Under the CSR initiative NSIC Distributed Masks, Gloves and Hand Sanitizers to the different J J Clusters of New Delhi Municipal Council area. The said initiative was coordinated by Shri. S. K. Shankar, Branch Head, NSIC (Naraina).

NSIC in this challenging time, during this world pandemic has taken up the various initiatives to fight against COVID 19 by facilitating MSMEs. NSIC has expanded its Horizon and made its foray into Health Care sector. Recently, NSIC (Hyderabad) in association with the State Medical & Health Department, Telangana & Telangana Medical Services & Infrastructure Development Corporation (TMSIDC) through its associate MSMEs has supplied PPE Kits – 20,000 Nos, 3 Ply Masks – 5,00,000 Nos and Sanitizers (500 ml) – 50,000 Bottles to various hospitals and medical stores spread across the Telangana State. The MSMEs in the state of Telengana manufacture, distribute and deliver the specified quantities in a time bound manner successfully to the various designated locations in the Telangana State. The Government of Telegana has reciprocated the efforts of NSIC in encouraging MSMEs with appreciation.

The various activities of NTSC, Rajkot were appraised to by Shri. P.K. Jha, ZGM (Central) and Shri. U. Venkatachalapathi, GM (NTSC-Head). During their visit, CMD and DPM also interacted with the representatives of Industrial associations to access the business potential. The employees of NTSC, Rajkot were also interacted and motivated to enhance the business.

Shri.P.Udayakumar,Director(P&M),NSIC while interacting with the participants of the "Workshop on etendering through GeM for Business Generation "held on 29th February 2020 held at NSIC Campus, Okhla Industrial Estate ,New Delhi encouraged the NSIC Branches to participate Online for increasing business for MSEs under the Consortia and Tender Marketing Scheme. Also present on the occasion were Shri.Manoj Lal, Senior General Manager, Shri O.P.Singh,Centre Head, NTSC (Okhla ), Shri. Sanjay Sharif, DGM, NSIC , Shri .Deepak Gehlot, Director (GEM), Government of India. The 1st edition of GeM Workshop was very useful and interactive and a big methodology of learning for the NSIC employees .All Branch Head and Accounts Head from NCR and Noida region and officials from different division of Head Office participated. Similar Workshop are being organized in respective Zones across the country so that NSIC can facilitate the participation of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)in Government Tenders in a enormous way.

Shri. P. Udayakumar, Director (P & M) was the Chairperson for Technical Session on "Challenges & Opportunities for India MSMEs during the 7th MSMEs National Excellence Awards & Summit on MSMEs - Growth Engine of India's Economy organised by ASSOCHAM on Thursday, 30th January 2020 at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi.

Seminar on e-Mobility & Charging Infrastructure organised by NSIC Bangalore with Laghu Udyog Bharti on 27 February 2020,lighting of lamp by Shri.P.Ravikumar ,CGM, South-1 NSIC in the Presence of Mr.Jagdish Shettar, Honorable Minister for Large and Medium Industries, GoK,Mr. Gaurav Gupta , IAS, Principal Secretary, Commerce and Industry, Mr.Srikanta Dutta, President, LUB-K and other dignitaries.

NSIC, South-1 , entered into MOU with MRPL for supply of Bitumen to MSMEs through NSIC. Shri.P.Ravikumar, CGM,South-1 NSIC ,exchanging MOU with Shri D.N.Soral CGM, MRPL at Bangalore in the Presence of Mr.Jagdish Shettar, Honorable Minister for Large and Medium Industries, Government of Karnataka,Mr. Gaurav Gupta , IAS, Principal Secretary, Commerce and Industry,GoK, Mr.Srikanta Dutta, President, LUB, senior officials from MRPL and other dignitaries.

NSSHO-Bangalore organized “AWARENESS ON SPECIAL CREDIT LINKED CAPITAL SUBSIDY SCHEME” today i.e, 24-2-2020. The programme was attended by the following Bankers, DIC & Associations. 1. Sh.K.Balaji.S.S., AGM, Syndicate Bank 2. Sh.T.Ramesh, AGM, Canara Bank 3. Sh.K.Srinivas Prabhu, C.M, IOB 4. Ms.Swathi.B, Manager, SIDBI 5. Sh.Balagopalan & Ramesh Rao, CRMD, BOI 6. Sh.Shivalingappa Poojari, J.D, DIC (Urban) 7. Sh.Narendra Babu, J.D, DIC (Rural) 8. Sh.Raja Naik, President, DICCI, South 9. SH.P.Ravi Kumar, CGM, NSIC, South-I Around 110 SC-ST Entrepreneurs were present for the said programme.

MoU signed between MMTC & NSIC on 19.02.2020 for supply of Imported Non-Ferrous Metals to MSME through NSIC.Shri Ved Prakash, CMD - MMTC, Shri Ashwani Sondhi, Director - MMTC & Shri P.Udayakumar, Director(P&M) - NSIC were present when the MoU was signed by Shri Paramjeet Singh, General Manager -SG (BD) with Shri Khushinder Nath, General Manager - MMTC.

Shri. P. Udayakuamar, Director (P &M) was member of the Panel discussion held during Digital MSME Workshop held on 18th Feb 2020 organised by DC Office, Ministry of MSME, Government of India in association with Common Services Centre (CSC)

NSIC bids farewell to Shri.Satvinder Singh, CGM(Tech),NSIC. Shri.Satvinder Singh, joined NSIC in 1989 and grew up the ladder handling various assignments both in India and Abroad. He is joining NITCO(Chandigarh)as Managing Director. The NSIC family wishes him bright future

A One day Training program on “Digital Marketing and Behavioral Sciences” was conducted at NSIC- Technical Services Centre, Neemka on 6th February,2020 for Artisans participating in Suraj Kund Mela, 2020 under financial support and facilitation by NABARD. Over fifty Artisans from across the country participated in the program which commenced with lamp lighting session and welcome speech Shri Rajesh Kumar, Centre Head who also briefly described the NSIC schemes and the role of Technical Services Centre. Duirng the program Senior Officers from NABARD were also present. Shri Vijay Kumar Nagra, AGM briefed the participants about the schemes of NABARD and it’s role in rural development. Technical Session on Digital Marketing was delivered by Shri Amit Goel, Director , M/s Mobeology Communications Pvt. Ltd. , Faridabad. He explained about the importance and intricacies of Digital Marketing for growth and development of businesses of the Artisans. He also explained as to how the Artisans in their respective areas of operation can take use of Digital marketing despite technological challenges and limitations in rural areas. Shri Pankaj Kumar Trehan, from Institutions of Engineers, Faridabad, explained about the marketing portal for digital marketing and he also covered the features of MSME portal, NSIC’s B2B schemes to help Artisans to display their product to global market, Importance of the portal to their business and for marketing their products at their respective workplace with reduced marketing cost. The last session on “Behavioral Sciences” was taken up by Ms. Anudeep, Faculty and well explained their importance & role in the business. All the Artisans were very much impressed with the training program on Digital Marketing and expressed their utmost satisfaction and resolve to take the advantage of Digital marketing to expand their business through Digital model. In the vote of thanks offered by Shri Sanjeev Tripathi, DGM, NABARD he greatly appreciated the conduct of the program for its relevance and advantage to the Artisans and said to conduct more such programs in other districts of Haryana by engaging the expertise of NSIC-TSC, Neemka (Faridabad).