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In the next 5 years, we hope to help 1.5 million SMEs improve quality of their products: QCI

Updated: Aug 07, 2015 04:00:06pm
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New Delhi, Aug 7 (KNN) There was a pressing need to Make India an easy place to do business, so that manufacturing can easily get established and Excel in manufacturing, DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant said here today.
 
In this context he lauded Zero Defect Zero Effect (ZED) movement being initiated by Quality Council of India (QCI) which will change the manufacturing landscape of the country transforming the completely MSME sector.
 
Celebrating the 10th year of National Quality Conclaves, the Quality Council of India (QCI) organized today a mega Conclave which was inaugurated by Kant.
 
The theme of this year’s Conclave is “Creating an Ecosystem for World Class Quality”. The Conclave is being co-hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Quality Austria Central Asia (QACA) with American Society for Quality (ASQ) as the knowledge partner.
 
Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman of QCI, mentioned the initiative of QCI to elevate the quality level of more than 1.5 Million MSMEs in a time of 5 years to support the Make in India Campaign.
 
"In the next five years, we hope to help 1.5 million SMEs in improving the quality of their products," he said adding QCI would seek help of global institutions in achieving this goal.
 
Delivering the keynote address, DIPP Secretary Kant said, "We have created an e-Biz platform where we are integrating (central and state services). 14 services of Government of India have been integrated."

"But over the period of time, we will integrate all the state and central government services so that there is one paper and one point of payment to make India an easy and simple place to do business," he added.

Kant highlighted that India needs to achieve 9 to 10 per cent per annum growth for 3 decades which would lead to transformation of the nation & poverty being eliminated.
 
He cited the examples of countries like Japan, Korea, China who grew in the back of manufacturing. India’s growth is on the back of the services and Growth of the services sector, without stress on manufacturing would result in skipping the industrialization era.
 
He stressed that manufacturing creates job opportunities and the job challenges can be overcome through growth in manufacturing.
 
In the inaugural session, QCI presented awards across sectors for promotion of best practices & creating world-class quality benchmarks to reach new levels of efficiency & productivity.
 
Over 1000 delegates from India and abroad, including quality professionals, industry managers, WHO representatives and senior officials from Central and State Governments, are participating in this event. (KNN Bureau)

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