The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) northern region chairman Zubin J Irani said that the new Government elected to the Centre should aim to revive the business confidence, fast track infrastructure projects, focus on reforms and attract investments. He said this while interacting with the media in Dehradun on Wednesday.
He said that the major theme adopted by the CII for 2014-15 is ‘Accelerating Growth in North:Facilitating Investments, Creating Employment’.
CII is working aggressively with the Central and State Governments for the speedy implementation of eastern and western Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs), Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) and Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) to attract investments. CII has taken up with the Government key stalled projects in infrastructure space with Cabinet Committee on Investments, he said. Irani suggested, “There is no alternative to a strong manufacturing sector in creation of millions of jobs required in country and also to leverage the young population. Each one % increase in manufacturing growth creates 20-30 million jobs.”
Speaking about the confederation's agenda for economic development of Uttarakhand, its Uttarakhand chairman Manu Kochhar elaborated that stress has been laid on growth, creation of livelihood and employment even in the mountainous regions.
CII Uttarakhand vice chairman Prashant Mahadik, spoke of CII Foundation’s Uttarakhand disaster relief and rehabilitation initiative which has facilitated organisation of 10 recruitment training/placement drives, training for 50 youth in industry certified programmes and an IT Centre cum CAD lab built at Srinagar (Garhwal).