Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) department Secretary Panchanan Das on Monday emphasised that the MSME entrepreneurs take advantage of the new export policy and produce and export the items that the market wants now in order to help the State grow.
Das said this while addressing a seminar ‘Export- as an engine for growth” organised by the Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) on the occasion of national-level exhibition, ‘Odisha Moves Forward’.
“The new export policy is very entrepreneur-friendly. The Industrialists should produce items according to market requirement and thus help the State grow,” the Secretary said. He also urged the engineering and management students of the State to look at the big picture of entrepreneurship stating, “Wealth creation stops with jobs and starts with entrepreneurship.”
In her presentation Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO)’s DDG Debdutta Nandwani informed that India has only six in the top 50 most exports in the world. She emphasised that the food processing industry should maintain international standard packaging to achieve wider acceptability in exports.
UCCI’s International Trade Committee Chairman Rajen Padhi presided over the session. Among others, Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade DK Tomar, Bank of India’s Zonal Manager Suresh Chandra Sarangi, business development head of Vishakha Container Terminal Pvt ltd P Balkrishnan, Chief Operations Manager of East Coast Railways GD Bramha and Directorate of Export Promotion and Marketing Director BK Das participated in the seminar.