Meeting on Strategies for Growth of the Organization for scaling to exponential heights of Business was conducted by Director (P&M) on 11.05.2019 at NTSC Chennai premises . The deliberations were on the scaling of existing business and adding new verticals for the growth of the Organization. All Officers of NTSC Chennai and Officers of Zone –III in Chennai attended.

Smt. Alka Arora, Joint Secretary (SME) and Sh. P.Udayakumar Director (P&M) NSIC visited Bangalore on 07-08, May 2019 and met Secretary, MSME, Government of Karnataka and Commissioner of Industries, Government of Karnataka and held detailed discussion about enhancing the reach of Ministry of MSME schemes with the active involvement and support of State Government. Also discussed about the support of State Government for reviving the MSME DEFEXPO - 2019. Secretary, MSME, GOK, assured to provide all the required support from the Government of Karnataka. Also discussed about the NSSH activities and sought the closer participation of State Government Institutes/Departments to enhance the SC-ST beneficiaries.For reviving the MSME DEFEXPO an Interactive meeting was held with MSME associations office Bearers of all the leading associations of Karnataka viz., KASSIA, FKCCI, Peenya Industries Association, COWE, AWAKE, eMERG,LUB - Karnataka, FISME, ASSOCHEM (Souther Region), CLIK and DHEEP. All the participants gave their suggestions and valuable feedback and appreciated the initiative take by the Ministry for deciding to hold such first consultation meeting at Bangalore.Visited Zonal office and interacted with the officers of the Corporation . CGM, South - I made presentation on achievements of Zone South - I and briefed about the significant achievements of 2018-2019.

A meeting was held with the Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai for collaboration on various MSME interventions like Incubators, Assistance for Start-Ups and introducing Entrepreneurship as a subject in the Engineering courses etc.

Two days residential training program on Self – Empowerment was conducted by Brahma Kumaris at the Om Shanti Retreat Centre, Gurgaon on 03-04 May, 2019 for our senior Management including Director (P&M) and Director (Finance). 40 officers from NSIC and 5 officers from Ministry of MSME attended the program. The topics which were covered during the program were Overcoming Ego, Conflict Resolution, Building Teams – Accumulating Success and Enhancing Decision Making Skills. Mr. Ram Mohan Mishra, CMD NSIC and AS & DC (MSME) addressed the participants and shared his thoughts during the closing session of the program on 04th May, 2019.

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Shri.P.Udayakumar,DPM inaugurates "Self Empowerment" Training Program for Senior officers of NSIC organised at Brahamkumari Retreat Centre (Pataudi,Gurgaon). Also present on this occasion was Shri.AK.Mittal, Director (Finance ), NSIC and officers of MSME -DI and Centre Head of Brahamkumari (Russia) and Centre Head Brahama Kumari (Gurgaon). 37 NSIC are participating the training program.

Director (P&M), NSIC met Sh. Dharmendra Pratap Yadav, Secretary MSME, Govt. of Tamilnadu at his office and discussed about the possibilities of partnering with Tamilnadu Small Industries Development Corporation Limited (TANSIDCO) & MSME Department, Govt. of Tamilnadu for commercial and Promotional activities. Secretary expressed his acceptance to promote the growth of MSMEs in the state. It was decided to share the draft MoU prepared by NSIC with the Dept. of MSME, Govt. of TN for relevant commercial operation. Further Director (P&M) had a meeting with Branch heads of BO Ambattur & Chennai. Director (P&M) also visited Central Footwear Training Institute (CFTI) and distributed tool kits to the trainees who were attending the 6 months course training on Footwear Design and Production. Director (P&M) along with Zonal Head, South-III visited NSSHO-Chennai, reviewed their performance for the year 2018-19 and enquired about the customers visiting the office and advised to prepare the success stories of the beneficiaries of NSSHO Chennai.

NTSC Hyderabad got approval from SBTET , Telangana (State Board Of Technical Education And Training) for conducting various certificate course in engineering department which includes mechanical, electrical, electronics, computer science and management disciplines. duration of course is minimum of 6 months to 1 year. At the end of successful completion of course we support them getting placement in core field.

