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(76, '<center>ASSOCHAM Southern region presents webinar on </center>', '- Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program\r\n            and said Lessons that we learnt from Pandemic, Modernization of Indian Healthcare Ecosystem is need of\r\n            the hour and to face future pandemic.', '\r\n            <center>\r\n            <p>\r\n            <b>ASSOCHAM Southern region presents webinar on</b><br>\r\n            <b>&quot;Modernization in Indian healthcare ecosystem&quot;</b><br>\r\n            <b>Strategies, way forward and preparedness for pandemics</b><br>\r\n            <b>19th January 2021 | 11:00 AM to 01:00PM</b><br>\r\n            <b>Session notes</b></br>\r\n            <b>Invited speakers -</b><br>\r\n            </center>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>1. Shri. Jawaid Akhtar,</b> IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Department of Health &\r\n            Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             <b>.Dr. Padma Srivastava, Director,</b> National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences\r\n            (NIMHANS), Bengaluru</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>3. Mahesh Kapri, </b>Managing Director GE BEL & General Manager Supply Chain, GE Healthcare\r\n            India</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            4.<b> Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal, </b>Chairman, Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals Group</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>5. Dr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj,</b> VP - Research & Policy, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>6. Dr. Hardik J Pandya</b> - Assistant Professor - Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian\r\n            Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n\r\n            <b>7. Dr. Nikhil Agarwal,</b> CEO, FIRST - Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>8. Dr. Venkatachalapathy, President, </b>Indian Medical Association, Karnataka Branch</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>9. Uma S Nair,</b> Regional director - Southern region, ASSOCHAM</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Uma S Nair</b> - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program\r\n            and said Lessons that we learnt from Pandemic, Modernization of Indian Healthcare Ecosystem is need of\r\n            the hour and to face future pandemic. To deliberate on the subject theme, we at ASSOCHAM Southern\r\n            region office is hosting this webinar on Modernization in Indian Healthcare Ecosystem partnership with\r\n            Wipro GE Healthcare as Platinum Partner.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Shri. Jawaid Akhtar, IAS</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said that Karnataka\r\n            is known to be a center of hi-tech industry, contributing significantly to the country\'s revenues from\r\n            information technology, biotechnology, ESDM, aerospace and other technology sectors. Today healthcare\r\n            industry in India comprises of hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical\r\n            tourism, health insurance and medical equipment. Growing incidence of lifestyle diseases, rising demand\r\n            for affordable healthcare delivery systems due to the increasing healthcare costs, technological\r\n            advancements, the emergence of telemedicine, rapid health insurance penetration and government\r\n            initiatives like e-health together with tax benefits and incentives are driving healthcare market in India.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            In recent years, medical researchers are talking about the latest terms of healthcare industry such as IOT\r\n            in healthcare, e-health, m-health, app-based diagnosis, online ambulance booking, big data analytics on\r\n            the EMRs, promoting generic drugs, and so on.</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>  In India healthcare industry is projected to reach $372 bn by 2022. The industry is growing at a tremendous\r\n            pace owing to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private\r\n            players.</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>  In Karnataka, the policy of trace, track, test, treat and technology (5T) was pioneered by Karnataka to fight\r\n            the pandemic. During an interaction through the video conferencing, the Prime Minister of India,\r\n            Narendra Modi, appreciated the state\'s efforts in combating the COVID-19 spread and steps taken to\r\n            unlock the economy with the gradual relaxation of the extended lockdown norms. The centre has asked\r\n            the other states to adopt these best practices to their local context and replicate them for better\r\n            management of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             Karnataka is moving towards an Inclusive Healthcare Karnataka has been using information technology\r\n            effectively. The state has also been a pioneer in government supported health insurance schemes\r\n            introduced by the Central and State Government. With a clear objective of taking quality healthcare to\r\n            the doorsteps of the citizens, Karnataka has been transforming its healthcare sector with a proactive\r\n            approach. Karnataka is among the few pioneering Indian states with a strong track record in the\r\n            formulation of health policies.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said The Indian\r\n            healthcare scenario presents a spectrum of contrasting landscapes. At one end of the spectrum are the\r\n            glitzy steel and glass structures delivering high tech medicare to the well-heeled, mostly urban Indian. At\r\n            the other end are the ramshackle outposts in the remote reaches of the &quot;other India&quot; trying desperately\r\n            to live up to their identity as health subcenters, waiting to be transformed to shrines of health and\r\n            wellness, a story which we will wait to see unfold. With the rapid pace of change currently being\r\n            witnessed, this spectrum is likely to widen further, presenting even more complexity in the future.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             It is often said that quality, safety and efficacy of a medicine is a must. In keeping with this, Goel, said,\r\n            &quot;There are two intertwined issues — one is how to ensure that best quality medicines are produced and\r\n            that the integrity of the drug is maintained during the distribution process; second, how it can be ensured\r\n            that quality medicines are affordable, so that they can be accessed when needed. The first issue requires\r\n            strengthening of quality standards and their strict implementation so that there are no two different\r\n            quality of drugs — one for the developed regulated market, and the other, for the Indian market. To\r\n            address the second issue, it is important to make quality generic drugs available to patients. Government\r\n            and some startups have taken steps in this direction by opening a chain of retail pharmacies which\r\n            dispense only quality generic drugs at a fraction of the cost.&quot;<br>\r\n            India is currently experiencing a digital revolution. Healthcare too is witnessing a digital transformation.\r\n            Leveraging digital technologies can certainly strengthen healthcare delivery in India, opine these experts.\r\n            &quot;Digital technologies are driving greater efficiency in healthcare delivery. Electronic Medical Record\r\n            (EMR), the digital version of physical medical record, for instance, is playing a crucial role in optimizing\r\n            patient care by ensuring continuity and aiding information sharing across caregivers (hospital, diagnostic\r\n            lab, pharmacy, etc). It replicates existing processes digitally with different degrees of automation,</p> \r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             reasonable process optimization and operational management information system (MIS), which\r\n            otherwise is labor-intensive and prone to human error.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Dr. Padma Srivastava</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said the impact of\r\n            digital technology and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-driven change will scale up.\r\n            Technology giants are locked in a trillion-dollar battle to win share in the public cloud and to retain\r\n            consumer mindshare and engagement. As a result, they are investing billions of R&D dollars into their\r\n            platforms to create services easily usable across a range of customers and for a range of applications (for\r\n            example, predictive analytics) that accelerate innovation.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n              The Indian government&apos;s &apos;Make in India&apos; initiative is encouraging domestic manufacture of medical\r\n            devices and helping lower the prices patients pay for products such as stents and implants, which in the\r\n            past were imported. At the same time, in India the policy environment and regulators need to\r\n            accommodate technological interventions such as the growth of online pharmacies with the requisite\r\n            controls in place, according to the panelists. Health care innovation in India could serve as a global model\r\n            for a shift from treating the sick to preventive care and wellness, given the size of its underserved  populations.</p>\r\n            \r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             Health care has the potential to lead to economic growth and to provide employment, but it also is a\r\n            crucial sector in terms of protecting the health and the wealth of the nation </p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Mahesh Kapri</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said Medical technology\r\n            is one industry where change is the only constant and the pandemic has presented the perfect\r\n            opportunity for innovations in the industry to be brought forth. The country\'s medtech industry is\r\n            currently at crossroads owing to the global crisis. With that as a backdrop, let us take a look at how the\r\n            pandemic has fast-tracked the growth of the Indian medtech industry.