plus the usual momentum of activities, were coordinated major events, the Auto Expo once again showcased just A year of by 25 Councils, 55 Committees and 3 Missions. how well the Indian automotive sector is revving up! CII interacted closely with the new government and CII met the Prime Minister along with the received a warm response for its initiatives and representatives of MSME associations to address suggestions. Many of ourrecommendations found issues facing MSMEs, and presented a detailed set of RESILIENCE & GROWTH place in the full Budget and the new Foreign Trade recommendations for the development of this sector. Policy. Our suggestions for the proposed Company Law, I cannot stress enough how crucial it is to the the draft Direct Tax Code and the Goods and Services overall inclusive growth agenda for industry to integrate Tax drew the government's attention. historically disadvantaged sections of society into its This year, CII brought out the report of the Task Force strategies. Companies must sign on to the CII Code on on Corporate Governance, which outlined measures for Affirmative Action. CII is striving to include Affirmative INDIA CAN TRULY BE PROUD of the sound listed companies to adopt voluntarily to further improve Action in the agenda of all national committees. More macro-economic fundamentals it has built over the the standards of governance in Corporate India. funds are needed for various projects and I urge years. As economy after economy crumbled in the Besides policy recommendations on various issues, CII members to contribute generously. global economic crisis, India stood firm and steady on accompanied the Commerce and Industry Minister, Last, but not the least, our focus on manufacturing its growth path. A few years earlier, we could not have Mr Anand Sharma, on many of hisoverseas visits, as WTO was well recognised this year with the government believed that 7% growth would be maintained during negotiations were reprised. We also set up a task force officially undertaking the formulation of a National the worst global economic crisis in 80 years! It was a with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Manufacturing Policy, based on our recommendations. rich and multifaceted experience to lead CII during arranged overseas investor meets with Minister Kamal Nath. We hope this proposed policy will help industry this tumultuous year. Mr Kapil Sibal, Minister for Human Resource Development, overcome the various hurdles that constrain growth. As India successfully managed the largest-ever launched the CII-BESU Industrial Research, Innovation and Mr Tarun Das retired as Chief Mentor this year, after exercise in democracy, the re-elected government HRD Center in West Bengal. The Skills Development over four decades of dedicated service to CII. I would reiterated the theme of inclusive growth. The first Mission is gaining momentum. like to acknowledge the immense role he played in priority was to stabilize the economy through stimulus A CII delegation traveled to Copenhagen for the Summit steering CII to its present position. We wish him all the measures and monetary management. Exports and on Climate Change, even as Indian business is becoming a best and will continue to seek his advice. MSMEs were given special attention. Aggressive leader in green buildings and renewable energy. I am immensely grateful to my colleagues in the measures were taken to pump liquidity into the Continuing ourinteractions with global leaders, CII National Council, the chairs of the many councils and markets, compensate for plunging overseas demand accompanied the Prime Minister on his landmark visit committees, and the Council of Past Presidents for all their and boost domestic consumption. to USA. The annual mission to USA took place soon support and hard work during this complex year. Without As manufacturing and exports growth returned to after President Obama took charge. The Singapore their active participation and generous time, CII would not positive territory, despite a poor monsoon, India attracted mission highlighted the India ASEAN FTA, while have been able to maintain its pace of activity. I would global attention for its robust recovery. Through the focused missions visited USA, Israel, Egypt, Oman, particularly like to express appreciation for Mr Hari Bhartia's slowdown, CII worked closely with the Government and Sweden and Saudi Arabia, among other countries. We solid support on numerous occasions and fronts. the RBI, to ensure that suitable stimulus measures were also met with the Presidents of Bangladesh, Germany As my Presidential term ends, I am pleased to note opportunely announced for industry. and Korea, and the Prime Minister of Malaysia. that the economy is on a stronger wicket. From next Our theme this year stressed on Economy, The annual India Economic Summit celebrated year onwards, we can envisage a return to the Infrastructureand Governance. Stabilisation of the 25 years of partnership between the World Economic high-growth trajectory. Industry has a major role to economy was on top of our agenda, supported by Forum and CII, and drew over 800 participants from play in India's growth effort and must take the lead in attention to infrastructure to alleviate India's across the globe. The Partnership Summit, held in driving inclusive development. competitive disadvantage. New rules and laws for Chennai, was addressed by 25 overseas ministers. The companies also placed governance centrestage. Other India Africa Project Partnership was held for the sixth areas of focus were agriculture, internal security and time to great success, and the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas membership services, especially for MSMEs. These, brought together 1300 overseas Indians. Among other Venu Srinivasan

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ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 03 government. We recommended measures to revive greatest challenge confronting India in this century. Stimulating various sectors, particularly MSME, manufacturing, and The drought-affectedagriculture sector remained exports. We took our partnership with the government stagnant, pushing food inflation to new highs. CII to a higher level, through collaborations to stave off the organized a conference on managing water resources, credit crunch, inflation and deceleration of industrial while promotions of thefood processing industry were sustainable RECOVERY activity in the Indian economy. also made. Without the integration of agriculture with The CII Manufacturing Council and Committees the markets, the sector will continue to under-perform. regularly interacted with policy-makers and took CII actively worked with the Ministry of Corporate initiatives to revamp underperforming sectors. CII and Affairs for the India Corporate Week and organized the BCG brought out a joint report on the way forward for Corporate Governance Summit. The President of India the manufacturing sector in India, identifying acknowledged our role in the growth and development of WHEN I STARTED my term, the world economy was aspirations, potential roadblocks, opportunities and India’s corporate sector at the concluding function of the in doldrums. Global output had contracted by 2.3% imperatives for the development of this sector. Week. A set of Voluntary Guidelines on Corporate for the first time since the great Depression, Exports from India are recovering rapidly, and in Q4 Governance were also released, which received wide prompting the worst-ever global economic crisis. 2009, rose by 6%, ending the negative spell. CII provided publicity. CII also made extensive representations to the World trade and output are still in the recovery inputs for theForeign Trade Policy, and, in particular, Government and the Parliamentary Standing Committee phase. But I am glad that India seems to have come recommended reducing transaction costs that render on theCompanies Bill that is awaiting enactment. out fairly well from the slowdown. Indian goods uncompetitive in the global market. OurCentres of Excellence continue to spearhead A variety of stimulus packages were put in place Overall, growth in theservice sector retained its trend competitiveness in their respective fields. We launched starting from the second half of 2008-09, in the over the year, bolstered by heightened government our seventh centre in Kolkata, to hone leadership skills in Interim Budget and again, in the main Budget. By Q2, expenditure.Education has been a key focus area for CII: various aspects of enterprise and administration. The the economy showed signs of turning, and in the partnerships were forged with universities and academia, CII-ITC Centre for Sustainable Development participated 2009-10 financial year, India’s GDP expanded by 6.7%. and policy recommendations on higher and primary in theCopenhagen Summit and is rapidly becoming a Various economic indicators have been on the upside, education were presented to the government. Healthcare key interlocutor for business in climate change efforts. confirming that the pace of recovery has been too was an area of high engagement. Regular monitoring of industry trends through ASCON stronger than expected. Infrastructure is still a major roadblock to sustainable surveys kept industry abreast of economic developments. Industrial Production growth has turned around, growth in India. While CII feels that financing may not be Trade fairs, conferences and publications, our brand accelerating to 16.7% YoY in January 2010 compared to a major issue, independent regulators and accurate and ambassadors, saw the usual hectic activity. a trough of -0.2% in December 2008. This rebound has timely data are needed urgently to take informed Overall, while the economy recovered, CII facilitated been driven largely by a sharp acceleration in domestic decisions and reduce delays in implementation. We new initiatives and interventions, helping member demand, even though exports are improving, albeit proposed a national facilitation and monitoring agency organisations deal with rapid developments in the gradually. The RBI’s aggressive monetary policy to reduce time lags. The CII infrastructure Council and economy and in business, and realign their policies to measures are also beginning to gain traction and as a committees put up papers on land acquisition, MRO the changing circumstances. In my endeavour to steer result, the cost of borrowing is now close to all-time industry, and tax exemption on housing, among others. the activities of the Councils, I am thankful for the lows. The RBI’s Financial Stability Report noted that CII accompanied the Minister of Road Transport and guidance from Venu, as well as the Past Presidents. more Indian banks are healthy and can withstand Highways on several overseas road shows to attract I look forward to an exciting period ahead for India, unexpected levels of stress. Strong growth was investment to this critical sector. Several projects and the Indian economy, Indian Industry and the CII. experienced in consumer durables and automotives, as reports took up conventional and renewable energy well as in capital goods and intermediate goods. issues, highlighting reforms and regulatory issues. However, the stagnation in consumer non-durables Urban development and affordable housing must be indicates that industrial revival is yet to be broad based. addressed on a war footing. By 2040, almost 50% of On thepolicy front, CII took up industry and other Indians will be living in urban areas, and the influx of 350 strategic issues of national importance with the million people into our cities makes urbanization the single Hari S. Bhartia

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ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 05 PRECEPT ‘Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.’

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 07 Precept 09 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 , Sustainability Skill Development In the thrust was to build a technology-based training module using animation and webex tools Two programmes in retail, and contact centres, using technology based training modules. CISCO provided free use of technology for this pilot Pilots for development of skills inlogistics the and agriculture sector were undertaken by the Young Indians Advocacy with employers and government on creating demand for skilled and certified resources Creation of a Skill wikipedia is inserve progress as to an open access platform for exchange of information and access to tools/techniques on skill development On the front, a larger mission Achieving a substantial emission intensity cut demonstrable pilots with extensive use of Information Technology to enhance reach in a cost effective manner. Some innovative and experimental initiatives for skill development in various stages of implementation: encompassing environment, social and economic sustainability, besides reduction of emission intensity of Indian Industry by 2020, iscreated being in sync with the national objectivesthe set Government by post the Copenhagen Summit. is a challenging goal that warrants interventionPower, in Industry, Buildings, Transport and Forest segments at the corporate, community and individual level. A core group is beingfrom created within CII to work closely with the various u u u u u India@75 This year, CII took up the mission of , translating the vision of India@75 into action. set out with an agenda of Inclusive Urbanisation Under the focus was DURING 2009-10, CII translating the vision of India@75 into action. PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. collaborated as the knowledge partner and the chosenareas focus were Inclusive Urbanisation, Skill Development and Sustainability. towards building an institutional framework for industry to get and stay involved indevelopment the of cities. Workshops on industry-led models of urban governance were held in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Pune, Kolhapur and Madurai. A national workshop is also contemplated along with the Planning Commission. ahalad, New Delhi in Vadodara Workshop on Document ‘The Venu Srinivasan, President, CII, & People’s Agenda’ in Prof.CKPr launching the Vision ‘Improving our Cities’ CHARTING THE COURSE committees of CII to mainstream India@75 u Awareness building on climate change related activities. Progress made thus far and u Training of households, domestic workers, etc. envisaged initiatives are: in water and energy conservation practices to u 500 companies have signed the Mission on make local action a national movement POLICY Sustainable Growth (MSG) and 44 have declared their carbon emissions. The aim is to BEYOND 2010 – THE ROAD AHEAD ‘Goals allow you to control ensure that at least 250 signatories to MSG capture their baseline carbon emissions and Towards creating a framework, beyond CII, within the direction of change in your favor.’ 100 companies prepare a plan for emission which India@75 would operate until 2022, an Apex intensity reduction Council is envisaged, comprising eminent u Workshops with MSG signatories to sensitize personalities to provide a high level of thought staff on mapping their carbon emissions leadership. The initiatives and activities of CII will u 500 companies to be convinced to sign a be progressively realigned so that they meet the pledge to adopt Individual Social Responsibility stringent criteria mooted by Prof CK Prahalad in practices within their jurisdiction ‘The People’s Agenda.’

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CII’s work on economic policy and taxation during the year focused mainly on suggesting measures to help economic recovery from the most severe recession in recent global history. Engaging regularly with the government and RBI on policy related issues, CII played a proactive role in speeding the recovery process.

S S N Moorthy, Chaiman CBDT; P V Bhide, Revenue Secretary; Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India, R Seshasayee, Past President CII, & MD, Ashok Leyland Ltd; and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII at a session on Direct Tax Code in Bangalore

ECONOMIC POLICY AND TAXATION of fiscal stimuli until the economy returned to self sustainable growth momentum, CII TOOK A LEADERSHIP ROLE in representing the accompanied by a sharp reduction in fiscal views and suggestions of industry to the deficit. In line with these broad suggestions, government and the RBI to help reverse the Budget 2010-11 announced an extension of most deepening slowdown during the global financial fiscal stimulus measures along with substantial DRIVING RECOVERY crisis. This involved comprehensive and sustained reduction in fiscal deficit for the current year. CII policy advocacy to the government on monetary has also been advocating a soft monetary policy u Economic Affairs & Taxation and fiscal issues. A large number of measures until the economy recovers completely. RBI has suggested by CII found resonance in policies that kept in mind industry concerns while framing u Economic Research were aimed at tackling the slowdown. monetary tightening policies. u International Trade Policy Once the economy started exhibiting signs of Besides helping the economy march back to u Public Policy bottoming out in the second quarter of last year, recovery, CII’s policy work on economy and the challenge was to sustain and accelerate the taxation last year also encompassed the Direct recovery momentum. By monitoring industry and Taxes Code (DTC) and Goods and Services Tax the economy closely, and identifying emerging (GST). A comprehensive memorandum concerns, CII has been active in ensuring a faster covering broad recommendations of industry pace of economic recovery. Our pre-Budget on the draft DTC was submitted to the

memorandum 2010-11 stressed on continuation government. In addition, we organised Policy

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 13 interactive sessions in Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Pune with senior ECONOMIC RESEARCH officials of the Ministry of Finance, including an exclusive session with the Finance Minister, The CII Economic Research Group works with the to help government and industry understand mandate to keep members updated on the each other’s points of view on the proposed economic, political and business DTC. We also worked closely with the conditions across the government on GST and provided inputs to the At the Conference on R Bandyopadhyay, country and abroad. The Competition, Public Secretary, Corporate government from time to time. Standards has been laid. The key challenges Policy & Common Affairs;Jamil Khatri , adopted an open and transparent approach responsibility of the CII Man in New Delhi: Executive Director & posed by the implementation of the new Neelie Kroes, Head of Accounting for finalizing the implementation guidelines Economic Research REGULATORY AFFAIRS standards were assessed and deliberated at the Commissioner for Advisory Services, for executing merger control, and CII Group is spread across: Competition, KPMG; IFRS Summit in November 2009 in New Delhi. European Uday Phadke, presented the case of industry cogently. The u Commenting on the Competition in the market place ensures Mr. R Bandyopadhay, Secretary, Corporate Commission; President, Finance, Committee has also submitted a draft of domestic and Dhanendra Kumar, Legal & Financial higher levels of efficiency, productivity and Affairs, confirmed the Government’s Chairperson, Services, and Guidelines to the Competition Commission on international economic Competition Member, Group greater innovation, and thereby increases the commitment to convergence with IFRS by 1 April, Commission Management Board, the pre-merger notification. scenario relevant to India’s competitiveness of the national economy. To 2011 and indicated that enabling steps will be of India; Mahindra & Representations were also submitted to the corporate sector Pranab Mukherjee; Mahindra Ltd; highlight the benefit of competition to the taken by the government. The discussion with Salman Khurshid, andSunil Verma , Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, and u Tracking Policy common man and the need for dovetailing senior CFOs highlighted the need for immediate Union Minister of Dy Comptroller and the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy Developments to analyse the State for Corporate Auditor General and competition with public policies, CII, jointly preparation in training people, conducting an Affairs & Minority Chairman, and Promotion (DIPP) on the issue of immediate as well as long-term impact of Affairs; Justice Arijit Audit Board at the with the Competition Commission of India, impact assessment and having a clear roadmap Pasayat, Chairman, IFRS Summit downstream investments by companies with FDI policy changes organized a National Conference on for convergence with IFRS. Competition in New Delhi highlighting the need for certain clarifications u Comprehensive Industry Analysis to Appellate Tribunal & ‘Competition, Public Policy and Common Man’ Chandrajit Banerjee under Press Notes 2,3&4ofthe2009 Series. understand industry dynamics and assess the in November 2009 in New Delhi. Representations To discuss ways to enhance Venture Capital growth potential and profitability in the broad Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of CII’sRegulatory Affairs Committee deliberated and Private Equity Investments in the country regulatory and policy environment Finance, Mr Salman Khurshid, Union Minister of on the concerns of industry vis-a-vis the and create a conducive eco-system for VCPE u Conducting Surveys to reflect business State (Independent Charge) for Corporate Affairs proposed Companies Bill, 2009 and the funds, CII’s Private Equity & Venture Capital conditions and sentiment. The results of our & Minority Affairs and Mr Veerappa Moily, Union implementation guidelines of the Competition Committee met with Mr C B Bhave, Chairman, bi-annual Business Outlook Survey are quoted Minister of Law & Justice, reiterated the Commission of India with respect to regulation and Mr Prashant Saran, Whole-Time Member, by RBI and keenly watched by analysts Government’s commitment to develop a stable, of mergers. SEBI. A detailed submission based on the Our publications available to subscribers include efficient, transparent and acceptable competition Detailed comments and suggestions on the discussions has been submitted to SEBI. CII Economy Update, a weekly newsletter, and regime for the country. Bill were submitted by CII to the A representation for facilitating further CII Economy Watch, a monthly in-depth analysis. Competition regulators from various Parliamentary Standing Committee on investments in the country was also discussed TheCII Industry Series is a comprehensive report jurisdictions: European Commission, Federal Finance and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs with the Secretary, DIPP, and the Joint on a key sector of Indian industry. It focuses on the Trade Commission, USA, Italian Competition for consideration. CII also availed of the Secretary, Finance. strategic considerations of the sector, including Authority, Office of Fair Trading, UK Antitrust opportunity to present its case to the Members of the Committee also met competitiveness, risks and other issues that Division and US Department of Justice also members of the Committee as well. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, provide valuable insights to various stakeholders. presented their perspectives. The Committee has also sought an Planning Commission, and Dr. C Rangarajan, The report highlights the industry structure, amendment to the Competition Act, 2002, to Chairman, Economic Advisory Council of the domestic demand-supply scenario, international IFRS Summit make the competition law suited to industry’s Prime Minister, and presented suggestions for a developments, duty structure, industry financials The road map for convergence of Indian GAAP needs and conducive to India’s industrial and facilitative regulatory framework to augment and the regulatory and competitive landscape, to

Policy and the International Financial Reporting economic growth. The Government has private equity investments in Indian companies. assess the sector’s attractiveness. Policy

14 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 15 Anand Sharma with Vikram Mehta, Chairman, Shell India;R P Singh , Secretary, DIPP, InternationalTrade Shekhar Datta, Past President, CII, and Chandrajit Banerjee, at the Session on FDI CII’s International Trade Policy work encompasses all in New Delhi trade-related issues, with the aim of strengthening India's Sunil Kant Munjal, position in the global marketplace. Past President, CII, & Chairman, Anand Sharma, Hero Corporate Dr. Rahul Khullar, Service Ltd., greets Commerce Secretary, 2009 and announced a new deadline of end-2010 for Anand Sharma, and Sanjay Budhia a successful Doha conclusion. Union Minister of at a session on Commerce & Foreign Trade Policy A CII delegation visited Geneva for the WTO Industry, at a session in New Delhi in New Delhi, as Ministerial Meeting in December 2009, and actively Chandrajit Banerjee, interacted with negotiators from India and abroad to Director General, CII, andSanjay Budhia , push for an early and a successful Doha conclusion. Chairman, CII National Committee The CII delegation also interacted with their on Trade & MD, counterpart business associations in major Patton International Ltd, look on economies like the EU, US, Japan, and South Africa. 2009-10 WAS A VERY eventful year for India’s Over the past few years, India has been external sector. The precipitous fall in India’s aggressively negotiating bilateral and regional exports demand, which began during the latter Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Currently, India part of 2008-09, continued until October 2009. is negotiating FTAs with 50 countries. An FTA This sharp drop brought about a rethink among with the ten-member ASEAN, covering goods, policy makers, about India’s globalisation and a comprehensive FTA with South Korea, have strategy and the new line of thinking shifted been successfully implemented from January towards diversification of India’s exports market Nelson Fernandez, 2010. To generate greater awareness among Vice Minister of and exports basket. Foreign Affairs, Uruguay, Indian industry about the benefits of FTA with Simon Crean, The Foreign Trade Policy, announced in August Minister of Trade, ASEAN, CII organised workshops across India. 2009, had imprints of this new line of thinking. In Australia and We also held an interactive session with Dhruv M Sawhney, an attempt to arrest the exports slowdown, the Past President, CII & Dr. Rahul Khullar, Secretary, Commerce. Government announced the addition of 26 new CMD, Triveni Engg & Dr. Khullar informed that FTA negotiations with Industries Ltd., at a Sanjay Budhia, A K Singh, Jt. Director General of countries under the Focus Markets scheme and WTO meeting Foreign Trade andTapan Mazumdar , Jt. Director the European Union and Japan would most likely in New Delhi increased incentives for exports to the emerging General of Foreign Trade, at a meeting in New Delhi be concluded by December 2010. He also markets of Africa and Latin America. encouraged Indian industry to play a more Mr. Anand Sharma, Union Minister of countries for more than eight years now. During proactive role in the negotiations. Commerce & Industry, in an interaction with CII 2009, India showed intense vigour and commitment In aninteraction on FDI Policy in March 2010 members post the announcement of the Foreign to push the stalled negotiations towards their logical in New Delhi, Mr. Anand Sharma outlined his Trade Policy, described the expansion of the conclusion. India organised a mini-Ministerial vision for India to emerge as the world’s Market Linked Focus Products Scheme meeting of 35 Trade Ministers from major WTO workshop. He stressed that global investors have (MLFPS) to 13 new markets and 1700 products member countries. On the sidelines of the meeting, shown their confidence in India and the country as the highlight of the new policy. Hari S Bhartia, CII organised an interactive session with has emerged as one of the most attractive Vice President, CII, The successful conclusion of the Doha andPascal Lamy , Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General, WTO. Mr. Lamy investment destinations in the world. So much so Development Agenda of the World Trade Director General, informed that WTO member countries had decided that FDI flows into India remained robust even WTO, at a meeting

Organisation has continued to elude WTO members in New Delhi to restart Doha negotiations from mid- September during the economic downturn. Policy

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CII’s Public Policy initiatives create an interface with Members of Parliament, state legislators and other political leaders about the ‘There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. state of the Economy and Industry, while building broad consensus Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.’ on social, national and international issues.

Indian Members of Parliament with Yoshiro Mori, Former Prime Minister of Japan; Ijyaraj Singh, Yasutoshi Nishimura, DIET Member, MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN JAPAN Hamdullah Sayeed, B.J. Panda, Yoshiro Mori, CII and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation launched Anurag Singh Thakur, andMausam Noor , the second phase of the Indian Members of in Japan Parliament visits to Japan, with the visit of a 5-member multi-party delegation to Japan in October-November 2009.The delegates, Mr. B. J. Panda, Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur, Indian MPs with Tetsuro Fukuyama, Mr. Ijyaraj Singh, Ms. Mausam Noor and State Secretary, Mr. Muhammed Hamdullah Sayeed, visited Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, and Nagoya, Ofuna (Kamakura) and Nagareyama city, Hemant K Singh, Indian Ambassador and met representatives of political parties, industry to Japan and other institutions. They also had the opportunity to meet and interact with the Indian Diaspora. SESSION WITH MAHARASHTRA MPs

DISCUSSIONS WITH PARLIAMENTARY CII organised an interactive session with STANDING COMMITTEES Members of Parliament from Maharashtra in July 2009 in New Delhi. The Members were The following Parliamentary Standing Committees apprised of CII’s agenda, and discussed the need invited CII members for discussions: to facilitate new investments into the State, uuuFinance Defence Commerce create jobs and improve infrastructure.

Members of Parliament from Maharashtra: Bharatkumar Raut; Anant Geete; Anand Paranjape; Shivaji D Adhalrao; Rajaram Wakchaure; Sanjay S Dhotre; and HMJawale

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The vision of CII’s National Council on Agriculture is to create a thriving and sustainable Agribusiness in India, so as to rejuvenate India’s agriculture growth and raise farm incomes.

THE ACTIVITIES OF THE various national-level for attaining self sufficiency in Pulses and committees constituted under the Agriculture Oilseeds which are as important as cereals in Sharad Pawar, Council this year centered around the CII theme the Indian food pattern. The group will focus Union Minister for Agriculture, receiving of Economy, Infrastructure and Governance. on strategies to bring about a ‘New Green the CII Agenda for the Farm Sector from Revolution in Pulses and Oilseeds.’ Rakesh Bharti Mittal, GOVERNANCE u To resolve the current crisis in agriculture due Chairman, CII National Council on to the growing shortage of water, CII has set Agriculture, &Vice u CII submitted a 10-point agenda for Wealth up a National Task Force on Agriculture and Chairman & MD, Bharti Enterprises. Creation in Farm Sector of India to Water. The Task Force has come out with a Also seen : Gokul Patnaik, Mr. Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of report on its recommendations. Chairman, Global Agriculture, in August 2009. The u A CII delegation met Mr. Montek Singh Agrisystem Pvt. Ltd.; Ashok Gulati, suggestions envisage policy interventions to Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Director(Asia) IFPRI; accelerate reforms in order to strengthen Commission, to present ‘Ideas to Salil Singhal, CMD, P I Industries Ltd.; productivity issues and link Agriculture to Rejuvenate Indian Agriculture.’ An T Nanda Kumar, markets, as well as build a nationwide Agri-Renewal Mission was proposed and it Secretary, Agriculture; Hardeep Singh, consensus and positions on a range of is believed that designing this scheme and Chairman, Amalgamated Plantation Pvt. Ltd.; contentious issues. launching it would be critical to triggering and Vivek Bharati, u AnExpert Group on Pulses and Oilseeds was the long overdue rejuvenation that Indian RISING TO RESURGENCE Executive Director (Agriculture), constituted to work out a long term strategy agriculture needs. PepsiCo India u Agriculture u Climate Change u Defence u Energy u Financial Services u Food Processing u Infrastructure u IT & Telecom u Lifescience u Manufacturing Services u MSMEs u Services pillars

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 21 New Delhi. It was highlighted that the two u A round table on Indo-US Cooperation in countries can collaborate in the areas of new Agriculture and Food Processing was technologies, harmonizing food regulatory and organised jointly with the USIBC Food & safety standards, etc. Agriculture Executive Committee Mission to u AFrench Delegation led by India, to strengthen US and Indian collaboration CII Agriculture Ms Anne-Marie Idrac, Minister for Foreign to promote food security and sustainable Council members with Montek Singh Trade, France, met CII members in New livelihood, in October in New Delhi. Ahluwalia, Deputy Delhi in October 2009. The discussions Chairman, Planning Commission, focused on business models for dairy, INFRASTRUCTURE Arun Maira interface with public and private industries and Dr. Abhijit Sen, Members, Planning on policy framework, dialogue on Cold Chain development initiatives undertaken: Commission; u and T Nanda Kumar standards guidelines for quality and safety, Establishment of National Centre for Cold in New Delhi and links with French R&D institutes. Chain Development. u Establishment of Special Purpose Vehicles. ECONOMY u Convergence of various schemes and resources to develop an integrated pan-India u CII submitted aModel Land Leasing Act to cold chain network. Dr. C P Joshi, Union Minister for Rural u Road Shows in the states of Maharashtra Development, in September 2009. The Subodh Kant Sahai, (Mumbai) and Tamil Nadu (Chennai) to Model Act is aimed at enabling the private Union Minister of attract investments in the Terminal Market Food Processing sector involved in Agriculture to access Industries; complexes being developed in these states. Dr.CPJoshi, Union Rakesh Bharti Mittal, and use larger land areas, which is Minister of Rural & Anne-Marie Idrac, Development, with extremely critical for achieving economies Minister of Foreign Papers/Reports Salil Singhal and Trade, France of scale by application of modern Rakesh Bharti Mittal u Wealth Creation in the Farm Sector of India: in New Delhi in New Delhi technologies on farms. A 10-Point Agenda. u CII, in association with the Union Ministry of u Model Land Leasing Act. T Nanda Kumar, Agriculture, organised the Agri Marketing Secretary, Agriculture, u Report on Agriculture and Water. Summit 2009, in December in New Delhi, at the Agri Marketing u Farm-to-Fork, An update on Agriculture & K V Thomas, Summit in New Delhi bringing together all the stakeholders in Union Minister of Food Issues (bi-monthly newsletter). diversified Indian agriculture to review and State for Agriculture, Dan Glickman, Chandrajit Banerjee, Former Secretary, create awareness about recent Director General, CII; USDA, at a session in New Delhi developments, catalyze private sector Daljit Mirchandani, Chairman, Ingersoll investments and enable integration. Rand India Ltd. and Rakesh Bharti Mittal u The Cold Chain Summit, organised in at the Cold Chain December 2009 in New Delhi with the full Summit in New Delhi support of the Ministry of Agriculture, helped bring to the fore the bottlenecks surrounding the development of cold chains in India and identified the factors that will Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of help in starting development. Jammu & Kashmir receiving the u With a view to facilitate greater cooperation Recommendations between India and USA in Agriculture, an of the CII-J&K Task At the session on Force on Agriculture interactive session was organised with Indo-US Cooperation from Rakesh Bharti Mr. Dan Glickman, Former Secretary, US in Agriculture & Mittal, and CII Food Processing in Agriculture Council pillars Department of Agriculture, in September in New Delhi members in Jammu pillars

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u Seminar on Business Response to Climate Climate Change Change with Mr. Shyam Saran – New Delhi, March 2009. Climate Change is now at the centre stage of discussion for u Interaction on Climate Change with Mr. Jairam ADVISORY SERVICES Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment governments, industry and civil society the world over. For and Forests – New Delhi, September 2009. businesses, climate change has developed from a fringe concern u Green Building Certification. u CII partnered the Government of India’s ‘Delhi

to a core topic for strategic deliberation and decision-making. Jairam Ramesh, u Energy Audits. high-level conference & exposition on Climate Union Minister of u Energy Management Services. Change: Technology Development and State for Environment & u Water Management Services. Transfer– New Delhi, October 2009. Forests, with the CII u u delegation, at the Environment Management Services. 4th Sustainability Summit– New Delhi, Copenhagen Summit u Hand-holding signatories of the CII Code of November 2009. THE CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRY has Ecologically Sustainable Business Growth. u CII– NETRA Roundtable Session on ‘Power Jairam Ramesh, at taken leadership in developing an understanding of the Sustainability u Connecting green entrepreneurs to markets Sector: Technologies for Carbon Mitigation’ – climate change issues among Indian businesses Awards Ceremony in & finance. New Delhi New Delhi, November 2009. and devising strategies and approaches to combat u GHG inventorisation base line development u CII CEO’s Delegation to the 15th Conference of climate change. Activities spanning policy advocacy, and target setting. Parties– Copenhagen, December 2009. advisory services, events, reports and projects have been undertaken by the CII Climate Change Council. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Further, CII, through its Centres of Excellence, the CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre u Estimating carbon footprints of the States and u Discussion Paper: Building a low-carbon and the CII ITC Centre of Excellence on recommending amendments in industrial Indian Economy. Sustainable Development, also provides key policy to help reduce carbon emission. u Report: Energy trading and Derivatives. services in the climate change space, such as u Quantifying carbon reduction potential in u Bi-monthly e-newsletter: Sustainability energy audit, energy management, green Indian industry. Outlook. building consultancy, water management, u Study on ‘Role of ICT in meeting the objectives u Film: Climate Change and how it affects our technology incubation, renewable energy of the NAPCC mission’. Health. J N Godrej, services, among others. Past President, CII, u 2nd National Communication on GHG u Report: India’s Ecological Footprint– A Chairman, CII Climate Change inventory from India to the UNFCC-industrial Business Perspective. ADVOCACY Council, & CMD, processes & product use sector. u Corporate GHG Inventory Programme Guide. Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd,. addressing u CDP report with CDP-UK and WWF-India u Manual: Best Practices in Indian & u Partnering government in devising mitigation and the Major Economies u Research study on ‘Sustainability as a Driver International Cement Plants. Business Forum adaptation strategies to combat climate change. Meeting in for Innovation and Profit’. u Manual: National & International Best Copenhagen u Promoting renewable energy, energy u Developing and administrating green building Practices in Pulp & Paper Sector. u efficiency technologies/approaches. Shyam Saran, then rating systems. Manual: Waste Heat Recovery in Indian u Spearheading the Green Building movement Special Envoy to the u Developing manuals on global best practices Cement Industry. Prime Minister, u Working with State Governments to develop addressing a round in the energy sector. u Case-study Booklet: Renewable Energy. low carbon policies. table session on u Directory: Green Building Material & Service Power in New Delhi u Green public procurement guidelines. Pramod Choudhari TRAINING/CAPACITY BUILDING Providers. u Devising strategies and an industry position Chairman, CII u Green Building Reference Guide: LEED-India Biofuels Committee & for international climate change negotiation. Chairman, u Corporate Climate Change Strategies. for New Construction (NC) & Core & Shell. u Forming international partnerships towards Praj Industries Ltd. u Sustainability-driven innovation. u IGBC Green Homes Rating Systems. addressing a session in

voluntary reduction of GHG emissions. Copenhagen u Green House Gas Emission inventory development u IGBC Green Factory Building Rating Systems. pillars

