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KASSIA proposes varsity for small enterprises

BANGALORE: To create a trained and skilled workforce for small-scale industries, the Karnataka Small Scale Industries’ Association (KASSIA) has suggested to the State Government to establish micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) university on the lines of agricultural university.

KASSIA president Arvind N. Burji and general secretary Prakash N. Raikar told presspersons on Friday that MSME sector, the biggest employer after the agricultural sector, was facing severe shortage of employees trained in specific requirements of the sector.

Establishing a MSME university would not only help create trained manpower but also increase job opportunities. Besides, in the long run, the university could focus on creating MSME entrepreneurs.

KASSIA, the representative body of small-scale industries, would support the Government in establishing the proposed university, Mr. Burji and Mr. Raikar said.

Explaining the planned programmes of KASSIA this year, Mr. Burji said a KASSIA delegation would accompany Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to AKKA conference in the U.S. to identify opportunities.

The delegation would leave for the U.S. on September 28. A business delegation of KASSIA would visit Santiago, Chile, in October and another to China in March 2009.

KASSIA planned to hold a national MSME exhibition and two buyer-seller meets this year. To educate the entrepreneurs of various MSME schemes of the State and Union Government, three awareness programmes would be conducted in mofussil areas, he said.

KASSIA had made some suggestions to the Revised State Policy on MSME for 2008-13. It had suggested to the State Government to induct KASSIA representatives in the single window agencies at district-level and State-level.

The association suggested creation of a secretariat for the MSME sector and come out with separate policies for MSME product procurement, captive power generation, sick units rehabilitation and improvement of private industrial estates. Besides, it suggested that an empowered committee comprising KASSIA representatives be constituted for monitoring and implementation of the revised MSME policy, Mr. Burji said.

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