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The pandemic brought with it countless restrictions and supply chains across the world took a major hit,\r\n            adversely impacting the import and export of critical medical equipment. As a consequence, the medical\r\n            industry was confronted with innumerable challenges since a majority of healthcare facilities relied on\r\n            imported medical equipment to provide adequate care to patients, paving the way for the industry to\r\n            realise the importance of home-grown products.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The Covid-19 pandemic situation was initially challenging in India with a dense population and highly\r\n            import dependent Indian medical devices sector. Pushing the Indian medical devices sector to become\r\n            self-reliant or Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Government of India through its flagship &quot;Make in India&quot; initiative\r\n            relied heavily on the Indian manufacturers to meet the surged demand of essential healthcare equipment</p>.\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The Prime Minister&apos;s call for Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), is just the right step for our domestic\r\n            manufacturing. A self-reliant India would mean the country reducing its dependence on imports by\r\n            focusing on &apos;Make in India&apos;. Self-reliance means strengthening the country\'s competitive power in the\r\n            long run. The natural evolution of any economy has been from an agricultural state to an industrialized\r\n            nation to further becoming a service dominated nation. Atmanirbhar Bharat can help us regain the lost\r\n            ground of industrialisation.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The MedTech industry is also highly import dependent on other countries for raw materials and now is\r\n            the right time to challenge this arrangement, as companies are looking for alternative manufacturing\r\n            hubs. India could be their preferred choice, provided we are able to offer a conducive environment. A\r\n            conducive business climate with simplified land and labor laws, better infrastructure and logistics, and\r\n            single window clearances can enable India to develop a robust manufacturing ecosystem. This will also\r\n            help attract foreign capital, latest technology, create jobs and boost our exports. Skill and Scale should be\r\n            the primary focus to be both quality and cost competitive and serve a global customer base. Huge scope\r\n            exists in MedTech sector, not only to be self-reliant but also capture a considerable share of the global\r\n            supply chain.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Dr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said National\r\n            Digital Health Mission (NDHM), which is based on the National Digital Health Blueprint (NHDB) prepared\r\n            by the Ministry of Health Family Welfare (MoHFW) panel to create a framework for the National Health\r\n            Stack (NHS) proposed in 2018 by the National Institution for Transformation of India (NITI) Aayog. The\r\n            NHS is essentially a set of core building blocks to be \'built as a common public good\' that helps avoid\r\n            duplication of efforts and achieves convergence among the IT systems of the diverse stakeholders such as\r\n            the Governments, the Payers, the Providers, and the Citizens.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            The mission envisages the creation of few core digital systems which are built to support timely access to\r\n            safe, affordable healthcare for all citizens and will accelerate the country\'s progress towards Universal\r\n            Health Coverage (UHC). The suite of digital systems consists of Health ID, DigiDoctor, Health Facility\r\n            Registry (HFR), Personal Health Records, e-Pharmacy, and Telemedicine. Similar to the other healthcare\r\n            programs announced by the Government, NDHM will also be rolled out in phases.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for approximately 41 million deaths each year; 15 million of\r\n            these deaths are considered premature (before the age of 70 years) and over 85% occur in low- and\r\n            middle-income countries. In India, NCDs contribute to 62% of total deaths; of particular concern are\r\n            preventable premature deaths, which account for a staggering 48% of the overall mortality. The leading\r\n            causes of NCD mortality in 2016 were cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers,\r\n            diabetes, and urogenital, blood and endocrine diseases. Findings from the India state-level Disease Burden\r\n            Initiative reveal dramatic increases in disability-adjusted life year rates between 1990 and 2016 for two\r\n            specific NCDs - diabetes and ischemic heart disease. The high prevalence of major risk factors, such as\r\n            tobacco use, harmful consumption of alcohol, poor diet and physical inactivity, are contributing to the\r\n            rising burden of NCDs. If the four major NCDs (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory\r\n            disease and cancer) are left unaddressed, they could cost India approximately US$ 3.55 trillion in\r\n            economic losses by 2030.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Dr. Nikhil Agarwal</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and said India is one of the\r\n            fast-rising economic power in the world today. The status of development in sectors of IT and industry\r\n            are hiking at a swift pace. With the abundance of human resource India has caught the attention of the\r\n            world with their amazing performance in these sectors. The high density of population in India is also\r\n            having a high percentage of youth population making a seamlessly working work machine producing\r\n            products and projects that can possibly alter the functioning of technology and industry in the future.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             Medical research comes as a necessary development as more people are present in the country. The\r\n            overall development of any country is measured based on the overall lifestyle of the people. Health care\r\n            is one of the important factors that is taken into account while assessing the development of a nation.\r\n            Medical research in India is pioneered by various public and private organizations rigorously working to\r\n            increase the standard of health care in the country. The improvement of life expectancy of every citizen\r\n            in the country is highly dependent on the development of advanced medical research producing faster,\r\n            cheaper and effective methods of treatments to provide the patients with.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> With advancements in the field of biotechnology and bio-engineering, there are chances of developing\r\n            new drugs and new diagnostic methods and tools that can help in making the process of medical\r\n            development faster in India.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Dr. Hardik J Pandya</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and was happy to share\r\n            that a ventilator can be a life-saver for patients whose lungs are damaged by the COVID-19 infection. But\r\n            India, like all countries grappling with this pandemic. IISc is built a prototype of an electro-mechanical\r\n            ventilator from scratch and using only components made in India, based on the guidelines issued by the\r\n            regulatory agency.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             A paradigm shift is anticipated from volume-based care (fee-for-service healthcare, being independent of\r\n            the service quality) to value-based care (healthcare providers are charged based on patients&apos; health\r\n            outcomes). Stakeholders in the Indian healthcare ecosystem are focusing on leveraging healthcare apps\r\n            to make up for the inadequacies in healthcare infrastructure.Increasing focus on patient-centric care,\r\n            emergence of advanced technologies, and changing business models have played a crucial role in driving\r\n            the healthcare apps market in India.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             Digital transformation in the country, coupled with substantial support from the government, has fueled\r\n            the growth of the healthcare apps market in India. The increase in digital reach in the country has been\r\n            replicated by a swift growth in the number of mobile subscribers and Internet users in the country.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            The health data generated from healthcare apps can be leveraged by AI and machine learning algorithms\r\n            and used to identify people with potential health risks. Further, an AI-based app can detect patients&apos; faces\r\n            through a visual recognition system and assist in disease management. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)\r\n            has the potential to develop innovative apps, which connect to beacons placed across hospitals and aid\r\n            indoor navigation within hospitals</p>.\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Ashutosh Shrotriya</b> - Thanked ASSOCHAM for hosting this important webinar and was happy to share\r\n            that, the health insurance industry in India is the fastest growing segment in the non-life insurance sector.\r\n            The market witnessed a robust double-digit growth of 24% in FY 17, with a market share of 24%, in the\r\n            entire non-life insurance sector. It has been the fastest growing market segment, registering a CAGR of\r\n            23%, for the past 10 years. This phenomenal growth may be attributed to the liberalization of the\r\n            economy and growing general awareness among the public on healthcare.