24 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 25 defence offsets. A defence sub-committee on SMEs was set up to give an impetus to the small A K Antony and medium enterprises in the sector. inaugurating the Defence & Aerospace CII also set up a National Task Force on Seminar on Army Air Defence in New Delhi. Internal Security under the Chairmanship of Also seen: The CII National Committee on Defence works to promote the Baba N Kalyani, Ambassador Naresh Chandra, former Cabinet Chairman, CII Secretary, Government of India. indigenous Defence Industry and create a level playing field in the National Committee on Defence & CMD, Policy Advocacy is an important area of the areas of design, development and production of defence equipment. Bharat Forge Ltd., Committee’s work. Our constant advocacy over Gen. Deepak Kapoor and Gurpal Singh, the years has led to the opening up of defence Deputy Director General, CII production for private industry. This year,Offset Facilitation remained a

M M Pallam Raju, thrust area of the committee. CII worked very Union Minister of closely towards effective implementation of the State for Defence at the Seminar on Indian Defence Offset Policy, providing policy Leveraging Offsets for inputs to government on one hand, and building Naval Self Reliance, in New Delhi Offset awareness in Industry, on the other. CII, with Vice Admiral in partnership with the Global Offset and NN Kumar, AVSM, VSM , Controller of Counter-trade Association, USA, and the Warship Production & Acquisition, Defence Manufacturers Association, UK, Integrated HQ of organises International India Regional Offset Ministry of Defence (Navy), and Conferences every alternate year. The next Satish K Kaura, conference is scheduled for 2010. Co-Chairman, CII National Committee CII also brought out a reference guide on on Defence and CMD, Samtel Defence Offsets this year. Display Systems Ltd PromotingPublic-Private Partnership is a priority agenda. Some key sectoral events organised in partnership with the Armed Forces to A K Antony, Defence Minister of India, enable business development for member BRINGING THE INDUSTRY and Defence at DEFCOM INDIA in New Delhi, companies included seminars on Battlefield establishments on a common platform so that flanked by Management Systems, DEFCOM India, Naval Gen. Deepak Kapoor, issues of mutual concern can be successfully Omar Abdullah, Self-Reliance, Energising the Indian Aerospace PVSM, AVSM, SM, Chief Minister, resolved, we work proactively with the Ministry of VSM, ADC, Jammu & Kashmir, Industry, and Army Air Defence in the 21st century. Chief of Army Staff, Defence (MoD) and the Armed Forces to facilitate releasing the book Hari S Bhartia, “Around the world in CII conducts regularStudies to project trends, Vice President, CII, formulation of various policies related to design, 80 days”by Wg. Cdr competencies and opportunities within the and Jt. Chairman & Rahul Monga development and production, procurement MD, Jubiliant defence market in India. This year, two strategic Organosys Ltd. and procedures, offset policy and exports of Defence Nalin Kohli, reports were published: a CII-Ernst & Young Chandrajit Banerjee, Chairman, CII Defence products. We represent Indian Industry on Director General, CII Sub Committee on study on ‘Enhancing Role of SMEs in Indian various committees and during bilateral/ SMEs, Vice Admiral Dilip Deshpande, Defence Industry’ and a CII-KPMG report on government to government meetings to present AVSM, VSM, Chief of ‘Opportunities in the Indian Defence Sector.’ the industry perspective on various policy and Material, Integrated HQ, Ministry of Advisory Services to industry, such as DTAAS procedural issues. Defence (Navy) & (Defence Technical Assessment & Advisory Admiral Sureesh Mehta, This year, the committee focused on pending PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Service) include assessment of current issues like FDI in defence, integrated project Chief of Naval Staff, at manufacturing capabilities, and advice on doing the Naval Self Reliance

management teams for Make projects, and Seminar in New Delhi business with defence organisations. pillars

26 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 27 Energy Our Defence Acquisition Management Courses help the participants understand CII is actively engaged in the development of India’s energy various aspects of defence procurement and , offer technical clarification on policies and sector through policy research, analysis and advocacy business procedures. We organised two such courses networking, sectoral events and international linkages to in 2009. promote sharing of experiences and exchange of best practices. The mandate of the committee is continuously evolving. Our scope of activities now incorporates M Pallam Raju, Spaceand Internal Security too. Three Internal Union Minister of Security sub-groups have been constituted to State for Defence with the CII defence focus on Policy Advocacy, Spreading Awareness industry delegation in Paris of Technologies and Drawing Guidelines for Industries to maintain adequate security environment within their premises, and to

synergize industry efforts in this regard. The Air Marshal committee has carved out a comprehensive Arjan Singh releasing the Study on long-term action plan on Internal Security to ‘Enhancing the role support governmental initiatives to modernize the of SMEs in the Indian Defence Industry’ state and paramilitary forces. Two international in New Delhi events – a technology seminar on Internal Security Air Chief Marshal and a conference on Net-Centricity in Homeland P V Naik, PVSM, Pranab Mukherjee, VSM, ADC releasing Security, were held this year. Finance Minister THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON POWER Fostering international linkages, CII the‘ Indian Defence of India, To provideinternational exposure to the Offset: A Guide’ , in at the CII-South actively worked on issues across the power participated in the NELP VIII and CBM IV New Delhi, with Indian Defence Industry, regular interactive Asia Conclave in sector spectrum with focus on power tariffs, roadshows organised by the Ministry of Satish K Kaura New Delhi sessions and visits were organised between fuel linkages and associated infrastructure Petroleum and Natural Gas across the world. In Sushil Kumar Shinde, ,, the industry members and our MoU partners Union Minister development hydropower demand side its presentations in Mumbai, London, Houston, such as the US-India Business Council, USA, for Power with management and energy efficiency, Brisbane, Perth, Calgary and Singapore, CII R S Sharma, Defence Manufacturers Association of UK, Chairman, CII transmission,, power sector financing power projected India’s hydrocarbon sector as a Polish Chamber of National Defence National Committee sector reforms and restructuring, energy lucrative investment opportunity. on Power & CMD, Participants at the Manufacturers, Association of the Defence NTPC Ltd and security and civil nuclear energy. TheRenewable Energy Committee engaged India Italy Defence H S Brahma, Industry Round Industry of the Slovak Republic, Association of Secretary, Power at The constitution of a CII–Ministry of Power with Government and other concerned agencies Table in New Delhi Italian Defence and Aerospace, GIFAS, GICAT the Round Table on Joint Consultative Group to take forward ideas on policy issues towards speedy deployment of ‘Power for All’ in and GICAN of France and the Korean Defence New Delhi and suggestions proposed by the CII National renewable energy projects. The Committee Industry Association. We facilitated defence Committee on Power was among the key strove to facilitate development of competitive industry delegations to and from various highlights of energy policy work during the year. energy markets with a regulatory framework for countries, including USA, Italy, the UK, France The National Committee on Hydrocarbons maximum exploitation of India’s renewable and Canada. actively engaged in facilitating policy issues to energy potential. The Committee also mobilized CII signed aMoU with A|D|S, the UK’s accelerate progress on reforms, restructuring industry views on implementation of the Aerospace, Defence and Security trade and regulation of the industry spanning Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aimed organisation, for increased co-operation between exploration and production, refining and at achieving 20 GW of solar energy by 2022. pillars the two bodies. marketing, and services. A six member CII-CEOs Mission accompanied pillars

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CII works in the Financial Services sector to promote best Indian Delegation with Maqbool Ali Sultan, practices in the Banking, Capital Markets & Insurance arenas. Minister of Commerce & Industry, Oman and Dr Farookh Abdullah, Minister for New & Renewable Energy, India, in Muscat

Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister of New and At the Risk Management Summit Renewable Energy, to Oman and Abu Dhabi in in Mumbai: attended Insurance Summit so far with G N Bajpai, Member- January 2010 to explore and exploit Advisory Board, participation of over 600 delegates from India opportunities for bilateral cooperation in clean MCX Stock Exchange and abroad. The discussions focused on the Chanda Kochhar, and green energy. MD& CEO, ICICI sector’s achievements over the past decade and Sunil Wadhwa, CEO Bank Ltd; U K Sinha, The National Committee on Biofuels & ED, North Delhi its contribution to the development of India’s CMD, UTI Asset Power Ltd. & embarked on a focused agenda for Management Co. Pvt. emerging economy – providing long-term funds Lord Philip Hunt, Ltd; and mainstreaming biofuels and integrating them Minister of State for for developing physical and social infrastructure R Seshasayee, Past Energy, DECC, UK, President, CII, & MD, into the energy infrastructure with special after signing the & strengthening of risk-taking abilities. Ashok Leyland reference to policy advocacy, technology CII-CBI MoU on The Chief Guest, Mr J Hari Narayan, Smart Grid intervention and market linkages. Technologies Chairman, Insurance Regulatory Development TheClimate Change Council worked in New Delhi Authority, noted that effective growth requires towards strategic implementation of the effective and efficient regulation, which National Action Plan on Climate Change and ensures that market conduct is aligned to the deployment of clean energy technologies. policy holders’ interest. A CII–Ernst & Young Over the year the Energy Policy Division also Dr Anil Kakodar, report on ‘Insurance Sector: Evolving then Chairman, undertook various projects and study reports Atomic Energy Dynamics’ was also released. on energy issues supported by its membership, Commission and Jamshyd N Godrej, government and multilateral agencies,: such as Past President, CII & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT CMD, Godrej & Boyce u Energy as a Factor in India’s External Man. Co. Ltd at the Policy – A National Interest Project. seminar on ‘Nuclear Against the backdrop of the global financial Power in India’ u Analysis of the Potential of Mandatory Trading in Mumbai crisis which had its origins in the disregard of in Energy Saving Certificates to drive Energy At the Insurance adequate risk management framework in Summit in Mumbai: INSURANCE SUMMIT Efficiency in the Indian Industrial Sector. V Vaidyanathan, companies, CII organized the first Risk u Analysis of the Potential of a Voluntary MD & CEO, Management Summit on the theme ‘Building ICICI Prudential Life Trading Program to Deepen and/or Broaden Insurance Company Ltd, The year 2009 marked the completion of a Risk Resilience: An Imperative for Success’ in the Proposed Indian Mandatory Energy Ashvin Parekh, Partner, decade since liberalization of the insurance August 2009 in Mumbai. The Summit Dr Steven Chu, National Leader – Saving Certificates Market. Secretary, US Dept. Global Financial industry in India. The Indian insurance sector has underscored the importance of assessing risk, of Energy with Services, E&Y, u Fuel Cells Development in India. Tarun Das, Hari Narayan, come full circle, from being an open competitive modifying models for monitoring risks during u Green Energy Blueprint. Chairman, US India Chairman, IRDA, and market to nationalization and back to a a dynamic external environment and aligning Strategic Track T S Vijayan, Chairman, u Strategy for Power Sector Reform inJ&K. Second Dialogue, CII National Committee liberalized regime again. incentive structure to risk management. A u Harnessing Renewable Energy inJ&K. and President, Aspen on Insurance & Pensions CII’s 12th Insurance Summit held in CII–Ernst & Young report on the theme was Institute India & Chairman, LIC pillars u Accelerating Power Sector Growth. in New Delhi September 2009 in Mumbai was the best also released. pillars

30 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 31 Food Processing & Outsourcing, and Mr. M K Jalan, Chairman, At the Food CII National Committee on Dairy, presented Technology Summit in New Delhi: the private sector perspectives. Dr V Prakash, CII and the Ministry of Food Processing Food Regulatory Affairs Director, CFTRI, Subodh Kant Sahai Industries organised a high level delegation &Gautham Mukkavilli, visit of Indian agriculture and food processing Chairman, CII The CII National Committee on Food Processing & Food Regulatory National Committee companies to Paris in February 2010. The on Food Processing & delegation was led by Mr Subodh Kant Sahai, Affairs has the vision of positioning India as a major global player in Food Regulatory Affairs & CEO, India and Mr Rakesh Bharti Mittal. the Processed Food Sector and has set its missions to resolve viability Foods & President, The visitors had strategic meetings with issues, infrastructural bottlenecks, promotion of investment and PepsiCo India Mr. Bruno Le Marie, Minister for Food, creation of a uniform tax structure for a single market. Agriculture and Fisheries, and Ms. Anne-Marie Idrac, Minister for External Trade, France. They visited the French Food Safety Agency, ADRIA, and several food-processing companies. With the mandate of promoting technology Sheila Dikshit, FOOD PROCESSING Chief Minister of across the country, CII, in association with the Delhi, with National Institute of Food Technology Chandrajit Banerjee, ACEOs Interactive Session was held with Director General, CII Entrepreneurship and Management and the Mr. Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of at World Food Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Day Celebrations Food Processing Industries in June 2009 in in New Delhi organised six seminar cum training New Delhi, to brainstorm on strategies towards Subodh Kant Sahai, programmes in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, positioning India as the Food Factory of the and Bruno Le Maire, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharasthra, Minister for Food, World. CII requested for a broad-banded Agriculture & and Rajasthan. The programmes highlighted Fisheries, France, definition of the sector to remove anomalies and addressing the CII the opportunities in food processing in the other taxation issues, abolishing of FBT, setting industry delegation respective states. in Paris up of incubation centres across the country, viability gap funding and venture capital for FOOD REGULATORY AFFAIRS CII Delegates at the infrastructure projects, as well as funding for Dr Manmohan Singh, ADRIA-Agro promotion of Indian processed food globally. cities to create widespread national Prime Minister of Industry Technical The CII National Committee elevated its agenda India, with Cluster in Quimper, Subodh Kant Sahai, CII, in partnership with the Ministry of awareness on Food Safety and Quality. France from purely ‘notification-centric’ work to Minister of Food Food Processing Industries, organised the Ms.Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, Processing Industries; ‘proactive interventions and contributions in 2nd Food Technology Summit – ‘Innovative flagged off the Food Safety Run & Walkathon in and Rakesh Bharti policy advocacy matters’ and took up issues and Mittal, Chairman, Approaches and Technical Solutions for the Capital, in which 2,500 people, including CII National Council concerns with the Government and its allied Sustained Profitability’ in June 2009 in New school children and senior citizens, participated. on Agriculture, at the bodies related to Food Regulation. Conference of State Delhi. The Summit was also a B2B forum for The first-ever Conference of State Ministers Ministers for CII held various brainstorming sessions to Food Processing, Action Plan for developing the post harvest technologies, byproduct for Food Processing, was inaugurated by the in New Delhi develop an utilization, packaging solutions, quality Prime Minister in October 2009 in New Delhi. contours of Rules & Regulations under the assurance and capacity building. CII played a critical role in the participation of FoodSafety andStandardsAct. The CII, in collaboration with the Ministry of the private sector. We submitted our Chairpersons of 14 Technical Expert Groups Food Processing Industries, celebrated recommendations for Institutional Strengthening met in November 2009 and presented detailed World Food Day in October 2009 across the and Capacity Building. Mr. Piruz Khambatta, recommendations for the formulation of new

country by hosting 44 programmes in 36 Chairman, CII National Committee on rules and regulations. pillars

32 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 33 Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission N Kumar, Past President, CII, Chairman, CII Infrastructure Logistics Council & Vice Chairman, The Sanmar Group; Lakshmi Venkatachalam, In the year 2009-10, the CII Infrastructure Council and Sector Director General, Shipping;S Hajara , Committees continued to play a focal role in facilitating the Chairman, CII National development of infrastructure in the country. The activities ranged Committee on Transport and CMD, SCI and from engagement with the government on policy framework, to Y D Khatau, Vice Chairman & MD, Varun raising issues of concern, to promotion of investment and Shipping at the Maritime Summit in Chennai international cooperation. G K Pillai, Secretary, Home Affairs

S K Garg, CMD, NHPC Ltd.; Anwarul Hoda, Member, Planning Commission, S S Kohli, CMD, IIFCL &,Ajit Gulabchand THE CII INFRASTRUCTURE Council and the President, National Committee on Transport Construction Federation of India, & Infrastructure this year placed a strong focus CMD, Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd on Roads and Highways. at the Construction For the first time, the Ministry of Road Summit in New Delhi Transport and Highways constituted a CII-MoRTH joint Task Force to identify issues of concern and The Council and the Committee on Transport submitted its recommendations/comments on the suggest solutions to the government. The Task Brahm Dutt, Infrastructure also actively worked on the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority. Secretary, Road Force, chaired by the Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & changes required to promote greater Policy Position Papers prepared and submitted Highways, and Transport and Highways, and co-chaired by Montek Singh participation of the private sector in Roads and to the Government Mr. Vinayak Chatterjee, has membership from the Ahluwalia, Highways. These include changes in the bidding u Paper on Land Acquisition. Dy. Chairman, Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission, Planning documents and process. u Proposal for modifications in the provision of NHAI, and stakeholders from the private sector, Commission, at The Urban and Housing sector also featured Conflict of Interest (increasing the crossholding the Infrastructure with CII as the Secretariat. Conclave in prominently in CII’s infrastructure agenda this limit) and timely implementation of NHDP. New Delhi year. TheUrban Development Council and the u Paper on Rationalizing Sales Tax on ATF. u R P N Singh, Union National Committee on Housing and Real Estate Recommendations for Airport Infrastructure Minister of State for took up several issues, including ‘industry status’ Regulatory Framework through comments on Road Transport & Highways; for integrated township development, ‘affordable AERA’s White Paper on ‘Regulatory Objectives Kamal Nath, Union housing,’ and the ‘Real Estate Regulation Bill.’ and Philosophy in Economic Regulation of Minister for Road Transport & Highways; The National Committee on Civil Aviation Airports and Air Navigation Services’. G V Sanjay Reddy, prepared a detailed paper on ‘Rationalisation of u Paper on MRO industry in India. Chairman, CII National Committee Sales Tax on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF)’ and u Discussion Paper on ‘Legal framework for on Transport Infrastructure, & Vice based on data collected from Delhi, Maharashtra, the Urban Sector,’ calling for uniform and Chairman, GVK Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, proved that imposition speedy implementation of 74th CAA across Industries Ltd. and Chandrajit Banerjee, of a uniform sales tax on ATF could be gradually all the states. Director General, CII, brought down to 8% without affecting the sales tax u Note on ‘Tax Exemption on Housing – Fuelling at the Infrastructure

Conclave in New Delhi revenue of the state governments. CII also Economic Growth’. pillars

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CII facilitates building world class ICT CII facilitates a conducive policy environment and infrastructure and ICT interventions for provides services for the Indian life Sciences industry to be business and societal growth. globally competitive in quality and innovation.

prepared recommendations for subsequent submission to the concerned ministries and would work for their effective implementation. AVirtual Biotech Centre was launched in November 2009 in Pune in association with the Maharashtra Government. We have also proposed a full-fledged Biotech Resource Centre to facilitate market access and offer IPR services to industry. K Kanimozhi, MP, BROADBAND/ICT INFRASTRUCTURE u Comprehensive Spectrum Policy Roadmap for Manoj Kohli, Hand-holding and incubation of budding companies Chairman, CII 1 billion wireless users in India by 2014-15. National Committee will be one of the functions of the centre. u The CII Study ‘India 2009-2014: Broadband on Telecom & Dinesh Trivedi, Broadband & CEO Union Minister of Roadmap for Inclusive Growth’ was released by IT FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH & JMD, State for Health & NETWORKING PLATFORMS Mr A Raja, Union Minister for Communications & Bharti Airtel Ltd, Family Welfare, at the S. Mahalingam, ED Life Science Conclave Information Technology in September 2009. The ICT in MSMEs: Workshops held in 12 cities to & CFO, TCS, in New Delhi with u A CII Mission visited the Bio International A Raja, Union Anand C Burman, Study presents a strong case for Government enhance the competitiveness of MSMEs. Minister for Chairman, CII Convention 2009 in Atlanta, USA, in May 2009. intervention in Broadband growth and also makes Creating IT solutions in partnership with Communications & National Committee India had a significant presence at BIO 2009, the IT,and P A Aruna, on Biotechnology & specific recommendations for key stakeholders. industry for homogeneous MSME clusters via Minister of IT, Chairman, Dabur world’s premier event for Life Sciences and u CII submitted a five point recommendation for ‘Hosted Data Centres’. Tamil Nadu, India Ltd. and Biotechnology. The India Pavilion was jointly releasing the CII Dr.VMKatoch, telecom & broadband growth to Mr. Raja in E-Agriculture: Worked towards improving the Study on Broadband Secretary, Health organised with the Association of Biotechnology June 2009. application of ICT in agriculture. in Chennai Research, & Director Led Enterprises (ABLE) with strong support and General, ICMR u Accelerating Broadband to reach 695m users E-invoicing: CII’s task force on e-invoicing is working encouragement from the Department of Release of the India by 2014: Broadband infrastructure creation for towards formulation of a comprehensive framework. Pavilion exhibitor Biotechnology. The mission participated in a equitable use and completion of 27 National E-Governance: Initiatives in e-Education, catalogue at Bio 2009 BIOTECHNOLOGY IS THE EMERGING industrial seminar, trade show and an India networking in Atlanta by Governance Mission Mode projects in a phased e-Agriculture and e-Health. Ramesh Adige, sector in the life science industry, focused on reception. The Mission also visited the and time-bound manner. President, Corporate Bioinformatics, Industrial Biotechnology and Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Affairs, Global Corp. u Growth of Wireless Broadband through 3G & OTHER INITIATIVES Comm, Ranbaxy Agribiotechnology, Bioservices and Biopharma. Bioscience, Georgia Tech, the Centre for Disease Laboratories Ltd, BWA: recommended planned 3G and BWA Dr G J Samathanam, Keeping in view the potential of the sector, the CII Control, Emory University, the Winship Cancer spectrum auction to be completed expeditiously CTOs Roundtable: A high level CXO roundtable focused Adviser, DST, National Committee on Biotechnology identified Institute and the Emory Vaccine Research Center. Dr Vijay Chandru, u Telecom Infrastructure to be developed as on collaboration, virtualization and optimization for CMD, Strand Life the key drivers for the growth of the sector as skill The India session on ‘Insights into success stories priority for rural reach: need to address issues IT-BPO, Manufacturing and Finance sectors. Sciences, and building, infrastructure and quality compliance, of Clinical Research in India’ was well attended. Shrikumar related to tower, backhaul, electricity availability IT Amendment Act 2008: CII is working closely with Suryanarayan, venture funding, regulatory and IPR issues. u Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, Union Minister of State for and alternate power, and collection and usage of industry to provide inputs to the Department of IT for Director General, This year, two sub-committees were created Health & Family Welfare, was the Chief Guest ABLE USO Fund creating rules and continues to engage with Industry to work in the area of Regulatory Requirements at theLife Science Conclave 2009 on ‘India: u Rationalization of Taxation and Levies for and Government to help build regulations for the for the Indian Biotech Industry and Plant The Emerging Life Science Global

affordable tele and mobile telecom services implementation of the IT Amendment Act 2008. Protection and GM Crops. Both the committees Destination’, in August 2009 in New Delhi. pillars

36 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 37 Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India, with Dr. Arvind Virmani, Chief Economic Advisor, ManufacturingSERVICES Hari Bhartia, and Chandrajit Banerjee at the book launch in The CII Manufacturing Council interacts closely with New Delhi Kamal Nath, government and members to boost the growth of the Union Minister for Roads & Highways, manufacturing sector in India. at the National Seminar on Concrete Highway Projects in New Delhi

Atul Chaturvedi, the Chief Guest and Mr. Anwarul Huda, Secretary, Steel, Prathap Annayyagari, Member, Planning Commission, was the Union Minister of Guest of Honour. Dr. S N Dash, Secretary, State for Steel, B Muthuraman, Heavy Industry & Public Enterprises, made Chairman, CII National Committee the keynote address while sectoral sessions on Steel & Vice were chaired by the respective Secretaries. Chairman Tata Steel, S K Roongta, u The national seminar on Engineering, Chairman SAIL Ltd. Procurement & Construction of Power at the Steel Summit in New Delhi u A Roundtable on the IndianPaper Industry, held Projects, organised in collaboration with the in November 2009 in New Delhi, addressed the Department of Heavy Industry in New Delhi in Anand Sharma key issues facing this industry, with December 2009 focused on the timely Union Minister of OVER THE YEAR, THE COUNCIL had regular aspirational target growth rate for manufacturing Commerce and Mr. Ajay Shankar, Secretary, Department of completion of power projects, highlighting discussions with the Ministry of Commerce and to increase its share in the nation's GDP, identify Industry, releasing the Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), as the the best practices globally, as well in the CII-BCG Report on Industry, National Manufacturing Competitiveness impediments and roadblocks for growth, define Manufacturing, with chief guest. domestic sphere. Dr. S N Dash, and Council (NMCC), the Planning Commission and new avenues and opportunities of growth and Hari S Bhartia, u TheM-ASCON Survey, covering over 100 Mr. Rakesh Nath, Chairman, Central Vice-President, CII, various sectoral ministries. Many recommend policy priorities for the Venu Srinivasan, sectors, was conducted every quarter to Electricity Authority, were the Chief Guest recommendations were made to the government manufacturing sector in India. The report was President, CII, and provide a comparative performance analysis and Guest of Honour respectively. Chandrajit Banerjee, for boosting growth of manufacturing sector. released by Mr. Anand Sharma in March 2010 in Director-General, CII, with the same period of the preceding year. u An Interactive Session of the CII National in New Delhi u An interaction was held with New Delhi. The survey also highlights the various issues Capital Goods & Engineering Committee was Mr. Anand Sharma, Union Minister of u Recommendations were prepared for faced by the manufacturing sub sectors. organised with Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Commerce and Industry, after the formation streamlining the clearances and approval Union Minister, Heavy Industry and Public of the new government, in June 2009 in New process for industrial projects and submitted CAPITAL GOODS & ENGINEERING Enterprises after the formation of the Delhi to provide him with feedback from CII to the government for action. new Government in July 2009 in Mumbai, members and update him on the overall u ‘The Sudoku of India’s Growth’ a book u ACapital Goods Summit on ‘Opportunities where all major sectors of Capital Goods scenario of the manufacturing sector in India. authored by Dr. Arvind Virmani, Chief in Emerging and Existing Sectors’ in New made presentations. A similar interaction was also held with Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, was Delhi in February 2009 deliberated on the Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of State released by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, opportunities in sectors such as process CEMENT for Commerce and Industry. Finance Minister of India in September plants, textile machinery, mining & u The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was 2009 in New Delhi. metallurgical equipment, machine tools, With Indian cities growing rapidly and the commissioned to undertake a study on ‘Indian u ‘Manufacturing Matters’ a bi-monthly journal electrical equipment, railways, defence, consequently burgeoning road traffic, Manufacturing: The Next Growth Orbit – on manufacturing was launched to provide space, aeronautics and highways. conventional road building techniques may not Aspirations and Roadmap for Indian information, views and news from and about Mr. Sontosh Mohan Dev, the then Minister, suffice to meet the demand. CII, jointly with the

Manufacturing’ to set an achievable yet the Manufacturing Sector in India. Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, was DIPP, organized two seminars on Concrete Road pillars

38 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 39 Projects, one with a focus on City Roads in meetings with senior officials of Australian September 2009 in New Delhi, and the other on mining companies, R&D centres, equipment Sheila Dikshit, Highway projects in January 2010 in New Delhi. Chief Minister of manufacturers and government departments. Delhi, and Sriprakash Jaiswal, Ms. Sheila Dikshit was the Chief Guest at the Sumit Banerjee, Union Minister of Over 50 Australian mining companies and seminar on city concrete roads, while Chairman CII State for Coal, and technology solution providers made Cement Industry Partha Bhattacharyya, Mr. Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Road Division & MD, Chairman, Coal presentations at the various meetings organized Transport & Highways, was Chief Guest at the ACC Ltd at the India Ltd at the for the delegation, which was led by seminar on Concrete Seminar on Coal event on highway projects. The seminars Roads in New Delhi Mining in Kolkata Mr. R K Saha, Chairman & Managing Director, showcased road construction successes and Central Coalfields Ltd. The Mission was discussed issues relating to the adoption of new organised by CII in collaboration with the concrete road-building technology, the role of Australian Trade Commission. equipment manufacturers and government initiatives on city roads and highways. PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT u An interactive session with Media Leaders and CEOs of Public Sector Enterprises was Excon 2009, a conference on Construction organised in September 2009 in New Delhi, Equipment Industry, was organised in which was attended by 20 CEOs of PSEs and association with the Indian Earthmoving & Ranaveer Sinha, Rakesh Chopra, over 30 senior media personnel. Member (Engg) Construction Industry Association Ltd (IECIAL) delivered a special address. Chairman, IECIAL u The PSE Council commissioned Hewitt to & MD, Telcon; Railway Board, MINING in Bangalore in November 2009. The focus was u The ICTE Committee took up various issues V P Baligar, Sam Pitroda, prepare a Report on HR Strategies for Public Principal Secretary, Chairman, National u on developing India into a regional export hub and submitted recommendations to the Industries & Knowledge Commission, Mr. B K Handique, Union Minister of Mines & Sector Enterprises for attracting and retaining of the earthmoving and construction government pertaining to deemed export Commerce, Praveen Kumar, Minister for Development of North Eastern Region talent. An interactive meet on the CII-Hewitt Karnataka, and Member (Mech) equipment industry. The key opportunities for status for the domestic sales of ICTE products Vipin Sondhi, Railway Board, was Chief Guest at the seminar on ‘Indian Mining: Report was held in Jan 2010 in New Delhi, with the Indian industry include sustained which are permitted for import at zero duty, Chairman, EXCON Rajive Kaul, Strategies for Growth’ in August 2009 in New Mr Bhaskar Chatterjee, Secretary, Public 2009 & MD, JCB Past President, CII, & investments in infrastructure including roads, expanding the coverage of focus product India, at Excon in Chairman, CII Trade Delhi. The seminar deliberated on issues relating Enterprises, as the chief guest. The meet was Bangalore Fairs Council, and irrigation and urban infrastructure; likely scheme for exports, correction of inverted duty Rajeev Jyoti, to the current policy structure, appropriate attended by 50 CEOs & senior HR personnel recovery in residential real estate and structure, and creation of cluster parks for Chairman, CII technology, environment and social responsibility. of PSEs. Railway Equipment increasing industrial investments. ICTE manufacturing. Division at IREE u In collaboration with Coal India Limited, a u A study onCollaborative R&D for moving up in New Delhi national seminar on Coal Mining: Partnership RAILWAYS ICTE MANUFACTURING the Value Chain in ICTE manufacturing was for Growth was organised in Kolkata in also initiated, with financial support from the November 2009 with focus on policy initiatives u CII, with inputs from its members, prepared and u High Transaction Costs are amongst the factors Department of IT. in the coal mining sector, captive mining, submitted aPre-budget Memorandum for of concern in the ICTE manufacturing sector as regulatory and infrastructure issues, adoption Railway Budget 2010-11 to Ms. Mamata Banerjee, they erode competitiveness. A workshop METALLURGICAL EQUIPMENT & of state of the art technology, environmental Union Minister of Railways. examined the Impact of Transaction Costs in INDUSTRIAL FURNACES and safety issues. Mr. Sriprakash Jaiswal, u The CII Railway Equipment Division organised an the ICTE Manufacturing Sector, focusing on the Union Minister of State for Coal, who was the International Railway Conference jointly with the issues in indirect taxation arising out of various Members from the metallurgical equipment chief guest, stressed on deregulation and Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, in August policy/procedures. The workshop, held in industry and industrial furnaces sector held an opening up of the sector to private players with 2009 in New Delhi. Addressing the conference, August in New Delhi, was inaugurated by interactive session in August 2009 in Mumbai the help of State-owned organizations. Dr Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Mr. V. Sridhar, Chairman, Central Board of with Mr A V Muralidharan, Chairman, Export u A 22-member IndianMining Delegation visited Commission, suggested that Information and Excise & Customs, while Mr. R Chandrasekhar, Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. and Australia in September 2009. The delegation had Communication Technology would help bring in pillars Secretary, IT, Ministry of Communication & IT, Mr. S Prahalathan of EXIM Bank. a series of interactive sessions and business substantial change in the Indian Railways. Over pillars

40 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 41 Dr Rahul Khullar, Secretary, Commerce, Venu Srinivasan, Anand Sharma, and Chandrajit Banerjee, with CII members at an interaction in Msmes New Delhi CII accords a high priority to the development of MSMEs, a dynamic segment of the Indian Economy. With a strength of approximately 5700 MSME direct members, our efforts over the year were directed towards capacity-building and competitiveness of MSMEs across diverse industry sectors.

