The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with Ministry of MSME, Government of India, organised an awareness programme - Quality management systems/quality technology tools (QMS/QTT) for micro and small enterprises of Chhattisgarh here on Tuesday.
The programme envisaged the micro & small enterprises (MSEs) to understand and adopt the latest quality management standards (QMS) and quality technology tools (QTT) so as to become more competitive and produce better quality products at competitive prices, a CII press release issued here stated.
Vikas Bajaj, counsellor, CII Avantha Centre for Excellence for SMEs briefed the manufacturers that adoption of these tools will enable MSEs to achieve: Efficient use of resources, improvement in product quality, reduction in rejection and re-work in the course of manufacturing, reduction in building up inventory at the various stages in the form of raw materials, work-in-progress, finished components, finished products, etc.
Earlier, during the inaugural session, Arvind Jain, former chairman, CII Chhattisgarh State Council urged Chhattisgarh’s industry to go for modern qality improvement tools like QMS/QMT to sustain and enlarge their current entity. He said that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to emerge as big time growth drivers of the economy and as harbingers of employment generation. ‘This is a message that industry in general and the SME sector in particular ought to believe in and make a reality’, he said.
Statistics show that already Indian MSME sector has played a pivotal role as an engine of economic growth, manufacturing output, exports and job creation, Jain said. PM Parlewar, Director, MSME-DI Raipur, in his address spoke highlighted that there are encouraging schemes of subsidy for quality upgradation especially entities who are adopting quality tools like QMS and QTT.