Quality standards for industry associations to begin tomorrow
Updated: Aug 22, 2014 12:19:00pm
New Delhi, Aug 22 (KNN) The Quality Council of India (QCI) will be launching tomorrow the accreditation standards for the industry associations and chambers, a move which will help them improve their capacity to do advocacy better and take newer initiatives for their members.
The system of accreditation standards for the business membership organisations BMO (Business Membership Organizations) will be formally launched by MSME Secretary Madhav Lal here.
“The objective of accreditation is to establish a standard of organizational competency amongst the BMOs, at the same time enabling a mechanism for government, banks, large buyers, national and international agencies to partner with better performing BMOs,” said National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET) in a statement.
The Accreditation will help the BMOs to assess its objectives, resources, program of work, processes and procedures, achievements and impacts; and plan for more effective and sustainable initiatives, it added.
Some of the benefits of Accreditation will be that – it will be a public announcement from QCI about the superior quality adhering to standards and quality; the process will help various government ministries (particularly the Ministry of MSME) to identify and select better performing BMOs for incentivizing, in a rational and unambiguous manner; it will help in leveraging funds from national and international agencies etc.
In order to bring greater transparency in the functioning of BMOs, while ensuring standard of quality and performance, ‘Voluntary Accreditation of BMOs’ is being introduced to ensure minimum standards of governance, operations, quality and performance amongst them, NABET said.
NABET, QCI with support from the MSME umbrella programme (jointly implemented by the office of DC MSME, Ministry of MSME, SIDBI and GIZ) has developed accreditation criteria for BMOs in India aligned to international best practices.
BMOs or the industry associations have the potential to play a key role in aggregating the need and demand of micro and small units and help their members in overcoming several challenges faced by MSMEs whether in accessing factors of production like finance, material, human resource or technology or in accessing markets and public or private support services, said NABET.
They are also an important intermediary for cost effective outreach to MSME for all stakeholders including government, it added.
Accreditation system will follow a graded approach for recognition and BMOs will be accredited under three types – Diamond, Gold and Silver bases upon the performance of the BMO.
NABET provides accreditation to schools, training course providers and auditors that that meet the Board’s criteria and also offers a mechanism for their international recognition. Recently Ministry of Labour and Employment have taken a decision to make NABET accreditation mandatory for Industrial Training Institutes seeking NCVT affiliation. (KNN/SD)
The system of accreditation standards for the business membership organisations BMO (Business Membership Organizations) will be formally launched by MSME Secretary Madhav Lal here.
“The objective of accreditation is to establish a standard of organizational competency amongst the BMOs, at the same time enabling a mechanism for government, banks, large buyers, national and international agencies to partner with better performing BMOs,” said National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET) in a statement.
The Accreditation will help the BMOs to assess its objectives, resources, program of work, processes and procedures, achievements and impacts; and plan for more effective and sustainable initiatives, it added.
Some of the benefits of Accreditation will be that – it will be a public announcement from QCI about the superior quality adhering to standards and quality; the process will help various government ministries (particularly the Ministry of MSME) to identify and select better performing BMOs for incentivizing, in a rational and unambiguous manner; it will help in leveraging funds from national and international agencies etc.
In order to bring greater transparency in the functioning of BMOs, while ensuring standard of quality and performance, ‘Voluntary Accreditation of BMOs’ is being introduced to ensure minimum standards of governance, operations, quality and performance amongst them, NABET said.
NABET, QCI with support from the MSME umbrella programme (jointly implemented by the office of DC MSME, Ministry of MSME, SIDBI and GIZ) has developed accreditation criteria for BMOs in India aligned to international best practices.
BMOs or the industry associations have the potential to play a key role in aggregating the need and demand of micro and small units and help their members in overcoming several challenges faced by MSMEs whether in accessing factors of production like finance, material, human resource or technology or in accessing markets and public or private support services, said NABET.
They are also an important intermediary for cost effective outreach to MSME for all stakeholders including government, it added.
Accreditation system will follow a graded approach for recognition and BMOs will be accredited under three types – Diamond, Gold and Silver bases upon the performance of the BMO.
NABET provides accreditation to schools, training course providers and auditors that that meet the Board’s criteria and also offers a mechanism for their international recognition. Recently Ministry of Labour and Employment have taken a decision to make NABET accreditation mandatory for Industrial Training Institutes seeking NCVT affiliation. (KNN/SD)
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