330 delegates attended the conference held concurrently with the IREE 2009, which covered a broad array of topics including technology for the ADVOCACY Railways, security and disaster management concerns, and development of infrastructure. Meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh: CII participated in a meeting of representatives STEEL of MSME industry associations with Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of u TheSteel Summit 2009, held in November 2009 in India, in August in New Delhi. CII submitted New Delhi, had wide discussion on issues relating an ‘Agenda for the Development of Indian MSMEs’ to fierce competitive pressures on performance, highlighting the need for providing procurement productivity, and customer satisfaction. It also incentives, enhanced depreciation on IT products, provided expert insights and practical strategies establishment of SME exchange, simplification of for the industry to grow. Based on the outcome of Members of the labour laws and creation of a uniform credit rating Mining Delegation format and processes to facilitate credit availability the Summit, CII proposes to conduct a study in WATER EQUIPMENT & MANAGEMENT with Minister partnership with the Ministry of Steel to identify Martin Ferguson for MSMEs. Mr Dinesh Rai, Secretary, MSME, and in Melbourne Dinsha J Patel, innovative products made of steel for utilization in u The increasing scarcity of clean and safe water Minister of State Mr Ashok Chawla, Secretary, Finance, also (IC) for MSMEs, participated in the meeting. the rural areas. This time-bound study is intended calls for appropriate technology and withSalil Singhal , to be released at the Steel Summit next year. management of the available and already Chairman, CII National MSME u Interventions for MSMEs: Mr Salil Singhal, Mr. K Mohandas, Secretary, Shipping, met endangered water resources. With Council, in members of the Steel Sub-committee on Ms. Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi as New Delhi Chairman, CII National MSME Council, called on Supply Chain to discuss logistics issues and Chief Guest, and Mr Vincent Pala, Union Mr. Dinsha J Patel, Minister of State (Independent explore ways to use coastal shipping, at an Minister of State for Water Resources as the Charge)for MSMEs in New Delhi in November 2009, interactive session in Mumbai in January 2010. Guest of Honour, a National Seminar on Dinesh Rai, to apprise him on CII’s various CII promotional and Secretary, MSME, The Sub-committee will submit its specific ‘Water Equipment & Management 2009 – inaugurating the developmental interventions for MSMEs. recommendation to the government soon. Water for All’ in November 2009 in New Delhi MSME Mart at the India Global Summit discussed issues like wastewater treatment on MSMEs in INTERACTIONS New Delhi VALVES management, standardization of domestic and commercial water quality levels, recycling of Mr. Dinesh Rai, Secretary, MSME, at an interaction TheValves Conference 2009 in December at treated wastewater, public private with CII in New Delhi in May 2009, described the Mumbai was well attended by delegates from the partnerships in water and desalinization of sea Government’s developmental, promotional and policy pillars user industry, consultants and manufacturers. water, etc. initiatives to make Indian MSMEs globally competitive. pillars

42 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 43 Arun Maira, EVENTS Member, Planning Commission, at the India Global u TheIndia Global Summit on MSMEs , organisd Summit on MSMEs in New Delhi jointly with the Ministry of MSMEs in November ServiceS Dr K C Chakrabarty, 2009 in New Delhi, with the theme ‘Building the Deputy Governor, Next Generation MSMEs’ drew delegates from RBI, speaking on ‘Finance Availability In alignment with global trends, the Indian Services Sector is more than 30 countries of Africa, East Asia, for MSMEs’ Europe and Latin America. The key focus areas in New Delhi one of the major contributors to both employment and national for the next generation MSMEs were identified income in recent times. CII believes that the availability as Innovation, Incubation, Marketing, ICT of quality services is vital for the well being of the economy. Adaptation, Finance & Micro-entrepreneurship. Mr Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission, and Mr Dinesh Rai addressed the Summit. u The Conference on Finance Availability for MSMEs in New Delhi in October 2009 highlighted Healthcare to the Masses.’ Mr. Sam Pitroda, the best lending practices for MSMEs by various Chairman, National Knowledge Commission banks and the alternate options for raising shared a 10-point agenda towards this goal. Chandrajit Banerjee, finance. Dr K C Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, MSMEs was organised in October 2009, with a Director General, CII, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, RBI, announced that “no bank shall refuse credit” visiting industrial delegation from Romania, Dinesh Rai, and Planning Commission, emphasized the need to Salil Singhal at a Raman Roy, to viable and transparent enterprises. led by Mr Radu Zaharia, Director General, meeting in New Delhi CMD, Quatrro THE CII SERVICES COUNCIL represents devise India specific technologies in u TheConference on SME Exchange in Ministry of SMEs, Trade and Business BPO Solutions; associations affiliated to CII, Industry Divisions healthcare. The important takeaways and Pramila Kalive, New Delhi in July 2009 was addressed by Environment (Foreign Trade Dept), Romania. Global Head–HR, serviced by CII, and National Committees of CII in recommendations from the Summit were Zensar Technologies; u Dr. K P Krishnan, Joint Secretary, Economic CII, with the Association for Overseas and the arena of Services. The Council focuses on: submitted to the Ministry of Health and family Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Technical Scholarship (AOTS) organised a Ravi Bhoothalingam, u Reviewing data on Services industry performance Welfare and the Finance Ministry. Chief Executive, Mr. Jignesh Shah, Chairman, CII Task Force training programme on Production Manas Advisory Pvt. and monitoring the health of different sectors of The 3rd Health Insurance Summit with the on Indian Financial Markets, and Chairman Management (Japanese Concept) for SMEs, in Ltd, at the the industry on a regular basis. theme‘Enhancing Consumer Experience,’ held National Conference and Group CEO, Financial Technologies, New Delhi in December 2009, covering on Road to Recovery u Consensus-building among the different in New Delhi in August, 2009, saw the release of among others. Japanese production methods such as Toyota in New Delhi industry sectors, particularly with respect to the report of the three CII working groups which Production System and TQM. fiscal and other government policy areas. were formed to address the main issues faced INTERNATIONAL LINKS u CII, in collaboration with AOTS, also organised u Projecting a positive industry image through by the health insurance industry, i.e. high loss two training programmes in Japan for Indian sectoral conferences, exhibitions, missions ratios, lack of awareness, and lack of u Mr Dinesh Rai led a SME Mission to the Czech MSMEs, on Production Management and and export developmental work. standardization. Mr. J Hari Narayan, Chairman, Republic in January 2010. Enterprise Management, in October 2009 and u Promoting exports from Indian Services. IRDA, and Mr. B K Chaturvedi, Member, u A roundtable discussion on Fostering Canada- January 2010 respectively. u Identifying industrial segments which have Planning Commission, attended the Summit. India Trade: Role of SMEs, organised in potential for growth. At the 2nd Medical Technology Conference association with the Indo-Canada Chamber of AWARENESS The Services Council organised two National held in October, 2009 in New Delhi, Commerce in January 2010, in New Delhi, Conferences this year, in July 2009 in New Delhi: Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, Union Minister of State for showcased opportunities for mutual cooperation u A Journal of Small Business and Enterprise u Road to Recovery: Human Resource Management Health and Family Welfare, described the role of between the SMEs in both countries. was launched, focusing on areas such as in a changing Business Environment. the Government in providing the requisite Mr Harinder Takhar, Minister of Government Finance, Technology and Human Capital in the u Service Exports. impetus for the medical technology industry in Services, Ontario, Canada, Dr Ruby Dhalla, MP, MSME sector in India. India. Mr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Canada, and Ms Asha Luthra, President, Indo- u A series ofMSME Outlook Surveys were HEALTHCARE Knowledge Commission, emphasized the need to Canada Chamber of Commerce, addressed conducted over the year, on General Business preserve traditional practices. the roundtable Prospects, Policy Impact & Future Scenario, The6th India Health Summit, in November 2009 CII and the Apollo Hospitals Group constituted pillars u A Seminar on Opportunities in Romania for Export and ICT for MSMEs in India. in New Delhi focussed on ‘Taking Quality the CIICorporate Wellness Awards in 2009 to pillars

44 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 45 Tejpreet S Chopra, Ambika Soni, recognise corporates that provide health and President & CEO, Union Minister of ‘Strengthening Domestic Film Business & IPR’, GE India; Information & wellness opportunities to their employees. Under Bhavdeep Singh,CEO, Broadcasting, with coincided with the 40th International Film this initiative, Apollo Hospitals conducted Fortis Healthcare; Chandrajit Banerjee, Festival of India. Sam Pitroda, Director General, CII; preliminary health assessments of around 2 lakh Chairman, National Shekhar Gupta, u A CEOsRoundtable on Broadcast, with employees of 500 corporate organisations in 32 Knowledge Chairman, CII Ms. Ambika Soni, Minister of Information & Commission and National Committee cities. Next, an overall analysis on a company to Dr. Prathap C Reddy, on Media & Broadcasting, was organised by CII in March Chairman, CII Editor-in-Chief, company basis, identified the healthiest companies National Committee Indian Express Ltd.; 2010 in New Delhi, to shape a favourable in each segment, in terms of employee health and on Healthcare at the and Dr J S Sarma, Broadcast policy. The roundtable focused on the India Health Summit Chairman, TRAI at the wellness. The Awards were given away by in New Delhi CEOs Roundtable on key issues of management & development of the Mr. Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu & Broadcast in New Delhi broadcasting sector and the challenges of Kashmir, in March 2009 in New Delhi. measuring TV audiences in India. Further to the The CII Healthcare Committee, jointly with Ranjan Mathai, forum, CII has formed a Broadcast Committee Ambassador of India the Indian Council for Research on A Vaidheesh, to France; comprising all the stake-holders for continual Chairman, CII Jerome Paillard, International Economic Relations prepared a Healthcare Sub- Executive Director, dialogue with the Government. research report titled ‘Towards a Sustainable Committee on Marche du Film and Accessibility, Health Dr. Vijay Mallya, Private-Public Partnership in CGHS and Insurance & MD, Chairman, UB Group PUBLISHING ECHS: Issues and Concerns’ which was Johnson & Johnson at the India Party Medical India; at Cannes launched at the 6th India Health Summit. Malvinder Mohan The CII Publishing Cell undertook initiatives to Singh, Group Chairman, Fortis The committee also gave its inputs on 'The bring key concerns of Indian publishers to public LEGAL SERVICES Healthcare and Commercial Division of High Courts Bills 2009' to attention in order to influence policy decisions J. Harinarayan, Chairman IRDA at the the Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha for relating to publishing and allied activities, besides The CII National Committee on Legal Services 3rd Health Insurance increasing the overall efficiency of the Indian showcasing the strength and capabilities of Indian Summit in New Delhi advises the National Council on pertinent legal Judicial System, thereby sending the right signal to publishing houses. issues facing industry, especially with respect to Omar Abdullah, international investors on the efficiency of India to The Cell made a special effort in the area of Chief Minister of labour law reforms, resolution of commercial Jammu & Kashmir, enforce commercial contracts. Piracy and protection of Intellectual Property disputes, and faster redressal of national and giving away the CII Rights by taking complaints to the necessary Corporate Wellness international commercial disputes. Awards in New Delhi MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT governmental authorities. Believing the key to successful economic A short-term course for university students reforms and the competitiveness of a nation lies u CII organised the participation of several Indian was organized to address copyright and piracy in effective and efficient human resources, the entertainment companies at the Cannes Film issues, increase awareness of Publishing as a committee organized a seminar on ‘Human Market, France, in May 2009. CII, with the UB Group, career option, and improve skills in this area. Resource and Employee Relations’ in the context also organised an ‘India Party’ at the residence of Showcasing Indian publishing overseas, at the of global competitiveness. Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB Group, in Cannes to London Book Fair 2009, CII organised and Rohit Mehta, Chairman, CII Medical provide networking opportunities with business participated in three seminars on Publishing Equipment Division; and creative professionals from across the world. Services opportunities in India, bilateral trade Anjan Bose, VP & Business Head, u Third in the legal conference series, the between India and the UK, and Children’s Publishing Philips Healthcare; Conference on‘Reel World & The Law’ in in India. The seminars highlighted the advantages of Dinesh Trivedi, Union Minister of Mumbai in September 2009, had sessions on high quality and very competitive costs that India State for Health & Family Welfare; ‘Piracy & Digital Rights Management’, ‘Format offers. We also brought out a Directory of Members Dr. Prathap C Reddy, & Freedom,’ and ‘Implications of Competition of the Publishing Cell on this occasion. Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII Law on Media & Entertainment Industry.’ and Ajay Pitre, u CII organized its Annual Conference:‘India–The RETAIL Vice-Chairman, CII Medical Equipment Big Picture’ in partnership with the Ministry of Division at the Medical Information & Broadcasting in November 2009 The CII National Committee on Retail represents Technology Conference pillars in New Delhi in Goa. The Conference, with the theme a collaborative platform with all stakeholders in pillars

46 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 47 practice ‘The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.’

B S Nagesh, the retail ecosystem, working for the growth of The Government of Jammu & Kashmir has formed Vice Chairman, Shopper’s Stop Ltd., the Indian retail sector. theJ&K–CII Task Force on Tourism with Subodh Kant Sahai, The National Retail Summit in January 2010 in Mr. Omar Abdullah as the Chairman, and Union Minister for Food Processing Mumbai, with the theme ‘Modern Retail: Towards Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Past President, CII and Industries, Sustainable Growth and Profitability’ hosted the Chairman & CEO, Bharti Enterprises, as the Thomas Varghese, Chairman, CII release of the CII-IMRB ‘India Consumer Confidence Co-Chairman, to bring all round development in the National Committee on Retail, & CEO, Report 2009’ by Mr. Subodh Kant Sahai, Minister for State at a faster pace. Aditya Birla Retail Ltd, Food Processing Industries. Sunil D Tatkare, Minister for Finance & CII organized an Interactive Session with Advocacy Planning, Maharashtra Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Deputy Chairman, During the year, the Tourism Committee had and Puneet Avasthi, VP-Retail, IMRB Planning Commission. The discussions, led by several meetings with Government officials on International, at the National Retail Mr. Thomas Varghese, Chairman of the important matters. It also participated in various Summit in Mumbai Committee, and Chief Executive Officer, Aditya meetings of the sub-committee for ISO/TC 228 Birla Retail Ltd. focused on policy issues towards under the National Mirror Committee of Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy recognizing Retail as an industry. COPOLCO, Consultative Group on Tourism Sector Chairman, Planning for the Mid Term Review of the 11th Five year Commission, with members of the CII TOURISM Plan, National Tourism Advisory Council, Indian National Retail Council for Cultural Relations, etc. and gave its Committee in New Delhi TheCII National Committee on Tourism aims to inputs on key issues for improving the tourism promote Tourism as a ‘mainstream industry’ and a scenario in the country. major driver of economic growth, representing all the disciplines of tourism: hotels, tour operators, Events airlines, state governments, etc. Over the year, the u 9th Annual Tourism Summit: Integrating Tourism committee worked in tandem with the Ministry of into Mainstream Development, Bengaluru, Tourism and other stake holders, as well as with the February 2009 various State Tourism Departments to promote u Seminar on Rural Tourism: A new Perspective, Rajive Kaul, niche areas for tourism. Bhopal, June 2009 Past President, CII & Chairman, CII Trade Fairs Core Groups Council G Janardhana Reddy, Within the National Committee, four core groups Minister for Tourism were formed to facilitate issues and concerns of the & Infrastructure Development, industry: Karnataka, and uuSkills for Tourism Responsible Tourism Chandrajit Banerjee, at the Tourism pillars uuHeritage Tourism Infrastructure Summit in Bangalore

48 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 49 practice 51 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 upon IFC’s Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources Kit to build leadership skills. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs, met senior representatives from India Inc in July 2009 in Newthe Delhi, architectural to composition deliberate of on good governance in India. He emphasized the need togood engender corporate governance and build a governance framework in the country, which is implemented both in letter as well ascalled in on spirit, Government and and Industry to collectively establish Corporate Governance benchmarks. Industry members emphasized that there was no need for more regulation and that theframework basic of the corporate governance code should include the concept of ‘trust and verify’. MEETING WITH MR. SALMAN KHURSHID was organised in ‘Corporate establish Corporate Governance benchmarks. ‘Directors’ Colloquium’ CII works to build a sound governance framework in the country, which is implemented both in letter as well as in e – A Reality Check’ spirit, engaging both Government and Industry to collectively A meeting of senior editors was organised with A series of intensive and interactive training corporategovernance CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES Governanc During the year, CII embarked oninitiative a with tri-partite the Global Corporate Governance Forum (an IFC initiative) and theNational SEBI- Institute promoted of Securities Markets, to enhance the awareness and standards of governance in the country. Under this partnership, a Round Table: April 2009 in Mumbai. Mr C B Bhave, Chairman, SEBINew in Delhi April to 2009 discuss in governance challengesdeliberate and on strategies for capacity buildingmedia of persons for better understanding and reporting of governance matters. modules for directors, at off-site locations near Delhi, MumbaiKolkata and in November-December 2009, drew Past Ltd; and Affairs, & Hari S Bhartia, honouring CII’s India Corporate Affairs, look on. President, CII & Chairman, Hero Rahul Bajaj, Dr Pratibha Patil, Salman Khurshid, R Bandyopadhyay, Union Minister of President of India, corporate sector at are contribution to the Affairs & Minority Vice President, CII; State for Corporate Honda Motors Ltd; Receiving the award Secretary, Corporate Chandrajit Banerjee, Past President, CII & Brijmohan Lall Munjal, Director General, CII Week in New Delhi as Chairman Bajaj Auto Corporate Governance Design Industrial Relations Innovation IPR Technology FOSTERING BEST PRACTICES u u u u u u practice 53 ICSID) have ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 DESIGN International Council of with NID, IDDC, On the international front, the Industrial CII has established vibrant partnerships Designers Society of America (IDSA), theChamber Turin of Commerce, UK Design Council, DBA, the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) and the Societies of Industrial Design ( been strong partners in our Designand activities initiatives. IDC, and the Srishti School of Art and Design, to carry forward our key Design initiatives. Other Indian partners include Design India and the Association of Indian Design Industry (AIDI). expressed interest to be the secretariat of the proposed Indian Design Council, the apex body of Design in India. focus on building the India on Design, and works closely with stakeholders for Department CII’s National Committee on Design is the reference point in Design Branding /Promotion of Design through the media Design Education National and International Partnership Capacity Development Awareness and promotion Design for Culture, Society and Environment Implementation of Design Policy and the formation of an India Design Council Over the year, CII organised interactive sessions strategizing & implementing all Design initiatives in the country. u u u u u u u CII DESIGN INITIATIVES competitiveness of Indian Industry by along with the National Institute of Designand (NID) thePromotion (DIPP) across the country to collect inputs on the National Design Policy fromstakeholders. various CII, as part of of the Industrial Policy Implementation Policy Committee & of the Government, has been actively providing inputs. We have also Prof. in New Delhi Commerce & Anand Sharma, Director, Forbes University, at the Union Minister of Richard Buchanan Industry, and Marshall Pvt. Ltd., Chandrajit Banerjee Ma Western Reserve Dr. Naushad Forbes, India Design Summit Director General, CII, Senior Member, C B Bhave, Uday Kotak, Projects Officer, Global Corporate Governance Forum; and Chairman, CII National Council on Corporate Governance & Executive Vice Chairman &MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd at the Round Table on Corporate Governance in Mumbai Salman Khurshid, releasing the CII Report on Corporate Governance in New Delhi with Hari S Bhartia, R Bandyopadhyay, Rahul Bajaj, Naresh Chandra, Chairman, CII Task Force on Corporate Governance and Chandrajit Banerjee At the Directors’ Colloquium in Manesar: Chairman, SEBI; and Pratip Kar, Board of Governors, NISM Gene Spiro, The inaugural session of the India endeavour and organized more than 15across events the country during the week. Corporate Week, in Kolkata, on the‘Going theme Beyond Compliance: Fostering a Culture of Good Governance’ was addressedMr by R Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Corporate Affairs, and senior industry representatives. Deliberations on the CII Corporate Governance Recommendations were held in Delhi, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. At the concluding function of India Corporate Week inCII New was Delhi, honoured for its excellentto contribution the growth and development ofcorporate the sector in the country byPratibha Dr. Devisingh (Mrs) Patil, President of India. CII’S RECOMMENDATIONS CII prepared Corporate Governance Recommendations for Voluntary Adoption by listed companies, articulating voluntary principles that can improve corporate governance in spirit and inrecommendations practice. were The formulated by the CII Task Force on Corporateby Governance Mr led Naresh Chandra. Thereleased report by was Mr. Salman KhurshidNovember in 2009 in New Delhi. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SUMMIT The 5th edition of our flagshipCorporate event, Governance the Summit, held in December 2009 in Mumbai, provided an opportunity for an effective interaction onCorporate the Governance CII Recommendations. Addressing the valedictory session, Mr Salman Khurshid emphasized the needthe for corporate sector’s contribution to the inclusive growth of the country –first the India theme Corporate of Week. the INDIA CORPORATE WEEK The Ministry of Corporate Affairs commemorated the third week of December 2009India as Corporate the Week first to provide positive reinforcement to the contribution of the corporate sector in the economic anddevelopment social of the country. CII partnered this ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 52 practice 55 . a joint initiative ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 which completed its 4th successful Initiative on Research & Innovation in CII-Raunaq Singh Innovation Grid, CII has emerged as a leader in promoting The India Innovation Initiative (i3), The a Innovation , competitiveness of various countries based on certain innovation parameters prepared by Prof Soumitra Dutta of INSEAD. innovation. Programmes were undertaken over the year to promote technology use and adaptation, boost R&D by the industrial sector, facilitatepartnerships R&D and ease technology trade. CII worked in partnership with the Department of ScienceTechnology and (DST), universities in India and overseas, and leading global professionals for disseminating appropriate technologies. Science (IRIS), year in 2009, continued to promote inventionsinnovations and among the youth of India. Thisinitiative joint of CII, INTEL and DST helpsscience promote and scientific research among school students below 18 years. The winners getopportunity an to participate in international events. of Agilent, DST and CII, in itsyear, second is edition a this nation-wide innovation competition for all innovators above the age of 18.innovations Select are awarded and supported for commercialization or connected to the Industry. web-based networking portal, a joint initiative ofwith CII Sona, facilitates networking of all stakeholders in the innovation eco-system for a quickereffective and innovation-to-commercialization more process. . innovation-led entrepreneurship model of the - of innovation among the youth facilitate the formation of an Global Innovation Index (GII) 2009-2010 CII plays an important role in the transformation of India into an innovation driven economy Our aim is to promote a culture India specific model of the Innovation Ecosystem and facilitate The CII BELIEVES THAT THE WESTERN Innovation Ecosystem may not be suitable for India given its unique challenges like education, health, clean water, energy, infrastructure, etc. CII, in partnership with the Planning Commission, has initiated the development of an India-specific model of the Innovation Ecosystem. was successfully brought out jointly by CIIthe and renowned international business school INSEAD. The GII is an analysis of the at the System’ and Sam Chairman, Arun Maira, ‘Building India Innovation Eco Unconference on India Innovation Member, Planning Commission Pitroda, Initiative–i3 Award National Knowledge Commission winners in New Delhi Salil Singhal, Chairman, CII MSMEs Council, & Chairman, Secure Meters Ltd, and Jagdish Khattar, Chairman, CII Industrial Relations Council & CMD, Carnation Auto India Pvt Ltd at the IR Council meeting in New Delhi IR Seminar in Gurgaon S Paradigm Shift in Employee A Seminar on Workers’ Participation in Operational Decisions/Processes Breakthrough Concepts in ER (IR) Success Stories on Positive Employee Relations Contract Labour Relations (IR) in Changing Businessheld in cenario, July 2009 in Gurgaon,such covered as topics u u u u , interacted with Some of the issues which the CII IR Council Simplification and Rationalisation of Labour Laws Contract Labour Health Occupational Safety Under the guidance of the Council, CII is now Central Board for Workers Education National Safety Council Central Advisory Board (CAB) under Section 6 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Tripartite Committee on Jute Industry Central Advisory Committee under the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 Central Apprenticeship Council IndustrialRelations The CII Industrial Relations Council workshealthy towards Industrial fostering Relations in the country.through Our reforms ultimate based goal, on employment generationcompanies and increase helping their competitiveness, is towin-win create situation a for both employees and companies. THE COUNCIL, OVER THE YEAR u u u u u u u u u u all the stakeholders: the Labour Ministry,Unions Trade and Industry members to understand their respective views on the currentsituation IR in the country, and formulateview CII's on what steps need tohealthy be IR taken climate to in create India. a CIIthere believes are that many areas where Industrytogether can with work Trade Unions without anyof conflict interest. focussed on were represented on several key government bodies pertaining to Industrial Relations. Some of these include: ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 54 practice 57 On were guests. . N N Prasad, in November ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 August 2009, in for their work in IPR ‘Linking Innovation & was held across the country February 2009–New Delhi. Counterfeiting & Piracy-Border were held in Chennai and Mumbai. held in Chandigarh, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Jamshedpur, Srinagar and Bhopal. Sessions on World Intellectual Property Day, in April 2009,in CII, partnership with the DIPP, felicitated Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Bilcare Ltd, and Reliance Industries Ltd.,a function in New Delhi. As ato special grassroot recognition innovations, Mr. Venkat Reddy, a progressive farmer from Alwal, Andhra Pradesh was also awarded. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul from the Delhi High Court and Mr Joint Secretary, at DIPP, attended the event. New Delhi, had Mr Ajay Shankar, Secretary, DIPP, as the Chief Guest. The CEO’s roundtable on 2009 in New Delhi, had Dr Francis Gurry,General, Director World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Mr. N.N Prasad, Chef de Cabinet, WIPO,Mr & Ajay Shankar,Secretary, DIPP, as chief Campaign on IPR CII-MSME Sensitization Workshops on IPR Measures 6th IP Summit: Annual Intellectual Property Awards 2009: The 3rd International Conference on Counterfeiting & Piracy in Intellectual Property to face Global Challenges in Climate Change, Public Health, Food Security & the Preservation of Biodiversity’ at Pune, Goa, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Cochin, Madurai, Trichy, Bangalore, Vizag, Indore and Chandigarh. u u EVENTS u u u u al gies: CII-DIPP Nationwide Awareness Border Measures to Protect Intellectu Inputs and suggestions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology on protection and utilization of the public funded IP Bill 2008 Inputs on National Innovation Policy Inputs and comments on the Protection, Conservation and Effective Management of Traditional Knowledge relating to Biological Diversity Rules, 2009 The ‘Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Technolo A strategic need for Indian Industry’ ' Property’ POLICY ADVOCACY u u u RESEARCH/REPORTS u u CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT u Controller New Delhi in Mumbai IP Conclave of Customs, Dr.GSJaiya, in New Delhi Roundtable in Vice Chancellor, At the US-India K R Bharghava, Dr Francis Gurry, General of Patents, Director General, Prof. Ranbir Singh, WIPO at the CEO’s Judge Randall Rader, National Law School Chief Commissioner Mumbai, at a session P H Kurian, University, New Delhi; the Federal Circuit; and University of Illinois, at Trademarks & Designs, Director-MSME, WIPO; the Session in New Delhi US Court of Appeals for Prof. Ananda Chakrabarty, and Jt Jack Chang, and Ajay Shankar, Secretary, DIPP, N K Sabharwal, Dy. Director General, WIPO, Prabudhha Ganguli, CEO, Vision-IPR, Chairman, QBPC, at the Conference on Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy in Mumbai T Ramasami Secretary, Science & Technology presenting the IP Felicitation Award to Hindustan Unilever Ltd in New Delhi N N Prasad, T Ramasami, Justice S K Kaul, Secretary, DIPP, Delhi High Court, at the World IP Day Celebrations in New Delhi jointly in IPR aim to with representatives from II-National Committee of Intellectual CII-Andhra Pradesh Technology C Serve the interest of all intellectual property owners in all sectors Advocate effective and affordable IP ownership rights and provide IP services Support members’ interests relating to legislative and international issues Analyze current IP issues Provide capacity development services Build public awareness on the importance ofCreate IPR an eco system fostering innovation The industry, law firms, international agencies, academic institutes and policy making bodies. The promoted by CII, TIFAC and theof Government Andhra Pradesh. Property Owners, Development & Promotion Centre, Intellectual Property Rights CII works to promote Intellectual Propertycapacity Rights development, through policy advocacy/research and IPfacilitation. service Our objective is to fosterIntellectual an Capital, ‘IP which Culture’ is to vital enhance for economic development These initiatives are driven by: OUR NATIONAL INITIATIVES u u u u u u u u u ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 56 practice 59 & for the ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Bamboo Granite through in-house In 2009, APTDC through Bamboo APTDC conducted an was established in 2005 by CII . ‘Waste to Power’ Tamil Nadu Technology Development & Waste land development Demonstration Bamboo structure IP Awareness/IP Training IP Protection & Services: IP Management & Audit: Specialized technology interventions for value- added product promotion in plantations Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA). training and workshops facilitated the filing of 16 Patents Applications, 10 Trademark Applications and 6 Copyright Applications in India and multiple countries across the world. IP Audit of three companies in Punein and May Nashik 2009 ThisSmall was & part Medium Enterprise of (VSME) the initiative. Visionary Municipal projects Promotion Centre u u u u u u u TNTDPC The and the Government of Tamil Nadu. established in was to facilitate commercialization of Andhra Pradesh Technology Development (IC) Science & Technology, and Earth Sciences; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; PMO; and Parliamentary Affairs, as the Chief Guest. Mr. Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister for Economic Affairs, Finland, gave the keynote address. Technology Refinement and Marketing Assistance innovative products and services and to facilitate linkages of the developed products and innovative technologies with the market. The 1999 by CII with the support ofAndhra the Pradesh Government and of TIFAC (under the DST, Government of India). It is a pioneerfor in establishing the Public country Private Partnerships for Technology and Intellectual Property services. Some highlights of the interventions in 2009-10: PARTNERS IN TECHNOLOGY APTDC u andPromotion Centre (APTDC) MD, TCS, APTDC APTDC President, New Delhi Technology, V P & Chief Boeing India, Hyderabad , promoted by Gregory Shea, Granite Slurry Anil Shirkhande, Services Ltd, and developed by the Rolls-Royce India, meeting hall cum R & D Conclave in Technology Officer, V P,Govt. Relations, Dr. Naveed Hussain, Prakash Nayak, Model of a Bamboo ABB Global Industrial Utilisation Facility in guest house structure Vice President, Engg & Motion, Canada, at the Asia Pacific, Research in Dr. Ananth K Krishnan, , Dr. T Ramasami, Dr. M K Bhan, Secretary, Biotechnology, Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister for Economic Affairs, Finland, Prithviraj Chavan Union Minister of State for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; PMO, & Parliamentary Affairs, and Secretary, Science & atTechnology, the Technology Summit in New Delhi Global Industrial R&D Conclave on National Technology Day – ‘Strategies to Drive Growth in Economic Crisis’ – New Delhi, May 2009. Prof. SK Brahmachari, Secretary, DSIR, and Director General, CSIR, was the Chief Guest, while Dr. R Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India, delivered a special address. 15th Technology Summit and Technology Platform, India-Finland Partnership Forum: New Delhi, November 2009, with Mr Prithviraj Chavan, Union Minister of State, technology competitiveness of Indian Industry. Started in 2000, the project is building100-120 the Indian capacity SMEs of and provides market accessEU to countries in 6 focus sectors: AutoProcess Components, Plant & Machinery, Dies & Moulds,& Castings Forgings, IT-enabled Engineering Services and Agro & Food Processing. EVENTS u u of technology and a unique Public-Private Partnership project Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA) Technology Export Development Organisation Indo-Canada S&T Cooperation Programme with ISTP Canada Inc. Indo Israel Initiative for Industrial R&D (i4RD) with MATIMOP, Israel In addition, GITA has also been assignedmanage to the Indo-ASEAN S&T Development Fund and the Indo-Taiwan Cooperation Programme for Scientist Exchange. Technology CII has been actively involved inthan the 15 Technology years. space Our for initiatives, more drivenon by Technology the and National Innovation, Committee aim toprojects develop benefitting technology society and the commoninnovative man, eco-system. to create an innovation focus on technology promotion, facilitating industrial R&D and industry’s investment in R&D, facilitating partnership developments for technology/R&D collaborations, capacity building and facilitating technology exports, providing advisory and technical services for implementing technology projects. The was formed in 2006, as an institutionalbetween union the Government’s Department of Science & Technology and CII to implement bilateral industrial R&D programmes with international partners. The Alliance is now handling The between CII and the Department of ScientificIndustrial and Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, works to enhance the market-linked CII INITIATIVES IN THE AREA u u u (TEDO), ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 58 u SME Facilitation: TNTDPC promotes the RFQ, RFP documents were prepared for the presence ofSMEs both locally and globally Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Marketing Board. through the creation and hosting of a one page TNTDPC also undertook a techno-economical information sheet on the company on its feasibility study of developing cold storage facilities Preparation website, offering an email account with the for grapes and also for tomatoes, commissioned by ‘tntdpc’ domain name. As of now 85 MSMEs the Agricultural Marketing Board, Tamil Nadu. As a ‘Make people your priority, have been registered with the portal. next step, the Centre is also exploring the possibility u IPR Services/Assistance: TNTDPC assists SMEs of establishing market infrastructure complexes. and then success will make you its priority.’ and entrepreneurs in intellectual property assessment and filing of IPR (Patents, NANOTECHNOLOGY Trademarks & Copyright). Till date, TNTDPC has done 5 patent searches, 12 patents filing, 3 Trade CII has become the front-runner in the promotion Mark searches and 6 Trademark filings. of Nanotechnology and launched its u TNTDPC has also carried out 19 file inspections nanotechnology initiative to enhance the and 11 procurements of patent applications/ competitiveness of Indian Industry. granted patents at the Patent Office. The CMTI, together with CII, has initiated the u TNTDPC has also initiated the registration of nanotechnology cluster project for four sectors: Geographical Indicators in Tamil Nadu. auto components, electrical and electronics, process plant and chemicals. Sectoral Initiatives The NT cluster initiative seeks to increase the TNTDPC and UNIDO are working closely in profiling availability of, and access to, R&D and innovation companies in theauto-component sector to infrastructure in the Nanotechnology sector. It facilitate better B2B matchmaking by foreign also provides new opportunities to position Indian companies. In the first stage, about 150 automotive companies as significant players in emerging companies in Ambattur Industrial Estate have been technologies. filed, while profiling of107 companies in Chennai in CII and Santech have signed an MoU to explore the second stage is going on. the possibility of establishing a CII-Santech Centre In theAgro & Food Technology Sector, a of Excellence in Nanoelectronics. The NT Center of Training Programme on GFSI Core Basic Level Excellence (CoE) would work to create an innovation Requirements for Food Manufacturers was held in infrastructure in this sector. It would also provide Sept 2009, to help food processing companies gain new opportunities to position Indian companies as certification to GFSI recognised schemes. significant players in emerging technologies. Prof. Kurt E. Geckeler, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Dr T Ramasami, Dr. Dipankar Banerjee, Chief Controller, R&D (AMS), & Distinguished Scientist, DRDO, Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology & Chairman & CEO, HCL Infosystems Ltd., and Dr. V Rao Aiyagari, Mission Director (Nano Mission) & Head, Science & Engg Research Council, DST,at the Nanotechnology Conclave in New Delhi

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CII works towards creating a conducive environment for generating quality, employable human resources to turn India into a Knowledge Hub of the 21st century. CII’s education initiatives are primarily driven by industry – being the largest recruiter of Human Resources – and also by those who are keen on making a difference in the field of Education.

