Students of engineering, besides acquiring employable skills in the wake of huge investments to be made in the southern districts after the recently held Global Investors’ Meet in Chennai, should also equip themselves with entrepreneurial qualities so that they can start their own ancillary manufacturing units for supplying components to bigger players, K.P. Karthikeyan, Assistant Collector (Training), Tirunelveli, has said.
Participating in a workshop on ‘Upcoming industrial developments in southern Tamil Nadu – Impact of GIM 2015’ at Anna University, Regional Office here on Thursday, Dr. Karthikeyan said the State Government, with the objective of ensuring industrial investments to the tune of 250 billion USD by 2023 in Tamil Nadu, organised the first ever GIM that attracted Rs. 2.42 lakh crore through 98 Memorandum of Understanding and was expected to give employment to 4.70 lakh personnel.
Since the southern districts, especially Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts, were on the verge of getting sizable portion of this investment proposals, good number of industries in manufacturing and power sectors were to be established at AMRL Multiproduct Special Economic Zone at Nanguneri and the Tuticorin – Madurai Industrial Corridor, where there was no dearth for infrastructure facilities such as land, roads, power, water etc. and advantageously placed with better road, rail and air connectivity.
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“This is only a beginning wherein hefty industrial investments are going to be made here. Since major industries are coming up in this region, it will also lead to the birth of hundreds of marginal, small and medium-sized ancillary units supplying components to these companies. Hence, you, entering the most fortunate phase of your life, should be prepared to be an entrepreneur by instituting your own business venture instead of being a job-seeker,” Dr. Karthikeyan said while explaining in detail various heavily subsidised schemes of the Central and the State Governments for starting business ventures, particularly for first generation entrepreneurs.
He informed that work on the State Government’s Skill Development Institute to be established at Gangaikondan like the one at Oragadam on Chennai outskirts, would commence shortly. “This institute will equip you with employable qualities that the industries now need, but your goal should be beyond this point – becoming an entrepreneur,” Dr. Karthikeyan said.
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Director, Bell Pins Private Limited, Sanjay Gunasingh gave a comprehensive account on the GIM’s benefits from the perspective of small scale industrial units and Thomas Antony, managing director, Nova Carbons Private Limited, narrated the expectations of the global industries.
Director, Centre for Energy Studies, Anna University, Chennai spoke on energy for future India and G. Sakthinathan, Dean, Anna University’s Tirunelveli Regional Office urged the students to equip themselves with employable and entrepreneurship qualities to make use of the positive industrial climate prevailing in the State after GIM.