Centre-State Communication Gap - 'What is UAM?' asks most of the MSMEs from South
Updated: Nov 27, 2015 03:20:23pm
Chennai, Nov 27 (KNN) Although more than 55 thousand MSMEs have registered themselves using the Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM), entrepreneurs from most of the states in the south are unaware as to what UAM is. This clearly brings out the communication gap between the Centre and the States where the MSME Ministry has lagged to disseminate the information upto the bottom of the pyramid.
KNN, while conducting a survey on the problems related to the UAM, found that most of the entrepreneurs and industry associations from the southern states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh are unaware about UAM.
UAM is surely a big move to do away with the complicated registration process for the entrepreneurs and for ease of doing business bring in a single page online registration form.
“We came to know about the UAM when MSME Secretary Anup K Pujari visited the state last week,” TANSTIA President Muthusami C said.
“Even the officials from the District Industries Centre (DIC) don’t know about EM-I & EM-II,” he said adding that he would be urging the state MSME Secretary next week, during a meeting, to create an awareness campaign about UAM.
Muthusami said that Tanstia is organizing an awareness programme in the next 10 days to tell the MSMEs about UAM.
Even Karnataka entrepreneurs are unacquainted about one of the biggest initiatives taken by the Union MSME Ministry.
“I don’t know what this UAM is? What is the objective of it, I am clueless,” said Chidananda Rajamane, Immediate Past President of Kassia.
He opined that the centre, through the state government and DICs, should have carried an awareness campaign about the memorandum.
Priya Puranik, Belgaum based entrepreneur cum Secretary, Laghu Udyog Bharati said that she would take up the issue with the government to apprise them about the situation and create awareness programmes on the same.
This has totally put a question mark over the entire objective of UAM to register the MSMEs and pass on the benefits of the schemes/ initiatives to the units at the bottom of the pyramid across the states.
How will the government include the micro, small and medium units from across India in its initiative like Make in India and Digital India if it fails to disseminate the news about the breakthrough initiatives to them. (KNN Bureau)
KNN, while conducting a survey on the problems related to the UAM, found that most of the entrepreneurs and industry associations from the southern states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh are unaware about UAM.
UAM is surely a big move to do away with the complicated registration process for the entrepreneurs and for ease of doing business bring in a single page online registration form.
“We came to know about the UAM when MSME Secretary Anup K Pujari visited the state last week,” TANSTIA President Muthusami C said.
“Even the officials from the District Industries Centre (DIC) don’t know about EM-I & EM-II,” he said adding that he would be urging the state MSME Secretary next week, during a meeting, to create an awareness campaign about UAM.
Muthusami said that Tanstia is organizing an awareness programme in the next 10 days to tell the MSMEs about UAM.
Even Karnataka entrepreneurs are unacquainted about one of the biggest initiatives taken by the Union MSME Ministry.
“I don’t know what this UAM is? What is the objective of it, I am clueless,” said Chidananda Rajamane, Immediate Past President of Kassia.
He opined that the centre, through the state government and DICs, should have carried an awareness campaign about the memorandum.
Priya Puranik, Belgaum based entrepreneur cum Secretary, Laghu Udyog Bharati said that she would take up the issue with the government to apprise them about the situation and create awareness programmes on the same.
This has totally put a question mark over the entire objective of UAM to register the MSMEs and pass on the benefits of the schemes/ initiatives to the units at the bottom of the pyramid across the states.
How will the government include the micro, small and medium units from across India in its initiative like Make in India and Digital India if it fails to disseminate the news about the breakthrough initiatives to them. (KNN Bureau)
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