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for HRD, at the launch of the CII-BESU Industrial Research, Innovation & HRD Centre, with Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor, West Bengal, Mukul Somany, Chairman, CII (ER) & Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, in Shibpur, West Bengal

BUILDING HUMAN CAPITAL CII-BESU INNOVATION CENTRE u Education TASK FORCES CII, in collaboration with the Bengal Engineering and u HRD Science University, Shibpur (BESU) has established u Skills Development The National Committee on Education has five a specialized, professionally-managed Centre – the u Sports task forces on: CII-BESU Industrial Research, Innovation and HRD Centre – to facilitate Industry and Academia u Independent Accreditation partnerships for industrial and social benefits in u Teacher Empowerment and Development West Bengal. The Centre was launched by u Right to Education Bill Mr Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource u PPP in Schools Development, during the 4th CII University-Industry

u Higher Education Reforms Council Symposium in August 2009. preparation

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 63 preparation 65 in ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 . shares the best practices of a HRM Summit 2009, CII Compendium of Corporate Case Studies The with the at Times of Economic Downturn: ISO 10015+Strategic for Alignment of Training Investment PUBLICATIONS - Successful Practices in Training and Development, March 2009 in Gurgaon. The interactive training module updated senior executives about this next generation HRD and high impact training system management tool. It also aimed at providing senior executives with information of the basic tenets of the ISO 10015 Quality Standard and its application to corporate environment theme ‘Looking into the Future: HR’s next 5 years Agenda,’ was held jointly with CII Northern Region in Gurgaon in September 2009. The number of leading companies who have introduced successful practices in training and development in their organisations. development Recognising the significance of the role of ® was constituted in 2009 Human Resource Managing Talent Risks Human Resources in the growth of an organisation in CII-HR Excellence Model building quality standards into HR processes and practices. Regardless of sector, size, structure or maturity particular, and Indian Industry in general, CII works towards AN HR EXCELLENCE AWARD EVENTS at the national level to promote HR Excellenceincreasingly as important an element of organisational performance management. The Excellence Award aims to help improve Human Resources and performance practices and capabilities, by providing objective feedback for improvement to each applicant and to facilitate communication and sharing of best practices and information within and among organizations of all types. to be successful, organisations need to establish appropriate management framework with clear purpose. Thetool that can be used in agauge number for of self- ways, assessment as by a measuring the current status and thus identify the gapsstimulate to solutions; a framework to position various HR initiatives and identify gaps; and asdevelop the common basis understanding to of various terms used is in a HR practical Management. In collaboration with AdeQuaTE , theright world’s holder only and certification body of ISOin 10015+ Geneva 081), CII organised a WorkshopSenior for HR Executives on , , Chandrajit Banerjee Prof P V Indiresan Former Director, IIT Chennai, releasing the CII Technopak Report on Higher Education at the Global Summit on Higher Education, in New Delhi, as Arvind Singhal Chairman, Technopak Advisors Pvt. Ltd. looks on Dr M D Tiwari, President, Association of Indian Universities, &, signing the MoU in Kolkata Kapil Sibal, Director General, CII, Ruth J. Simmons, and students Free resources (multimedia CDs) Free training programmes Free collaborative online platform for teachers Our proposed new initiatives include an Vice-President, CII, and Co-Chairman & MD, Jubilant Organosys Ltd;andsession in New Delhi Union Minister for HRD; President, Brown University, USA at a Chandrajit Banerjee, Hari S Bhartia, u u u e-teaching certification programme for school teachers, e-teaching toolkit for rural schools and a consortium of B.Ed. colleges to promote e-Teaching through Open Source and the Web. Right to Education Bill Higher Education and Research Bill, 2010 (AIU), signed an MoU to enable universities, colleges and industries, especially MSMEs, to evolve joint research projects. This will leadestablishing to a mechanism for institutionalizing joint University-Industry Research at the national level. The mutually identified areas include Research, Faculty Exchange, Governance, Curriculum, etc. functional skills and empower students of Open University-DU by offering them professional courses through its various partners MoU with AICTE to provide industry’s suggestions on course curriculum and also mechanism for working together MoU between CII and PAN IIT withwork an together aim on to Indian Higher Education Policy and its implementation To facilitate partnerships & tie-ups with universities abroad, CII signed a MoU withUniversity, Brown USA, in March 2010 in New Delhi. ‘ICT in School’ Policy CII Response to The National Commission for CII and the Association of Indian Universities MoU with Delhi University for University-Industry Synergy Project to provide

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Shiksha is a non-profit initiative, aimed atthe bridging digital divide and enabling schools toeffective make use of technology for better andeducation. improved The project helps schools and teachers to integrate technology effectively and appropriately to enhance their teaching-learning processes and make them more impactful and useful. Somemajor of Shiksha the interventions include RECOMMENDATIONS u u u PACTS INKED u u u u u SHIKSHA

64 preparation Vijay Thadani, Chairman, CII u CII-Technopak Report on ‘Setting up World National Committee on Education & Skills India’ CEO, NIIT Ltd, TK A Nair, Principal Skills Development Secretary to the Prime WORLD SKILLS INTERNATIONAL Minister of India, and Sudha Pillai, Secretary, Labour & India participated in the World Skills Competition CII has a vision to make India the Skills Capital of the World. Employment at the Conference on in Calgary this year, where N Priyadarshan of In doing so, CII is a catalyst in bringing about a thought shift in Education in Coimbatore won the Silver Medal. Over 900 New Delhi the way India looks at Skills Development. competitors from 51 countries participated in 45 skill categories at the event. Training and Evaluation of an E-learning module THE ORIENTATION OF OUR WORK over the year for Industrial Control and Welding for World Skills centered around International was organised by CII in Bangalore. u Independent assessment and evaluation Trainees at the u Quality focus Afghanistan-India EVENTS u Employment-orientation Vocational Training Center, Kabul u Global benchmarking u The CII National Conference on Education – u Levels and progression routes Labour & Employment, and Mr. P C Chaturvedi, ‘Linking Education to Employability’ in New The CII Skills Initiative is characterised by Secretary, Labour & Employment, at the Delhi in April 2009, was inaugurated by u Localised Approach – Relevance to local needs National Conference on Skills Development. Mr. T K Nair, Principal Secretary, PMO, and u u CII-IGNOU University-Industry Synergy Scalability Kapil Sibal, Union The Ms Sudha Pillai, Secretary, Labour & Employment u Short duration, focused programmes Minister of HRD, Project developed job-oriented programmes u The National Conference on Skills Development: DrYSRajan, then u Modular pattern Principal Adviser, CII, in Security & Fire Safety, Travel & Tourism ‘Strengthening the Delivery System – u Licence to practice Prof. Manfred Kremer, and Spoken English across the country, with Understanding the National Skills Policy: Way President, BIBB, and Our activities engage with government, both at Arun Maira, Industry partners Forward’ in New Delhi in August 2009, was the Centre and the States, as well as with Member, Planning u The first group of 21 Indian SME managers inaugurated by Mr. Harish Rawat, Union Minister Commission, at the industry, NGOs and civil society. Global Summit on participated in the Indo-German Manager of State for Labour & Employment Skills Development in u New Delhi Training Programme in Germany. The At the 3rd Global Summit on Skills ITI UPGRADATION programme, held in October-November 2009, Development, New Delhi, September 2009, with Harish Rawat, Union Minister of State for comprised eight days of practical training and Germany as the Partner Country, World Didac u 249 ITIs were approved and allotted to CII Labour & 12 days of study tours to German companies. brought in over 90 international companies to Employment, and members this year to facilitate their PROJECTS P C Chaturvedi, In parallel, more than 100 individual business exhibit their products and services in vocational Secretary, Labour & upgradation process Employment at the meetings were organised training and education. The Summit was u CII, in collaboration with PAN IIT, organised u TheCII-HPCL Project Swavlamban extended National Conference inaugurated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister on Skills Development workshops in all the regions to speed up the skills training to 1100 more school drop-outs in New Delhi STUDY REPORTS of Human Resource Development upgradation process. CII has identified 80 ITIs from Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Punjab, to fast track the process and has also Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in various trades u White Paper on ‘Establishing Independent MOUs commenced a grading system for ITIs u The Afghanistan India Vocational Training Accreditation & Regulation System’ Centre successfully trained over 1100 Afghan conducted by ICRIER and NASSCOM. u MoU with the Union Ministry of Overseas Indian MODULAR EMPLOYABLE SKILLS SCHEME men and women in carpentry, welding, u CII–Technopack Study on ‘Case for Setting up Affairs for Skill Upgradation and plumbing, masonry and tailoring (for women) Sector Skills Council in India’ Pre-departure Orientation of Emigrant Workers As the National Assessing Body for the Modular over a period of one year. The success of the u Benchmarking English language skills for entry u MoU with the Swiss-Indian Chamber of Employable Skills (MES) Scheme, CII assessed Centre has generated goodwill for India and CII. level jobs in the Indian services sector, conducted Commerce to implement elements of the over 96,700 trainees in various vocational training A short film of the project was released by by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations Swiss dual-based vocational education and

centres across the country. Mr. Harish Rawat, Union Minister for State, u Imacs Handbook of Skills Scenario in India’ training system in India preparation

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CII is working closely with the Organising Committee of ‘Thousands of candles can be lit the Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi with the purpose of creating a platform for Indian business to leverage the from a single candle. . .’ N Kumar, Past Games for furthering our economic interest. President, CII & Vice Chairman, The Sanmar Group, holding the Queen’s Baton, with CII delegates at the 'Building Business through Sport’ networking event in Melbourne, Australia

A WEBSITE FOR Business Club India, www.businessclubindia.org, was inaugurated in February 2009. CII organised a business outreach programme in London in August 2009. We were also present at the launch of the Baton in London in October CII business delegation with last year. The Queen’s Baton relay is a tradition Gary Cemford, associated with the Commonwealth Games since Vice-Chairman, and Henry Lotin, Cardiff 1958, and has been the curtain raiser at Vice-President, Canada-India all the subsequent Commonwealth games. Business Council, Business missions visited Canada and in Toronto Australia to promote the Games. Large Canadian and Australian delegations are expected during the Games. Preti Saran, Consul CII is partnering the Commonwealth Business General of India, at a reception hosted by Council for a two-day conference titled CII and the India ‘Commonwealth Business Games Forum’ to be Canada Chamber of Commerce on the followed by sectoral conferences on arrival of the Infrastructure, Mining, Luxury Goods, Medical Commonwealth Games Queen’s Value, Green Manufacturing and Skills. Baton in Toronto

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Our business fairs provide both the market and industry a platform to meet, interact, network, source and sell.

At the inaugural of Auto Expo 2010: in New Delhi Venu Srinivasan, President, CII, Gurudas Kamat, Union Minister of State for Communications& IT, Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Dr. Pawan Goenka, President, SIAM, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Union Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Jayant Davar, President, ACMA, and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII

PROMOTING IN LINE WITH THE CII THEME, India@75: Economy, Infrastructure, Governance, the Trade BRAND INDIA Fair Department organised various trade fairs on a diverse array of industry sectors both in India as u Trade Fairs well as in select markets of the world. Additionally, to value add, we built in concurrent events like u Special Events seminars and conferences on allied topics, buyer seller meets, delegation visits etc. Special focused events served as a showcase for the SMEs. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, India MADE IN INDIA, INDONESIA inaugurating the Made in India Fair in Jakarta, The Fair, held from 7-10 August 2009 in Jakarta, as Fahmi Idris, helped the Indian automotive industry, majorly SMEs, Minister of Industry,

Indonesia, looks on showcase their potential to Indonesian buyers. Platform

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 71 Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India, inaugurating the exhibition on Climate CLIMATE CHANGE Change, in New Delhi with Jamshyd N Godrej, SpecialEvents Past President, CII, An exhibition cum conference was organised in Chairman, CII National Council on Climate association with the Ministry of Environment and Change and CMD, CII’s special events provide a high-level networking interface Forests on 22–23 October 2009 in New Delhi, to Godrej & Boyce Man. Co. Ltd, highlight this major global concern. and Jairam Ramesh, for industry, government, thought leaders and civil society, both Union Minister of State, for Environment & from India, and around the world, to confer on macro issues. IREE Forests

Organised from 26-28 August 2009 in association Rakesh Chopra, Member Venu Srinivasan, then with the Ministry of Railways in New Delhi, the (Engg) Railway Board, President- Designate, Dr. Sam Pitroda, CII,C K Prahalad , 8th edition of the International Railway Equipment Chairman, National Management Guru, Exhibition (IREE) focussed on up-gradation, Knowledge Commission, andK V Kamath , then Praveen Kumar, Member President, CII modernization, electrification and computerization (Mech), Railway Board, in Indian Railways. IREE is the only international and Rajive Kaul, Past President, CII, & event in India for the Railways and its related Chairman, CII Trade Fair NATIONAL CONFERENCE Council at IREE sectors. The Indian Railways participated in IREE in New Delhi in a big way, displaying their capabilities and CII convened a gathering of its top membership, future requirements. government officials, PSU heads, stalwarts of industry and thought leaders to deliberate on ENTERPRISE MALAYSIA 'Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Role of Governance and Reform’ to mark its National The Fair showcased the strength of SMEs in the Conference in March 2009 in New Delhi. Speakers automotive sector to the Malaysian market, from from across the spectrum, while acknowledging 2–6 December 2009. the depth and gravity of the prevailing global economic crisis, felt that challenges could indeed AUTO EXPO be converted into opportunities supported by timely reforms and strong governance. This iconic mega-event for the automotive industry, Vishnu Mathur, Dr D Subbarao, Governor, RBI, felt that there in its 10th edition, had more than 2100 exhibitors domestic and global car manufacturers to unveil Executive Director, were enough reasons for optimism of revival in ACMA, with 800+ overseas participants from more than 30 their new offerings to the fast evolving Indian Chandrajit Banerjee, India, based on strong growth fundamentals, but Sunil Kant Munjal, Dr Montek S Ahluwalia, countries showcasing their strengths to the Indian market. Auto Expo, in its silver jubilee year, was held Past President, CII, & Deputy Chairman, warned that painful adjustments were inevitable. Planning Commission market. It was also a launch pad for several from 5 –11 January 2010 in New Delhi. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Indian industry must think long-term to emerge Union Minister of State for Commerce Dr D Subbarao, competitive through the slowdown, advised Governor, RBI & Industry at the Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Valedictory Ceremony of Auto Expo Planning Commission. He suggested that the new R S Sharma, CMD, government should try to maintain India’s growth ONGC,K Ravi Kumar , CMD, BHEL, performance with a well-calibrated economic Tarun Das, then Chief Mentor, policy to minimise pain and ease recovery. CII, Dr Arvind Virmani, Chief Economic Advisor, Stars shine S K Roongta, at the Auto Expo: Chairman, SAIL, and Ministry of Finance, said the country needs to move Sharukh Khan, P S Bhattacharya, still faster on market reforms, and fiscal policy has Ajay Devgan and Chairman,

Promotion John Abraham Coal India Ltd to address the demand problem of slowdown. Platform

72 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 73 MARKETING SUMMIT Partnerships: Meeting Challenges' drew over 300 participants from 25 countries and included The10th Marketing Summit, held in New Delhi in sessions on global trade, regional integration, August 2009 examined the impact strategy for the investment security, and India 2039, among others. Indian market, while providing expert insight and Mr Mohamed Nasheed, President of Maldives, practical strategies for Indian firms to sustain Mr Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and growth in an economically straitened environment. Industry, India, and Dato Mustapa Bin Mohamed, “India has buffered itself quite well against the Minister of International Trade & Industry,

global economic tsunami, and is now a force to Dr Pratibha D Patil, Malaysia set the tone for the deliberations by reckon with, a nation whose voice is heard in President of India, pitching India as a global leader in the next wave withVyalar Ravi , every forum,” declared Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for of industrialisation and innovation. Ministers, Overseas Indian Affairs, Union Minister of State for Commerce and andLord Hameed , business leaders, and other senior Government Industry, in his keynote address. CBE DL of officials focused on what emerged as the three Hampstead, at the The CII Marketing Summit, which has a Pravasi Bharatiya key themes of this Summit – centrality of tradition of enabling candid debate and Divas in New Delhi emerging countries for the future growth of discussion between speakers and delegates, At the India Economic global trade and investment, the need to develop probed several issues critical to the market in Summit in New Delhi : strong business ties between emerging nations Dr Manmohan Singh, the presence of some of the most authoritative Prime Minister of with a special focus on regional integration and India, flanked by minds in the field. Prof Klaus Schwab, Pravasi Bharatiya the need for sustainable development. The shift Founder and Executive Samman Awardees in global economic power to Asia was reiterated Chairman, WEF and with the Prime INDIA ECONOMIC SUMMIT Venu Srinivasan Minister of India at many sessions.

Pranab Mukherjee, Hari S Bhartia, Year 2009 marked 25 years of partnership between Finance Minister Vice President, CII, WEF ANNUAL MEETING of India Dato’ Mustapa Bin CII and the World Economic Forum, a journey that Mohamed, Minister of began in 1985 with the first India Economic Summit. Kamal Nath, International Trade & In January 2010, a 100-member strong Indian Union Minister for Industry, Malaysia, By the time the 25th India Economic Summit Road Transport & Anand Sharma, Union delegation participated in the World Economic took place in November 2009, the world and India Highways Minister of Commerce Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. & Industry, were beginning to emerge from the impact of the At the Marketing Mohamed Nasheed, Mr Anand Sharma, Commerce and Industry Summit: President, Maldives, global economic crisis. Over 800 participants Suhel Seth, Summit M K Stalin, Dy Chief oration-series, with a lecture by Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, Road Transport and from 40 countries gathered to discuss ‘India’s Chairman & Minister, Tamil Nadu, among the foremost international trade Highways Minister, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Managing Partner, andVenu Srinivasan at Next Generation of Growth,’ under the four Counselage India, the Partnership Summit economists of his generation. Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, thematic pillars of Resilient India, A Region at Jyotiraditya Scindia, in Chennai The first meeting of the Prime Minister’s and Mr Shyam Saran, the PM's Special Envoy on Union Minister of Risk, Green Growth and Inclusive Development State for Commerce Venu Srinivasan, Global Advisory Council, which had as its Climate Change, led the official delegation, while Prince Philippe of and Tomorrow’s India. & Industry, and members many eminent personalities, was also Mr Venu Srinivasan, President, CII, led the Sunil Kant Munjal, Belgium and Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Past President, CII & Hari S Bhartia at the held as a pre-conference event. Like every year, business delegation of over 70 CEOs from India. Chairman, Hero CII India Reception inaugurated this landmark Summit, where 4 Corporate Service Ltd in Davos the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards were The Indian contingent joined the over 2600 Ministers of the Government and over 100 top of over 1500 delegates from 38 countries, as well given away by the President of India. participant-strong community that included 30 Indian and global CEOs shared their perspectives. as 16 members of the Prime Minister’s Global heads of state or government, over 90 cabinet Advisory Council, 8 PIO Ministers, 12 Union PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT ministers, religious leaders, media leaders and PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS–2010 Ministers and 5 Chief Ministers, along with other heads of non-governmental organisations from Indian and PIO dignitaries. The 16th edition of CII's signature convention, 85 countries, to discuss how to ‘Improve the CII, together with the Ministry of Overseas Indian Besides two pre-conference seminars on The Partnership Summit, was held in Chennai in State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild.’ Affairs, hosted the 8th edition of the Pravasi Nanotechnology and Property-related issues of January 2010. Organised in partnership with the CII and Indian companies organised several Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi in January 2010. Overseas Indians, a highlight of this year’s event Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, and events on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting to

PLATFORM The two-day convention saw record participation was the launch of a Distinguished Global Indian the Government of Tamil Nadu, the theme of 'Global highlight India’s economic and soft power. Platform

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ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 77 a Excellence Par 79 CII ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Over 1000 working professionals as well as fresh graduates have enrolled in our PG Diploma in SCM and four certificate programmess in Logistics & SCM in distance mode, towards careers in the Logistics sector The Distance Education Council inspection by the joint committee represented by AICTE, UGC, IGNOU and DEC has been successfully completed, and approval is awaited for alleducational our programmes Academic Council reconstituted with senior members from academia and industry Exam reforms like Credit Based Grading System, improved exam materials, etc. for enhanced value to the students Extended Virtual Classes for active participation from more students across the globe at minimal cost During the year, the number of genericprogrammes training conducted included 7 in-company, 23 general training programmes and 3 training programmes for B schools. These programmes educated 720 working professionals from 240 companies and 320 B-school students on Supply EDUCATION u u u u u TRAINING instituteofLogistics create and share intellectual capital for improving in Logistics & SCM through online and offline activities The CII Institute of Logistics in Chennai is a platform to competitiveness, while nurturing skills and best practices , looks on Chairman, Warehousing Corporation, in New Delhi Yogesh Arya, Ajay Shankar, B B Pattanaik, CMD, Central Sheffield, UK, on Warehousing Tiger Lines and at the conference Prof. Lenny Koh Secretary, DIPP & SCM Initiative, as & Director Bengal Director, Indo Arya SCM, University of Chandrajit Banerjee, displaying the MoU Director General, CII Director, Logistics & B Sridhar, on Green Logistics & Logistic Summit 2009 CII Institute of Logistics CII Institute of Quality CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development CII-LM Thapar Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs CII-Naoroji Godrej Centre for Excellence CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership RAISING THE BAR u u u u u u u CII

Chain Management themes. The programmes instituteofQUALITY were conducted in all the metros and in a few Tier 2 towns like Coimbatore, Puducherry, Tuticorin, Erode, etc. The CII Institute of Quality in Bangalore provides Several new topics were introduced to training, counseling and consultancy and handholding increase the competitiveness of industry, involving Supply Chain Managers and HR services to Industry focusing on the Quality and Managers in finalizing the content. These Competitiveness dimensions to realize the aspirational included International Logistics, EXIM C.B.S.Venaktaramana, Jt Director-General goals under the India@75 vision. documentation, GST, Fleet Management, etc. EVENTS & SEMINARS of Shipping, India, at the seminar on ‘World Class Logistic ADVISORY SERVICES u Indian Coastal Shipping: Opportunities Parks for India’, with Sudir Ranganekar, Towards Economical Logistics, organised in former Director,SCI, & u International Retailer: Study on WH coordination with the Kochi Port Trust, Dr. Sarita Nagpal, FOR THE CII INSTITUTE OF QUALITY (CII-IQ), the Deputy Director Optimization which includes WH Efficiency, February 2009, Kochi General, CII year began on a note of caution, with the global Enhancing Productivity, Workflow, IT Support u UK–India Partnership in Ports and Logistics, economic meltdown still very much part of the and Manpower Rationalization. March 2009, Chennai boardroom agenda of India Inc. We utilised this u Global Manufacturer and Exporter: An in- u Exploring Business Opportunities in the period to work with industry to foster zero-error depth study of end-to-end Supply Chain European Market, organized jointly with and flab-free re-engineering processes and processes and activities for business process UNIDO, Wallonia Export & Investment (AWEX), precision training and retraining for their improvement based on sales methodology, and Logistics in Wallonia, April 2009, Chennai. workforce. By cutting down wasteful processes, ordering, shipment, WH operations, u Shipping Documentation and Its Legal inventory management and applying lean distribution and logistics planning and Implications in Global Business, April 2009, methods, Indian industry is almost back on the Information Technology. Kochi rails in the shortest possible time, showing a u National Infrastructure Development u World Class Logistics Parks for India, May high level of maturity and resilience. Organisation: Study on ideal catchment area 2009, New Delhi Our services, provided from the Chandrajit Banerjee, u and associated infrastructure for Logistics Building Agile & Resilient Supply Chains for Director General, CII, ABB-sponsored Institute located at Bangalore, Park in Rewari coupled with demand & supply 2010 & Beyond: June–November 2009, Arun Maira, span diverse domains such as TQM, TPM, Member, Planning of cargo traffic in the Dedicated Freight Mumbai, Chennai & New Delhi Commission and Manufacturing Lean, Business Excellence and Corridor for the next 30 years with surveys, u Building Warehousing Competitiveness: July K N Shenoy, Past Assessment, Education, Food Safety and President, CII & field visits and multiple interactions with 2009, New Delhi Chairman, CII Quality, Standards Compliance, Laboratory Institute of Quality, u various logistics operators in the region. Logistics Summit 2009: October 2009, Chennai. at the 17thQuality and Measurement Capabilities, Legal u Preliminary Study for a Major Power Summit in New Delhi Metrology, Healthcare, Risk Analysis, Generation Company: A techno-economic PUBLICATIONS Business Continuity Management, Road Safety study to identify the feasibility for transport of and General Management. coal from Tuticorin Port to the Thermal Plant u The future of multi-modal logistics parks in Through the year, CII-IQ organised, pan India, site and, in the process, to develop a detailed India with Amarthi Consultants close to 250 competencies building programmes, Logistics Model. u Warehousing without Walls–A Perspective on spreading over 575 training days, to impact more u SME: Study on re-engineering of finished goods the Warehousing Industry and the Way than 8,240 executives from about 1900 process across a pan-India network of dealer Ahead’ with Ernst &Young organisations. The activities of the Institute are distribution comprising of forecasting u Competitiveness through Efficient Logistics, communicated through our monthly e-newsletter

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80 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 81 17th QUALITY SUMMIT Mr. B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY (FSQ) schools, colleges, vocational training institutes and Mr S Viji, Managing Director, Brakes India Ltd. & and polytechnics, through the year, with the main Our flagship event – the Quality Summit – was held Trustee, Kuruvilla Jacob Memorial Educational Trust. Significant contributions were made under the focus on imparting TQM principles and practices. in New Delhi in December 2009. Mr. Arun Maira, guidance of the Expert Group on FSQ this year: Many of our Education clusters e.g. Coimbatore, Member, Planning Commission, inaugurating the QUALITY MANAGEMENT u Pan India celebrations on World Food Day. Chennai and Mangalore, have become Centres of Summit, spoke of the need for leadership to u 1st Food Cluster of four tea units awarded Excellence. Recognising the transformation that complement a resurgent India. Local bodies, he u CII–IQ launched a comprehensive Certificate ISO 22000 certification. the Chennai Corporation schools have achieved, said, should not just be empowered but also given Course on Quality Management and Analytical u Launch of e-enabled CII Food Safety Rating the Quality Council of India is keen to award freedom and powers to play a proactive role in the Techniques (Statistical Methods). Designed as a Matrix for Eateries. accreditation to these schools. present competitive and challenging environment. foundation for a career in Quality Management, u Food Safety Projects on upgradation of Eateries, A 6-member core team from Maharashtra has In his keynote address, Mr. K N Shenoy, the 6 month course comprises one week of Development of Standards, Guidelines and PGDM sought CII-IQ support to scale up quality Chairman, CII-IQ cautioned against undisciplined contact classes every month followed by hands Course on Food Technology. education in over 78,000 schools in the state. growth, overlooking of risk, grasping for salvation on exercises and projects at the workplace. u Competency building programmes for The annual National Summit on Education and capitulation to irrelevance and debt. Over 400 u Initiatives in Public Services: About 50 Govt. mid-day meal organizers for schools in with the theme ‘Quality Education: Scalable industry captains, domain experts and quality officers from Ministries and Departments in Tamil Nadu and Food Processing Industry. with Inclusiveness’ in Chennai in October 2009, professionals joined the deliberations to chart Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka were provided u Several publications on Food Safety & Quality. was flagged off by veteran industrialist out a road map for a resurgent India. training in Quality Management Systems for u 4th FSQ Summit in July in New Delhi. Mr. M V Subbiah of the Murugappa Group. K N Shenoy, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, then Minister of State for Public Services as per Indian Standard 15700. Sheila Dikshit, TwoRegional Summits on Education were also External Affairs, delivered the valedictory address. u CII-IQ upgraded itsLead Assessors Course for The winning team Chief Minister of EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE organised in Coimbatore with the themes ‘Managing from BOSCH, Delhi, and Two MoUs were signed by CII-IQ, one with the Quality Management Systems to ISO Bangalore–Diesel Chandrajit Banerjee, Higher Educational Institutions: The Quality Way’ Systems business taking the Food and ‘Quality Leadership for Future Campuses.’ European Foundation for Quality Management to 9001:2008, and trained 45 quality professionals receiving the CII Safety & Quality CII-IQ conducted a series of programmes further refine the journey of Business Excellence, from industry over the year. EXIM Bank Award Oath on involving more than 800 delegates from over 700 for 2009 World Food Day and the other with Shell India to launch a Safe TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE Fleet Initiative for Indian roads. Over the past 17 years, the Excellence Model The TPM Club India continued to offer services to has been a blueprint for CII members and Industry through precision training and consultancy organisations across India to develop a culture of programmes as also key seminars and events: excellence. The CII-EXIM Bank Award for u Kaizen Conference, August 2009, Pune Business Excellence 2009 was presented during u TPM National Conference, Nov 2009, Chennai the Quality Summit to 23 large business u Release of a Book on Quality Maintenance organisations and their operating units and four u 10th TPM Facilitators Course, September 2009 SMEs for ‘Strong Commitment to Excel.’ Eight u New, stand-alone programmes on various organisations were recognized for ‘Significant TPM macro-micro concepts, all over India Achievement’ while Bosch Ltd, Diesel Systems u TheTPM Award is a coveted recognition in India Business, Bangalore, bagged the coveted Award Inc. In May 2009, 9 Indian companies received Trophy this year. Over 200 CII trained assessors the TPM awards in Kyoto, Japan. CII is one of participated in the Award Assessment process. the six international agencies accredited to S Viji, MD, Brakes India Ld. & Trustee, conduct the assessment process of the Awards. Kuruvilla Jacob 8th ANNIVERSARY DAY Memorial M.V.Subbiah, Past Educational Trust, President, CII, LEAN MANAGEMENT G Madhavan Nair, inaugurating the To commemorate its eighth anniversary, CII-IQ Chairman, ISRO, Education Summit honoured three personalities for their outstanding K N Shenoy, and in Chennai as Two training programmes on Lean Production B Muthuraman,MD, Y.S. Rajan, leadership and contribution to the application of the Tata Steel at the 8th Dr Vikram Sarabhai System were organised byAOTS & implemented by Quality philosophy: Mr. G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Anniversary Day Distinguished CII &JMAC with t he objective of providing practical celebrations in Professor; and

