneurs, a group health scheme on similar lines based on full contribution by the entrepreneur may be designed in consultation with insurance companies.

M/o MSME desires that necessary action in a Campaign mode for the coverage may kindly be taken on priority on the issues as mentioned above.

KVIC bags fresh order worth Rs. 5.88 crore from GAIL

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has bagged an order worth Rs. 5.88 crore from the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), in the form of Khadi gift coupons for its 23,504 employees. GAIL agreed to gift Khadi coupons of Rs 2,500 to each of its 23,504 employees in all its units across the nation. The employees, however, would be able to purchase Khadi and products of Village Industries worth Rs. 3,250 from the coupon of Rs. 2,500. The coupons could be redeemed throughout the year at all Departmental Sales Outlets of KVIC. To give easy access to the employees of GAIL to redeem their coupons, KVIC will organize 3 special exhibitions also, at Pata, District Etawah, Vijaypur, District Guna and Jhabua, in Madhya

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Pradesh where the GAIL have their maximum employees. The MOU has been signed between KVIC and GAIL on 10th October 2019. KVIC will deliver the coupon this week.

KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena said that such huge orders from government and PSUs not only increase the income of the artisans but also inspires new entrepreneurs to associate with Khadi with better job avenues. He said that Orders in recent past from GAIL, ONGC, REC, IOC, MRPL, OIL, JK Cement and BEE have been implemental in making a compounding effect on the livelihood of Khadi artisans and have been creating more jobs by adding thousands of new artisans in KVIC’s kitty.

Shri Nitin Gadkari Launches Bamboo Water Bottle and other Products at KVIC

Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari launched new KVIC products and a special sales campaign in New Delhi , on the eve of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. He launched a bamboo bottle of 700ml to 900 ml capacity made by a Tripura based organization, which is being seen as the perfect replacement of plastic bottles as it is natural, cost effective, attractive and most eco- friendly. He also launched low priced sanitary napkins developed by Ladlee, a new soap and kachchi ghani mustard oil.

Remembering the Father of the Nation on the eve of his 150th birthday, Shri Gadkari said that khadi and village industries were very close to Gandhi ji’s heart. He said Gandhian economics emphasizes on maximum production with involvement of maximum number of people, and the Government of India is sincerely working to fulfil his dreams. The decision to serve tea in kulhads on 400 railway stations, distribution of tool kits to leather artisans are all steps in this direction, he said. The Minister also emphasized the need to modernise Khadi products to make them more attractive to the youth, and said the Ministry and KVIC are collaborating with reputed designers in this regard. Shri Gadkari said that presently 200 MSME companies are listed in National Stock Exchange and KVIC should also make efforts to list some entrepreneurs in NSE which will make easier the credit flow.

In observance of 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi, KVIC, for the first time, is giving 40% discount on Gandhi Topi and Gandhi Dhoti and 20% discount on all village industries products which will be applicable from 2nd October for 40 days

Shri Nitin Gadkari Presides over Meeting to Discuss Setting up of Design and Product Development Centres for Khadi

The Khadi and Village Industries Corporation (KVIC) under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises proposes to establish National Design and Product Development Centres in the country to facilitate Khadi institutions develop trendy designs as per market demand. Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister for MSME and Road Transport & Highways presided over a brainstorming session in New Delhi to discuss the modalities and way forward in this regard. Secretary MSME Dr Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary Textiles Shri Ravi Capoor, Chairman KVIC Shri VK Saxena, reputed designers Ms Ritu Beri, Shri Rohit Bal, Shri JJ Valaya , Shri RaghavendraRathor and senior officials from the Ministries of MSME and Textiles, KVIC, National Institute of Design (NID), National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) attended the meeting.

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Shri Pratap Chandra Saarangi inaugurates workshop on ‘Outreach of Emerging Technologies to MSMEs’

Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries has stressed that technology should be used with a view to improve the life condition of poorest of the poor. The Minister inaugurated the workshop on Outreach of Emerging Technologies to MSMEs in New Delhi recently..

He said that technology is needed for production, preservation and marketing of products and coping up with new technologies is essential to compete in the global market. He cautioned against over application of technology which sometimes goes against nature. Technology should be used to make better the life of poorest of poor, it should enhance the standard of living of the ‘have nots’. The primary objective of this workshop is awareness generation and dissemination of knowledge about some of the emerging technologies, their applications, the kind of potential they offer, the impact they can have on the sector, challenges faced in adoption and some relevant models from around the world. The other aim is to chart a way forward for institution-institution collaboration to make the penetration of these technologies to the MSMEs faster and effective.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

National Seminar on BANERGISE at 22.11.2019

Imphal Sarod Samman 2019 at Imphal, Manipur

Management Development Programme at November’ 2019 Murshidabad at Murshidabad

Valedictory Function of ESDP November, 2019 at Uttar Dinajpur & at

Dakshin Dinajpur Uttar & Dakshin Dinajpur

Awareness Campaign On ABCDEF November’ 2019 at Howrah

Awards for Enterprise Development and November Onwards Promotion of Brand MSME for In School Level Essay Competition & Traditional In All Districts Of West Art Competition Bengal And A & N Islands

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SPECIAL FEATURE

National Seminar/Workshop on Bengal and North Eastern Region Green Innovators & Social Entrepreneurs (BANERGISE) PORT BLAIR

A National Seminar/Workshop has been organized by MSME–Development Institute, Kolkata at the conference hall of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology (DBRAIT), Port Blair in association with Branch MSME-DI, Port Blair as well as the Industries Department, A&N Islands and various Industries Associations, namely, Dollygunj Industrial Estate Welfare Association, Andaman Association of Tour Operators, Andaman Sea Shell Craft Industries Association, and Andaman Chamber of Commerce & Industry. This programme was conducted to sensitize and motivate the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in various sectors such as Health Care, Handicraft & Handlooms, Organic, Ayurvedic & Medicinal Plant, Tourism in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Island and thus contribute to the social entrepreneurship movement initiated by this Institute under the “Bengal And North-Eastern Region Green Innovators & Social Entrepreneurs (BANERGISE)”.