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The health insurance industry is at an embryonic stage, with roughly 25% of the population under its\r\n            coverage. There exists a huge potential for growth and penetration of health insurance to a larger\r\n            population. The way insurance is being underwritten in today&apos;s world is fast changing. And feeding this\r\n            massive data revolution is your and my digital footprint. Whether it is ordering food online through mobile\r\n            apps or paying for it through mobile wallets, or even hailing a taxi online, we are leaving behind a valuable\r\n            trail of information every minute of our lives</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> \r\n            And it is this data that is being mined and analyzed by various organizations and institutions to eliminate\r\n            risk, improve their efficiency, make their services more cutting-edge, and offer better products to us.\r\n            While insurance companies once relied on historical data for actuarial calculations and risk management,\r\n            they now draw upon data sources that are updated by the second. This enables them to be more\r\n            responsive in an increasingly volatile risk environment. Thus, real-time data has become central to any\r\n            kind of risk underwriting, and one who has access to this data enjoys plenty of advantages over his peers\r\n            and is in a better position to underwrite risk.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n             The future looks promising for the life insurance industry with several changes in regulatory framework\r\n            which will lead to further change in the way the industry conducts its business and engages with its\r\n            customers. The overall insurance industry is expected to reach US$ 280 billion by the end of 2020. Life\r\n            insurance industry in the country is expected to increase by 14-15% annually for the next three to five\r\n            years. The scope of IoT in Indian insurance market continues to go beyond telematics and customer risk\r\n            assessment.\r\n            ****</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'ASSOCHAM-Southern-region-presents-webinar-on ', 1, 0, '2021-01-21', '2021-01-21', ' 11:00 AM', '01:00PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
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(77, 'Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing  Industries in the state of Karnataka', 'On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable minister  Patil sir welcome to the program and on behalf of ASSOCHAM', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n            <b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable minister BC Patil….sir welcome to the program and on behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to welcome all the dignities of program on the webinar on impact of Covid-19 on  agro and food processing industries in the state of Karnataka.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>BC Patil - Thank you. Good Moring all</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to extend my gratitude to each \r\n           and everybody who had given their valuable time for this session. So thank you \r\n           very much. I would also like to extend my thanks to NABARD who has in fact \r\n           come and collaborated for this particular session. Thank you sir, thank you very \r\n           much. We also have one more banking partner, The Karnataka Bank which is \r\n           also come on to the board as the banking partner. So now let&apos;s move on to the \r\n           session, I would like to welcome all the dignities and also our honorable minister \r\n           for this webinar from ASSOCHAM. Before we move on to the session I would like \r\n           to introduce Dr. Suresh who is the chairmen for agriculture committee for \r\n           ASSOCHAM. Dr. Suresh, it&apos;s over to you.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Suresh</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. Good Moring everybody. Covid has affected all \r\n           over the world and agriculture and food processing are the same kind. Those two \r\n           are the most important for everybody&apos;s life wherein agriculture produce in the \r\n           main raw material for most of the food processing. Even though they are two \r\n           separate entities, they go hand in hand to produce safe food for us. In food \r\n           processing chain, the supply chain management of agriculture food produce is \r\n           most important for effective distribution of the food across the world. So during \r\n           Covid-19, because of this lockdown, supply chain management is effected \r\n           drastically. Wherein we have to appreciate govt. of Karnataka and govt. of India \r\n           and especially Karnataka&apos;s agricultural department and agricultural invocities. \r\n           They have opened a agri-ware room and we have congratulate our agricultural \r\n           minister who has travelled across the state throughout the Covid period to help \r\n           the farmers and it has helped them a lot to distribute their agriculture products \r\n           to the consumers directly. In supply chain, we have two different entities: the \r\n           storage and marketing. Our present webinar will revolve around the storage \r\n           aspects which helps in reducing post-harvest plasters and the second one is the \r\n           marketing which helps in penetrating the markets to a greater extent across the \r\n           world to increase the profitability to all stake holders. With these two aspects in</p> \r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>mind, we thought of organizing this webinar. We are concentrating only on what \r\n           has happened in Karnataka. In this webinar we&apos;ll find out the possible solutions \r\n           for both storage and marketing of the agricultural food products and to have a \r\n           smooth supply chain during fighting times like Covid-19. Thank you so much.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. Now I would like to request our honorable \r\n           agriculture minister BC Patil to release a knowledge report. This knowledge \r\n           report has come out with the collaboration with NABARD.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>BC Patil</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. It is my pleasure to be a part of this webinar \r\n           organized by NABARD and ASSOCHAM. I am happy to release knowledge report \r\n           of ASSOCHAM and NABARD on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing \r\n           industries in the state of Karnataka.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you sir. Due to the lockdown, we couldn&apos;t send the hard copy \r\n           so we thought we would release the soft copy and then we&apos;ll distribute the hard \r\n           copy. I would like to pass on the floor to the honorable minister of agriculture\r\n           BC Patil to deliver the inaugural address. It&apos;s over to you sir.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>(Honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil&apos;s speech has been delivered to \r\n           the media)</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you so much sir. Definitely after the program we will come up \r\n           with a recommendation and submit it to the honorable minister. Thank you sir \r\n           for your valuable time and for coming here and showing your presence to this \r\n           particular program and I would like to ask you sir, we have good number of agri \r\n           students attending this particular program from different universities, do you \r\n           have anything to tell them sir?</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>BC Patil</b> - I would like to tell all the agri students not to depend on jobs of the \r\n           govt. They should go to the villages and start farming. So that they can be a \r\n           good doctors to the farmers. They can teach, they can make the farmers to know \r\n           how technology can be used and how scientific things can be used by the farmers \r\n           to develop and produce and doubling the income of the farmers. And now most \r\n           of the students are getting in the govt. jobs and I want agri students to be like \r\n           doctors to the farmers. In Karnataka 79ABC of revenue act has been amended \r\n           and now anybody can go and purchase the land and can start cultivation and \r\n           farming. I want young minds, young thoughts, young thinking should duck to \r\n           the villagers and start farming. By doing this, Indian economy can boost up and \r\n           fulfil our PM&apos;s dream.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. It was in fact an inspirational words to the \r\n           students community as you rightly mentioned, we need to see many youths \r\n           going back to the farming community because they are going to be our next \r\n           future so need to have students getting into that particular sector to increase \r\n           the GDP of our country. So thank you very much for your time sir.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>BC Patil</b> - One more thing I want to bring it to your kind notice, I want to start \r\n           agri tourism for the city people, where the city people, students and most of the \r\n           children doesn&apos;t know how paddy/rice are formed. They don&apos;t know if rice is \r\n           coming from paddy. I have already given a suggestion to the educational \r\n           minister Suresh Kumar to start agri tourism. Another thing is weekend \r\n           farming. All the youngsters and engineers are wasting their time by visiting pubs \r\n           and other things. Instead of that, they can visit any village and start weekend \r\n           farming.