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82 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 83 ROAD SAFETY CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for u CII-IQ and Shell India signed an MoU to launch the Road Safety Initiative. Mr. K.N. Shenoy and SustainableDevelopment Mr. Vikram Mehta, Head, Shell Group of Companies in India, inked the pact. Vikram Mehta, u A study on Mining Transport in North Chairman, Shell The CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development in Group of Companies Karnataka was also undertaken. in India and New Delhi creates awareness, promotes thought leadership and K N Shenoy, exchanging the MoU builds capacity to achieve sustainability across a broad spectrum SIX SIGMA on Road Safety of issues. It is the fountainhead of ideas and practices to power

u The 3rd National Conference and Competition Customized in-house training programmes on India’s agenda for inclusive growth and sustainable development. on Six Sigma in August 2009 in Bangalore Laboratory Management & Internal Audit as per drew participation from 33 organisations. ISO/IEC 17025/205 and on Legal Metrology were Brakes India Ltd. in the Discrete also held. Manufacturing category and Max New York THE CENTRE IS PIONEERING Corporate Life Insurance in the Transactional category MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Sustainability Management for Indian industry in were the winners. the belief that future competitiveness requires u TheSix Sigma Certification Programmes, both CII-IQ continued its offerings of Management internalization of sustainability management. It Black Belt and Green Belt, have, so far, trained Development programmes such as Competency assists companies to initiate or improve the 385 participants from 120 organisations. Mapping and Assessment; Project Management, process of sustainability reporting and Cost Management, Human Resource Management stakeholder engagement. HEALTHCARE and those related to Excise, Customs, EXIM Taking this emerging agenda forward, the Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Documentation, etc. In 2009, 21 such programmes Union Minister for Centre conducts training, technical assistance and New & Renewable u research on sustainability leadership and strategy In addition to competency building programmes were conducted for 375 delegates. Energy, inaugurating on ‘Performance Measurement – Evidence based The annual Conclave for Executive Secretaries the Sustainability development. It has developed a training module Summit in New Delhi Healthcare Management’, CII-IQ partnered the from various member companies was held in on ‘Leadership & Strategy’ under the framework of Technology Division of CII, to organize a Life May 2009 in Bangalore. the project ‘Corporate Sustainability Management Science Conclave in August 2009. in Indian Companies (CoSMIC)’. u CII-IQ also supported the Division in INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT Jairam Ramesh, The Sustainability Assurance Practitioner’ organizing a Round Table Conference on Minister of State for training course, launched in September 2009, in Environment & ‘Destination India – Contract Research in u Participation in GEM Council Meeting and Forests, presenting the India, focuses on IRCA certified training modules Sustainability Prize to Pharma & Healthcare’ in March, 2009. Business Excellence Global Conference, Kapil Mehan, and global sustainability standards. Singapore Executive Director–Crop Towards facilitating the transfer of Nutrition & MEASUREMENT PRACTICES AND u Two Study Missions to Japan AgriBusiness, knowledge and sharing of experience on CSM LEGAL METROLOGY u TPM Consultancy visits to Egypt and Zambia Tata Chemicals Ltd and CSR, the Centre signed a MoU with The u Provision of training services in Bangladesh Ethos Institute of Business & Social Y C Deveshwar, Capability and skill building in measurement u CII-IQ team visited Nestle, Switzerland for Past President, CII, Responsibility, Brazil in November 2009. Chairman, CII-ITC It also organized a five-day ‘3rd Business practices and legal metrology is critical to consultations Centre of Excellence for attain manufacturing excellence. Programmes u Speakers from Japan, Brussels and UK Sustainable Devpt. & Leaders Programme: Strategies and Chairman, ITC Ltd. and were conducted during the year on Producing addressed major events of CII-IQ Ricardo Young, President, Leadership for Creating Sustainable Zero Defect through Statistical Techniques, u Japanese experts visited India to assess Indian The Ethos Institute, Brazil Organisations’ to help influential decision exchanging MoUs as Good Laboratory Practices, Achieving companies for the JIPM TPM Awards Salman Khurshid, Union makers in leading organizations appreciate the Measurement Reliability in Manufacturing, and u Japanese experts visited India to help improve Minister of State for challenges and opportunities in sustainable Corporate Affairs &

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84 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 85 Shyam Saran, Prime necessary transformations. Minister’s Special Envoy on Climate CII-LM Thapar Centre for The Centre’s expertise includes training and Change (left) and consultancy on Deepak Gupta, Secretary, New and u Sustainability Assessment Renewable Energy, at the Seminar on COMPETITIVENESSforsmes u Implementation of Management Systems like ‘Business Response ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, SA 8000 to Climate Change’ u Integration of Management Systems The CII–L M Thapar Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs in Chandigarh u Advance EMS Auditors Course At the Convention on works as a one stop shop to provide support to SMEs for enhancing City Development: u Lead Auditors Training Course of Occupational Ajit Gulabchand, their competitiveness in the fields of Manufacturing Excellence, Energy Health and Safety CMD, HCC, and President, Conservation, Cost Management, Human Resource Management u Corporate Strategies for Climate Change Construction Federation of India Corrosion Prevention and New Product Development The Centre developed a unique GVDP model to (left) and ‘green’ the supply chains of large companies. It is Fali S Nariman, President, Bar also helping the Sri Lankan food processing industry Association of India & improve environmental and social practices. Sr Advocate, Supreme Kaizen Gallery, Lifetime Achievement Awards for Court of India In an effort to identify and recognise Indian the cluster movement in India and a Kaizen businesses with exemplary sustainability Competition were the highlights of the Summit. performance, the Centre annually presents HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CARBON DISCLOSURE So far, approximately 1889 SMEs have either Sustainability Awards. Eighty-four companies PROJECT– INDIA REPORT 2009 enhanced or are in the process of enhancing competed for the Awards in 2009. their competitiveness through 170 Clusters u Targeted the top 200 Indian companies The Centre focused on the themes of clean, formed by CII and its strategic partners. In 2009 by market capitalisation Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity, Climate alone, the Centre started 19 new clusters u 63% of the companies disclosed their Change and Sustainable Lifestyles through its Gautam Thapar, covering almost all regions of the country, GHG emissions in CDP 2009, compared quarterly magazine, Sustainability Tomorrow. Chairman CII, CFC SME CLUSTERS directly impacting more than 702 companies. to 33% in CDP 2008 and Chairman In July 2009, the Convention on City Avantha Group with u CDP 2009 respondents reported the CFC Team in Development: Sustainability and Legal Interface, A flagship service of the Centre to MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE overall total GHG emissions as 68.9 Chandigarh showcased how urban agglomerations can lead to SMEs for enhancing internal million metric tones, almost double economic and social benefits for the masses if they competitiveness is the‘Cluster Movement’ which is Manufacturing Excellence is a set of imperative tools the GHG emissions reported in the are planned and executed in a sustainable manner. a conscious effort to promote industrial to build internal competitiveness by enhancing and last two years The annual flagship event, Asia development. Here, the approach is to form a upgrading employee skills through proper training u 68% of CDP 2009 respondents have Sustainability Summit in November 2009, cluster of 10/12 SMEs and help them grow together and on-job implementation of concepts, supported by reduction plans in place for slashing explored ‘Winning Strategies for a Sustainable by learning through sharing. The clusters are a professionally designed organisation structure and either their energy or GHG emissions, World.’ With specific focus on green economy, sectoral, locational or OEM-vendor. The cluster work culture. Over 1100 delegates participated in as compared to 61% in 2008 climate change, technology development and approach aims at improving competitiveness in an u 84% of the companies consider application, corporate governance and associated group rather than in discrete companies. existing regulatory mechanisms as BENEFITS ACHIEVED BY KEY CLUSTERS IN 2009 sustainable tourism, it was attended by over The Centre has so far successfully completed an opportunity for triggering long 500 stakeholders from diverse sectors. 70 such clusters impacting 574 companies across CLUSTER No. of Kaizens Tangible Reported term investment in energy efficient Generated Savings (Rs. Crore) The Centre, in December 2009, released the sectors at Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Faridabad, technologies Carbon Disclosure Project Report 2009–India Gurgaon, Jaipur, Vadodara, Pune, Nashik, Heterogeneous Open Cluster 600 3 u 82% of the companies acknowledge 200. It shares interesting and significant Kolhapur and Jamshedpur. The various clusters Avon Cycles Advance Cluster 1573 1.82 physical risks such as damage, insights for the industry to integrate long-term completed in 2009 generated 22,282 kaizens, and Hero Cycle Vendor Cluster I 300 0.87 disruption and displacement due to Jaipur Open Cluster 959 1.25 value and cost of climate change. The CDP the total saving achieved by the participating climate change as major challenges Escorts Cluster 900 1.76 process has led many companies to adopt a companies was around Rs 69.7 crores! that could result in financial losses Bosch Vendor Cluster 2500 11 climate change strategy, including emissions This year, the2nd National Cluster Summit in Leather Cluster 154 5

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86 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 87 various SME programmes on topics such as: CORROSION MANAGEMENT u Flow Manufacturing CII–Naoroji Godrej u Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing The Centre took up several corrosion prevention u Basic Hydraulics initiatives through training and awareness u CentreofExcellence Six Sigma Black & Green Belt programmes, seminars and conferences, and u Theory of Constraints by Goldratt publications. It also launched corrosion audit u Becoming Lean services through its Corrosion Management The CII–Naoroji Godrej Centre of Excellence in Mumbai was u SMED, Poka Yoke Committee. Some key activities in 2009 were: established in 1999 as an International Centre of Excellence for u Effective Inventory Management u Sectoral Corrosion Awareness seminars for u World Class Manufacturing & Waste Elimination Automotive, Power & Process, Ports & Training and Development for building a culture of u Value Stream Mapping Ship-building sectors manufacturing excellence for Indian Industry. u Cost Reduction via Toyota Production System u 2nd Corrosion Management Summit u Autonomous Maintenance u Corrosion Control Awareness Seminar u 7 QC Tools u 3rd International Conference on Surface u Manufacturing Missions Modification Technologies u Organization Structure and HRM u Corrosion Training Programme on High IN 2009, THE CENTRE continued to u Leadership Challenges & Team Work Performance Coatings concentrate on various dimensions of u Communication & Presentation Skills management development and u Empowering Self NATIONAL SUMMIT AND SEMINARS manufacturing excellence. Our calendar for u Daily Work Management the year included: u 2nd National Cluster Summit u 76 Management Development ENERGY AUDIT & MANAGEMENT u ROTEQ 2009 Programmes u POWER Q 2009 u 9 in-company programmes Energy efficiency involves reducing energy u New Product Development CAD-CAM u 13 Modules under the M.Sc. in Engineering consumption while maintaining current levels of Business Management Programme, University productivity and quality. Energy conservation INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE of Warwick, UK (7 in Mumbai and at Bharat concentrates on the reduction/elimination of Forge, Pune) energy wastages in a plant/process. The Centre u 12th TCI Annual Globe Conference in u VLFM Programme actively promoted this initiative through over 200 Jyvaskyla, Finland The industrial slowdown led to a drop in the Prof Shoji Shiba, audits, workshops and seminars over the year. u SME Delegation to Japan: An SME delegation Chief Advisor, CII number of participants in the first half of the VLFM Programme year, which subsequently picked up as the to Japan visited the SME Expo (Sougouten) being felicitated by TOTAL COST MANAGEMENT (TCM) 2009 and companies like l-Kanta Auto Works Ajay Shankar, constraints facing industry eased. Former Secretary, and Yamamoto Seisakusho Co Ltd. Officials from the DIPP in Mumbai In the changing paradigm, cost management to u Malawi Team Visits Clusters in Ludhiana Malawi High Also seen: MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Commission visiting Naushad Forbes, develop low cost high quality products needs to (Bicycles) and Jalandhar (Hand Tools) a SME Cluster Chairman, CI (WR), address not just individual activities or cost in Punjab J.N.Godrej, Past u Ignite Boot Camp – Lighting the Spark of Global President, CII, & centres but the entire value chain. The Centre Chairman, CII Enterprises (held jointly with the Centre for VLFM Programme organized a number of programmes on and Tamon Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) at the Judge u Training on Total Cost Management Mochida, Consul Business School, University of Cambridge, UK General of Japan to u Direct & Indirect Taxes India, Mumbai u Daily Work Management for Risk Management u Finance for Non Finance Executives & Risk Mitigation Participants of Batch u Activity Based Costing 3 of the CII VLFM u Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Programme u Strategies Conception & Execution Benchmarking u Marketing Strategy & Brand Communications Participants at work u Improving Value Stream by Mapping on a project

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88 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 89 u Streamlining Corporate Processes & Structures to Improve Corporate Efficiency CII–Sohrabji Godrej u How to Generate Patentable Innovative Ideas u Legal Aspects of Project Contract Management GreenBusinessCentre ENGINEERING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT The CII-Godrej GBC in Hyderabad facilitates industries in becoming greener and more sustainable through a diverse The Quality Assurance Association of UK (a UK Government Agency) visited the Engineering At the launch of the range of services. CII VSME Business Management Programme, University of At the 2nd Annual Session in Mumbai, 48 Programme in Pune Warwick, UK programme in India and participants of Batch 2 of the VLFM Programme and 6 acknowledged it as ‘Very Good’.The Warwick participants of the pilot batch of the Visionary SME Manufacturing Group, too, has, in a letter of (VSME) Programme received their certificates. The GREEN BUILDINGS appreciation, acknowledged that the programme 2nd Learning Convention saw the alumni share their held in India was the best administered among successes, while the current batch presented their u The CII–India Green Building Council all its overseas centres. findings of a project undertaken for the Planning (IGBC) Green Factory Building (Pilot) Commission. The research for the project titled ‘What Rating System launched in July 2009 is a VISIONARY LEADERS FOR is required to build India’s innovation eco system’ was guideline for existing and upcoming MANUFACTURING conducted using the Five Step Discovery Process and industrial buildings which address national other concepts taught in the VLFM Programme. priorities such as energy and water By August 2010, the Visionary Leaders for The VSME Programme is being recast this efficiency, resource conservation, Manufacturing (VLFM) Programme would have year on the lines of the Japanese Keiretsu. The workmen health and productivity. created a community of 306 managers skilled to 2nd Batch of the programme was launched in u The IGBC Examination, a credential for professionals to participate in green building transform over 90 companies that they are December 2009, with the Anand Group taking the At Green Power 2009 in working with, or leading. The process of lead in building a new model of vendor Chennai : K Subramanya, projects, was launched in September 2009. CEO,Tata BP Solar India u transformation has already begun. Over the last development. Forty participants from 23 Ltd,P K Mohapatra, Past World Green Building Day: The World Green three years, the participating companies have companies are currently undergoing the one year Chairman, CII (SR) , Dr. Farooq Abdullah, reported 81 success stories in the following areas: programme in Pune. Union Minister for New Growth of Green Buildings u New Product Development including a new The year also saw the launch of the Visionary & Renewable Energy, Ramesh Kymal, Criteria 2001 Till Date product for the Bottom of the Pyramid CEOs programme, with faculty including Chairman, Renewable Energy Council, CII CEOs & senior 50 5,500 (Chotu Kool) Mr. Ushikubo, Chairman, Sanden Corp, Japan, and Godrej GBC, and u New Businesses (one single company got new Prof. Shoji Shiba. Dr. V Krishnamurthy, Chairman, Gauri Singh, Jt Secretary, people involved New & Renewable Energy business of Rs.120 million per annum) National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council No. of professionals 10 7,000 trained on Green u New Business Processes leading to reduction (NMCC), Mr V Govindarajan, Member Secretary, Busi Sam Bob, Principal Secretary, Industries & Building concepts in manufacturing costs (one company saved NMCC, and Mr B Prasada Rao, Chairman, BHEL, Commerce, AP, Pradeep Dhobale, No. of registered over Rs 6 crores in 6 months) also participated in the launch. RENEWABLE ENERGY Chairman, Energy Green Buildings 1 531* u Personal Transformation In 2009-10, after the Joint Terminal Evaluation Efficiency Council, CII–Godrej GBC & Built-in Area (million sq.ft) 0 365* u New Business Development of the programme conducted by the Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Divisional Chief Green Building 5 90 These success stories have been documented Governments of Japan and India, all Executive, ITC–PSPD & Renewable Energy, released a case study booklet K S Kasi Viswanathan, products & equipment in a series of four publications. stakeholders agreed that the programme had Chairman Papertech capturing the technical and financial aspects of IGBC Membership 0 748* VLFM has also developed intellectual successfully achieved many of the objectives it 2009&DyMD, about 20 renewable energy projects implemented Seshasayee Paper and (Founding Members) (75) property through a set of seven textbooks, had set out to achieve. The Evaluation Team Boards Ltd, at Papertech in India, duringGreen Power 2009 held in Chennai in Hyderabad IGBC Local Chapters 0 9 manuals and monologues based on the recommended an extension of support by two in June 2009. The conference examined how to IGBC AP 0 75

Par Excellence sessions conducted by Japanese experts. years to make the programme sustainable. attain energy security through renewable energy. Par Excellence *As on March 2010 90 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 91 Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, with Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, Tarun Das, then Chief Mentor, CII, andKiran Pasricha , Deputy Director General, CII, at the ITC Green Centre, Gurgaon

K Rosaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, at the Green Building Congress Members of the in Hyderabad companies which made their u 5th Green Cementech 2009 with the theme, in December 2009 in Hyderabad. presentations at the Building Council, of which CII-IGBC is a MISSION ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Business Plan ‘Make Indian Cement Plants World Class in u GLOWS Project: CII, with the support of Competition during founding member, celebrated ‘World the Investor Forum Green’ was held in May 2009 in Hyderabad. A GLOWS (Global Water for Sustainability), has Green Building Day’ in September 2009. u CEOs Meets: As part of the 'Mission on in Mumbai ‘Manual on Waste Heat Recovery in Indian developed a training programme to build To mark the occasion, CII-IGBC local Sustainable Growth' initiative, CEOs Meets Dr Ajay Mathur, Cement Industry’ and a ‘Cement Formulae more capacity and facilitate more projects in chapters organised meetings and were held in 17 cities across India till March Director General, Hand Book’ were released at the event. industry. The training programme was BEE, at the Energy awareness programmes. 2010, where 419 industrial units expressed Management Awards u The 3rd edition ofPapertech 2009 held in July conducted at Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Kolkata in Chennai u Hillary Clinton visits ITC Green Centre: In July their commitment to the CII Code. Over 60 2009 in Hyderabad, had the theme ‘Make Indian and Coimbatore. 2009, Ms. Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of organisations have already taken up projects Pulp & Paper Industry World Class.’ A manual State, visited the ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon, under the code, like improving energy on ‘National and International Best Practices in ENVIRONMENT one of the early LEED (Leadership in Energy efficiency and water efficiency, increasing the the Pulp & Paper Industry’ was released. and Environmental Design) Platinum-rated share of renewable energy, GHG emission u National Award for Excellence in Energy The CII–Godrej Green Business Centre, in green buildings in India. reduction, etc, resulting in a reduction of about Management 2009: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director partnership with the IVL Swedish u Green Building Congress 2009: The 7th 348,000 tons of CO2 annually General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Environmental Research Institute, is currently edition of the Green Building Congress in u A Green Business Summit with the theme presented the 10th Annual National Awards working on Capacity Building on Cleaner September 2009 in Hyderabad, had the theme ‘Pursuing Growth–Preserving Ecology’ was for Excellence in Energy Management, in Production in the Hyderabad Region. The ‘Affordable Green Buildings’. held in October 2009 in Mumbai. November 2009 in Chennai. project, funded by SIDA (Swedish International

u The Green Technology Centre housed in the Growth of Signatories u The 2nd US–India Energy Efficiency Development Agency), addresses cleaner

CII GBC is a unique platform to showcase 450 419 Technology Cooperation Conference was held production as a tool for efficient industrial green products and technologies. At present, 400 368 in November 2009 in New Delhi, with a focus emissions and effluent treatment. 350 327 32 exhibitors are displaying their products. 300 on ‘Smart Grid, Buildings & Industries’. 250 218 TOTAL COST MANAGEMENT (TCM) 200 164 145 NEW VENTURES INDIA 150 WATER 100 No. of signatories 34 u TCM Maturity Model: The TCM model has 50 17 New Ventures India facilitates investments in 0 u Water Audits: Till date, 40 water audits have been designed to evaluate the cost

green companies. Feb-08 Apr-08 Jun-08 Aug-08 Oct-08 Dec-08 Feb-09 Apr-09 Jun-09 Aug-09 Oct-09 Mar-10 been conducted resulting in water savings of management systems and initiatives of any u Investor Forum 2009: The 4th edition of 9 million cubic metres. organisational unit which can be among the the Forum, held in October 2009 in ENERGY MANAGEMENT u Rajasthan Community Business Alliance on five designated levels in the model. The Mumbai, focused on ‘Green Water: Two projects have been Division successfully executed 9 projects. Entrepreneurship–Opportunities and u Energy Audits: As on date, the energy team commissioned: Desalination plant by Jal The 9 rated companies received awards. Challenges.’ The event had a business plan has conducted over 1050 detailed energy Bhagirathi Foundation and Water harvesting u The 8th edition of the flagship Cost Congress competition where 10 promising green audits resulting in annual recurring savings of structure by Sewa Mandir. 2009 was held in December 2009 in Chennai, companies pitched their business over Rs. 2000 million (4.0 million tons CO2/yr) u The 6th edition of the National Award for with the theme of ‘Achieving World Class

Par Excellence proposals before investors. covering key sectors Excellence in Water Management was held excellence through TCM.’ Par Excellence

92 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 93 Dr. C. K. Prahalad, University of CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Michigan Ross School of Business Management, S. Ramadorai, Vice Chairman, TCS; Leadership H.M.Nerurkar, MD, Tata Steel; Sanjay Budhia, MD, Patton International The CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership in Ltd., J. N. Godrej, Past President, CII & Kolkata has a focus on leadership and human resource CMD, Godrej & development. It provides expertise and support services to Boyce Man. Co. Ltd and Shekhar Datta industry, government, entrepreneurs, NGOs, educational Past President, CII, & Director, BHEL institutions, students, teachers and trade union leaders in order to at the National u Prof Soumitra Dutta, INSEAD, France Conference on develop their competitive ability and promote inclusive economic Leadership in Kolkata u Prof Sugato Bose, Harvard University, USA and industrial growth. u Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission u Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission u S Ramadorai, Vice Chairman, TCS u At the National H M Nerurkar, Managing Director, Tata Steel Seminar on the Conference on Construction Sector u J N Godrej, Past President, CII, and Chairman Leadership in Kolkata in Kolkata: and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce P. Chidambaram, Manufacturing Co. Ltd Union Minister for Home Affairs (for u Dr Jamshed J Irani, Past President, CII, and left) Director, Tata Sons Ltd Harshavardhan u Suresh Neotia, Patron, CII–Suresh Neotia Neotia, Chairman, CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership Centre of Excellence u Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, for Leadership, Lord S. K. Bhattacharyya, CII–Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence Warwick for Leadership Manufacturing Group, University of u Tarun Das, President, Aspen Institute India Warwick, and Workshop on Tarun Das, Emotional THE CII-SURESH NEOTIA CENTRE of Excellence NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON President, Aspen Intelligence CONSULTANCY AND TRAINING Institute India for Leadership, a 35,000 sq. ft. facility on 2.43 acres LEADERSHIP in Kolkata of land in Salt Lake, Kolkata, is the seventh and The Centre has initiated a drive for newest Centre of Excellence set up by CII. wThe The National Conference on Leadership, held at competitiveness in the manufacturing and Centre became operational in August 2009. In the Centre in December 2009, highlighted the services sectors through efficiency building, just a few months, it has conducted a wide leadership challenges for the Indian corporate skills development, introduction of new range of programmes for industry, in key areas sector and suggested strategies for India to managerial concepts and upgradation of such as ensure a leadership position in the 21st century. technology. its support services to industry aim u Cost and Operational Risk Management The two-day Conference was addressed by to develop competitive ability and promote u Leadership in the Construction Sector Mr P Chidambaram, Home Minister of India, and business process efficiency and change u Trade Union Leadership a host of eminent national and international management through training/retraining and u Team Building and Motivation thought leaders, including consultancy. Two in-company assignments were The CII-Suresh u Competitive Marketing Strategy: Retaining u Dr C K Prahalad, USA Neotia Centre of undertaken for Balmer Lawrie Ltd in November Market share in Declining Markets u Lord S K Bhattacharyya, Warwick Manufacturing Excellence for and December 2009 at Chennai and Kolkata, Leadership, in

u Business Process Efficiency Group, University of Warwick, UK Kolkata respectively, on leadership development. Par Excellence

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A key concern for policy makers and industry is to include Indians from all strata of society in the country’s impressive growth story. To achieve equitable, inclusive growth, CII promotes public-private partnerships by channeling significant financial resources and best in class technical expertise for social development. The CII Development Initiatives synergize the development programmes undertaken by the government and industry at the state, national and international levels.

OUR DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED conferences, seminars, interactive sessions, one-to-one meetings, and field visits aim to encourage policy AFFIRMATIVE ACTION makers, industry heads, thought leaders, media and others to adopt a unified approach towards social Responding to Prime Minister transformation, with focus on nine critical areas: Dr. Manmohan Singh’s call to CII to pro-actively u Affirmative Action adopt Affirmative Action, CII’s concrete steps on u CSR & Community Development Affirmative Action set out clear areas for u Disaster Management intervention by Indian Industry with focus on the u Industry-NGO Partnership 4EsofEntrepreneurship Development, u Public Health Employability Creation, Education and u Rural Development Employment. As more and more initiatives bear BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY u Skills Development fruit, Affirmative Action is becoming a key Valedictory ceremony of u Special Abilities business strategy, empowering the backward Entrepreneurship u Development Project Womens Empowerment regions and communities of India. u Affirmative Action in Lucknow u CSR & Community Development Entrepreneurship Development u CII and its member companies partnered the u Disaster Management & Relief Entrepreneurship Development Institute, u Industry –NGO Partnerships Ahmedabad, to train 270 SC/ST youth in the u Public Health fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Already, 90 u Rural Development of them have become entrepreneurs. u Special Ability u 2,709 candidates have been successfully placed in the process of becoming u Special Projects entrepreneurs and around 200 candidates u Women's Empowerment have already established their own enterprises, creating employment for

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ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 99 Employability Creation u Many member companies have sponsored/ created customised training modules in trades that are in demand in the job market, as also in

soft skills like English and IT, in association with Md. Haleem Khan, the country’s top trainers, like Dr. Reddy’s LABS Director General, CAPART; and the CAP Foundation. DrCPJoshi, u 32,922 SC/ST candidates have benefited from Union Minister for Rural Development training programmes in soft skills, vocational & Panchayati Raj; Sunil Kant Munjal, training and skills development, etc. organised Past President, CII, by CII member companies in partnership with and Chairman, Hero Corporate Service educational institutions, NGOs and technical Ltd. and colleges, across the country. Chandrajit Banerjee, SC/ST candidates at Director General, Education the felicitation CII at the CSR-CSO u ceremony held at Delhi Bridge 158 scholarships of approximately Rs. 6,000 a University month are being granted by CII member companies to bright but poor SC/ST students an actionable business agenda for sustained together thought leaders from the for studying at top-ranking professional inclusiveness. The key focus areas are: Government, Industry and voluntary sectors (engineering and medical) institutions. Women Empowerment to identify strategies, policy interventions and u 1804 scholarships have been provided by CII CII has institutionalized an annual Woman other mechanisms for strengthening such and its member companies for students in Exemplar Award for economically-challenged connectivities. The event saw the launch of

various institutes of excellence in different Omar Abdullah, women who have excelled in different fields of the CAPART website ‘CSO–CSR Rendezvous’ parts of the country. Chief Minister of work, thereby making a significant contribution to and the release of an authoritative in-depth Jammu & Kashmir, presenting the the development process at the grassroots level. report documenting evaluated projects of Employment Woman Exemplar The award is given to three women workers NGOs from every part of the country. The Award to u 650 CII member companies have signed a P. Madhavi in each year, in the categories of Education and Bridge also included a ‘Joy Bazaar’ New Delhi Code of Conduct committing to no Literacy, Health, and Micro-Finance. showcasing the projects of NGOs to potential discrimination in their employment policies. The 2009 Woman Exemplar Awards, corporate partners. Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Many have gone a step ahead to put in place a sponsored by HSBC, were presented to to work together for the upliftment of SC and system of positive discrimination in favour of Ms. P Madhavi (Andhra Pradesh) for Education, DISASTER MANAGEMENT STs at the national and regional level. candidates from the Scheduled Castes and Ms. Manorama Ben Jaisawal (Gujarat) for Health u Working to reflect greater representation Scheduled Tribes. and Ms. Minakshi Swain (Orissa) for Micro The workshop on ‘Technologies and of SC/ST candidates in new recruitment at u 150 member companies have provided Finance, by Mr Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Equipment Needs for Provision of Drinking all levels. employee data, and 55 companies have agreed Jammu & Kashmir at the CII Annual General Water During Disasters’ in September 2009 u Strengthening corporate HR systems for to disclose progress in their annual reports. Meeting in March 2009 in New Delhi. was held to catalyse Industry’s active enhancing access and opportunity to u CII is conducting regular awareness involvement in providing equipment and applicants from the SC/ST communities. programmes across the country for Industry-NGO Partnership technologies for provision of safe drinking u Setting up mechanisms to track composition greater sensitivity on the issue of CII, in partnership with CAPART and Give water during disasters. Mr JK Sinha, Member, of the workforce vis-a-vis those employed. inclusion. A large target audience for India, organised the 'CSR-CSO Bridge2009– National Disaster Management Authority, these programmes is the HR community, Moving the Growth Story Forward through elaborated on the challenges, equipment and CSR & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT which has responded positively. Inclusive Partnerships' in October 2009 in logistical needs that arise typically during a In addition to the 4Es, CII also pursued the New Delhi. The event was held to strengthen disaster. Industry players shared innovative The CII National Committee on CSR and following objectives over the year: the existing links between Industry and solutions ranging from collapsible water tanks Community Development works to create a u Connecting with nodal organisations/bodies of voluntary organisations for sustained to purification techniques that can function national movement for mainstreaming CSR into PRO-ACTION SC/ST communities like the National inclusive growth. The conference brought effectively without electricity. PRO-ACTION

100 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 101 Corporate Sector in Disease Prevention and Patalganga, Maharashtra (Reliance Industries Management–South and West Asia.’ Ltd.) and Pimpri, Maharashtra, (Bajaj Auto Ltd.).