The National Seminar at Port Blair was started with an inaugural function. Shri Subir Chander, Adhyaksha, Jilla Parisad, A&N Islands graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and Shri Uday Kumar, Chairman, Port Blair Municipal Council, A&N Islands graced the occasion as the Special Guest. Other dignitaries who were present in the Inaugural session were, Shri Ajit Anand, Director, Directorate of Industries, A&N Administration; Shri V. Mashar, General Manager, NABARD, Port Blair and Shri Utpal Kr. Sar, Director, Directorate of Fisheries, A&N Administration. While delivering his Welcome Address, Shri Ajoy Bandopadhyaya, Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata, described the objective of the National Seminar and highlighted the key topics of the seminar as well as the future mission. Nearly 140 persons including around 120 MSME participants attended the National Seminar. A great deal of active co-operation and support was received from various Industries associations in Port Blair as mentioned above towards organizing the seminar. Exhibition of the products and services was arranged outside the conference hall during the National Seminar where the MSEs from different sectors exhibited their products / services.

During the Technical sessions, various topics were covered, including the presentation on IPR delivered by Shri Sanjay Bhattacharya, Dy. Controller & Head of Office, Patent Office, Kolkata; presentation on the EXIM Policy delivered by Shri Sanjoy Lamba, Regional Head, EXIM Bank, Kolkata; Presentation on the Role and activities of NABARD delivered by Shri R.V.Ramakrishna, Dy. General Manager, NABARD, Port Blair; Lecture on the Role and activities of the DC(Handicrafts) by Shri K. Kumaravel, Asstt. Director, O/o DC (Handicrafts), Port Blair. Besides these, representatives from DIC, A & N KVIB and Directorate of Industries also delivered lecture during the technical session covering the role and activities of the respective departments. Presentation on the MSME schemes, Public Procurement Policy was delivered by Shri S.K.Sen, Asstt. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata. There was a feedback and interaction session during and at the end of the programme.

The National Seminar was ended with the vote thanks given by Shri Chandrauli Jangam, Asstt. Director I/c, BR. MSME-DI, Port Blair. The National Seminar at Port Blair was coordinated by Shri S.K.Sen, Asstt. Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata.

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Some Moments in Photographs

Welcome address by the Director, MSME-DI, Kolkata Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest, Shri Subir Chander, Adhyaksha, Jilla Parisad, A&N Islands

Address by Shri Ajit Anand, Director, Directorate of Section of the Audience Industries, A&N Administration

Presentation on IPR by Shri S. Bhattacharya, View of the Exhibition during the National Seminar

Dy. Controller & Head of Office, Patent Office, Kolkata

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Branding of MSME and Publicity through Doordarshan

Government publicity campaign means the dissemination to members of the public of information about a government programme, policy or initiative, funded by the Government and is disseminated under a commercial advertising distribution agreement by means of radio, television, the Internet, newspapers, billboards, cinemas or other media." The Guidelines in this regard state that other media may include, but is not limited to, internet search marketing, mobile device marketing (text, audio and video), posters, mobile billboards and signage on buses, trains, boats, aircraft and taxis. Advertising is a complex and fast changing landscape which can include a wide range of activities. Often, advertising will be only one part of a broader communication and marketing plan. The Act most commonly applies to traditional advertising campaigns bought through a media buying agency. However, it can also apply to other communications activities depending on how these activities are arranged, funded or distributed. To determine whether an activity is subject to the Act, agencies need to consider whether it meets the definition of a Government advertising campaign, as outlined above.

As a subordinate office under the Ministry of MSME, MSME-DI, Kolkata should also ensure that our activities remain apolitical and consistent with obligations under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013. Whether or not an activity is classified as a Government advertising campaign is ultimately a matter for us to determine. .

Advertising and publicity can play an important role in efficiently and effectively achieving public policy goals. It is important that the branding of MSME can be used to achieve, as well as standards and principles which we should observe when planning, developing and managing campaigns. This refers to all types of publicity that promotes specific goals

With above background, we felt a need to undertake a series of coordinated communications through DOORDARSHAN BANGLA to raise awareness of key issues or encourage prospective and existing entrepreneurs with active participation. Key areas for our present campaigns to promote brand promotion of MSME include:

• Dreams for new entrepreneurs ( )

• Promotion of government services and schemes ( )

• Quality Awareness and Lean Management ( অপচয় )

• Awareness of Social Entrepreneurship ( য় MSME)

• Digital platforms for MSMEs ( )

Officers from MSME-DI, Kolkata, MSME TRC, Kolkata and Outside experts in the related subjects covered the one hour Live Programme on every consecutive Thursdays followed by Repeat telecast on next Fridays. Public query were answered through WhatsApp/SMS/Email during & after the sessions. The programmes were first ever by MSME-DI, KOLKATA and evoked very good response.

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Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises - Development Institute 111-112, B. T. Road, Kolkata –700108 Phone 033-25770597/98 [email protected], [email protected] www.msmedikolkata.gov.in

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