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.

NSIC, (Guwahati) observed 10th Public sector Day (10th April to 16Th April, 2019) to project the contribution of the Public sector enterprise and their effort towards fulfilling New India Vision 2022 and organized a Seminar on “Empowering Youth of North-East through NSIC”. The participants were divided into 3 groups to share their innovative ideas and present to the panels and participants in the program. Each group were asked to create their group leader who will present their group thought and inputs. Group leaders presented their point base on their group discussion and sharing on the point “Empowering Youth of North-East through NSIC”. The program was very interactive, new ideas and input come up from the participants and was greatly appreciated by the participants in the seminar. 35 youths participated and appreciated the efforts of NSIC in the country to highlight the role of PSUs

The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) observed the 10th ‘Public Sector Week’ from 10th April- 16th April- 2019 across Zonal Offices, Branch Offices ,NTSC offices in the country. NSIC employees participated in a painting competition on topics such as Contribution of Public Sector, Environment, Cleanliness ,Role of NSIC ,etc to create better awareness amongst employees about brand public sector & its significant contribution , achievements and their efforts towards fulfilling New India Vision 2022.

Observing the 10th ‘Public Sector Week’ from 10th April- 16th April- 2019 the NSIC employees across Zonal Offices, Branch Offices ,NTSC offices in the country actively participated in essay writing competitions to inculcate better awareness amongst employees about brand public sector & significant contribution and achievements and their efforts towards fulfilling New India Vision 2022.

Shri P. Udayakumar, Director(P&M), NSIC was the Guest of Honour and delivered the keynote address at the Inauguration of “The Institute of Indian Foundrymen” Delhi’s new office premise on 12th April, 2019. He highlighted the emerging opportunities in the sectors of Defence, Railways, Power, Agro and Infra sector for the Foundry industry where it is the mother Industry of all the Industries.

Shri. D.P.S.Negi, Economic Advisor (Finance), Ministry of MSME & Government Nominee Director of NSIC, visited NTSC, Chennai on 10/4/2019. He was briefed about the various activities and achievements of the centre including the award received from State government of Tamilnadu as Best Training Provider in the state.. Shri. D.P.S.Negi, interact with the officers and was much impressed on the reach of NTSC Chennai’s Services. He appreciated the efforts of centre and was keen on the various new projects submitted for upgradation of the centre , in CFS & Training .

Observing Public Sector Day, (10th April-16th April 2019)

During his visit to Bhiwadi on 3rd April 2019 , Dr. A.K.Panda, Secretary, MSME interacted with Shri Parveen Kumar Gandhi, Sr. Branch Manager, NSIC (Bhiwadi) and appreciated the efforts of NSIC in reaching out to MSMEs of the Bhiwadi region. Shri Piyush Srivastava, ADC ,DC(MSME ) was also present on the occasion. A tree plantation was also carried out by Secretary, MSME at the premises of MSME - Technology Centre, Chopanki, Bhiwadi. The new MSME Technology centre (Bhiwadi) has been set up for imparting training among the industrial units and educational institutes in the upcoming Bhiwadi Belt.

NSIC (Chennai) organises VDP in association with Indian Railways on 29th March 2019. Shri T.Venkateswaran ,Zonal Head, NSIC ( South - 3) highlighted the benefits of NSIC schemes to the participants. 29 MSMEs participated in this program and showed keen interest in NSIC single point registration scheme. The Indian Railways was represented by Shri Charles Christopher, ICF (Chennai).

NSIC (Lucknow) in association with CIPET participates in a Seminar on the topic Emerging Trends in MSME sector on 14th March 2019. The program was organised by MSME-Development Institute. Shri A.K.Srivastava, Branch Head, NSIC (Lucknow) highlighted the NSIC schemes to the participants of this program.