Executive Committee election at Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FJCCI) is, after long time, taking a turn which appears to be not only deciding for teams in battle-field for the year, but also for future of the largest trade body in State in times to come. With team Ranjeet Garodia trying to lure traders’ fraternity with keeping present issues before Chamber, team Mukul Taneja is banking upon presenting the situations which led to the Chamber where it is and a long term vision which could change the way it needed to be seen in future.
“Vision for Chamber going to be the most important factor this year. See where FJCCI stands today. I have been in Bokaro today and heading towards Ramgarh. But what I have senses is that trader fraternity has started developing a notion that FJCCI is working actually like Ranchi Chamber of Commerce, and has completely lost its dignity of being largest trade body in State. We need to restore that first,” said Mukul Taneja on Wednesday.
However, Ranjeet Garodia appears taking things little differently. “Our prime focus is to promote trade and industry in State. Once this is done, the Chamber will itself regain its glory. We will have to look upon issues which traders have been facing. Every other city is facing heavy traffic jam and we will have to force government feel the requirement of by-passes and ring roads in every city so that commercial vehicles neither interrupt city traffic nor get interrupted,” said Ranjeet Garodia on Wednesday.
Clearly, both the teams, team Ranjeet Garodia and team Mukul Taneja, have been contesting this year election on two different lines. While Taneja stresses upon long term vision, unity and taking help of professionals in due course to reach upon ultimate goal of making FJCCI stronger, Garodia has tried perfectly placing day-to-day issues before traders to take Chamber forward.
However, there are certain things both converge upon as far as role of FJCCI in State is concerned. “Frankly speaking, the Chamber has somewhere lost its voice in policy making. Governments during recent times have seemingly forgotten importance of Chamber and indulging it in pre-decision making sessions. What we see now is that Chamber officials struggling to get its voice heard only after a policy has been already framed. We will have to unite first and force government listens to us in pre-policy making sessions,” said Taneja.
Agreeing to it, Garodia said that the unity of Chamber members and trade fraternity was important to make government listen to traders in pre-policy sessions. “But there have been times in past that we forced government listen to us even after policy was framed. So, that is not too big an issue. The bigger issue is how we sync with ease of doing business kind of environment, because after all, we all are traders,” said Garodia.