Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb, Hon’ble Minister for Women & Child Welfare Department, Visits LUB-K Office and Kusuri Mane

It was indeed a very pleasant day for Laghu Udyog Bharat on July 8, 2020 as Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb, Hon’ble Minister for Women & Child Welfare Department, Empowerment of Differently Abled & Senior Citizens Department, Government of Karnataka along with Shri Anna Saheb, Hon’ble Member of Parliament; GoI visited LUB-K Office and interacted with our members.

Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb Interacting with LUB-K members

The Minister was briefed about the role LUB-K plays in promoting business in the space of MSME sector in Karnataka. The Minister expressed her appreciation on the various initiatives that LUB-K has been working in promote MSME sector in the State. LUB-K also submitted a representation to promote Women Entrepreneurs business in Karnataka and sought the Minister’s personal intervention during MSME policy formulation to encourage more women to establish their own enterprises.

Smt. Chaya Prabhu, Vice President, LUB-K submitted a representation on Women Entrepreneurs to Hon’ble Minister

Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb, addressing LUB-K members at Kusuri Mane said that she is highly impressed about the activities the Women Entrepreneurs are engaged in promoting their own business. She said: “When we give women entrepreneurs’ right opportunities they really excellence. All we need is to provide that small nudge, broad guidance and active support, they will reach heights with great ease. That is what LUB platform is providing and I am really mesmerized about the efforts.” She pointed out that marketing of products is the main bane for many women entrepreneurs and they withdraw due to this aspect. Smt. Shashikala assured: “Since I am in the Government now and I fully understand women

LUB-K Women Entrepreneurs greeting Shri Anna Saheb, Hon’ble MP, GoI

Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb, addressing LUB-K members at Kusuri Mane

Entrepreneurs’ business dynamics, I will traverse that extra mile to support marketing of products wherever possible.”

Smt. Jolle Shashikala Anna Saheb appreciating the products displayed at Kusuri Mane

She further said that she will explore possibilities of effectively optimizing the Stree Shakti Bhavans established in Districts to promote women entrepreneurs in the State.

The Minister was very kind and receptive to all suggestions/requests and assured all possible support and guidance to LUB-K in all its future endeavours.

         

A delegation of Micro & Small Industry, led by Mr. B.S. Srinivasan, Secretary, Laghu Udyog BharatiKarnataka visited Taiwan from June 18-20, 2013. The delegation included Mr. Yajnanarayana Kammaje, Managing Director of Sona Group of companies, Mr. R. K. Ramakrishnaiah, Managing Director of Nandi Powertronics, Mr. Subramanya, Managing Partner of Seashell Plastics, Mrs. Prabhavathi Srinivasan of Pentagram Interiors and Mr. Srinivas Sekar, CEO of Ecoserve Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

The delegation visited Photonics festival in Taiwan (PFT), which combines OPTO Taiwan, LED Lighting Taiwan, Solar Taiwan, and OPTICS Taiwan held at Taipei World Trade Center and at Nan gang exhibition hall. Photonics Festival in Taiwan is built around “Energy saving”, “Clean Energy” and “Living Green” concepts. In addition to LED & Solar, PFT featured “Plant Factory Taiwan” and “Bio-photonics & Telemedicine Taiwan” this year. In view of the recent trends in the development of precise manufacturing the “3D Printing Pavilion” was worth visiting.

Dr. Peter T. C., Chairman of Organizing Committee gave away the 16th Outstanding Photonics Products Awards to 11 winning products, all of them “Made in Taiwan.” These included Flat Panel Display, LED Lighting, Solar PV, Opto-Electronics and Opto-communications. Some of the products were a crystal bulb with superior characteristics to replace candle bulb, Non – Light Guide Thin Panel LED Lighting, Non – Electric Solar tracking system, 11.4” Transparent & Colourful Reflective Liquid Crystal Display, Micro inverters system for Solar power plants, High precision Solar Tracker etc.

Photonics Industry Development Association (PIDA) conducted many conferences & Seminars on all subjects pertaining to Optics, Bio-photonics, Solar energy, LED Lighting, Plant Factory, OLED Lighting, Solid Works. Our delegation was invited to attend LED Lighting Business opportunity in Emerging Markets & One -on-One Procurement Meeting on 19th of June at Nan gang Exibition Center. The CEO of PIDA, Mr. Fred Ma opened the event with a welcome address, Mr. Evgeny Dolin, General Director of Russian LED & SSL Industry Association gave a presentation that LED was invented in Russia way back in 1923 by Oleg Losev and an SSL was patented in 1927. He also said that Russia has 3 epitaxial teams and 7 LED manufacturers. Mr. Victor Sorokin, President, Association of LED Equipments Manufacturers (Ukraine) presented a few facts including pitfalls due to lack of standardization in LED Equipment in Ukraine.