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma Nair</b> - That&apos;s really a good idea sir. I think your words have reached the \r\n           audience and we&apos;ll see what changes happens in our coming days. Actually \r\n           agriculture is the backbone of our country and I think every individual youths \r\n           and youngster should focus on that to see that the GDP of our country will grow \r\n           on agriculture. Thank you very much for your time sir. Now I would like to move \r\n           to the next topic of the day that is the panel discussion. The panel discussion is \r\n           about the importance of the storage structure and strengthening of agriculture \r\n           and food processing supply chain as rightly mentioned by Dr. Suresh, during \r\n           pandemic supply chain was badly affected. ASSOCHAM has been deliberating on \r\n           this topic every year including this and Amit Ji is also a part of this. I think \r\n           everybody understood that supply chain is very important aspect in the \r\n           agricultural food processing when it has to come from the farm to the market \r\n           supply chain makes a crucial role in this agricultural food processing industry. I \r\n           would not take much of your time, I would like to welcome Rwitwika\r\n           Bhattacharya who is the CEO and the founder of Swaniti initiative, who is going \r\n           to moderate this entire session. We have Sri. Neeraj Kumar Varma, the CGF \r\n           Karnataka regional office NABARD, welcome sir. Sri Amith Vatsyan who is the \r\n           partner of agri and social sector advisory Africa India and Middle East from \r\n           Earnst&young welcome sir. We have Sri Shivanand Rai who is the general \r\n           manager of central warehousing corporation ministry of food and public \r\n           distribution system govt. of India and director for Karnataka state warehousing \r\n           corporation from ministry of GOK, welcome sir. We have the final speaker Dr. KC \r\n           Gummagolmath, he is from institutional management from Hyderabad. So \r\n           Rwitwika, the floor is onto you so you can take the discussion forward</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator</b> - Thank you so much for that Uma, that was really a wonderful \r\n           introduction really appreciate it. I think it&apos;s really wonderful to know that we are \r\n           in an ecosystem right now where there is so much social, political, economic will \r\n           to strengthen food processing, to strengthen warehousing and to really focus on \r\n           the agricultural sector and we see that right from the central govt. down to the \r\n           state govt., I think there is so much potential right know to transform the</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>agricultural industry and we see that through the ordnance whether that&apos;s an \r\n           essential commodity act or whether that&apos;s a incredible focus in various states, \r\n           Of course including Karnataka o build infrastructural want to take up much of \r\n           your time. I do want to briefly mention the intent of the panel today would be to \r\n           examine warehousing ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem in different perspective. \r\n           So I request each speaker to talk about their backgrounds that they bring in \r\n           before Covid and of course the social capital, the political capital that Covid has \r\n           built in and the promise that holds. So I would love to start off with Amith ji. \r\n           How do you see Covid affecting agro and food processing industry and what are \r\n           the other possibilities?</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Amith Ji</b> - Thank you. Hello everyone. I think we need to look at Covid along \r\n           with that also look at Atma Nirbar Bharat Abyan the way govt. has responded. \r\n           Covid has caused huge destruction and we know that the supply chain has \r\n           disturbed in a major way and also the existing processing unit which were \r\n           suffering before Covid and govt. has taken multiple measures but I think along \r\n           with that historical modulance which has opened up the space for much better \r\n           vertical integration as well as the ordinance within the Karnataka govt. being \r\n           able to trade across the area by farmers. To the question which I going to focus \r\n           on is that now space have been opened up What would be needed in the \r\n           ecosystem to be able to capture the opportunities. So just to say that if we \r\n           currently look at Karnataka it is ranked 7th as far as infrastructure is concerned \r\n           and it needs additional 2 million metric ton of storage capacity. So if one has to \r\n           respond to honorable minister sir vision that there is an opportunity for \r\n           processing and there is an aim to increase the number. Along with that both \r\n           storage and processing needs to be aligned and later in the conversation I would \r\n           also talk about specific type of storages. The other thing which is also important \r\n           is that storage of processing and that has been our experience with MOFPI and \r\n           with other schemes that it is very important that these storages of processing \r\n           are part of larger value chain supply chain integration where at one end farmers \r\n           are involved so already multiple stimulus have been announced including the 1 \r\n           lakh crore stimulus for the infrastructure. At the other end we have got buyers \r\n           and large companies which have been responding to consumers at Karnataka \r\n           level or also I believe for Karnataka the big opportunity is looking at national \r\n           and very importantly irrational market. To be specific it&apos;s Middle East and CIS \r\n           markets. All of this cannot be achieved until and unless the missing medal of \r\n           storage and infrastructure is put in place otherwise farmers will continue to \r\n           produce great stuff. I have been to Bagakot, I have been to many of the areas in \r\n           Karnataka and farmers are one of the most entrepreneurs people. They are \r\n           producing and that needs to come. That I think is one important piece and one \r\n           action that I would like to highlight is that infrastructure needs to be built and \r\n           recognized based upon what is being produced. So I would highly recommend a \r\n           cluster way of thinking recognizing what are the key areas that the particular \r\n           commodities are developing so that the storage and processing is aligned to the \r\n           production and aligned to the final demand and agro cluster approach where \r\n           FPO&apos;s are at the base is going to be critical. The second thing which I think is \r\n           absolutely important is that just the way Karnataka earlier lead with electronics</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>and investment in IT sector is very important to facilitate the current \r\n           connection between the buyers who are coming in and the producers, the FPO&apos;s \r\n           who are there so digit connection specially in Covid context where physically is \r\n           very hard to figure out who is what, who is going to be very important to the \r\n           ecosystem. On boarding the third point which I want to make it is about on \r\n           boarding the warehouses and supporting private storage which can also be \r\n           declared as marketing art specially in the intalent because the private sector will \r\n           be able to reach out areas which are accessible but in north Karnataka and in \r\n           deep south, it going to be very important to build this type of an analysis. The \r\n           last point I want to mention is currently while the processing policy have come \r\n           in but Karnataka level policy on FPO which has aligned with the guidelines \r\n           which has been released but which answers the state wants to do and also takes \r\n           into account the contract farming module so that Karnataka as a comprehensive\r\n           will go a long way to respond to how the clusters and the infrastructure is going \r\n           to be supported at the bottom. Lastly, this is a particular recommendation I \r\n           would like to give, the micro food enterprise scheme has been launched under \r\n           MOFPI and its very important and honorable minister in talking in farming \r\n           which it&apos;s going to be good food entrepreneurship which is supported extensively \r\n           as part of ecosystem for farming and along with that is to just to summarize the \r\n           strengthening FPO&apos;s at the bottom part of the ecosystem building \r\n           infrastructures around clusters developing policies to support this and getting \r\n           the infrastructure on board where they are going to avail various benefits which \r\n           currently govt. is offering going to be crucial to respond to the opportunities \r\n           which exist for Karnataka.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator</b> - Thank you for that. It was very helpful. We are now going to discuss \r\n           two threats that you discussed and take that to other panelist. On is to talk \r\n           about infrastructure and need to align infrastructure in a better way for optimal \r\n           output. To that end I actually wanted to turn towards to Shivanand Rai who \r\n           I wanted to identify special experience form the central warehousing perspective \r\n           and looking at it from policy and how we can strengthen policy that can help the \r\n           larger ecosystem further, what are the policies that you think make sense to \r\n           focus on?</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shivanand Rai</b> - Good morning to all participants and honorable minister BC \r\n           Patil sir. It is a great opportunity for me. I can summarize and CWC is around 10 \r\n           million tons capacities all over India and Karnataka we are having around 4.5 \r\n           metric ton. Karnataka state warehousing corporation is having around 17 lakh \r\n           metric ton with the help of NABARD and total food corporation of India is having \r\n           around 4 lakh metric ton. Total warehousing that is listed under WDRA so they \r\n           see that all warehouses should be scientific senders. All over country it is 1799 \r\n           has been registered. So these are the basics and during the lockdown CWC all \r\n           over India has handled about 100 lakh metric ton of food ware and 20 lakh \r\n           metric ton for public distribution system and in Karnataka 2-3 lakh so is coming \r\n           to that further we have container filter essentials and still in this Covid period \r\n           the only problem we are facing is labour problem. Otherwise or warehouses are \r\n           heading on full capacity so we still want to expand the basic</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderators</b> - Thank you for that sir. It was very helpful. Moving the \r\n           infrastructure that existed and moving the amount of work that has been done, \r\n           one thing Amith Ji mentioned was FPO. About the ecosystem face and then \r\n           there is capital which is on the ground and which is executing on these firms. So \r\n           Dr. KC I actually want to turn towards you and you had mentioned very success \r\n           stories especially in this ecosystem, given there are chance to improve \r\n           infrastructure, to improve capacity and there are still incredible stories that you \r\n           mention of FPO&apos;s in the kind of draft they were doing. Would kind of highlight \r\n           those kind of examples?