To accelerate growth in Southern States, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern Region, will work with State governments for the development of industrial corridors and push structural reforms on labour, land, and agriculture.
“CII will coordinate with the State governments in implementing the priority projects, by setting up CII-State Government Joint Consultative Forums on the lines of the one in Kerala,” said Vikram Kirloskar, the newly elected chairman of CII Southern Region.
“CII will work with State governments on specific areas such as industrial corridors, structural reforms, unlock major infrastructure projects that are currently stuck with the governments and launch CII-SR Water Alliance on restoration of lakes and ponds in South India,” he said.
Spotlight on Sivakasi
P. Ravichandran, chairman, CII Tamil Nadu State Council and president, Danfoss Industries Pvt. Ltd, said that CII was looking at cluster development.
Citing an example, he said, at Sivakasi they were looking at the fireworks cluster.
“We will help them reach international benchmark, bring in competitiveness and reduce waste. We want them to reach on par with China, which is the largest cracker-maker now,” he added.
CII has come up with a five-point agenda that includes membership engagement, MSME engagement, education and skill development, ease of doing business, and entrepreneurship and start-ups.
Start-up policy
To promote entrepreneurship, CII will discuss start-up policies, special incentives in manufacturing sector and mentoring SC and ST entrepreneurs.
About ease of doing business, CII would focus on moving towards zero physical interfaces for all clearances and no-objection certificates.
It will ensure that onus of clearances rests with the State governments.