Chandrajit Banerjee; Dinesh Trivedi, India Business Trust for HIV/AIDS (IBT) Round Tables on Experience Sharing Union Minister of State for Health & CII began its HIV/ AIDS prevention and care CII in partnership with the Global Fund, Family Welfare; programme in 1996 and initiated workplace organised two roundtables on experience sharing Suresh Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja intervention programmes for member companies on HIV, TB and Malaria interventions to advocate Foundation and shortly thereafter. The focus of the work was increased participation of the stakeholders and Tarun Das, Managing Trustee, advocacy for prevention and rehabilitation. The especially the private sector in Global Fund-led Indian Business Trust for HIV/AIDS, at the India Business Trust for HIV/AIDS (IBT) – programmes at Kolkata and Hyderabad in conference on established in 2000 and headed by September 2009. ‘Dealing with HIV/AIDS Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group – engages in New Delhi the business community to accelerate their A CII-IBT conference on ‘Dealing with HIV/AIDS: response, provides advisory services and Business Response to Prevention, Care, Support PUBLIC HEALTH in supporting good health and select global best undertakes and supports projects implemented and Treatment’ under the aegis of Project practices that may be applicable and replicable in by companies and NGOs. ‘Access to Care and Treatment – Global Fund CII’s initiatives in Public Health explore the nine countries of the region. Round 4’ in December 2009 in New Delhi innovative and effective mechanisms for An on-going study of the Socio-economic Global Fund Project Round 4: ’Access to Care & highlighted industry contribution to care and programmes and projects with the Government, Impact of Diseases in the SWA Region, again Treatment’ treatment for HIV in India, ie. the Corporate ART Industry and NGOs in the key focus areas of conducted jointly with DFI, is reviewing the CII, under this project, is facilitating the setting Centres. Mr Dinesh Trivedi, Union Minister of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Reproductive literature on socio-economic assessments on up of Corporate Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) State for Health & Family Welfare, inaugurated Child Health, Non-communicable Diseases the impact of primarily three diseases – Centres in the six high prevalence states, in a the conference, which was also addressed by such as Diabetes, and Healthy Workplaces. Our HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria – as well as other unique model of Public Private Partnership. The Mr. Suresh Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Foundation, objective is to engage the corporate sector to major diseases, in the region. Subsequently, 7th such Centre became operational with the and Mr. Tarun Das, Managing Trustee, IBT. sharpen the business response to issues a paper will be released summarizing the key support of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. in August 2009 A Conference on ‘Challenges in HIV/AIDS: concerning Public Health. findings, and highlighting notable and in Mumbai, providing quality testing, counseling Prevention, Care, Support & Treatment – The successful health interventions. and treatment services for HIV/AIDS. The six Case for Partnerships’ in March 2010 in New Friends of South & West Asia At a conference on ‘Challenges in Public earlier centres are at Wadi, Karnataka Delhi, focused on the enormous possibilities of A status paper on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Health in India & South & West Asia: The Case (supported by ACC Ltd,) Vellore, Tamil Nadu, expanding the coverage of Care, Support & Malaria in South & West Asia was published, for Developing an Action Agenda,’ organised by (ACC Ltd. and Christian Medical College, Vellore), Treatment of HIV/AIDS by leveraging presenting facts and figures on the status of CII and FOSWA in March 2010 in New Delhi, Ballarshah, Maharashtra (Avantha Group, earlier appropriate partnerships in the private sector these diseases in all 9 countries of the region MrBJPanda, MP, delivered the inaugural address Ballarpur Industries Ltd.), Mumbai, (Godrej), as well as civil society institutions. Dr. (Mrs.) (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and released the report on ’Best Practices by Tarun Das, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Maldives), with Chairman, FOSWA, Prof RR Chaudhury, steps taken by the respective governments to Head, Apollo eradicate them. The paper estimates that these Hospitals Education & Research three diseases are responsible for at least six Foundation, million deaths per year, and the number of Taufiqur Rahman, Regional Team victims is increasing exponentially. HIV/AIDS, Leader–South & West TB and malaria pandemics take their highest Asia, Global Fund; B J Panda, MP,India, toll in developing countries, causing up to 30 DrSJHabayeb, WHO Representative, times more damage than in wealthy nations. India and A study on ‘Best Practices by the Private Dr. Parvaiz Vazirian, CEO, 3M Health Sector in Disease Prevention & Management, Development undertaken jointly with Development Finance Institute, Iran at the The Larsen & Toubro Conference on Public

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102 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 103 Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Tata Motors. community-based organisations for taking the growth dividend forward. Vehicles for the Orthopedically Disabled u Again, in partnership with the IFC, CII hosted a The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation started the Roundtable with industry members and Motorized Vehicle Scheme for the Disabled in Foundation/NGO heads involved in the 1992, under which a motorized vehicle specially development sector in India with a focus on designed to suit the needs of people with Education of the Underprivileged, in November physical disability of the lower limbs is awarded 2009 in New Delhi. In an enriching exchange of to select individuals across the country. Six CII experiences and ideas, the participants member organizations donated such vehicles demonstrated their commitment to educating through the distribution programme this year. young India through innovative projects and Tarun Das; extensive reach across the country. A R Nanda, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, Member, Planning UP‘ at Noida and Lucknow in February Executive Director,PFI; ROUNDTABLES Commission, inaugurated the conference. 2010, under this project. K Chandramouli, Director General, RURAL DEVELOPMENT NACO; CII, in collaboration with the International Finance Dr Syeda S Hameed, Reproductive Child Health (RCH) Tuberculosis: CII–WHO Study Member, Planning Corporation (IFC), organised a Round Table on CII’s Rural Development Initiatives aim to u CII–Population Council Project. The findings of our operational research survey Commission and ‘Sustainable Development and the Role of Industry unlock the growth potential of rural India Taufiqur Rahman, u The project ’Shaping Demand and ’Workplace Self Assessment Tool for TB and Regional Team Foundations–Developing Partnerships to Reach through corporate sector participation. Practices to Improve Reproductive, TB/HIV Service Delivery‘ were fed into the Leader, South & the Underserved’ in November 2009 in New Delhi. u Taking forward the Indian Government's West Asia, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and country paper presented at the Global WHO TB Global Fund Facilitating a dialogue with foundations to advance Bharat Nirman rural development agenda, CII at the Conference Nutrition Outcomes in Northern India’ is meeting on ’Business Engagement in TB and on HIV/AIDS innovations for sustainable development, with a organized a Seminar on Enabling Rural supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates TB/HIV Care and Control‘ in October 2009 in in New Delhi clear aim of developing long-term partnerships for Development via Technology & Connectivity in Foundation to develop comprehensive Geneva. CII collated information on the efforts sharing knowledge and resources, the programme partnership with Intel Corporation, BSNL and behaviour changes through a and contributions by the business sector to TB highlighted potential areas of HCL, in October 2009 in New Delhi. The communication and management strategy and HIV associated TB care and control. A co-operation between the foundations, primary objective was to discuss how to improve reproductive, maternal, workplace self-assessment tool has been quasi-government and government bodies and transformative technologies such as neonatal and child health and nutrition designed for companies to evaluate their broadband internet and affordable computers Yvonne Thunnel, outcomes in UP and other northern states. responses to TB and HIV epidemics. Chairman, Mentor can accelerate growth and facilitate socio- CII, as one of the members of this consortium, Foundation and economic change by providing easily Vijay K Thadani, conducted a survey to assess the scope of CSR SPECIAL ABILITIES Chairman, accessible services to those who need them interventions in UP to promote healthy behaviors CII Education the most. Mr Sachin Pilot, Union Minister of Committee & CEO, such as breast feeding, institutional delivery, post Goodwill Day at Auto Expo 2010 NIIT Ltd. State for Communication and IT, was the at the Roundtable partum care for mother and newborn, complete This year, 5 January 2010 was earmarked as on Education Guest of Honour, while Mr Paul S Otellini, immunization, post-partum contraception and ‘Goodwill Day’ for the Physically Challenged at Bharat Wakhlu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intel hand-washing before eating meals. The three the Auto Expo 2010. CII organized the visit of Resident Director, Tata Corporation, gave the theme address. Services Ltd; Anil main deliverables assigned to CII were Review of about 120 physically challenged persons from Sinha, GM, literature, Mapping of industries and postal survey four institutes: the Akshar Paristhan School, S. Asia Advisory Services, IFC; followed by in-depth interviews. Of the 310 Indian Spinal Injuries, SOS Village and Vocational Rachel Kyte,VP, industries targeted, 68 responded to the postal Rehabilitation Centre for the Handicapped. Advisory Services, IFCand Atul Singh, survey. The survey findings were complemented by Several other physically challenged persons also Chairman, CII National Committee in-depth interviews of senior managers visited the Expo independently. on Rural Development responsible for CSR in 26 large industries in UP. The visit enabled the participants to interact & President, Coca Cola India&SWAsia u CII, in collaboration with Population Council, with the exhibitors and create awareness of their Business Unit organised two consultative meetings on needs among industry. They discussed issues at the Roundtable on Sustainable

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104 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 105 u The CII Task Force on Healthy and Educated Villages converges the CSR efforts of several leading corporates to create a scalable functioning model of developing Special Projects villages through corporate-corporate partnership, to minimize cost and maximize The Special Projects Division undertakes activities with social relevance and impact. Seven villages have been identified positive impact, aligned with the Inclusive Development agenda of CII. We work in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and in the area of water management, focusing on social aspects such as CSR & Rajasthan for pilot projects. Water, Rural Drinking Water Supply, Groundwater, Rainwater Harvesting, etc., u CII is the official partner to the Ministry of while promoting sustainable usage and conservation of water in general. Our Panchayati Raj in deploying its Rural Atul Singh; Sachin Pilot, Union Minister of State for Dungarpur Initiative showcases a model for development of a backward Business Hubs . RBH, a first-of-its-kind Communications & IT;Paul S Otellini, President & CEO, Intel district through Public–Private-Community-Partnership (PPCP). Public, Private, Panchayat Partnership Corporation andAjai Chowdhry, CEO, HCL Infosystems Ltd. model, synergistically links rural products, skills and produce with the marketing and professional skills of industry to establish direct business linkages between industry and the rural community, thereby creating a WATER MANAGEMENT win-win scenario. Around 16 RBH projects were approved during 2009. u Workshop on CSR & Sustainable Water u District Development derives from the Management: New Delhi, March 2009, State’s vision and is built on the commemorating World Water Day development agenda and themes from u National Seminar on Packaged Water Industry India@75. In 2009, CII commissioned IMaCS in India: Bangalore, June 2009 u to formulate the vision at the district level in N V Ramana, Agatha Sangma, National Seminar on Government – Industry the focus states – Maharashtra, Andhra Jharkhand and Rajasthan, in partnership Chairman, Indian Union Minister of Interface for Drinking Water Security: New Delhi, Society of State for Rural Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, with Tata Steel, Usha Martin and Lupin Agribusiness Development, November 2009, organized in partnership with the and Madhya Pradesh. The development Pharmaceuticals, through the Public- Professionals; addressing a seminar Dept of Drinking Water Supply, Union Ministry of Sangita Reddy, MD, on Drinking Water themes include Infrastructure and Private Partnership mode. It has Apollo Hospitals Security in New Delhi Rural Development. The recommendations Enterprise Ltd; and Urbanization, Health, Education and Skill successfully evolved as a model for Dr Sudhir Kapur, emerging from the seminar were presented to the Chairman, CII (NR) Development, Agricultural Revitalization, replication by UNDP and the MNRE. Farmers with Ministry of Rural Development Skills & Education wheat crop grown Government Services and Public Sub Committee & u Seminar on Increasing Water Efficiency in after drainage MD & CEO, Administration, Science and Technology, NEW INITIATIVES treatment in Oda Agriculture Sector: New Delhi, February 2010 Country Strategy village Environment, etc. Business Consultants u Papers/Reports on Corporate Sector Initiatives the Seminar on u u on Groundwater Recharging and on Sanitation CII is involved in a monitoring and evaluation CII has conceptualized the setting up of a Enabling Rural exercise of Ashram Schools: Scheme for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Centre for Development via were prepared Technology & Education of Tribal Children, a project providing Resettlement & Rehabilitation Connectivity in supported by the Union Ministry of Tribal Services to Industry, carrying forward the New Delhi. DUNGARPUR INITIATIVE Affairs and covering 17 states. development agenda of India@75. u The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood u A proposal has been prepared for providing The Dungarpur Initiative is basically an appeal to Project is being implemented by CII and advisory services to the Madhya Pradesh Corporates to take business to backward districts, monitored by a project management team Government for developing a marketing and to Governments to dovetail development from the Ministry of New and Renewable channel for bamboo products from Madhya programmes with business practices. The Initiative, Energy (MNRE) and the United Nations Pradesh, undertaking both backward and Canal being implemented in Private-Public partnership maintenance

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106 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 107 u Mass Replicable Initiatives u Non-Farm Employment Opportunities u Enabler Activities Corporate initiatives currently underway in Panorama Seminar on Dungarpur include: Packaged Water Industry in u Agri Extension Bangalore ‘Go as far as you can see, and when you get there u Improved rural livelihoods through increased rainwater conservation and use efficiency you will see farther.’ u Establishment of NRDMS (Natural Resource Data Management System) centre u IT training to school teachers u E-Chopal for providing market access to Community open well in agricultural produce Wug Annapura u Enabling rural economy through mobile Rainwater information kiosk (Gramin Vikas Rath) harvesting and groundwater u Agriculture risk-mitigating mechanism to recharge structure reduce the overall vulnerability of poor in Neemrana farmers in the District u Agricultural Development and Agri Business u Promotion of onion farming as a cash crop to improve rural livelihood of poor tribal farmers

RURAL WATER MANAGEMENT Deepened well aquifer for Our initiatives for rural water resource management improved access to water target different water typologies such as hard rock areas, groundwater regimes, drought prone areas, Well deepening in progress high rainfall areas, coastal regions, backward tribal areas, etc. to evolve methodologies for assessing Arid Tropics (ICRISAT ) for watershed based sustainability and capability building of local agricultural systems. In partnership with these communities for equitable and sustainable water organisations, we offer a comprehensive package management. Cropping choices and improved for land and water management in rural areas. irrigation and crop management are an integral part Some on-going projects include of these initiatives. Assessing energy gaps in the u Pondhe micro watershed model project near availability of public supply of water for agriculture Pune for Aquifer Management by the local and addressing these gaps through area level community management systems and renewable energy is a u Revival and rehabilitation of community lift major focus area. irrigation schemes in District Ganjam, Orissa CII has forged partnerships with organisations u Bhigwan project near Pune for management like the Gram Gourav Pratisthan for community of irrigation systems (canals) by farmers mobilization and institutions building, Advanced u Assessment of water resource sustainability in Centre for Water Resource Development and Neemrana, Rajasthan Management(ACWADAM ) for groundwater u Assessment of feasibility of groundwater hydrogeology and management models, and management by communities in the hard rock

PRO-ACTION International Crop Research Institute for Semi plateaus of Dhakale, in the Western Ghats

108 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 109 Panorama 111 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 In 2009, IBF-USA members met with the INDIA BUSINESS FORUMS The CII India Business Forums. launched in several countries, are a grouping of leading Indian companies with operations in that country, formed to share information on their activities; raise business issues and concerns; support the ongoing business activities of member companies; encourage bilateral trade and investment; and build ‘Brand India.’ Members of the Forums interact regularly with Indian government officials and business delegations visiting the country. USA: new Indian Ambassador to the US, Ms. Meera Shankar, and flagged issues ofimportance critical to Indian industry in the US. Members also interacted with Mr. Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce & Industry, India, during his visit to theIBF US. members Several participated in the CII Business Mission to Houston, Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC, held on the sidelines ofMinister Prime Dr. Manmohan Singh’s state visit toUS. the Members also attended a luncheon event hosted by the US India Business Councilhonour in of the Prime Minister. INDIA &THEWORLD Forum/Missions, in addition to 6 Regional Conclaves. environment conducive to the continued growth of industry in into India. CII organised 15 high level State Visits and 10 CEOs able to make substantive strides in creating and sustaining an India and over 175 delegations brought 2000 plus businessmen Despite a time of sharp slowdown, the International Division was India and abroad. In 2009, over 30 trade Missions travelled out of , with , then Beijing, as Sachin Pilot, in New York IT,India with Wang Jinzhen, Washington DC Vice Chairman, CCPIT,look on Director General, India's Ambassador to China, launching Communications & the CII IBF China in IBF USA members in members of the CII- Minister of State for Amb Ronen Sen Nirupama Rao Chandrajit Banerjee CII, & India Business Forum India & the World Indiascape REACHING OUT u u The annual CII-Exim Bank Conclave on India Africa Project Partnership continued to catalyse the India-Africa economic partnership. The 5th Conclave in 2009 drew 29 ministers from Africa, while delegations from 34 African countries

African Mission participated in the 6th edition in March 2010. Heads at the 5th The 11th CII Exim Bank Regional Conclave on CII-EXIM BANK Conclave on India India Africa Project Partnership 2009 in August Africa Project 2009 at Lagos was followed by a business Partnership 2009 in New Delhi Tarun Das, then delegation to Kenya. Chief Mentor, CII, Lee Kuan Yew, CII, in partnership with the High Commission South Africa: The India Business Forum in South Minister Mentor, of India and the India Brand Equity Fund Singapore; and Africa has grown to a membership of 42 Indian Ratan N Tata, organized the 2nd Conference on ‘Doing Chairman, Tata Sons companies. Taking advantage of the maiden visit at the Singapore Business with India’ in July 2009 in of Mr. Anand Sharma to South Africa in August Symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa. A 15 member New Delhi 2009, CII organized an interactive session for the delegation, led by Mr. Hari Bhartia, India Business Forum with him. Mari Elka Pangestu, Vice President, CII, participated in the Minister of Trade, Indonesia conference, which was attended by more than China: The CII India Business Forum China was Dato’ Mohd Najib 250 delegates from South Africa, DR Congo, launched in April 2009 by Mrs Nirupama Rao, the CII business Tun Abdul Razak, Tanzania and Uganda. Prime Minister of then Ambassador of India in Beijing. delegation with the President of Benin Malaysia Mr Wang Jinzhen, Vice Chairman, CCPIT, was ASIA CII Core Group also present at the inaugural session. In its very Sanjay Kirloskar, Chairman CII Africa CEOs with Singapore first year, the IBF enabled members to meet with Committee & CMD, Senior Minister Since the initiation of the Look East policy , Kirloskar Brothers Ltd; Goh Chok Tong Chinese companies interested in doing business Navdeep Suri, during their annual ASEAN has become the focal point of India's visit to Singapore with India, think tanks, universities and policy Consul General of outreach to Eastern Asia. The ASEAN-India FTA India to organisations. Interactions were held with Johannesburg; and has the potential to become an important Mr Anand Sharma, and Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, platform for economic relationships. Minister of Minister for Health and Family Welfare, apart Commerce & In 2009, several dignitaries and high level Industry, India; at the from senior government officials, CEOs and South Africa CEO’s delegations from the region visited India, business delegations visiting China. The ‘Why Forum in including the Prime Minister ofMalaysia with a Johannesburg J J Shrikhande, India’ Business Forums and the India-China Chairman, CII India 200 member strong trade delegation, and Business cooperation Seminar provided a Business Forum China, senior ministers fromIndonesia, Vietnam and Anand Sharma, and platform to showcase Brand India. and seminars on ‘Doing Business with India.’ The Chen Deming, Singapore. CII outbound delegations travelled first such event in Warrington in December was Commerce Minister, to Indonesia,Lao PDR , Malaysia, Singapore and China, in Beijing UK: The CII-IBF-UK was formally launched by followed by a networking reception in London. Vietnam. The ‘Singapore Symposium’ had Mr Anand Sharma, in June 2009 in London. linkages across the continent. Our efforts to keep Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Mentor Minister, Singapore, Mr Nalin Surie, the High Commissioner of India AFRICA the Africa agenda on the forefront of Indian as the Guest of Honour, and the 'Made in India” to UK is the Mentor of the CII-IBF-UK. Since its exporters saw the number of business visas show was held in Jakarta. A Handbook on inception, the Forum has had closed door 2009 was a year of several ‘firsts’ in Africa. CII issued for travel to Africa increase a few-folds. ‘Doing Business in Malaysia’ was released in meetings with Mr Anand Sharma, and mounted the first-ever business delegation to all An interactive session was held to reconstitute India and Malaysia. Mr Ajay Shankar, the then Secretary, DIPP, to the four key geographical hubs in Africa: Kenya theIndia-South Africa CEO Forum. The forum InEast Asia , building on our relationship with discuss issues concerning Indian industry in UK. (East);Angola, Benin & Liberia (West); comes under the aegis of the Ministry of China, CII organised several seminars and The Forum also hosted networking evenings for Zimbabwe(South); and Sudan and Egypt - the Commerce; CII will provide the secretariat for the workshops on ‘Doing Business with China’ and

Panorama business promotion as well as panel discussions North of Africa, to help increase economic Indian side. ‘Why India’ Business Forums both in India and in Panorama

112 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 113 China. We received several delegations from companies establishing overseas production bases different provinces of China and sent business for long term sustainable competitiveness. and sectoral missions to China. CII also formed Dr Paavo Vayrynen, Minister for Foreign Trade & the China Task Force to study the opportunities Development,Finland , and Mr Wolfgang Tiefensee, Hari S Bhartia, Vice and challenges of the two countries working President, CII, with Federal Minister of Transport, Building & Urban together, and initiated the Strategic Track 2 Dr Yukio Hatoyama, Affairs,Germany , visited India in February 2009. Prime Minister of dialogue with China this year. Japan, during the Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil visitedSpain and Our engagement withJapan was on both Asian Business Summit in Tokyo Poland in April 2009, accompanied by a strong strategic and business levels, with the highlight Indian industry delegation. being the Prime Minister of Japan's closed door A CII CEOs delegation led by Mr Venu Srinivasan, interaction with CEOs in Delhi and Mumbai in Speakers at the 10th India-EU Business President, CII, travelled toUK in June 2009 to December 2009. Sheikh Hasina, Summit in New Delhi promote ‘Brand India.’ Prime Minister of The US-Japan-India trilateral strategic Bangladesh Mr Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of dialogue was held in Tokyo in December 2009. Denmark, described opportunities for India in a Lee Myung-bak, We also organised several seminars andB2B President of the Green Economy to CII members during his India meetings with Japanese business delegations. Republic of Korea, visit in September 2009. in New Delhi India andSouth Korea signed the CEPA in CII joined the India Infrastructure delegations August 2009 opening up trade and investment of Mr Kamal Nath, Union Minister for Road between the two countries. The India-Korea Anand Sharma and Transport & Highways, toSwitzerland and Venu Srinivasan Business Forum and meetings with the in London London in August-September 2009 to present President of South Korea, took place in opportunities for investment in the Indian Roads Madhav Kumar Nepal, January 2010. Prime Minister and Highways sector. An India-Mongolia Business Forum and of Nepal A 13 member CEOs delegation, led by meeting with the President of Mongolia was held Mohamed Nasheed, Mr. N Kumar, Past President CII, accompanied President of Maldives Abdullah Gul, in September 2009. President of Turkey Mr. Anand Sharma toSweden in September to explore engagement in Healthcare. Mr Sharma Guenther H. Oettinger, South Asia has huge potential with its combined Minister-President, also had a closed door meeting with the CEOs of market of 1.5 billion people, one third of the Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Indian companies based in the UK. total population of the world, rich resources and Tim Groser, The 10th India-EU Business Summit, Minister of Trade, highly qualified workforce. Economically, the New Zealand Australia, both visited India. We had a session on organised by CII in association with the Ministry region has witnessed many positive WTO negotiations with Mr. Simon Crean, the of Commerce and Industry and Business Europe, Kevin Rudd, developments during the last two decades, such Prime Minister Trade Minister, and a Session on Education with in November was attended by more than 200 as implementation of SAFTA, a move towards of Australia Mr John Brumby, the Premier of Victoria. Indian and European businessmen, and leaders including FTA under services, SAARC Mr. Tim Groser,New Zealand Minister of such as Baroness Catherine Ashton, EU Development Fund, SAARC University, and duty CII business delegations visited Bhutan and Trade, Conservation, and Associate Minister for Commissioner for Trade, Mr Anand Sharma and concessions to LDC countries. Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal. We, in turn, Climate Change (International Negotiations), Dr. Ewa Björling, Minister of Trade, Sweden. Apart from promotion of trade and investment received business delegations from Bangladesh, New Zealand, met CII in February 2009 during his In November, coinciding with the in the region, CII has identified Agriculture, Skills Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka andPakistan and first visit to India. Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meet, Development, Energy, Environment, Education, IT, organised programmes in India to promote a CII delegation, led by Mr Rahul Bajaj, Past Healthcare and Tourism as areas of cooperation. Indian investment in the region. EUROPE President, CII, traveled toPort of Spain to This year, we had meetings with Sheikh Hasina, participate in the Commonwealth Business Prime Minister ofBangladesh , Mr Jigmi Y Thinley, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND The European Union now clearly sees India as an Forum, addressed by Mr S M Krishna, India's Prime Minister ofBhutan , Mr Mohamed Nasheed, international partner to be taken seriously, and a Minister for External Affairs. President ofMaldives , and Mr Madhav Kumar In 2009, Mr Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, and stabilizing factor in the region. The EU is also Mr Guenther H. Oettinger, Minister-President

Panorama Nepal, Prime Minister ofNepal . Ms Julia Gillard, Deputy Prime Minister of benefitting from Indian investments with Indian of Baden Wuerttemberg,Germany visited New Panorama

114 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 115 Panorama 117 ,R&D, ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 United States of America, In October 2009, Business to Business CII organised four high-powered CEOs All these delegations interacted with key The November mission, coinciding with the The first official visit of US Secretary of State, In the CII continued to Mr Gary Locke, Commerce Secretary ; Meetings were organized in New Delhi, forhigh the level delegation accompanying Ms Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, to India. strengthen ties with government, industry and think tanks, with a calendar full ofmeetings, missions, and interactions to widen the collaborative framework. The importance of a strong India-US relationship was emphasized at every interaction, and enhanced cooperation in energy, climate change, education, healthcare, agriculture and infrastructure was identified as the cornerstone of a strong bilateral relationship. missions to the USA over the2009, year in in June March 2009, in NovemberMarch 2009 2010, and to in focus on globalthrough economic international revival cooperation and collaborative initiatives. members of the US Administration as wellmembers as of US industry through their institutional partners. CII organised meetings with Ms Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State; Mr Timothy Geither, Treasury Secretary, Amb Ronald Kirk, US Trade Representative, and Mr Lawrence Summers, Director, National Economic Council, White House, as well as several Members of Congress, to name a few. State visit of Prime Minister Manmohan SinghUSA, to saw eight MoUs signed across sectorsas such Pharma and Drug Development, Healthcare, Telecom and ICT, Nano-electronics Leadership Training and Homeland Security. Hillary Rodham Clinton to India in June 2009 and industry leaders participated in the ConclaveBuenos in Aires. NORTH AMERICA ,in Business Seminars and In July 2009, CII, in collaboration with the Indian Buyer-Seller Meets in Latin America 10th Trade and Investment Convention in Trinidad in June 2009. A CII delegationPort visited of Spain for the Conclave. Embassy and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, organised Montevideo (Uruguay), Cordoba and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Mr Daniel Martinez, Minister of Industry, Energy and Minerals, Uruguay, addressed the business seminar in Montevideo, while Dr Gerardo Zamora, Governor, Santiago de Estero, joined the seminar in Cordoba. The Indian Ambassador to Argentina as well as theAmbassador Argentine to India, senior government officials , , US with India in New Delhi New Delhi Bill Gates Jeffrey Immelt Tarun Das, Washington DC Mukesh Ambani women MPs from Secretary of State, Venu Srinivasan in Chairman & CEO, Hillary Clinton, Chairman, Reliance with and General Electric, and ideas on Leadership in Industries, exchanging , , , , High , Secretary Harpal Singh , President of Richard Stagg Rt Hon. Lord Peter Mandelson Commissioner, UK, of State for Business, Innovation & Skills, UK, and Mentor & Chairman Emeritus, Fortis Healthcare Ltd at a Session in New Delhi Phiroz Adi Vandrevala Executive Director & Head, Global Corporate Affairs, TCS, greeting Cristina Fernández de Kirchner The Argentine Republic in Mumbai Michelle Bachelet President of Chile in New Delhi Patricia F Rodríguez Ambassador of El Salvador in New Delhi to coincide with the Our engagements during the year included During the official visit to India of Ms Michelle The High Commission of India in Trinidad and India-Caribbean Conclave agreements with the MERCOSUR group and Chile are expected to have a ripple effecteconomic in ties developing with the other LAC countries. business delegations, workshops, and CII-LAC regional conclaves in Argentina, Uruguay and Trinidad & Tobago. Numerous business meetings were organised for visiting delegations from LAC countries working through a network of MoU partners and the Indian Missions in the LAC region. Bachelet, President of Chile, in March 2009,organised CII an exclusive business session in Chennai and a special Crafts Exhibition. Tobago in collaboration with India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, organized the first ever , United Arab Turkey Iran UK Egypt Iran , , and , for the first time in Mumbai, Hyderabad CII hosted Dr. Hassan Younis, Minister of In February 2010, Mr E Abdullah Gul, CII organised an interaction with Rt. Hon. Lord The Europe Desk conducted studies on There was substantial participation from the CII organized roadshows on ‘Why UAE?’ in

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Emirates Saudi Arabia UAE Sultanate of Oman Yemen and Bangalore. Ms Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister for Foreign Trade, UAE, led amember 37 delegation to these cities. Electricity & Energy,Nahavandian, President of the Iran Chamber of Commerce ; and Mr Mines, Mohammad and a Buyer-Seller delegation from . President of Turkey, met CII CEOs in Mumbai. Over the last decade, the Latin AmericaCaribbean and (LAC) region has become an attractive destination for potential investors and multinational corporations. Preferential trade and investment Delhi with a 120 member business delegationNovember in 2009. Prof. Dr. Horst Kohler, President of Germany, also visited India. Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, First Secretary and Lord President of the Council, , in December 2009. bilateral relations between India and UK, Spain, Poland and Sweden. GULF and MENA In 2009, CII business delegations toparticipated in various fora like the India-Oman Business Forum in Muscat; the India &Partners Sharjah: in Progress , seminar, and the India-Saudi Arabia Joint Commission meeting, the latter during the visit of Mr Pranab Mukherjee,Minister Union for Finance, to name a few. Gulf Region for the CII Partnership Summitwith 2010, delegations from Oman and the UAE,teams and from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Syria. partnership with the Embassy of the LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

116 Panorama Panorama 119 West as well as Direct Tax , ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 thrust was on was unveiled. We were commissioned in all Capital Markets Pre-Budget Memoranda Banking Colloquium ‘Payment Business: An Adversity to Opportunity were held in all the states of the Region. region’s inherent strengths. GST Rehabilitation and Resettlement Events like the touched Partnering with the state governments, we A Study on Enterprise-Wise View’ Bengal Industrial Incentive Scheme evolved Public-Private Partnerships for infrastructural development and facilitated state level dialogue on agriculture, energy, IT, tourism, downstream opportunities in steel, MSMEs, besides many others. the Eastern States. Industry views and feedbacks onconsideration, and were collated and forwardedsubmitted for to the respective State Governments. Awareness sessions on the proposed upon the latest issues in the bankingwhile industry, our Conclave ontogether policy-makers were and leading players. Forums onorganised in West Bengal and Odisha. Aon session brought were was held. THIS YEAR, OUR MAJOR developing State Agendas that would percolate down to the major districts of theDistrict states Development as Plans. ECONOMY State Finance Studies submitted a recommendation paper on the our Recommendations on the draft Comprehensive Development Plan of Odisha. Code indiascape:East In 2009-10, CII Eastern Region took up the theme ‘Eastern of building Eastern India by year 2022, while showcasing the @ India 75: The Emerging Agenda,’ within the overarching agenda ; , , , , , , Secretary, Chhattisgarh Chairman, CII Eastern Region; Mukul Somany Mukul Somany Meet in Kolkata Unveiling of the Venu Srinivasan Director General, Dr. Raman Singh Chief Minister of Union Minister of President, CII; and CII, at a Members’ Swine Flu Poster by Chadrajit Banerjee the seminar on Coal Subodh Kant Sahay & Beyond in Ranchi Food Processing; and Mines, Jharkhand, at N N Sinha , , and Deputy President, Minister of Jairam Ron Somers, USIBC, Ramesh, State for Environment & Forests and Kiran Pasricha, Director General, CII in Washington DC Venu Srinivasan, Anand Sharma Chandrajit Banerjee, releasing the CII report on ‘India US Economic Relations’ in New York CII CEOs in Washington DC Robert Zoellick President, The World Bank Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario, Canada Russia Kazakhstan Road Transport in September 2009, coinciding with the A CII business delegation travelled to CII organised a CEOs Mission to in Mr Kamal Nath, Minister for and Highways to Canada in Marchinvite 2010 Canadian to investment into India’s infrastructure sector. A CII business delegation visitedJune 2009 to explore business opportunities in the Central Asian Region. We also met Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan and the in Atameken Union Business Delegation from Kazakhstan, during their India visits. visit of the President of India. September, where Mr Anand Sharma, and Mr Prabhat Shukla, Ambassador of India toheld Russia a joint briefing session for the27-member visitors. delegation The participated in the 3rd India Russia Trade and Investment forum in Moscow. RUSSIA & CIS Tajikistan ited States Trade Canada, ‐ Another landmark of the year was the meeting In October 2009, Mr Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman CII had the honour of organising the first The Indian American Council (IAC) offers From a Clean Tech Mission from Ms Sandra Pupatello, Minister for Economic A CII Infrastructure Delegation accompanied

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 marked the beginning of a strong newpartnership, phase which of Secretary Clinton termed ‘US India 3.0’ or the third, upgradedIndia version relations. of US of Indian Ministers and young Parliamentarians with Mr Bill Gates in July 2009Mr in Gates New now Delhi. dedicates most of hisBill time and to Melinda the Gates Foundation, focusing on issues like healthcare and education. and CEO of General Electric, and Mr Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, came together to exchange ideas on leadership in a session moderated by Mr Tarun Das, former Chief Mentor, CII,New in Delhi. public session of Ambassador Timothy Roemer with members of Indian Industry in Octoberin 2009 New Delhi. Interactive sessions were alsowith held Amb. Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Admiral Mike Mullen, Mr Robert Zoellick, President, The World Bank, Amb. Ron Kirk, Un Representative, and Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary, US Department of Energy, among others. US-based Indians opportunities to contribute their expertise on a pro-bono basis with organisations in India, focusing on Health and HIV, Education, Entrepreneurship and Rural Development. In 2009, IAC continued to link members to opportunities in metropolitan cities as well as smaller towns. Ontario, led by Mr Dalton McGuinty,Ontario, Premier visited of India in December 2009,strengthen to India-Canada collaboration in green energy and clean technologies. Development & Trade, Ontario, accompanied the delegation of 26 leading Canadian organisations to New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