</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. KC</b> Good morning everyone and I congratulate ASSOCHAM for hosting such \r\n           an important webinar. Impact of Covid have been quite harsh on other sector \r\n           than agriculture sector. The first impact of Indian agriculture is destruction in \r\n           supply chain. There was an interstate and inter district transportation ban and \r\n           that really disturbed the supply chain and there was a delay in permit thought \r\n           agricultural commodities were permitted so there was a delay in transportation. \r\n           So these things affected the storage of agricultural commodities and also exports \r\n           are effected due to international ban. So overall scenario impact of Covid on \r\n           Indian agriculture. Even the other sectors are also badly effected the growth has \r\n           been cut down by 20% to 17%. Bu growth in agricultural sector fortunately has \r\n           come down by 1% or 2%. So this pandemic can be an opportunity. Here I want to \r\n           make one important point. You can leverage ICT for location of storage \r\n           structures like in Delhi they launched an app for location of vacant beds. So like \r\n           that we can develop an app for the storage sectors. Second important point to \r\n           make is we can leverage FPO and we can go for a smaller warehouses instead of \r\n           building a big warehouse and again farmers has to take it for a longer distance. \r\n           The FPO&apos;s can be strengthen by state govt. providing requisite assistance by \r\n           having a storage structures. Mentioning the third point to the minister bring \r\n           agriculture and line departments into marketing as well. For this policy change \r\n           is required we can have a marketing cell in each of the allied sectors because \r\n           these people are closely attached with the farmers can sensitize the farmers \r\n           about different marketing and various aspects and passage of the two ordinance \r\n           by GOI, role of the APMC is confined to that market area beyond that now this \r\n           APMC will have a new role by involving in the backward linkages by developing \r\n           warehouse, cold storages structures and storages more than anything Karnataka \r\n           is having an international institute CFTRI Karnataka govt. can take a advantage \r\n           of the institute some technologies can be borrow and transfer to the farmers as \r\n           well as the total supply chain. These are the few points, Karnataka is blessed \r\n           with all climatic zones so cluster based approach export for domestic marketing \r\n           will help a lot.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderate</b> - Minister Sir, would you like to say something?</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>some warehouses into cold storage which is quite essential now a days after the \r\n           Covid, we learnt that cold storage is much essential because when the supply \r\n           chain demand was less farmers spoiled their vegetables and fruits instead of this</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>they would have stored in cold storage in Karnataka we have only 32 cold \r\n           storages and out of which they couldn&apos;t able to store all the things and the \r\n           perishable goods were big loss to the Karnataka farming that time. That&apos;s why \r\n           we look forward for more cold storage that&apos;s what essential.</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator</b> - Neeraj Ji, would you like to add something about the govt. initiative \r\n           and about the NABARD funding initiative in the agriculture post Covid?</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Neeraj Ji<b> - Good morning. Thanks for having me in the webinar for ASSOCHAM \r\n           organizing this timely webinar topical theme by giving the current Covid-19 \r\n           situation and also I must thank our honorable minister BC Patil sir stated as \r\n           telling the FPO&apos;s should pitch in and the honorable PM giving the importance to \r\n           the rural India at the pandemic time by bringing out the three strategic \r\n           provisions through ordinance to convert totally into beans and this time will \r\n           come the FPO&apos;s chance in the rural India. As I was CEO and MD of NABARD two \r\n           years back and in Karnataka I drove funding to the FPO&apos;s. So out of 400 FPO&apos;s \r\n           250 FPO&apos;s has been promoted by NABARD and we lend to 40 FPO&apos;s and this year \r\n           also we going to lend 50 FPO&apos;s and also will promote 50-100 the govt. of India \r\n           has come up with FPO funds as we have funds we want to fund across India \r\n           10,000 FPO&apos;s and also I&apos;m sure the agriculture minister of Karnataka and of \r\n           NABARD is there and I&apos;m sure Karnataka will be the leading state in this mission \r\n           of FPO&apos;s promoting. FPO is key to everything from storage to marketing \r\n           aggregation to realization of value and the income FPO is the key. The intention \r\n           of GOI by doubling the farmer&apos;s income which Dalwai will speak in the next \r\n           panel. The next decade will be the FPO&apos;s decade GOI announced credit guarantee \r\n           fund and also the equity provided to the FPO&apos;s as heading the Karnataka \r\n           NABARD we will assure with the FPO&apos;s in NABARD in guidance and collaboration \r\n           with the Karnataka govt. under the leadership of honorable CM and honorable \r\n           agriculture minister we will be the leading in funding. For FPO&apos;s all kind of \r\n           facilities and credit facilities is for storage and pandemic processing localizing \r\n           centers the key localilse aggregation at the farmers level is the key. This kind of \r\n           FPO&apos;s will evolve federation of the FPO&apos;s. The GOI Is planning the cluster one \r\n           district one cluster and that is also been identified and also we will be having a \r\n           meeting with the district level managers of NABARD and tomorrow the GOI \r\n           Agriculture Ministry will have the meeting with the DGM&apos;s of across the country \r\n           and the state with the FPO&apos;s and again we will assure from NABARD to the agri \r\n           ministry and very shortly we will come out with the action plan going to be in \r\n           Karnataka also and this is regarding to FPO and also across the country this will \r\n           be a right movement. In pandemic times the farmers need all kind of helps \r\n           because the farmers will be the key drivers at this point of time agriculture \r\n           sector is the better place than other sectors because they drive the economy of \r\n           India also. Another key announcement by NABARD we are going to provide \r\n           storage facilities, processing facilities to saturate throughout India to assist and \r\n           to lend max 4% and will give the grant for the capacity building. We have \r\n           announced and the circular has come and very shortly and this we will do it in \r\n           first phase in the year we notice the very first phase and across Karnataka they \r\n           are ready along with the FPO&apos;s form packs will be there not only FPO&apos;s but packs</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>are also there. The GOI has announced the agriculture infrastructure fund and \r\n           also announced 1 lakh fund for interest of 3% along will the bankers in \r\n           Karnataka the NABARD will give the grater boost. These are the schemes from \r\n           the FPO&apos;s and packs which we are going to convert into multi-services center \r\n           and this schemes will be translated very soon we have to come from paper to the \r\n           ground and as our honorable minister as he is travelling in the state with his \r\n           enthusiasm I am sure today is the starting point from today we are going to \r\n           translate all the policies into action and shortly we will do this in collaboration \r\n           with the GOK shortly. Thank you</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma S Nair</b> introduced the esteemed panelists and the moderator to session.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Prbhod Halde</b> welcomed the panelists and shared the context about the session. He \r\n           stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food processing will gain lot of \r\n           importance and opportunity in domestic and international in export sector to work \r\n           towards &quot;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&quot;.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Amit Vatsyayan</b> said the &quot;One Nation and One Market&quot; announced by the PM Modi. \r\n           He pointed out that there is a significance opportunity in domestic and international \r\n           markets by promoting through marketing bodies such as fruits and vegetables, food \r\n           processing and other commodities in Karnataka by harmonizing the quality of food \r\n           products and supply chain. The marketing bodies to identify the critical areas and \r\n           address them so that the farmers can grow more and produce more. There are there \r\n           points f deliberation by (i) commercially engage the aggregators through the dedicated \r\n           FPO (ii) The Advisory bodies to understand the market trends and indentify the domestic \r\n           and international markets to meet the production and requirement (iii) the Karnataka \r\n           State should come up with Agro Export policy and identify the key products and help \r\n           the farmers to export more and produce more</p>\r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Ashok Dalwai, IAS</b> said to increase the farmer&apos;s income by creating value addition \r\n           and help to generate high returns. There are two ways to increase the farmers income \r\n           (i) by creating the value addition to the products by increasing the shelf by processing \r\n           the food produce (ii) by primary processing of produce and connecting the market and \r\n           create a safe environment. He stressed about strengthening the agriculture commodity \r\n           sector by helping them reduce the loss of produce and help them to earn more returns. \r\n           Also support the farmer by selling every product he grows. The farmer need to focus on \r\n           harvesting rather concentrating on fertilizers also produce the agri products as per the \r\n           domestic and international standards. The Government of India come up with 2 aspects \r\n           to support the farmer community (i) free agri market (ii) strengthen the agri market by \r\n           building the muscle of farmers. There is another initiative from Government of India \r\n           taken under agriculture marketing with APMC act and separate market place for \r\n           farmers to sell their produce, by creating more than one market place helps the farmers \r\n           to earn more. He suggested to create a trade zones apart from APMC market place to \r\n           meet the demand. The Government of India also announced to support more than \r\n           10,000 FPOs and strengthen them and allocated more than 30,000 crore to strengthen</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>and restructure he cooperative societies to help the farmers. He closed the speech by \r\n           saying help farmer to how to produce and teach the technique to produce and connect \r\n           with APMC and other markets.