Mr. Varun Sachar, President & CEO of Ventus Energy India Ltd. Mentioned that LED Lighting is around 215 million USD in 2013 and expected to be around 500 million USD by 2014. He also emphasized that India is a price sensitive and quality conscious market. Mr. Cihangir Mihoglu, Import – Export Manager of LAMPTIME, Turkey put forth that Turkey is the most vibrant emerging market in Europe and has great opportunity to be the next manufacturing hub of Europe due to the fact that it has an inexpensive qualified labour force, excellent infrastructure, proximity to European Union and a Government that is very responsive towards setting up of Industries as also a low tax structure. The programme concluded with lunch and the afternoon session comprised of oneto-one procurement meetings with invited buyers & Taiwan suppliers. The invited buyers were taken round the exhibition to see the various products and were introduced to the companies showcasing the products for mutual business.

The PIDA exhibition had more than 500 booths and was an eye opener for MSE’s to witness the latest in Manufacturing Technology and the close links between the Academia and Industries. Taiwan is the only country in Asia Pacific rim countries where SME’s flourish and can be a role model for India growth engine in Manufacturing.

The delegation is grateful to Mr. Shambhu Hakki, DDG of India - Taipei Association who facilitated the contacts of Taiwanese companies who are interested to associate with Indian companies. The delegation visited the manufacturing facility of M/S DECA SwitchLab INC on the morning of 18th of June at Taipei. The delegation was received by Mr. Jack Wu, General Manager, Mr. Tang Huang, Export Sales Dept./ Project Manager & Ms. Myra Ho, Export Sales Department. The meeting started with a presentation on the company and their products. DECA Switchlab INC. manufactures more than 500 different varieties of connectors and switches and have 60% of the world market. After a lunch with the owners of DECA SwitchLab INC., the delegation visited M/S. EPISTAR in Hsinchu Science Park, about 100km from Taipei. EPISTAR is the world’s second largest manufacturer of LED and as a group the turnover is in excess of 4 Billion USD.

Mr. Fushing Lai, Special Assistant, President’s Office, welcomed the delegation and the meeting was attended by Mr. Chao Nien Huang, Vice President Business Development Center & Mr. Ita Lin, Associate Vice President, Marketing Center from EPISTAR. Mr. Fushing Lai gave a presentation on EPISTAR Group and its products which have a world wide market, and demonstrated LED 7w bulb to replace incandescent lamps of 40w. The delegation had an apprehension about the sales potential in the Indian market, because the price of an Incandescent lamp is about Rs. 15 (USD 0.25) whereas a 7w LED bulb would cost about Rs. 540(USD 9.0).

Motech Solar, a global leader in crystalline Silicon panels, met with the delegation in Taipei, where there were fruitful discussions for collaboration in solar panels, solar inverters and other products of mutual interest. Motech Solar already has several business relationships across India and are keen to expand their India footprint across their product portfolio. Both the above visits demonstrated the keen interest of Taiwanese solar companies to create mutually beneficial partnerships with Indian counterparts to expand both geographical and product footprint and to create India-specific products.

Union Minister for MSME Kalraj Mishra in August 2014 said the proposed new policy governing the industrial activity in the MSME sector would be “finalised in the next 3-4 months”.

Speaking at an MSME industry workshop in Hyderabad, he said the details of the new policy highlighted in the recent Budget speech, aimed at “redefining” the MSME sector activity, was being chalked out by a select committee formed with officials from the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance and the MSME ministry.

“The new MSME policy would primarily seek to redefine the sector in terms of annual turnover, capital employed and the labour engaged at the factory. It would also look into tweaking the RBI guidelines for treating nonperforming assets (NPAs) in the MSME sector. We are examining the statespecific policies in place in various states to come out with an effective national MSME policy,” he added.

The policy would also reaffirm the existing laid out mandatory procurement of MSME-originated products by the public sector units (PSU). According to the MSME ministry, the new policy will make it compulsory for PSUs to procure 20 per cent of their need-based products from MSMEs, including four percent from small industry units operated by women entrepreneurs.

Plan to set up 15 tool rooms

On the Centre’s proposal to set up 15 tools rooms in the country, Mishra said the ministry had finalised locations for nine of these and was in the process of evaluating sites for the rest of them. One such tool room would be come up in Visakhapatnam on 20 acres land allotted by the state government. Confirming this, Arvind Patwari, director of MSME Development Institute in Hyderabad, said the proposed facility entailed aninvestment of Rs 120 crore and was capable of training 200-300 trainees.

Launches JobsDialog

Mishra launched JobsDialog, the country’s first mobile-based recruitment solution designed by the city-based TMI Group. According to TMI, the product is designed keeping in view the unique and dynamic talent requirements of MSMEs. JobsDialog has a tie-up with Idea Cellular which provides access to jobseekers who are subscribers of Idea. Alternatively, the jobseekers can give a missed call to register themselves. In turn, TMI short lists people who match the requirement of different SMEs.