A 28-member International delegation from 14 countries deliberated upon Human Resource Development and Entrepreneurship Education and Training at CII-AVANTHA Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs on Tuesday.
The delegates — who were from the Government and NGOs — agreed to the similarity of HR and leadership related issues concerning the developing countries. The delegates from Afghanistan, Ghana, lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Niger, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sudan, South Africa, Mauritius and Zimbabwe attended the programme.
The impact of various programmes conducted by CII-Avantha Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs was also detailed during the session.
Some of benefits are - Joint ventures and MoUs worth Rs31,400 lakh, exports of Rs5,000 lakh have been facilitated through Indo-German Manager training programme.
As much as 100 and 300 per cent increase in turnover recorded by participant companies, Rs7,000 lakh annual savings reported from about 90 individual companies through Energy Management Services in last five years.
Nearly 720 organisation 1,700 Managers benefitted from 24 corrosion related training programmes.
R Narayanan, Head, CII-AVANTHA Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs, while enumerating various services of the center, stressed that simple practices like trusting employees, mentoring them for progress has a significant impact on their morale which eventually culminates into greater productivity and thus enhanced profits.”
The center has impacted 2,452 SMEs through formation of 241 clusters along with strategic partners as on date.