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. K. C. Gummagolmath</b> said to create a harmony between the agri bodies and other \r\n           related players in the sector. The said that the current era is to meet the demand driven \r\n           market and plan the agri produce. He suggested there are few ways to improve the \r\n           produce (i) Contract farming (ii) linking the farmers to retail chain (iii) create online \r\n           platform to connect with consumers with selected commodities (iv) the State to look at \r\n           implementing the agri export policy (v) implement the best practices if agri business in \r\n           food processing sector in the State.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Joanna Kane-Potaka</b> said that support the SMEs, as there are more than 6 lakh \r\n           SME&apos;s in the State. Post covid there will 30% of SME&apos;s will be shut if not supported. To \r\n           tackle the pandemic she suggested (i) right information about the produce and export \r\n           to market (ii) insight of covid hit region and support with goods movement (iii) create \r\n           more platform of trade fairs to improvise the farmer&apos;s income. She urged to farmer \r\n           connect with FPO&apos;s and SME&apos;s is important and this collaboration will create a platform \r\n           to felicitate the farmers. Also said, it is important to help the farmer with quality and \r\n           quantity to create consistent supply also provides value to the supply chain.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Thangam Rammachandran</b> said that Karnataka State is the key producer of rose \r\n           onion. We at APEDA work closely with farmer help with export of produce. APEDA invites \r\n           other stakeholders join hands to connect from farm level to market. Also encouraged \r\n           the sector players to participate in the export promotion and buyer seller meet. The \r\n           cluster based export policy will help farmers to produce and meet the demand. There \r\n           are various pesticides available in the market; right set of pesticides pre harvest helps \r\n           the farmers to produce agri products that meet the global standards. She suggested to \r\n           train the farmers on right pesticides for pre harvest, best agriculture practices to yield \r\n           more, packaging and marketing. These elements will help farmer to participate in \r\n           domestic and global level buyer seller meet. APEDA also works closely with farmer help \r\n           with their financial needs to meet the demand and produce agri products.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Krishna Kumar Joshi concluded the session with closing remarks by picking key \r\n           points discussed during the session.</p> \r\n\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The session was attended by more than 400 participants from various industry, \r\n           academia and agri institutions.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'impact-of-covid-19-on-agro-and-food-processing-industries-in-the-state-of-karnataka', 1, 0, '2020-07-15', '2020-07-15', '11am', '1pm', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(78, 'END OF SESSION-1', '-Dr. Prbhod Halde welcomed the panelists and shared the context about \r\n          the session. He stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food \r\n          processing will gain lot of importance and opportunity in domestic and \r\n          international in export sector to work towards &quot;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&quot;. ', '\r\n          <b>Agro and Food Processing - Session 2 notes</b><br>\r\n          <center>Panel Discussion: 2</center><br>\r\n          <center>Harmonizing Marketing Bodies for Effective Penetration of Domestic </center>\r\n          <center>and Export Market</center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Shri Ashok Dalwai, CEO, National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA),<br> \r\n          Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers&apos; Welfare, Government of India</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Neelkamal Darbari, IAS, Managing Director SFAC<br>\r\n          Shri.. Tushar Girinath I.A.S, Principal Secretary to Govt., Co-Operation \r\n          Dept.,</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Uma S Nair introduced the esteemed panelists and the moderator \r\n          to session.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Dr. Prbhod Halde welcomed the panelists and shared the context about \r\n          the session. He stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food \r\n          processing will gain lot of importance and opportunity in domestic and \r\n          international in export sector to work towards &quot;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&quot;.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Amit Vatsyayan said the &quot;One Nation and One Market&quot; announced \r\n          by the PM Modi. He pointed out that there is a significance opportunity \r\n          in domestic and international markets by promoting through \r\n          marketing bodies such as fruits and vegetables, food processing and \r\n          other commodities in Karnataka by harmonizing the quality of food \r\n          products and supply chain. The marketing bodies to identify the critical</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          areas and address them so that the farmers can grow more and \r\n          produce more. There are there points f deliberation by (i) commercially \r\n          engage the aggregators through the dedicated FPO (ii) The Advisory \r\n          bodies to understand the market trends and indentify the domestic and \r\n          international markets to meet the production and requirement (iii) the \r\n          Karnataka State should come up with Agro Export policy and identify \r\n          the key products and help the farmers to export more and produce \r\n          more.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n         Dr. Ashok Dalwai, IAS said to increase the farmer&apos;s income by creating \r\n          value addition and help to generate high returns. There are two ways \r\n          to increase the farmers income (i) by creating the value addition to the \r\n          products by increasing the shelf by processing the food produce (ii) by \r\n          primary processing of produce and connecting the market and create a \r\n          safe environment. He stressed about strengthening the agriculture \r\n          commodity sector by helping them reduce the loss of produce and help \r\n          them to earn more returns. Also support the farmer by selling every \r\n          product he grows. The farmer need to focus on harvesting rather \r\n          concentrating on fertilizers also produce the agri products as per the \r\n          domestic and international standards. The Government of India come \r\n          up with 2 aspects to support the farmer community (i) free agri market \r\n          (ii) strengthen the agri market by building the muscle of farmers. There \r\n          is another initiative from Government of India taken under agriculture \r\n          marketing with APMC act and separate market place for farmers to sell \r\n          their produce, by creating more than one market place helps the \r\n          farmers to earn more. He suggested to create a trade zones apart from \r\n          APMC market place to meet the demand. The Government of India also \r\n          announced to support more than 10,000 FPOs and strengthen them \r\n          and allocated more than 30,000 crore to strengthen</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>and restructure he \r\n          cooperative societies to help the farmers. He closed the speech by</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> saying help farmer to how to produce and teach the technique to \r\n          produce and connect with APMC and other markets.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Dr. K. C. Gummagolmath said to create a harmony between the agri \r\n          bodies and other related players in the sector. The said that the current \r\n          era is to meet the demand driven market and plan the agri produce. He \r\n          suggested there are few ways to improve the produce (i) Contract \r\n          farming (ii) linking the farmers to retail chain (iii) create online \r\n          platform to connect with consumers with selected commodities (iv) the \r\n          State to look at implementing the agri export policy (v) implement the \r\n          best practices if agri business in food processing sector in the State.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Joanna Kane-Potaka</b> said that support the SMEs, as there are more \r\n          than 6 lakh SME&apos;s in the State. Post covid there will 30% of SME&apos;s will \r\n          be shut if not supported. To tackle the pandemic she suggested (i) right \r\n          information about the produce and export to market (ii) insight of covid \r\n          hit region and support with goods movement (iii) create more platform \r\n          of trade fairs to improvise the farmer&apos;s income. She urged to farmer \r\n          connect with FPO&apos;s and SME&apos;s is important and this collaboration will \r\n          create a platform to felicitate the farmers. Also said, it is important to \r\n          help the farmer with quality and quantity to create consistent supply \r\n          also provides value to the supply chain.