Shri. P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing) had a meeting with State Bank of India officals Sh. Haridas K.V., Deputy Managing Director (Retail Business) and Sh. Narayanan Sadanandan, Chief General Manager (SME & Supply Chain Finance). Director (P&M) presented the existing NSIC schemes available for MSMEs with main focus on Financing to MSMEs, RMA against BG, and Bank Tie up. Director (P&M) mainly discussed on the point that how SBI bank would like to have more tie up with NSIC for circular finance / inventory finance for MSMEs. Scope for New Vertical for Machine Selling was discussed with SBI officials. Discussion was also held for Micro Finance, as SBI is having the chain of agencies at district level. SBI officers pleased to inform that the same chain can be utilized by NSIC for reaching to MSMEs under to provide assistance under our various schemes. SBI officers found very positive and hopeful to join to work together for MSMEs and assured full fledge cooperation to work together for the mutual benefits of organization. Shri. P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing) also had a meeting with Shri Pankaj Gadgil, Head (Self Employed Segment), ICICI Bank and Shri Jatin Govil, Product Head (Business & Loans), ICICI Bank. Main thrust during the discussion was on the subject that how ICICI bank would like to have more tie up with NSIC for circular finance / inventory finance for MSMEs. Mr. Gadgil explained about the bill discounting where NSIC can also extend the same facility for MSME. Mr. Gadgil explained about their facilities available for MSMEs and also informed that Plat-form of ICICI is available even for export oriented unit where NSIC can join with ICICI. Mr. Gadgil expressed that More MSMEs can be introduced to ICICI bank from the registered units available under Data Bank and ICICI bank can extend the loan facility by confirming the credit worthiness based on their transactions carried out by MSME units with NSIC. Meeting was ended on a positive note with assurance of full fledge cooperation to work together for the mutual benefits of MSMEs.

Sh. P.Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing) NSIC held a meeting with Shri M Alwas, Secretary - Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association and their office bearers in the premises of Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association – NAWA in Kothagiri, Nilgiris District along with Shri G.Kannan, Senior Branch Manager, Branch Office-Coimbatore. The Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association is rendering various services for the development of the society such as Eco Tourism, Hospital Care, Self Help Group Development, Herbal Cultivation and TEA Cultivation etc. A meeting was held with NAWA members wherein the schemes of NSIC were discussed to enhance their business ventures. Undersigned individually interacted with all the 40 NAWA members who had attended the meeting on 20.04.2019 regarding their activities and provided suggestions to improve their line of activity.

Shri. P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing) was the Chief Guest and inaugurated the workshop on “National workshop on Entrepreneurship and Start-up” on April 6, 2019 organised by UGC-Community College, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. Shri P. Udayakumar delivered the keynote address and spoke about the future of Start-ups in India and how new entrepreneurs can be benefitted from the “Emerging Areas for Employment”” like E-Commerce , Artificial Intelligence (IA)- ITES- ITES, Information Technology Enabled Service , Internet of Things (IoT) , Robotics, Defence production, Food processing, Organic Farming, Web Designing, Branding etc DPM also gave an insight on the present Job scenario in India & options available for the livelihood. In this regard various schemes of Ministry of MSME and NSIC for the promotion of Entrepreneurship in India were explained to the audience. Workshop was attended by more than 60 faculty members and students of University.

Sh. P. Udayakumar, Director (Planning & Marketing), NSIC welcomed Dr. Thomas Chandy, Principal Secretary, Commerce & Industries Department, Government of Sikkim at NSIC Technical Service Centre, New Delhi. Dr. Chandy was taken around NSIC’s Rapid Incubation Centre and Advanced Training Centre. Dr. Chandy found NSIC’s Rapid Incubation Program to be very appropriate for engaging Youth of Sikkim State in creating employment opportunities and skill up gradation through Advanced Training Centre. Sh. Satvinder Singh, Chief General Manager (Tech.), and Mr. O.P. Singh, Head, NTSC- Okhla were also present during the visit. Principal Secretary also visited Head office and had a detailed discussion with NSSH hub and KPMG team in presence of DPM. He was briefed about the various Capacity building programs/initiatives taken up by NSIC under NSSH to promote aspiring and existing SC ST Entrepreneurs to start or scale up their businesses. Dr. Thomas appreciated the efforts of NSIC and desired that Commerce & Industries department , Govt. of Sikkim and NSIC should collaborate for conducting the capacity building programs for the aspiring and existing SC ST Entrepreneurs of Sikkim.