118 Panorama INFRASTRUCTURE To showcase theindustrial potential of the SS Razi, Governor of states, CII Eastern Region organised Enterprise The exposition‘Infraex’ in Odisha promoted Jharkhand, at a Fairs in Bhubaneswar, Raipur and Jamshedpur, Seminar on Public Private Partnership. The 1st edition of Anand Sharma, Environmental Issues and Destination Haldia in West Bengal. of Jharkhand Port Conclave initiated a process for synergistic Union Minister of We conducted roadshows in Kolkata, Varanasi, Commerce & Industry; collaboration between the ports on Eastern andRajive Kaul , Past Ranchi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Bhubaneswar to Naveen Patnaik, Infra East 2010 President, CII, at a Coast. was a fertile ground for CEOs’ Luncheon Chief Minister of promote the Food Processing sector in Bihar. cross-pollination of ideas for overall Session in Kolkata Orissa; launching the Promoting tourism and industry through Orissa Skill Gap infrastructure development in the region. Study in sport, the 2nd edition of the CII Eastern Region Bhubaneswar A report on Roadmap for Creating Successful Golf Cup in Bhubaneswar drew 60 golfers from J P Chowdhary, PPP Projects in the Eastern Region was unveiled. Past President, CII, & across the region. Around 20,000 people We are currently working on a Master Plan for Chairman, Titagarh participated in our Kolkata Marathon, while a Wagons Ltd; Roads in West Bengal. Mukul Somany, walkathon on World AIDS Day in Patna saw Sanjiv Goenka, Mukul Roy, Union Past President, CII; participation from over 1000 people. Minister of State HRH Prince Andrew, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE for Shipping and Duke of York, KG; Dibyendu Bose, andMukul Somany , Chairman, TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE GROWTH at a session on Infrastructure & Chhattisgarh hosted a conference on Imbibing UK–India Business Logistics Partnership in Kolkata Corporate Culture. In Kolkata, the CII Corporate Sub-committee, CII A series of Climate Change Business Forums Governance Breakfast Series was followed by a (ER) at the Logistics were held to foster strategies for low-carbon Colloquium in Kolkata Directors Colloquium. opportunities. HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York, systems including Ayurveda, Yoga and KG addressed a seminar on UK-India Business NEW INITIATIVES Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. Partnership: Low Carbon Economy. CII is working with SIDBI and the West Saugata Roy, Union A seminar,Coal Nex, in Bhubaneswar, SPECIAL EVENTS Minister of State for Bengal Pollution Control Board to promote Urban Development; discussed the barriers faced by the mineral Mukul Somany, and awareness on environmental hazards and CDM and metals sector. A study on the Prospect The 2nd edition of Biz Bridge, aB2Binternational Gajendra Haldea, in industrial townships of West Bengal with Advisor, Planning and Future of Renewable Energy in Jharkhand exhibition and conference on Manufacturing & Commission, at special focus on MSMEs. was released atCoal and Beyond in Ranchi. Engineering, had concurrent sessions on Infra East in Kolkata The conference on WaterCon: Unveiling Our conference onTechnology & Innovation in Infrastructure, Defence, Power & Energy, A Conference and Exposition on Womens’ Challenges in Bhubaneswar highlighted the need Jamshedpur connected leaders in Metal, International Linkages, Metals & Minerals, MSME Empowerment commemorated World for timely and proper water management. This Mining & Manufacturing. & Railways, as well as a US Pavilion. The event Womens’ Day. was followed by a session on Water Management TheRural Marketing Conclave saw the release saw the release of a roadmap on the Engineering A Study on Assessment of Automotive – Beyond the Fenceline. of a Knowledge Paper titled ‘Towards a Better & Manufacturing Industry of the Eastern Region. Industry in West Bengal was unveiled. The seminar on Environmental Issues of Connect with Rural India.’ In ourThought Leaders Lecture Series , Besides several interactive sessions on credit for Jharkhand, on World Environment Day, was graced KideX, an exhibition for Kids, made a debut in Prof. Shoji Shiba, Prof. John D Macomber, MSMEs, the MSMExpression seminar in Balasore, by Mr Syed Syetbi Razi, Governor of Jharkhand. the Eastern Region. Dr. Timothy M Stearns, and Mr. Owen Jenkins Odisha, provided a platform for MSMEs to network Awareness workshops on Green Buildings Two new task forces, one onDefence and the shared their thoughts on Breakthrough with large industries and strengthen their market were held across the region. other onInternal Security, were created. A Management, Sustainable Development in Urban linkages. A conference on Building Competencies conference on Industry–Defence Partnership Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship & Innovation for MSMEs was held during Biz Bridge 2009. PROMOTING THE EAST emphasized on Industry–Defence linkages. and Clean Development Mechanisms. Steel Conclave 2009 promoted the steel TheCII Good Health Series was initiated to The 8th edition of theBrand Conclave with sector in the region, while the Logistics The 4th edition ofHealthcare East saw the release spread health awareness and to provide regular Prof. John Philip Jones, international expert on Colloquium presented Eastern India as a of a Study on the Healthcare Sector in Eastern India. check-ups for the members. brand management, explored Brands as Logistics Hub. Likewise,ICT East 2009 in Kolkata, unveiled Arogya Fair 2010, organised in Bhubaneswar ‘Safeguards during Recession, Springboards A guide-book on Safety Principles was unveiled a Discussion Paper on ‘ICT: Current Status and

Panorama for the first time, showcased various treatment during Recovery.’ during a Symposium & Exposition on Safety. Way Forward.’ Panorama

120 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 121 Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, with a CII delegation indiascape: North East in Kolkata

A wide range of activities pertaining to economic and social development took place in the North East this year, with the focus on promoting market linkages, investment promotion, education and skills development, sectoral initiatives and capacity building. Prof. John Philip Jones, international expert Destination East, a tourism buyer–seller meet, on brand management at the Brand brought in 51 buyers from Malaysia, Thailand and Conclave in Kolkata Singapore and 52 sellers from all across India. M M Pallam Raju, Coinciding with this event, familiarization trips to Union Minister of State for Defence, tourist destinations of West Bengal, Odisha and addressing a Assam were organised. Conference on Industry-Defence Partnership MAKING GROWTH INCLUSIVE in Kolkata

Sandipan Chakravortty, As many as 160 companies adopted the Code of Co- Chairman, Biz Bridge Steering Conduct onAffirmative Action , and 7 companies Committee; L.K.Gupta,Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Tripura, Matlab Ahmed, President, agreed to disclose progress in their annual report. Dr Sabyasachi Sen, Indo Bangla Chamber of Commerce & Industries;Jitendra Chaudhury, Industries Minister, Principal Secretary, Tripura;Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura; Dipankar Chatterji, Chairman, CII North We launched an e-newsletter on Affirmative Action Commerce & Industry, East Council;Pabitra Kar, Chairman, TIDC and Anisul Haque, President, SAARC Chamber MARKET LINKAGES of Commerce & Industries, at the Tripura Industries & Commerce Fair to share best practices and inspire other members. West Bengal & Co- Chairman, Biz Bridge The second edition of theCSR Meet focused on Steering Committee; u Supported by the Union Ministry of Development of Mukul Somany, ‘Engaging Society, Enhancing Competitiveness.’ For Manabendra Mukherjee, the North Eastern Region (DoNER) and the Skills Development, CII Eastern Region is working Minister, Tourism, MSSE Government of Tripura, CII set up an Industry & Textiles, West Bengal with 41 ITIs to upgrade them into Centres of & Dr. Saugat Pavilion at the Tripura Industries & Commerce Fair Excellence. Short projects on vocational training Mukherjee, Regional Pradyut Bordoloi, in Agartala, in January 2010. The pavilion was Director, CII (ER), at Biz Minister of Power, programmes were taken up during the year. Around Bridge 2009 in Kolkata Public Enterprises, inaugurated by Mr. Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of 4000 candidates were assessed by CII under the Industries & Tripura. The exhibition focused on the Development Commerce, Assam, MES. The Confederation released a training manual releasing the Initiatives of CII, besides promoting member exhibitor catalogue at on soft skills for the trainers in association with the INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES Machinery Mart, as companies from within and outside the State. Bengal Engineering & Science University. Dipankar Chatterji u Machinery Mart 2010, a first of its kind initiative, looks on Sessions on Employment Opportunities for Twenty two delegations from across the globe designed to take advantage of Assam’s exciting the Visually Impaired were organised in visited the region this year. A 10 member business growth story, was organised by CII Jharkhand and West Bengal delegation from Odisha travelled to Shenzhen, with the support of the Assam Government and AHigher Education Meet facilitated Industry- China. Several B2B sessions were organised with DoNER, in March 2010 in Guwahati. The B2B Academy partnership. This was followed by a international dignitaries, ambassadors and Mart also had concurrent sectoral conferences. Session on Skill Development: Priorities in the consul generals. Globalised World with UKTI, wherein eight CII in the Eastern Region also provided EMPLOYMENT GENERATION foreign universities participated. Four Skill Gap guidance to members on issues related to

Studies, for Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal policies and procedures concerning exports, Pradyut Bordoloi A CII study on Mapping Human Resources in

Panorama and Jharkhand were unveiled this year. imports and customs. at Machinery Mart Assam has identified skill gaps in the existing Panorama

122 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 123 Panorama 125 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 four Agri Conclaves human ingenuity. North without barriers. , three reports were prepared, one on Further, as state-level advocacy for the Model the APMC Act and two on Rural Infrastructure. CII Northern Region launched the first everPledge Aqua along with a Water Manual andPractices Best Compendium at the Water Summit 2010. The Region has been allotted landfor in the Jaipur CII Water Institute, which would give a AGRICULTURE Crossing the ‘last mile,’ourincluding a mega event in Jodhpur, andfirst-ever the conclaves in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir, reached out to over 12,000 farmersterms in of knowledge, technology, credit, infrastructure and inputs to bridge the gap between agri , technology and its end user. WATER APMC Act indiascape:NORTH sustaining the recessionary period, received special attention. Focusing on removal of entry taxes and other barriers, better initiatives reflected CII Northern Region’s strategic vision of coupling Northern Region up-scaled efforts towards building an Integrated In sync with our theme for the year, ‘Building North for Tomorrow’, our to maximize strengths and leverage benefits and commonalities, CII healthcare, tourism, competitiveness and exploring new businesses while sustainable growth with a constant striving for operating excellence and threads across the fabric of our work this year. Agriculture, infrastructure, Skill development, water conservation and power efficiency were common infrastructure, regional planning perspective and combined strategies Chief Energy and Chandigarh exposition in in New Delhi Punjab at the Hooda, Sheila Dikshit, M.S. Gill, Bhupinder Singh Minister for Youth Renewable Energy Union Minister for Minister, Haryana, Dy. Chief Minister, A world – class city’ Affairs & Sports, at a conference on ‘Delhi: New and Renewable Dr Farooq Abdullah, Sukhbir Singh Badal, with Union Chief Minister, Delhi, Principal K K Mittal, Secretary, Labour & Employment, Assam, describing the government’s Skill Development initiatives Vu Quang Diem, Ambassador of Vietnam to India in August 2009 was held in City or Local Mr Sanjay Wadvani, with the Centre for WTO awareness/sensitization ‘WTO Agreements: A Capacity Enhancing Capacities of in October 2009 to explore collaborations delegation from Vietnam British Deputy High Commissioner, Eastern India, Natural Gas Distribution Networks – Authorisation. programme on IPR in MSMEs Construction Equipment for Up-scaling Infrastructure Development Building Initiative’ with the UK in higher education, skillsretail, training, food processing, tourism, climate change and eco projects. Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in October 2009 was supported by the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industries. India visited Guwahati in November 2009 to discuss tie-ups in sectors such as IT,gas, oil agriculture, and fisheries, food processing and health care. The Ambassador asked CIIorganise to an industry delegation to Vietnam. Tripura Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, organised a Round Table on CII conducted an to encourage MSMEs to integrate IP inbusiness their planning. Guwahati in October 2009. CII members of Assam met A workshop on AMr Vu Quang Diem, Ambassador of Vietnam to led by CII, with Indian Oil’s Guwahati Refinery and the In collaboration with the Ministry of MSMEs, A seminar on INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS u u u MSMEs u u u was held in owards the in Assam. Proposals for ‘HIV/AIDS: Business Response , in August 2009 in Guwahati, was Empowering Youth through Skill CII identified EDP trainees Roundtable on Skill Gap Analysis Development upgradation of ITIs two ITIs for women, as well asinstitute for in another the state have also beento presented the authorities. addressed, among others, by Mr. Toby Burton, Global Education Head, Cisco Systems. CII nominated three institutes t A session on A was held

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 March 2009 in Guwahati. SIDBI has developed a compendium of 100profiles project for micro enterprises in the region,would and consider financing entrepreneurs for the listed projects.developmental agencies in the region for anscreening. initial Twenty entrepreneurs appeared in the interviews, of which 17 were selected forscreening further by SIDBI. of A conference on The CII vision document for Assam identifies Agriculture, Healthcare, Environment, Education & Skill Development, Tourism and Infrastructure as sunrise sectors for the state. and emerging drivers of socio economic development, to formulate a roadmap toa ensure steady flow of workforce toreport industry. has The identified draft eight sectors: IT,Healthcare, Tourism, Agriculture & Food Processing, Construction & Light Manufacturing, Handloom & Textiles, Oil & Gas andEntertainment. Media Focus & workshops have been conducted to finalise the study. in November 2009 in Guwahati based oninitial the findings of the report. u u ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT HEALTH ASSAM @ 75 - VISION REPORT to Prevention Care and Treatment’

124 Panorama Vipin Sondhi, MD & stronger focus to water related work pan India, CEO, JCB India Ltd; SKILL DEVELOPMENT and specifically in the North. Pawan Kumar Bansal, Union Minister for The triple A strategy on Water: Access, Parliamentary Affairs Skills Development continued to be a focus area. Till & Water Resources; Awareness and Action, led us to organize and Harpal Singh, date, Northern Region member industries have sessions on industrial water management, water Chairman, CII(NR) adopted 117 ITIs. Our ITI Excellence Programme & Mentor & conservation and zero water discharge under Chairman Emeritus, 2009-10 identified 17 ITIs to be fast tracked to create Project Conserve. Fortis Healthcare Ltd, replicable success models. Under the Modular at Water 2010 in New Delhi Employable Skills Scheme, offering competency- ENVIRONMENT based, short duration modular programmes to the youth, 1,30,600 candidates have been Recognizing the challenge of climate change, Ashok Gehlot, assessed/certified since April 2009. In addition, the Chief Minister of making the state a carbon neutral economy was Rajasthan at the Chetna Career Counselling and Guidance Centre in the focus of discussions with the Governments Marwar Krishi Himachal Pradesh trained 2440 students in three Utsav 2009 of Himachal & Uttarakhand. Apart from in Jodhpur modules through 55 workshops, while in awareness sessions on climate change, CDM Uttarakhand, the SGSY Training Programme on and carbon credits across the region, a state Hospitality & Retail Management trained 52 SC, ST

level Green Conclave in Uttarakhand Dr CP Joshi, and BPL candidates, of whom 17 have been placed. deliberated on the issue of balancing Union Minister for We are also working towards opening Skill Centres Rural Development imperatives of industrial development and & Panchayati Raj, in Himachal Pradesh and Alwar, Rajasthan. Parkash Singh Badal, environmental conservation. with CII Members In Jammu & Kashmir, we worked towards the in Jaipur Chief Minister of Punjab, at the CII revival of the traditional Kashmiri art of Sozni and Chandigarh Fair POWER Crewel embroidery, along with tailoring sessions. Under the income generation scheme, 10 BPL CII Northern Region led in drafting a ‘Renewable u Income Tax issues inJ&K families have been identified and 10 sheep are Energy’ Policy for Jammu & Kashmir. The u TDS Certificate for Chandigarh being provided to each family towards meetings with the Punjab Government focused on u SEZ Policy – Punjab self-reliance. A computer lab has been set up at Unbundling of the Punjab State Electricity Board. Omar Abdullah, u City Development – Amritsar, Ludhiana, Mandi the Government Higher Secondary School in Chief Minister, Power tariff revisions in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Gobindhgarh Baramulla District. Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand were opposed. interacting with a CII Pre-budget memoranda were submitted for all delegation in Srinagar The region has been entrusted by the Bureau the states in the Region, and Quarterly Business INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT of Energy Efficiency (BEE) with the task of ENGAGING THE GOVERNMENT Outlook Surveys for the Region were undertaken championing its year-long energy conservation to present the industry perspective. As always, this year too,the Northern Region and efficiency campaign in all the NR States. Strong policy dialogue and partnerships with state Another initiative includes the facilitation of extended its hospitality to foreign dignitaries With a strong focus on renewable and alternative governments helped build a strong agenda for the talks between industry – labour – Government of and business delegations from various parts of sources of energy, we met almost all bureaucratic states. We worked closely to draft the industrial Haryana, to tackle the labour unrest that started the globe including UK, Israel, United States, heads of the sector in all states. The discussions policy for Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, and Rajasthan, in parts of the State in August 2009. Burkina Faso, Canada, Denmark, and Ireland, culminated in a Conference on Integrated Approach and took up infrastructure and taxation issues with On the GST front, we actively worked to among others. towards Sustainable Power Agenda in the North, considerable success. Some key initiatives included prepare for the GST regime. We submitted our The CII–Government of Punjab Business with the participation of Mr. Farooq Abdullah, Union u Facilitating skill development and food recommendations on the Direct Tax Code, Mission to Israel, Egypt and Dubai explored Minister for Renewable Energy, as well as processing projects in Himachal Pradesh, considering this an opportunity to proactively partnerships in affordable irrigation, water Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of submitted to the Union Minister of Commerce influence the investment climate in these management technologies, waste water Haryana, and Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy u Setting up a Steel Depot in Himachal Pradesh, states and introduce some of the best management and setting up of a modernized Chief Minister, Punjab. A Report on proposed to the Union Minister for Steel practices being adopted elsewhere. We are supply-chain infrastructure model for agro ‘Renewable Energy: The Next Wave’ was u IT-enabled Single Window System for industry actively engaged in ‘Making North the industrial development as well as development of

Panorama released at the conference. agreed to in Uttarakhand Preferred Destination.’ world class urban infrastructure in Punjab. Panorama

126 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 127 Panorama 129 ‘Baad ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 convention was a joint was observed in Chandigarh, was designed to energise Swine Flu Awareness strategies for corporates to mainstream into their business agenda Launch of toll free helpline on HIV/AIDS Towards Affirmative Action, CII Northern Other initiatives include A livelihood project for SC/ST youth imparting them vocational and marketable skills Computer Lab to enhance employability skills and help juvenile rehabilitation Establishing an Electrotherapy unit for differently-abled children in Chandigarh Celebrating the spirit of Chandigarh, the Wah! Chandigarh initiative of CII and UT Administration toout cull common themes and aspirations, build public opinion and involve citizens and youthdeveloping in the City Beautiful The CII-Yi voter empowerment campaign Mein Mat Bolna’ youngsters in Chandigarh to register and vote Ourover 1000 citizens through a series ofawareness five sessions in Chandigarh, and a webinar in Noida World Food Day Haryana, Jammu &Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and UP Campaign with reached special sessions and food donation programmes. Region held a first-of-its-kind ‘Consultation on Inclusive Economy: Perspectives, Programmes and Challenges’ in association with theConfederation National of Dalit Organisations, and reached out to over 150 SC/ST youth leaders. CII Northern Region opened an office inand Srinagar re-activated our presence in Shimla. The office in Jodhpur would be opened soon. Spreading our ambit of activities to newer locations, we saw a 7% growth in membership. u u u u MEMBERSHIP SERVICES SOME INNOVATIVE PROJECTS u u u u CSR Special project Nanhi Chhaan to promote the girl child and ecological conservation. Already 104 member companies have adopted the Code of Conduct on Nanhi Chhaan. CII Yi scholarship awarded to 30 underprivileged and meritorious girl students in various schools of Chandigarh The CSR Session in July 2009 presented CSR MSMEs MSMEs are the backbone of theRegion. Northern A conference on MSMEs examinedvarious the strategies being developed at the regulatory and policy level to increaseof the credit flow and financial services toenterprises. small A Conference on Maximizing Business Opportunities for SMEs, and Missions on Sustainable Growth that focused onempowerment the of MSMEs were organised. SOCIAL INITIATIVES Translatingaction, we not only ideas built and on discussions ourAIDS, into initiatives disability, in womens HIV/ empowerment and livelihood for youth, but also took up u u u in Gurgaon Chandigarh Members of Haryana State Industries, at a Shivraj V Patil, Chandigarh, in Ashok Tanwar, Annual Session Food Processing Parliament from Rohtak and Sirsa meeting in Jaipur respectively, at the Administrator UT, Union Minister for Deepender Hooda, and Subodh Kant Sahai, Governor, Punjab & Chief CII members with Virbhadra Singh, Union Minister of Steel, in New Delhi CII members with Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister, Uttarakhand, in Dehradun The Jaipur HR Conclave with the theme ‘Aligning HR to Corporate Strategy’ The HR Summit at Gurgaon looked fornext HR’s 5 year agenda HR related training sessions and HR Study Missions in all the nine states in the region The Quality Circle Competition, with state Human Resource Development to the fore. u u u COMPETITIVENESS In our CEO Series to help memberspersonal gain experiences from of the eminent CEOs, Mr Subodh Bhargava, Past President, CII, and Mr Tejpreet S Chopra, President and CEO,India, GE, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh, shared their experiences in different sessions. preliminaries in eight states and participation from quality circles from all the ninefocused states, on empowerment of MSMEs. We took our members to units in Ludhiana forMission a on Learning Manufacturing. Chandigarh Fair Coolex at two locations. Made in Pakistan Notable Sectoral Events this year included Edu Summit, underlining ‘Empowerment, Innovation & Collaboration' as critical to change the Indian Education System Conferences on Competitive Cities, Infrastructure Management, Realty and Transport Solutions for a World-class City Rural Markets Summit, Conferences on Technical Textiles, Organic Farming and Dairy Development Control & Automation Technologies, Lean Six Sigma Summit and Engineering Innovation in Manufacturing Conferences on Bio Medical Waste Management and Excellence in Patient-care. ‘Innovation – the only way to growtimes’ in was tough highlighted at the Conference on Strategic Management, with the focus on Real Estate, Agribusiness, Manufacturing and Financial Services Two conferences on IT & ITeS Sector We brought our neighbours closer, with the Visitors to our successful

ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Kitchen & Beyond Various HR-based programmes were organised to bring the ‘best’ and the ‘next’ practices on first-ever country specific show organized by CII,initiative to improve trade relations between India and Pakistan, while offering an opportunity for interaction among the people of both countries. . This fair was an The mix of business development activities over the year included trade fairs and sectoral conferences and expositions. 2009 included Mr Parkash Singh Badal, theMinister Chief of Punjab. We took our member companies straight to the consumers with sector specific shows like at three locations and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT u u u u u u u HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

128 Panorama With International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) becoming mandatory in India for financial statements for periods beginning on or indiascape:SOUTH after 1 April 2011, awareness sessions on IFRS were held in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi and Mysore. Continuing the India @ 75 initiative, CII in the Southern Region focused on Kamal Nath, INFRASTRUCTURE the three core elements – Economy, Infrastructure & Governance – with Minister for Road the aim of suggesting specific means of reviving industry and directing it Transport and Highways CII worked closely with the State Governments on to a trajectory of sustainable growth. inaugurating Excon 2009 in Bangalore in identifying big-ticket projects for implementation in the States. Suminfra 2009 was an excellent platform to understand infrastructure development projects and opportunities available in each of the Southern States. Infrastructure development sessions V S Achuthanandan, TO USHER REFORMS AND a conducive industrial Chief Minister, were held in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and environment in the region, CII had over 22 Kerala, with a CII Kerala. ThePower Conference in Chennai delegation in meetings with the Chief Ministers of the Thiruvananthapuram brought the Government and industry together Southern States. Power Sector Reforms in the to discuss ways of ensuring adequate power states; the Common Minimum Economic Agenda supply. Round tables on Power were also held for Andhra Pradesh; CII - Government of in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Karnataka initiatives on development of key Excon 2009, the 5-day International industry sectors such as aerospace, Construction Equipment and Construction manufacturing, energy and infrastructure; Technology Trade Fair in Bangalore generated Industry-Government Consultative Forum in B S Yeddyurappa, Speakers at Suminfra business enquiries worth Rs 10,000 crore; Chief Minister of in Chennai Kerala; and the setting up of the Tamil Nadu Karnataka, with a business deals worth Rs 2,000 crore were struck. Manufacturing Competitiveness Council were CII delegation in Estate South 2009 in Chennai analyzed Bangalore some of the milestones achieved during the year. FINANCE AND TAXATION market opportunities and challenges, while sessions onHousing for All in Chennai, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS The Government announced the Direct Tax Code Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, helped identify M K Karunanidhi, Chief Minister, and towards building a simple tax system with the changes needed in the regulatory and Vibrant Industrial Relations are important for M K Stalin, Deputy minimum exemptions and low rates, primarily fiscal framework. Chief Minister, of sustaining industrial growth. CII called on the Tamil Nadu, with designed to promote voluntary compliance by tax Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry CII members in payers. An Interactive Session with the Finance COMPETITIVENESS Chennai to discuss the labour scenario and industry Minister of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, was concerns. The Chief Ministers extended their organised in Bangalore to address members on the Building competitiveness remained a prime full support for maintaining a peaceful new tax code. Similar sessions were organized in focus. CII Southern Region organised more industrial atmosphere in their States. Hyderabad and Kochi, with Mr P V Bhide, Revenue than440 sessions and 34 missions on key Interactive sessions were organised with trade Secretary, India. CII also organised awareness enablers such as Total Quality Management, union leaders for understanding and identifying sessions on the Code in the Southern Region for Energy Management, Manufacturing solutions for issues relating to Industrial the benefit of members. Excellence, Supply Chain Management, Relations in the region. The report on ‘Business- Nine interactive sessions were held with Innovation and HR excellence. V Rosiah, Chief Labour Partnership – Working Together for Minister of Andhra senior government officials to help members A large number of programmes on TPM, 5S, Competitiveness’ highlighted the opportunities Pradesh, addressing understand the framework of the proposed Kaizen, Regional Quality Circles, Environment, CII members in

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130 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 131 companies in the region enhance their were assessed on Modular Employable Skills. manufacturing excellence. ITI Advisory Services hand-held the Institute The Cluster initiative benefited 129 MSMEs in Management Committees (IMCs) in capacity the southern region. 3 MSME clusters were building, revising and implementing the ‘Institute launched in Erode, Puducherry and Trichy with Development Plan’. a membership of around 35 companies who TheSkill Gap Study for Kerala identified the have recorded an annual recurring savings of skills training requirements of youth in the State CII NIPC 3rd Nigeria around Rs 60 crore. Investment Business and also mapped the human resource Market Linkage for Excellence & Progress Forum in Chennai requirement for key industry sectors.

(M-LEAP), exclusive vendor development Sachin Pilot, Union Around 281 rural youth were absorbed in programmes and buyer-seller meets with Minister of State for Vocational Education Training. As many as 132 Communication & IT, large PSUs helped MSMEs build business with the winners of companies in the Southern Region signed the the CII – ICICI linkages.FinExe 2009 , a first-of-its-kind Venture Connect 2009 Affirmative Action Code. initiative on Financial Excellence for MSMEs, Entrepreneurs Awards Project e-LAWN – neigbourhood sustainability in Chennai benefited more than 780 MSME members in initiatives developed sustainable neighborhoods nine FinExe sessions. B2B meetings were also focusing on energy, land, air, water and noise. Poster Release in organized for MSME members with UNIDO Madurai on World Besides advocacy through the Green Brigade business delegations from Belgium, Italy, Health Day movement, sessions on energy management, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Netherlands and Italy. water management, sustainable development, More than 1,100 MSME members participated Indian ICT Sector’. To acknowledge the excellent green buildings and green power were organized Mission Delegates at in16 Webinars , our online membership contribution of successful entrepreneurs in the field the World Trade all over the region. engagement platform, on topics such as Total of Information Technology, CII, in association with Centre in Sri Lanka participated in exclusive B2B meetings with CII met the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh Cost Management, Logistics Management, ICICI Venture, presented the 4th edition of the CII – international trade delegations. and Karnataka and provided support to people Energy Management, Statutory Compliances, ICICI Venture Connect 2009 Entrepreneurs Awards CII engaged with the heads of countries such affected by the floods in these states. In Andhra Taxation, Business Excellence, WTO/FTA and during this event. as Bermuda, Chile, Malaysia, Maldives and Pradesh, more than Rs 20 crore was contributed Emerging Markets. Namibia and other ministerial delegations to by our members to the Chief Minister’s Flood HEALTHCARE promote bilateral trade. Relief Fund, besides, immediate relief material. AGRICULTURE Outbound delegations such as our TheGlobal Ayurveda Summit in Kochi aimed to Education Mission to Singapore and Malaysia INTERNAL SECURITY TheAgri Conclave 2010 in Vijayawada spelt out create a global market place, integrate health enabled members to interact with the latest developments and practices adopted and tourism; and leverage IT for delivering academicians and policy makers overseas. A The Southern Region Task Force on Internal internationally. A Conference on Organic ayurveda services. Workshops on Emerging business promotion mission to Sri Lanka Security, the first initiative of CII in this area, Farming in Karur focussed on viable techniques Trends of IT in Healthcare; Competency explored investment opportunities in various forged closer coordination among government, for sustainable agriculture. A Round Table on Development for the Healthcare Providers and sectors, while the mission to Nepal focussed industry and community. Awareness Doing Agri Business in Chennai encouraged awareness programmes on lifestyle diseases on the construction sector. programmes on Internal Security were held in all private players to venture into agri business were also held in the states and zones. Focussed sessions on WTO/FTAs enabled the Southern States. The Task Force also Foodpro 2009, the biennial Food Processing & members to understand the impact of trade conducted Training of Trainers on Soft Skills, for Food Technology Fair in Chennai, generated more INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES negotiations on business. the Tamil Nadu Police. than Rs 280 crore worth of business enquiries. The Southern Region explored bilateral trade and DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES MEMBERSHIP ICT SECTOR investment in the IT, Pharmaceutical, Auto Components, Healthcare, Electronic Hardware Our Development Initiatives focused on skills, A steady growth in membership, saw our family Connect 2009, the 9th edition of India’s premier ICT and Agro & Food Processing segments. We education, environment sustainability, and swell to 2,152. A new Zonal Office in event, was held in partnership with the Government received over 40 trade delegations from around affirmative action. Over 55,000 youth and 35,000 Thiruvananthapuram was inaugurated, and the Erode