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Thangam Rammachandran said that Karnataka State is the key \r\n          producer of rose onion. We at APEDA work closely with farmer help \r\n          with export of produce. APEDA invites other stakeholders join hands to \r\n          connect from farm level to market. Also encouraged the sector players \r\n          to participate in the export promotion and buyer seller meet. The \r\n          cluster based export policy will help farmers to produce and meet the \r\n          demand. There are various pesticides available in the market; right set \r\n          of pesticides pre harvest helps the farmers to produce agri products\r\n          that meet the global standards. She suggested to train the farmers on \r\n          right pesticides for pre harvest, best agriculture practices to yield more, \r\n          packaging and marketing. These elements will help farmer to \r\n          participate in domestic and global level buyer seller meet. APEDA also \r\n          works closely with farmer help with their financial needs to meet the \r\n          demand and produce agri products.</p>\r\n     <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Vote of Thanks & Summarization: Shri. Krishna Kumar Joshi, C o Chairman,\r\n     ASSOCHAM Karnataka Council</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          Krishna Kumar Joshi concluded the session with closing remarks by \r\n          picking key points discussed during the session.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n          The session was attended by more than 400 participants from various \r\n          industry, academia and agri institutions. \r\n          ***\r\n          </p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'END-OF-SESSION-1', 1, 0, '0000-00-00', '0000-00-00', '', '', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
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(79, 'Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing \r\n          Industries in the state of Karnataka ', '- On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable \r\n          minister BC Patil….sir welcome to the program and on behalf of \r\n          ASSOCHAM I would like to welcome all the dignities of program on \r\n          the webinar on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing \r\n          industries in the state of Karnataka. ', '\r\n          <center>Inaugural Chief Guest: Shri B C Patil, Hon&apos;ble Minister of Agriculture, GoK</center>\r\n     \r\n    <center>Panel Discussion: 1</center><br>\r\n    Importance of Storage Structures in Strengthening of Agricultural & Food<br> \r\n    \'<center>Processing Supply Chain</center>\r\n     <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Shri. Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Managing Director, Central Warehousing \r\n    Corporation</p>\r\n     <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Shri Rajkumar Khatri IAS, Principal Secretary, Agriculture & Horticulture\r\n    Department, GoK</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Shri P V S Suryakumar, Chief General Manager / OIC, NABARD Karnataka\r\n    Regional Office</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Shamla Iqbal, Commissioner, Food and Civil Supplies, GoK</p>\r\n     <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Shri Chandran Ratnaswami, Managing Director, NCML</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Shri Piyush Patnaik - Managing Director - Cargill India\r\n     Shri Ravi Kannan, CEO, Coldman</p> \r\n     \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable \r\n    minister BC Patil….sir welcome to the program and on behalf of \r\n    ASSOCHAM I would like to welcome all the dignities of program on \r\n    the webinar on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing \r\n    industries in the state of Karnataka.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> BC Patil - Thank you. Good Moring all</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to extend my \r\n    gratitude to each and everybody who had given their valuable time \r\n    for this session. So thank you very much. I would also like to extend</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    my thanks to NABARD who has in fact come and collaborated for this \r\n    particular session. Thank you sir, thank you very much. We also have \r\n    one more banking partner, The Karnataka Bank which is also come \r\n    on to the board as the banking partner. So now let&apos;s move on to the \r\n    session, I would like to welcome all the dignities and also our \r\n    honorable minister for this webinar from ASSOCHAM. Before we \r\n    move on to the session I would like to introduce Dr. Suresh who is \r\n    the chairmen for agriculture committee for ASSOCHAM. Dr. Suresh, \r\n    it&apos;s over to you.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Dr. Suresh</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. Good Moring everybody. Covid has \r\n    affected all over the world and agriculture and food processing are \r\n    the same kind. Those two are the most important for everybody&apos;s life \r\n    wherein agriculture produce in the main raw material for most of the \r\n    food processing. Even though they are two separate entities, they go \r\n    hand in hand to produce safe food for us. In food processing chain, \r\n    the supply chain management of agriculture food produce is most \r\n    important for effective distribution of the food across the world. So \r\n    during Covid-19, because of this lockdown, supply chain<br> \r\n    management is effected drastically. Wherein we have to appreciate \r\n    govt. of Karnataka and govt. of India and especially Karnataka&apos;s \r\n    agricultural department and agricultural invocities. They have \r\n    opened a agri-ware room and we have congratulate our agricultural \r\n    minister who has travelled across the state throughout the Covid \r\n    period to help the farmers and it has helped them a lot to distribute \r\n    their agriculture products to the consumers directly. In supply chain, \r\n    we have two different entities: the storage and marketing. Our \r\n    present webinar will revolve around the storage aspects which helps \r\n    in reducing post-harvest plasters and the second one is the \r\n    marketing which helps in penetrating the markets to a greater extent \r\n    across the world to increase the profitability to all stake holders. \r\n    With these two aspects in mind, we thought of organizing this \r\n    webinar. We are concentrating only on what has happened in \r\n    Karnataka. In this webinar we&apos;ll find out the possible solutions for \r\n    both storage and marketing of the agricultural food products and to </p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    have a smooth supply chain during fighting times like Covid-19. \r\n    Thank you so much.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. Now I would like to request our \r\n    honorable agriculture minister BC Patil to release a knowledge \r\n    report. This knowledge report has come out with the collaboration \r\n    with NABARD.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>BC Patil</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. It is my pleasure to be a part of this \r\n    webinar organized by NABARD and ASSOCHAM. I am happy to \r\n    release knowledge report of ASSOCHAM and NABARD on impact of \r\n    Covid-19 on agro and food processing industries in the state of \r\n    Karnataka.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you sir. Due to the lockdown, we couldn&apos;t send the \r\n    hard copy so we thought we would release the soft copy and then \r\n    we&apos;ll distribute the hard copy. I would like to pass on the floor to the \r\n    honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil to deliver the inaugural \r\n    address. It&apos;s over to you sir.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    (Honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil&apos;s speech has been \r\n    delivered to the media)</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you so much sir. Definitely after the program we \r\n    will come up with a recommendation and submit it to the honorable \r\n    minister. Thank you sir for your valuable time and for coming here \r\n    and showing your presence to this particular program and I would \r\n    like to ask you sir, we have good number of agri students attending \r\n    this particular program from different universities, do you have \r\n    anything to tell them sir?</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>BC Patil</b> - I would like to tell all the agri students not to depend on \r\n    jobs of the govt. They should go to the villages and start farming. So \r\n    that they can be a good doctors to the farmers. They can teach, they</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    can make the farmers to know how technology can be used and how \r\n    scientific things can be used by the farmers to develop and produce \r\n    and doubling the income of the farmers. And now most of the \r\n    students are getting in the govt. jobs and I want agri students to be \r\n    like doctors to the farmers. In Karnataka 79ABC of revenue act has \r\n    been amended and now anybody can go and purchase the land and \r\n    can start cultivation and farming. I want young minds, young \r\n    thoughts, young thinking should duck to the villagers and start \r\n    farming. By doing this, Indian economy can boost up and fulfil our \r\n    PM&apos;s dream.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. It was in fact an inspirational \r\n    words to the students community as you rightly mentioned, we need \r\n    to see many youths going back to the farming community because \r\n    they are going to be our next future so need to have students getting \r\n    into that particular sector to increase the GDP of our country. So \r\n    thank you very much for your time sir.