CII Southern Region’s priorities for 2019-20- ’Competitiveness of South India Inc. India@75: Forging Ahead’
- CII LAYS SPECIAL FOCUS ON JOBS AND LIVELIHOOD CREATION
Chennai, May 14, 2019: "To
accelerate the growth of Southern States, CII has been working closely with State Governments in
bringing sector specific policies to promote manufacturing in Southern States.
High employment and export oriented sectors are critical for contributing to
the growth of the State.” said Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, the newly elected Chairman of CII
Southern Region. He also said that CII is
working to propagate the Model State Budget in select States to encourage state
specific action and promote fiscal discipline.
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(L-R) Mr Sanjay
Jayavarthanavelu, Chairman of CII Southern Region and Mr
Sathish Raman, Regional Director, CII Southern Region
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Outlining CII-SR’s priorities for 2019-20 to
Media, Mr Sanjay said that the CII Southern Region has chosen ’Competitiveness of South India Inc. India@75:
Forging Ahead’ as its theme.
Policy Advocacy, Ease of Doing Business,
Education & Skill development, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, MSMEs and
Membership engagement will be the key focus areas under the theme. He said that, this year, the focus would be
more on membership engagement and expanding business linkages by engaging the
international community. Besides this,
more thrust would be given to Advisory Services on IPR, Capacity building programs
for MSMEs and creating B2B platforms for major initiatives.
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Mr Sanjay
Jayavarthanavelu, Chairman of CII Southern Region addressing the gathering
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For the benefit of Women and Young Leaders,
focused leadership initiatives impacting over 4000 people would be rolled out
through the Indian Women Network and Young Indians.
As a part of Employment Generation and Livelihood
Creation, the major engagement would be Skill Gap Study is the labour intensive
areas and to facilitate industry centric skill policy in Southern States. The
Model Career Centre in Chennai provides career counselling, skill training, and
assessment thereby facilitating employment for unemployed youth. Over 12000
candidates are to be placed through MCC, Job fair in Tier II cities in this
year, said Mr Jayavardhanavelu.
Through the CII Southern Region Entrepreneur
Awards, CII-SR has been recognizing successful startups, and entrepreneurs in
the region every year. This year, CII SR will aim to get maximum nominations
from tier II cities, especially from the first generation entrepreneurs and
women.
Under the CII-SR Water Alliance initiative,
CII is working with State Governments and industry in rejuvenation of lakes and
water bodies in Southern States. This
initiative will be rolled out this year under phase II of the program. Through the CSR Gateway, over 1000
stakeholders ranging from corporates, NGOs
and other CSR related entities
have been connected in the online portal
exploring opportunities on CSR projects.
We aim to add many more this year.
With an aim to support small farmers in
Southern States, CII has launched crop specific initiatives. A Millet Task Force set up earlier had helped
Millet cultivation and promotion in Southern States. He also mentioned that CII is also working with
Southern State Governments for the Startup Policy as South India has the rich
ecosystem to nurture startup companies and emerging entrepreneurs.
Mr Sathish Raman, Regional Director, CII
Southern Region also participated in the press meet.