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132 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 133 Panorama 135 promot- MES Prime Minister’s ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 . J J Irani, Past GST Members of Parliament Service Tax Homeland Security in New Delhi, in July 2009, , in January 2010, Dr hief Ministers Union Ministers representing C interactive sessions in Ahmedabad and Employment Generation Programme faculty, faculty from industry and industry exposure for practical training A series of workshops oriented industry members to the Modular Employablet Scheme (MES) programme, with detailed information about benefits, criteria and procedures. CII, one of the assessing bodies in thewas specially invited to address over 700 Vocational Training Providers scheme, (VTPs) from all over Maharashtra in Mumbai in September '09 An awareness session on the ed self employment and entrepreneurship in Chhindwara in December 2009 CII members had exclusive interactions with theMadhya Pradesh to address industry issues A seminar onMay 2009, covered security concerns and Disaster Management Plans in of Goa. Maharashtra A and consolidated report has been submitted to the Government and stakeholders An interaction with and in Panaji, in discussed key issues including GST and Power Workshops onSeptember 2009, andDecember 2009, provided an understanding at of Mumbaithese in taxes and their implications at for Indore industry in So far 209 companies have signed the Affirmative Action Code of Conduct in theIn region President, CII, & Chairman, CII Affirmative Action Council, shared the developments in the four key areas of Education, Employability, Employment and Entrepreneurship under Affirmative Action and sought a more Maharashtra Pune u u GOVERNMENT INTERACTIONS u u u u AFFIRMATIVE ACTION u u CII-iLEAD Ms. Chanda Kochhar, under its Affirmative Action initiative CII-TCS Adult Literacy programme MoU for Polytechnic Upgradation Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank Project 2010 was addressed by CII, in association with Aide et Action,NGO, a started French a livelihood education programme with modules called Theachieving literacy speedily among adults using a computer-based functional literacy (CBFL) software programme. The initiative was launched in March 2010 in an Ahmedabad slum. Anwith the Department of Higher and aims Technical Education, at Maharashtra, plans to upgrade polytechnics through curriculum development, updating curriculum, training polytechnic , signed u u SKILL DEVELOPMENT u ani, Past Mumbai Mumbai speaking on & Planning, R. Kusmariya, Sunil Tatkare, President, CII, in Ahmedabad Vikas in Indore Ashok Chavan, Maharashtra in Interaction with DrJJIr Madhya Pradesh, Minister for Farm Chief Minister of seminar on GST in inaugurating Krishi AfraieAction’‘Affirmative Maharashtra, at the Minister for Finance Welfare & Agriculture, ahalad, Dr Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan, with select leaders of Indian Industry in Mumbai Prof.CKPr Management Guru at the Manufacturing Summit in Mumbai Director-General, CII, Naushad Forbes, Chandrajit Banerjee,President, CII, &Region, at the Members Meet in Mumbai Chairman, CII Western Venu Srinivasan, ,an on Banking at Mumbai in January were held in Mumbai, Pune and Industry–Academia assessments At CII Western Region, our focusEducation this and year Skill was Development, on in Higher theto belief nurture that and it refine is the imperative talentlong-term of competitiveness. our Hence, potential the workforce theme for ‘Sustainingthrough Growth Education’. Meetings with Principal Secretaries, Higher & Technical Education, in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, were followed by workshops. Subsequently, CII Western Region conductedacross the region. Seminars on of 74 programmes Ahmedabad to brief institutes and industry on the theme of the year. experiential workshop to sensitize industry on mainstreaming the visually challenged in the workforce, was organised at Mumbai in September 2009. A Seminar Access for the Blind Collaboration Antarchakshu–The Eye Within’ indiascape:WEst HIGHER EDUCATION u u CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY u ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 134 Panorama 137 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 Biotech Resource Centre r R A Mashelkar, Chairman, Single Window Clearance Act e–Iofthe in Logistics Conference: Mumbai, November 2009 Biotech Summit: Pune, November 2009 Chicago: What’s in it for Indian Cities? A Dialogue: Mumbai, December 2009 Teletech: Mumbai, January 2010 4th Energy Expo: Ahmedabad, October 2009 Krishi Vikas: Indore, November 2009 MP Exportech: Gwalior, January 2010 Logistics Mission to Antwerp & Rotterdam Manufacturing Technology Mission to Germany & Finland CEO’s Network Series in Gujarat CII, in partnership with KPMG, worked closely with the State Government for preparing the draft for theThis is now being implemented through 'Udyog Setu’ in various districts in the State.feedback Initial received from industry has been very positive. CII, with the support of Government of Maharashtra, D Maharashtra Biotech Commission, University of Pune, and Praj Industries, . launched Phas the State. First of its kind ina the single country, platform this to is address the requirements of new entrepreneurs as well as existing biotech industry. A new website was launched. Based on CII’s recommendations, the proposed Simplification of Maharashtra Factory Rules Act, 1963 was approved bythen the Ministers in June 2009. The fileundergoing is clearances since from the concerned departments, before its public notification by the Maharashtra Government. u u u u EXHIBITIONS u u u NEW INITIATIVES u u u ADVOCACY u u u Conference on Contraband and Counterfeit Products: Mumbai, May 2009 Awareness Programme on Green Buildings: Panaji, May 2009 Mutual Fund Summit: Mumbai, June 2009 Open House on PF, Provident Fund, Labour, ESIC & Industrial Safety & Health: Pune, July 2009 Session on Indian Economy: Mumbai, July 2009 Webinar on H1N1 (Swine Flu): Pune, August 2009 Conference on Energy Conservation, Nashik, August 2009 Seminar on Direct Tax Code: Ahmedabad, August 2009 Turnaround in the Downturn, an insight into the current Real Estate Scenario: Mumbai, September 2009 Pharma Summit: Mumbai, September 2009 India Energy Conclave: Ahmedabad, October 2009 Manufacturing Summit : Mumbai, November 2009 u u u u u u u u u u u u Gujarat, Energy & Ahmedabad inaugurating S Jagadeesan, Release of the Energy Expo in Petrochemicals, Principal Secretary, Summit in Mumbai at the Banking Tech CII- PwC Report on ‘Managing Recession ’ , Chairman, Roundtable discussion with Madhav Kr. Nepal Prime Minister of Nepal in Mumbai Roberto Parenhos, President, Brazil-India Chamber of Commerce Michael Froman, Dy National Advisor for International Economic Affairs & Spl. Advisor on Economic Affairs to President Obama, USA C B Bhave, SEBI (centre) releasing the CII-KPMG Report on ‘Indian Mutual Fund Industry’ at the Mutual Fund Summit in Mumbai r D P Srivastava, Indian Ontario Premier's Clean-Tech Mission to India Mr. Lim Chee Onn, Chairman, Singbridge International Singapore Pte Ltd & Special Advisor Keppel Corporation, Singapore Dr. Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan Ambassado Ambassador to Czech Republic Students from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore IFRS Summit: Mumbai, March 2009 Banking Tech Summit: Mumbai, March 2009 Medi Tech Summit: Mumbai, April 2009 The RAND Report on Terrorism against India: Mumbai, May 2009 Water Management & Technology Conference: Mumbai, May 2009 u u u u u CONFERENCES & SUMMITS u u u u u 96 Missions from different parts of Finishing School meaningful contribution from members to the ongoing development initiatives for the states As part of our Affirmative Action on reservations in the private sector, CII, in association with the Symbiosis Group, conductsstudents. Four batches – 5th, 6th, 7thin and the 8th series – were launched thisprovide year soft to skills to SC/ST students. TheInstitute Goa of Management will also partner in the courses conduct for of SC/ Finishing ST School Courses. Japanese Business In India: Strengthening Ties: Pune, March 2009 Business Opportunities in Brazil: Mumbai, May 2009 Opportunities for Indian Companies in Bavaria, Germany: Pune, June 2009 Invest in Ireland: Pune, June 2009 Doing Business with the UN: Mumbai, October 2009 Trade & Investment Opportunities in South Africa: Mumbai, November 2009 India–Luxembourg: A Joint Venture For Mutual Benefit: Mumbai, January 2010 Dr. Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister, Nepal Mr. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President, Republic of Namibia Mr. T S Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia Mr. Navin Dissanayake, Minister of Investment Promotion, Sri Lanka Mr. Michael Froman, Deputy National Advisor for International Economic Affairs, & Special Advisor on Economic Affairs to President Obama, USA

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Gautam Thapar, Chairman, Aspen Institute India, OUTREACH SESSIONS Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Prof. Amartya Sen, Environment & Forests, India Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Tarun u ‘Ten Reasons why India cannot and must not u ‘India China: New Global Players, New Das, President Aspen become a Superpower’ with eminent historian, Leadership Roles’ by Dr. Vishaka Desai, Institute India Dr. Ramachadra Guha President, The Asia Society Prof.CKPrahalad, u u Author,‘Fortune at the ‘From Q&A to Slumdog Millionaire’ with ‘China : How it works and what it seeks’ with Bottom of the Pyramid’ Vikas Swarup, Author Dr Kenneth Lieberthal, Director, John L. PARTNERING CHANGE u ‘The Art of Leadership’ with Secretary Thornton China Center, and Senior Fellow, William S Cohen, Former US Secretary of Defence Brookings Institution, USA u u u Aspen Institute India ‘Future Challenges for the United States and ‘Indian Democracy: Challenges Ahead’ with India’ with Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Director, u Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust Professor, Harvard University, and former US Centre National de la Recherche u CII Family Business Network Under-Secretary of State Scientifique, France u India Brand Equity Foundation u Session withNobel Laureate Michael Spence, u National Foundation for Professor, Stanford University and Senior BOOK LAUNCHES Corporate Governance Fellow at the Hoover Institution u ‘Patient Capitalism in an Impatient World: A u ‘The Difficulty in Being Good: The Subtle Art of u Overseas Indian Novel Idea’ with Jacqueline Novogratz, Dharma’: Gurcharan Das Facilitation Centre Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund u ‘From A Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the u Young Indians u ‘Copenhagen Explained’ with Mountbatten Bomb’ : Timothy Knatchbull PARTNERS

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The Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that Members of the India Strategy Group assists disadvantaged Indian youth to develop business ideas into and their Chinese viable enterprises under the guidance of a mentor, the main idea being counterparts at the 1st India-China assisting job seekers become job creators. The young entrepreneurs Track II Strategic Dialogue in Beijing are supported with finance as well as mentoring and a host of business related activities such as training, monitoring and networking. PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMMES

u The Teaching Innovation Program–India, jointly developed by The Aspen Institute, Aspen BYST organisation Institute India and CII, is an international u BYST entrepreneurs showcased at the GEW Nick Burns, Former consortium comprising of eight of India’s top US Under Secretary conference, Dubai, and in other key events. of State and business schools and leading businesses. The Nirupama Rao, program helps build the capacity of today’s Foreign Secretary, EVENTS India, in New Delhi MBA students to navigate the complex social, social environmental challenges of business. u 13th US-India Strategic Dialogue u BYST hosted the GEW in partnership with the

u The 5th Annual Aspen Institute Joint u 7th India-USA-Japan Dialogue BYST Kaufman Foundation, where over 2500 Roundtable on Communications Policy in u 3rd India-Singapore Dialogue entrepreneurs EMPOWERING MENTORS entrepreneurs and their mentors took an oath receiving their Jaipur in March 2010 discussed ‘eHealth in u 1st India-China Strategic dialogue. awards from to support entrepreneurship. Rajan Nanda, India – the Issues Ahead.’ Senior members of the respective countries met u Over 1000 mentors trained through a 6-hour u Business Idea Contest in rural Haryana. CMD Escorts, as in closed door sessions to discuss strengthening Lakshmi V. Venkatesan, self-paced, interactive, fun and user-friendly u Conference on ‘Public Private Partnerships’ in Founding Trustee & LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES bilateral and trilateral ties between India and the Executive Vice ‘Mentor-Online’ tool for potential mentors. Chennai with Mr. Lars Thunell, CEO, International rest of the world. President, BYST, u International Accreditation for mentors who Finance Corporation, as the chief guest looks on u The graduating fellows of the 2nd batch of the complete MOL courseware and provide u Dr. M H Ansari, Vice President of India, India Leadership Initiative were felicitated by IDEAS INDIA 2009 on the ground mentoring to entrepreneurs presented the JRD Tata Awards in New Delhi. the Aspen Institute India Board of Trustees in (10 hrs in a year) March, 2010. Aspen Institute India’s 2nd Ideas India conclave u 1000 mentors accredited by City and Guild, PARTNERSHIPS WITH BANKS u Aspen Institute India organised the Aspen in December 2009 hosted 90 speakers spread UK’s largest and best-known vocational India Seminar in September 2009 in Gurgaon. over 26 sessions. The conclave discussed issues awarding body. In early 2010 BYST celebrated its successful The seminar challenged accomplished Indian ranging from healthcare to climate change. The u 21 Networking through Mentors Chapters partnerships with Indian Bank and Bank of Baroda participants to think more deeply about speakers included Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen, established in all BYST regions). in creating successful business units nation wide. leadership, values and the good society. Prof C K Prahalad, Lord Meghnad Desai, Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Prof. Sugata Bose, Mr. Arun Maira, AWARDS Ventures Supported 1940 STRATEGIC DIALOGUES Mr. Mark Tully, Mr. Gautam Thapar, Mr. J N Godrej, Employment Generated 20000 Mr. N K Singh, Mr. B J Panda, Mr. Deepender Hooda, u BYST Entrepreneurs win 3 out of 6 Citigroup Business Volunteers 3000 Aspen Institute India organised five strategic Ms. Vinita Bali, Mr. Shivinder Mohan Singh, Awards Counseled & Signposted 75,000 dialogues over the course of the year. These Ms. Anu Aga, Atul Punj, Dr. Suman Bery, u BYST finalist in Youth Business International Total Loan Rs. 270 million include: Dr. Ashok Gulati, Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, Women Entrepreneur Awards. Turnover Rs. 2500 million Success Rate 95% PARTNERS u 2nd India-Israel Forum Mr. Paul Beckett and many others. u Entrepreneurs ‘International’ Award, Pune, for PARTNERS

142 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 143 produce marketing brochures for each of the 25 Export Promotion Councils (EPCs) in India, along CII Family Business Network with an India Product Book–The Best of India, which showcased the diversity, versatility and The CII-FBN [India] chapter engages with Indian family-owned quality of Indian products. Both these works were business enterprises in promoting their success and sustainability. produced in the English and Russian languages. The book was released by Minister Anand Sharma at the ‘ITPO India Show’ in St. Petersburg. IBEF partnered with a series of conferences as FAMILY BUSINESS CONTRIBUTES 60-70 percent of knowledge partner by contributing its India GDP of most developed and developing countries. In business kits. The more notable of these were India, too, Family Businesses form the backbone of Dr John Ward, Hililary Clinton, the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (where IBEF also set the Indian economy. The Family Business Network Founder Chairman, US Secretary of State, that showcases the sinews of Brand India in a up a booth to showcase Brand India) the CII is a not-for-profit international network run by FBCG, Clinical browses through the Professor, The IBEF study globalised world. Released by Mr Anand Sharma, Partnership Summit, the India Economic family businesses, for family businesses, with the Kellogg School of Minister of Commerce and Industry, this was the Summit, the PanIIT Alumni Meet, the Kellogg aim of strengthening success over generations. Management, USA, at the CII-FBN XII second in a series of contribution studies. India Business Conference and the Doing The CII-FBN [India] chapter brings together International Convention on Consistent Search Engine Optimisation Business with India conference held in South like-minded business families from across the Family Business in (SEO) efforts through the year resulted in Africa. Also, in conjunction with the conference, world to share experiences about the challenges New Delhi www.ibef.org being ranked number one on IBEF facilitated the visit of Ms Mathabo le Roux, and opportunities they face. google.comand wikipedia.org, as well as by trade and industry editor at Business Day, under The landmark XIIth International Convention ‘Family Constitution’. The leading faculty for the keyword search for ‘Brand India’, ‘Healthcare’, its Experience India programme. Ms Roux’s visit on Family Business, with the theme of programme was Dr. John Ward, Founder ‘Retail’, ‘Telecom’, etc. Moreover, SEO efforts resulted in a special, four-page feature on India ‘Perpetuating the Family Business’ in New Delhi Chairman, Family Business Consulting Group Inc pushed IBEF sectoral reports/PPTs to the published to coincide with the conference. in March 2010, discussed general management & Clinical Professor, The Kellogg School, North forefront for searches on Indian industry The Experience India programme also issues as well as governance issues and the Western University, USA. sectors. The focus was on contemporising the facilitated interactions on the Indian economy for IBEF website to include social media and new Slovenian MPs, a Mexican business delegation media tools. and students from INSEAD, Harvard Business Continuing to showcase the opportunity and School, Pennsylvania State University and the INDIA BRAND EQUITY FOUNDATION progress consistently being made by India, IBEF Deakin University. added a new film to its existing suite, India, It On the global stage, IBEF led the ‘India Happens Here! which was launched at the CII Marches Ahead’ message at the Annual Meeting The India Brand Equity Foundation is a public-private partnership Partnership Summit 2010. Further, the of the World Economic Forum in Davos in between the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry and CII, to knowledge centre brought out five issues of our January 2010, through strategic advertising, the build positive economic perceptions of India globally. bi-monthly magazine,India Now, this year, India Now, a perspective magazine and business covering subjects such as the ongoing e- information kits. commerce revolution in India, the largely Impressively, IBEF also effected a statutory IN 2009-10, THE INDIA Brand Equity Foundation untapped rural Indian market, and the change in regional representation at the World (IBEF) augmented and strengthened its burgeoning insurance sector. IBEF also launched Association of Investment Promotion Agencies Knowledge Centre and connected with larger easily downloadable e-version of India Now, in (WAIPA) of which it holds the co-vice-presidency. business audiences across the globe. Spanish, French and Chinese this year, to reach An important accomplishment was the allocation Besides the regular updation of state and out to larger business audiences. of a separate seat for South Asia in the sectoral reports, IBEF expanded its repertoire IBEF entered the realm of sectoral branding 14 member WAIPA Steering Committee. So far, with the publication of Contribution of Indian when it collaborated with the Ministry of only a single seat had been allocated for both

Industry to the US Economy, a strategic study Commerce and Industry, to conceptualise and Central and South Asia in this global agency. PARTNERS

144 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 145 PARTNERS 147 Market Place ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ‘Investment Investment and Interactive Meet in a simple, practical and step by step in March 2010. A delegation from India, This year too, OIFC organised its To ease the process of doing business in India, To showcase the emerging business Going Global, OIFC participated in a number of The Centre continuously works to build up strong during the annual PBD 2010. The MarketForum Place served as a one stop shopbusiness for networking, effective enabling PBD delegates to connect and engage with policy makers ofgovernment, the key industry players, OIFC knowledge experts and other delegates. the OIFC has put together an Toolkit’, guide for global investors. engagement opportunities in India, OIFC conducted an Dubai comprising of prominent players from Indian industry, led by Dr A Didar Singh,Ministry Secretary, of Overseas Indian Affairs & Chairman, OIFC, participated in the Meet which was attended by 150 delegates. diaspora initiatives such as GOPIO’s Annual Convention and Business and Economic Conference in the US in August 2009, andMigration the Trends Conference in on Goa in October 2009. back-end support, inviting industry experts and states of India to become knowledge partners. Kerala and Karnataka are already on board. engagement of Global Indians with India. OverseasIndian complete online business networking Affairs, works to expand the economic and knowledge FacilitationCentre The Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre, a public-private partnership between CII and the Ministry of Overseas Indian to help bridge the business and Promoting investments into India Catalyzing sustainable business partnerships Enabling effective knowledge exchange without the necessary relocation of knowledge providers/seekers Assuming a facilitative role for promoting FDI The portal includes a 16X5 live chat service, THE YEAR 2009-10 SAW A repositioning of the Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC). The Centre streamlined broad strategies for intertwining diaspora wealth and intellect in India’s progress. Today, it functions with the three fold mandate of: u u u and intellectual capital from the Indian diaspora, OIFC developed an investment ties between India and its diaspora. online ask an expert query redressal, customized FAQs and a monthly e-newsletter. The interactive b2b electronic networking platform was launched by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister ofduring India, the 8th PBD Convention in January 2010. portal , , , Union Bharatiya Divas Bharatiya Divas OIFC Investment Prime Minister of Indian Affairs, and India, releasing the at the Market Place Vayalar Ravi Forum at the Pravasi Chandrajit Banerjee Minister of Overseas Toolkit at the Pravasi Dr Manmohan Singh Director General, CII, , President of Pratibha Devisingh Patil India, releasing the Guidelines on Corporate Governance at the India Corporate Week celebrations in New Delhi Over the year, NFCG undertook various initiatives the standard of corporate governance in India towards achieving stability and inclusive growth. to promote and foster a culture ofGovernance, good CSR Corporate and Sustainability, both at the level of individual corporations and for theas economy a whole, working both in thein domestic the arena international and domain. NFCG supported 33 international /national level seminar/conferences, one faculty orientation programme, one moot court competition and 15 research projects to promote good Corporate Governance practice, CSR and Sustainability in India. Corporate The National Foundation for Corporate Governanceto (NFCG) promote works good governance and facilitateto voluntary make compliance a significant difference to the Indian Corporate Sector. NATIONALFOUNDATIONFOR CORPORATEGOVERNANCE THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR Governance (NFCG) was set up by theCorporate Ministry Affairs, of in partnership with CII, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 2003, to be aIndia catalyst the in best making in Corporate Governance Practices. The NFCG works to promote good governance, facilitate voluntary compliance and effective participation of different stakeholders, create a framework of best practices, structure, processes and ethics and make a significant difference to Indian Corporate Sector by raising ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 146 UK Deputy High Commissioner, Ms Vicki Treadell on the ‘Challenges of Doing Business in India’. Yi also continuously engaged with key YoungINDIAns thought-leaders including Mr Rahul Gandhi, Mr Arun Maira, Mr Nandan Nilekani, Dr Shashi Tharoor, Ms Supriya Sule, and Ms Meenakshi Natarajan Young Indians (Yi), an integral part of CII, is a platform for young Bhupinder among many others. The objective was to keep these Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. Yi is a Singh Hooda, Chief Minister key influencers appraised about Yi, its vision and goals grassroots organisation that focuses on the nation’s of Haryana, inaugurating and seek opportunities to work together. developmental agenda through Advocacy, Awareness and Action Agromax in Hissar Yi UK Mission We carried out extensive voting awareness across the focus areas of primary education, environment, delegates with campaigns before the National and State Lord Meghnad Desai healthcare and employability. at the House of elections in five cities, with an interaction with Lords, London Students of the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Mr Navin Chawla, in Mumbai. Kolkata, The Green-I -Yi Environment contest once winners of the THIS WAS YI’S YEAR of scaling up. Nine new Green-I contest 2009, again highlighted ways to make school campuses chapters were launched – at Trivandrum, receiving the more environmentally sensitive. Over 100 schools award from Guwahati, Erode, Visakhapatnam, Goa, Raipur, K Rosaiah, developed working models for building Chief Minister of Srinagar, Baroda and Madurai. Yi now has a Andhra Pradesh sustainable buildings. presence in25 cities with a total of 1200 in Hyderabad In theEducation space, Yi carried out an members. The choice of these new locations extensive efficacy study for Yi Akshara – our demonstrates our commitment to give Young learning resource centre for school children. Indians even in smaller towns access to a The Yi Education team initiated the process of platform that connects them with Industry and customizing and localizing Akshara modules ‘Young in Business’ across India. In addition, Yi and also prepared programmes to make has a strong and fast growing membership base children in urban slums ready to enter a formal At the session of4000 students drawn from 59 Yi Student with young schooling system. Networksacross India, 160 members across parliamentarians World Food Day was observed across the country in New Delhi 3 corporate chaptersand 8500 young farmers with 17 Yi chapters working together for the first enrolled through 2 Yi Farmers Nets. find possible solutions to unique Indian problems. time on a single standardisedYi Healthcare project This year, we rolled out a total of 602 events TheYi Retreat at Tirupati blended trekking, on a single day. The Healthcare initiative also saw

and activitiesacross chapters, close to 2 events Nandan Nilekani, adventure sports and spiritual experiences. sessions and workshops on stress management, a day! All these activities were aligned to Yi’s Chairman, UDAI Yi’s Overseas Delegation to the United lifestyle diseases, HIV, diabetes, heart diseases, platforms and initiatives spanning education, Navin Chawla, Kingdom met Lord Meghnad Desai at The House swine flu, yoga and alternative medicine. environment, employability, governance, Chief Election of Lords, and Sir Thomas Harris at Standard Employability is one of India’s key concerns. Commissioner art-culture-sport, healthcare, youth affairs, farmer of India Chartered Bank, and had an interactive session We scaled up our work in the Skills nets and next practices. Yi’s work during the year with the UKIBC Next Gen Entrepreneurs. The Development area by conducting Yi Labs has directly impacted over 6 lakh people. delegation also had an interesting session on programmes for the hospitality, food and retail Nationally, Yi had a good mix of flagship events. Innovation and Entrepreneurship with students at sectors. We also commenced work on piloting TheIndian Parliament Simulation at Kochi was a Oxford University. Yi had its first International world class skills certification programmes in

superb experience for over 300 students from 19 Dr Pawan G Agarwal, Road Show in London and briefed young overseas Logistics and Agriculture. cities who lived the roles of elected parliamentarians CEO, Mumbai Indians on engaging with India. Subsequently, Yi At theChapter level, the myriad activities Dabbawala Association and engaged in rigorously researched discussion hosted a group of exchange students from included the Coimbatore Vizha, Entrepreneurship and constructive debate on 15 issues concerning Baichung Bhutia, Oxford, Cambridge and London School of conclaves, Yi Kochi’s EnYironmend campaign, Captain, Indian

India, to understand the parliamentary system and Football Team Economics in Mumbai, and interacted with the Dream City Projects, Regional Retreats, and the PARTNERS

148 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 149 Aero Modelling show at Indore. The three corporate chapters at Infosys, MCX and Impetus Technologies did good work in the areas of women empowerment, life skills to urban poor, Paradigm microfinance and healthcare. Yi chapters also helped flood victims in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. ‘The achievements of an organis ation are the In the arena ofYouth Affairs, our 59 student networks conceptualized and executed projects on result of the combined effort of each individual.’ leadership training, skill building and community service. The Yi Youth Affairs programme trains students, connects them with Industry and young leaders, enables nation building initiatives and Yi feeding initiative challenges them to think big and think different. in Chennai on Yi Farmer Nets currently involve over 8500 World Food Day young progressive farmers in knowledge-sharing platforms. The year’s theme was building a dialogue towards evolving a framework for Indian Good Agricultural Practices (Indo-GAP). Over 175 knowledge dissemination activities were undertaken across 11 states, reaching over 11000 farmers. Rural school students in over 65 secondary schools were educated on latest Students participating in the agricultural practices. Yi also surveyed over 800 voter awareness farmers net members and prepared a campaign in Chandigarh comprehensive document on Young Farmers and Climate Change for the Copenhagen Summit. Two very successful national Agromax India Innovation Initiative (i3) in partnership with conferences were held in Guwahati, Assam and in the Department of Science & Technology, Hissar, Haryana. Together, these events drew close Government of India, and CII. Of the several to 4000 young farmers and involved 5 State innovations showcased in an exhibition, 10 were Governments, 9 Agricultural Universities and many picked up by IIM-Ahmedabad for a year long agribusiness corporates. Farmers were also incubation programme. Yi also partnered with Dell provided with commodity prices, crop advisories and and UTVi for a year long national business plan weather alerts throughout the year using mobile contest for students titled ‘Take your Own Path.’ phone text messages. Yi has also begun an iterative Yi’s work has taken on a structure that begins process of identifying 10 farmers each year who withAwareness building (workshops and have achieved superlative levels of productivity and conferences that identify things that need to get documenting and evangelizing these innovative crop done),Action projects (pilot programmes to management methods as ‘Farming Next Practices’. ensure that the ideas generated solve specific The pursuit of Innovation and the identification problems and serve specific development goals) of game changing ideas is the key to ensuring and ultimately focusses onAdvocacy (identifying development, and also offers investment partners and working with government and NGOs opportunities for companies. Yi Next Practices to enable scaling up). Moreover, each Yi initiative energized young inventors to showcase their path has contributed to reaching the ultimate goal of

PARTNERS breaking technologies and prototypes with the India@75: The People’s Agenda.

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DURING 2009-10, CII continued its focus on enhancing membership engagement. The Regions introduced newer and interesting formats for engaging members. These have been documented as the ‘regional best engagement practices’ and shared amongst all offices of CII. Venu Srinivasan, President CII, In order to reach out to members in Tier 2/3 addressing a Members’ towns and expand the membership in these Meet in Mumbai locations, 50 districts in India have been Members’ Meet in Srinagar identified as the Top 50 Districts with High Potential for Membership Growth. u To engage more with members and deepen their involvement,44 Members Meets were held at 31 locations, and attended by 1827 Members’ Meet in Vijayawada members from CII member companies. u To help new members understand and better utilize our services, 8 new member induction sessions were held at 8 locations, and attended by 92 members. u As a part of the‘Outreach Initiative’ of meeting members at their premises, we ABOUT US visited150 member companies this year. u Building robust membership growth, 16 Road u Membership Showswere held at 16 locations and attended by 908 participants from 617 companies. u CII Network Between April 2009 and March 2010, CII u Team CII clocked a net growth of 484 new members. u To understand and help deal with the issues faced by member companies, all state and regional offices are compiling monthly Membership Issue Trackers and tabling them at the respective state and regional council meetings. Currently,70 issues concerning

members are being pursued. Paradigm

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NORTHERN REGION Chandigarh (UT) Block No. 3, Dakshin Marg,Chandigarh-160 Sector 030 31-A TelFax : 0172-2602365/2605868/2607228 Email : : 0172-2606259 [email protected] Delhi (NCR) 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV,Gurgaon-122 Sector 015 18 TelFax : 0124-4014072 /Email 4014060-67 : : 0124-4014070 [email protected] Haryana 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV,Gurgaon-122 Sector 015 18 TelFax : 0124-4014071 /Email 4014060-67 : : 0124-4014070 [email protected] Himachal Pradesh Block No. 3, Dakshin Marg,Chandigarh-160 Sector 030 31-A TelFax : 0172-2602365/2605868/2607228 Email : : 0172-2606259 [email protected] Jammu & Kashmir C/o Mubarak Villa, 11 B/B,Jammu-180010 Gandhi Nagar Extension FaxEmail : : 0191-2452006 [email protected] Punjab Block No. 3, Dakshin Marg,Chandigarh-160 Sector 030 31-A TelFax : 0172-5031872/2605868/2607228 Email : : 0172-2606259 [email protected] Rajasthan D-24, Subhash Marg, 1st Floor,Jaipur-302 C-Scheme 001 TelFax : 0141-2370349/2365844/5118440 Email : : 0141-5118389 [email protected] Uttarakhand Nepal House, 1st Floor, 30/1Dehradun-248 Rajpur 001 Road TelFax : 0135-2745120 Email : : 0135-2745121 [email protected] Uttar Pradesh Plot A, Vibhuti Khand Gomti Nagar Lucknow-226 010 TelFax : 0522-2721950 -Email 52 : : 0522-2721953 [email protected] SOUTHERN REGION Andhra Pradesh 1-11-252/9, Regal House, Plot No.Moti 7 Lal Nehru Nagar Begumpet, Hyderabad-500 016 TelFax : 040-27765964/66/67/27765934 Email : : 040-27766116 [email protected] Karnataka No. 1086, 12th Main, HALBangalore-560 2nd 008 Stage, Indiranagar TelFax : 080-42889595 /Email 25276544 : / : 080-25276709 45 [email protected] Kerala Opp. Cochin Passport Office, PanampillyKochi-682 Nagar 036 TelFax : 0484-4012300 Email : : 0484-4012800 [email protected] HEADQUARTERS The Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23,New Institutional Delhi Area, - Lodi 110 Road 003 TelEmail : : [email protected] 0091-11-24629994-7 Fax : 091-11-24626149 Website: www.cii.in | ...... STATE OFFICES 59, M G Road, Uzanbazar || || r – 1 Extension, Near CSEB Sub Station, Northern Region Block No. 3, Dakshin Marg,Chandigarh-160 Sector 030 31-A TelFax : 0172-2602365/2605868/2607228 Email : : 0172-2606259 [email protected] Southern Region 98/1, Velachery Main Road, Guindy Chennai-600 032 TelFax : 044-42444501/ 555 Email : : 044-42444510 [email protected] Western Region 105, Kakad Chambers, 1st Floor 132 Dr Annie Besant Road,Mumbai-400 Worli 018 TelFax : 022-24931790 /24964792 Email : : 022-24945831 [email protected] /24939463 EASTERN REGION Assam “Ratnapeeth” Guwahati-781 001 TelEmail : : [email protected] 0361-2731966 Bihar M-3/24 S.K.Puri, Near Basawan Park Patna-800 001 TelFax : 0612-6450301 Email : : 0612-2541572 [email protected] Chhattisgarh P-25, Secto Abanti Vihar, Raipur-492 001 TelFax : 0771-4013520/5532992 Email : : 0771-4093299 [email protected] Jharkhand H - 72, Argora HousingArgora, Colony Ranchi-834 002 TelEmail : : [email protected] 0651- 2240040 / 6457365 Mizoram 1st Basement, MUP Building, M.G.Khatla, Road Opp. Raj Bhawan, SouthAizawl-796 Gate 001 TelFax : 0389-2301087 Email : : 0389-2315168 [email protected] Nagaland Jail Colony Kohima-797001 TelEmail : : [email protected] 0370-2243048 Orissa Plot No. 8, Forest Park,Bhubaneswar-751 1st 009 Floor TelFax : 0674-2596270 /Email 2596149 : : 0674-2596159 [email protected] Tripura Industries Building (3rd Floor) Pandit Nehru Complex P.O. Kunjaban Agartala-799 006 TelEmail : : [email protected] 0381-2221687 West Bengal 6, Netaji Subhas Road Kolkata-700 001 TelFax : 033-22307727/28/1434/22303354 Email : : 033-22302711 [email protected] / 22312700 REGIONAL OFFICES CORPORATE OFFICES || || || || CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE || || CIINETWORK New Delhi India Habitat Centre Core 4A, 4th Floor, LodiNew Road Delhi-110 003 TelFax : 011-24682230-35Email | : : 011-24682229 011-41504514-19 [email protected] Gurgaon 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV,Gurgaon-122 Sector 015 18 (Haryana) TelFax : 0124-4014060-67 Email : : 0124-4014080 [email protected] CII-Institute of Quality (CII-IQ) Near Bharat Nagara, 2nd Stage,Vishwaneedam Magadi Post, Main Bangalore-560 Road 091 TelFax : 080-23289391 /Email 23286085 : : 080-23289388 [email protected] / 23580314 CII-Institute of Quality (CII-IQ) 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV,Gurgaon-122 Sector 015, 18 Haryana TelFax : 0124-4014051/4309447/4014060-67 Email : : 0124-4014051 [email protected] CII-ITC Centre of Excellence forDevelopment Sustainable Thapar House, 2nd Floor, 124,New Janpath Delhi - 110 001 TelFax : 011-41502301-02 Email : : 011-41501924 [email protected] / 25 CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre Survey No: 64, Kothaguda Post,Ranga Near Reddy HITEC District, City Hyderabad-500 084 TelFax : 040-23112971-73 Email : : 040-23112837 [email protected] CII-Naoroji Godrej Centre of Excellence Godrej Station-side Colony, Opp RailwayVikhroli Station (East), Mumbai - 400Tel 079 Fax : 022-2574 5146Email / : 5148 : 022-2574 [email protected] 3361 | [email protected] CII Institute of Logistics (Old No 21), New No.(Near 33, Guru Velacherry Nanak Main College), Road Velacherry Chennai – 600 042 TelFax : 044-22551343 /Email 44/45 : : 044-22551341 [email protected] CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of ExcellenceLeadership for DC-36, Sector - I, SaltKolkata Lake, - Behind 700 City 064 Centre TelFax : 033-66140100 Email : : 033-66140136 [email protected] CII-L M Thapar Centre for CompetitivenessBlock for No. SMEs 3, Dakshin Marg,Chandigarh-160 Sector 030 31-A TelFax : 0172-2602365/2605868/2607228 Email : : 0172-2606259 [email protected] Eastern Region 6, Netaji Subhas Road Kolkata-700 001 TelFax : 033-22307727/28/1434/22303354 Email : : 033-22301721 [email protected] / 2231 2700 ANNUAL REVIEW 09/10 154