K Ravi Kumar, director Department of Industries, Government of Jharkhand Tuesday said that ‘Make in Jharkhand’ is a mission statement and the Government is working towards making policy reforms to ensure that the mission is realised . He further elaborated that two major bottlenecks for the industry, which are land and infrastructure, are being seriously addressed and policy reforms can be seen by January 2016.
Kumar was addressing the conference on ‘Manufacturing Excellence’ organised by Confederation of Indian Industry at Beldih Club. He highlighted that the Government is working towards making industry-friendly environment to facilitate growth in the State. Without addressing MSME sector , equitable growth is not possible, he reiterated.
Tarun Daga ,chairman CII Jharkhand State Council delivered the welcome address. Daga highlighted that maufacturing processes will determine the growth and development of the country. He further suggested that the Manufacturing sector of this region will have to quickly adopt the game changer technologies to take advantage of the incremental growth trend.
He further pointed out that manufacturing of products at par with the global standards, increase volume of production in minimum time with best possible resource utilisation methods, adoption of hybrid technology; advanced robotics; PlC, flexibility in manufacturing process for quick changeover options and best possible customer service mechanisms are the key to achieve manufacturing excellence.
He also suggested that skilled manpower will be one of the key factors going forward.In this context , the State of Jharkhand has taken significant lead and has opened 4 CII PARFI Skill Gurukuls and two more are there in the pipeline.
T.V.Narendran Deputy Chairman CII Eastern Region, pointed out that technology aspects are changing the manufacturing processes and it is therefore imperative that digital manufacturing is integrated into the companies processes.
He also suggested that industry should take measures to absorb the demographic dividend in the country. Industry should take upon them to involve and occupy the semi skilled and the skilled workforce of the country.
He further stressed that strong MSME sector would ensure greater and balanced growth for the economy.