</p> \r\n     \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    BC Patil - One more thing I want to bring it to your kind notice, I want \r\n    to start agri tourism for the city people, where the city people, \r\n    students and most of the children doesn&apos;t know how paddy/rice are \r\n    formed. They don&apos;t know if rice is coming from paddy. I have already \r\n    given a suggestion to the educational minister Suresh Kumar to \r\n    start agri tourism. Another thing is weekend farming. All the \r\n    youngsters and engineers are wasting their time by visiting pubs and \r\n    other things. Instead of that, they can visit any village and start \r\n    weekend farming.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Uma Nair</b> - That&apos;s really a good idea sir. I think your words have \r\n    reached the audience and we&apos;ll see what changes happens in our \r\n    coming days. Actually agriculture is the backbone of our country and \r\n    I think every individual youths and youngster should focus on that to \r\n    see that the GDP of our country will grow on agriculture. Thank you \r\n    very much for your time sir. Now I would like to move to the next \r\n    topic of the day that is the panel discussion. The panel discussion is</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    about the importance of the storage structure and strengthening of \r\n    agriculture and food processing supply chain as rightly mentioned \r\n    by Dr. Suresh, during pandemic supply chain was badly affected. \r\n    ASSOCHAM has been deliberating on this topic every year including \r\n    this and Amit Ji is also a part of this. I think everybody understood \r\n    that supply chain is very important aspect in the agricultural food \r\n    processing when it has to come from the farm to the market supply \r\n    chain makes a crucial role in this agricultural food processing \r\n    industry. I would not take much of your time, I would like to welcome \r\n    Rwitwika Bhattacharya who is the CEO and the founder of \r\n    Swaniti initiative, who is going to moderate this entire session. We \r\n    have Sri. Neeraj Kumar Varma, the CGF Karnataka regional office \r\n    NABARD, welcome sir. Sri Amith Vatsyan who is the partner of agri \r\n    and social sector advisory Africa India and Middle East from \r\n    Earnst&young welcome sir. We have Sri Shivanand Rai who is the \r\n    general manager of central warehousing corporation ministry of \r\n    food and public distribution system govt. of India and director for \r\n    Karnataka state warehousing corporation from ministry of GOK, \r\n    welcome sir. We have the final speaker Dr. KC Gummagolmath, he is \r\n    from institutional management from Hyderabad. So Rwitwika, the \r\n    floor is onto you so you can take the discussion forward</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Moderator</b> - Thank you so much for that Uma, that was really a \r\n    wonderful introduction really appreciate it. I think it&apos;s really \r\n    wonderful to know that we are in an ecosystem right now where \r\n    there is so much social, political, economic will to strengthen food \r\n    processing, to strengthen warehousing and to really focus on the \r\n    agricultural sector and we see that right from the central govt. down \r\n    to the state govt., I think there is so much potential right know to \r\n    transform the agricultural industry and we see that through the \r\n    ordnance whether that&apos;s an essential commodity act or whether \r\n    that&apos;s a incredible focus in various states, Of course including \r\n    Karnataka o build infrastructural want to take up much of your time. I \r\n    do want to briefly mention the intent of the panel today would be to \r\n    examine warehousing ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem in different \r\n    perspective. So I request each speaker to talk about their \r\n    backgrounds that they bring in before Covid and of course the social</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    capital, the political capital that Covid has built in and the promise \r\n    that holds. So I would love to start off with Amith ji. How do you see \r\n    Covid affecting agro and food processing industry and what are the \r\n    other possibilities?</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Amith Ji</b> - Thank you. Hello everyone. I think we need to look at Covid \r\n    along with that also look at Atma Nirbar Bharat Abyan the way govt. \r\n    has responded. Covid has caused huge destruction and we know \r\n    that the supply chain has disturbed in a major way and also the \r\n    existing processing unit which were suffering before Covid and govt. \r\n    has taken multiple measures but I think along with that historical \r\n    modulance which has opened up the space for much better vertical \r\n    integration as well as the ordinance within the Karnataka govt. being \r\n    able to trade across the area by farmers. To the question which I \r\n    going to focus on is that now space have been opened up What \r\n    would be needed in the ecosystem to be able to capture the \r\n    opportunities. So just to say that if we currently look at Karnataka it \r\n    is ranked 7th\r\n     as far as infrastructure is concerned and it needs \r\n    additional 2 million metric ton of storage capacity. So if one has to \r\n    respond to honorable minister sir vision that there is an opportunity \r\n    for processing and there is an aim to increase the number. Along \r\n    with that both storage and processing needs to be aligned and later \r\n    in the conversation I would also talk about specific type of storages. \r\n    The other thing which is also important is that storage of processing \r\n    and that has been our experience with MOFPI and with other \r\n    schemes that it is very important that these storages of processing \r\n    are part of larger value chain supply chain integration where at one \r\n    end farmers are involved so already multiple stimulus have been \r\n    announced including the 1 lakh crore stimulus for the infrastructure. \r\n    At the other end we have got buyers and large companies which \r\n    have been responding to consumers at Karnataka level or also I \r\n    believe for Karnataka the big opportunity is looking at national and \r\n    very importantly irrational market. To be specific it&apos;s Middle East and \r\n    CIS markets. All of this cannot be achieved until and unless the \r\n    missing medal of storage and infrastructure is put in place otherwise \r\n    farmers will continue to produce great stuff. I have been to Bagakot, \r\n    I have been to many of the areas in Karnataka and farmers are one of</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    the most entrepreneurs people. They are producing and that needs \r\n    to come. That I think is one important piece and one action that I \r\n    would like to highlight is that infrastructure needs to be built and \r\n    recognized based upon what is being produced. So I would highly \r\n    recommend a cluster way of thinking recognizing what are the key \r\n    areas that the particular commodities are developing so that the \r\n    storage and processing is aligned to the production and aligned to \r\n    the final demand and agro cluster approach where FPO&apos;s are at the \r\n    base is going to be critical. The second thing which I think is \r\n    absolutely important is that just the way Karnataka earlier lead with \r\n    electronics and investment in IT sector is very important to facilitate \r\n    the current connection between the buyers who are coming in and \r\n    the producers, the FPO&apos;s who are there so digit connection specially \r\n    in Covid context where physically is very hard to figure out who is \r\n    what, who is going to be very important to the ecosystem. On \r\n    boarding the third point which I want to make it is about on boarding \r\n    the warehouses and supporting private storage which can also be \r\n    declared as marketing art specially in the intalent because the \r\n    private sector will be able to reach out areas which are accessible \r\n    but in north Karnataka and in deep south, it going to be very \r\n    important to build this type of an analysis. The last point I want to \r\n    mention is currently while the processing policy have come in but \r\n    Karnataka level policy on FPO which has aligned with the guidelines \r\n    which has been released but which answers the state wants to do \r\n    and also takes into account the contract farming module so that \r\n    Karnataka as a comprehensive will go a long way to respond to how \r\n    the clusters and the infrastructure is going to be supported at the \r\n    bottom. Lastly, this is a particular recommendation I would like to \r\n    give, the micro food enterprise scheme has been launched under \r\n    MOFPI and its very important and honorable minister in talking in \r\n    farming which it&apos;s going to be good food entrepreneurship which is \r\n    supported extensively as part of ecosystem for farming and along \r\n    with that is to just to summarize the strengthening FPO&apos;s at the \r\n    bottom part of the ecosystem building infrastructures around \r\n    clusters developing policies to support this and getting the \r\n    infrastructure on board where they are going to avail various</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    benefits which currently govt. is offering going to be crucial to \r\n    respond to the opportunities which exist for Karnataka.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Moderator</b> - Thank you for that. It was very helpful. We are now \r\n    going to discuss two threats that you discussed and take that to \r\n    other panelist. On is to talk about infrastructure and need to align \r\n    infrastructure in a better way for optimal output. To that end I \r\n    actually wanted to turn towards to Shivanand Rai who I wanted \r\n    to identify special experience form the central warehousing \r\n    perspective and looking at it from policy and how we can strengthen \r\n    policy that can help the larger ecosystem further, what are the \r\n    policies that you think make sense to focus on?</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Shivanand Rai</b> - Good morning to all participants and honorable \r\n    minister BC Patil sir. It is a great opportunity for me. I can \r\n    summarize and CWC is around 10 million tons capacities all over \r\n    India and Karnataka we are having around 4.5 metric ton. Karnataka \r\n    state warehousing corporation is having around 17 lakh metric ton \r\n    with the help of NABARD and total food corporation of India is having \r\n    around 4 lakh metric ton. Total warehousing that is listed under \r\n    WDRA so they see that all warehouses should be scientific senders. \r\n    All over country it is 1799 has been registered. So these are the \r\n    basics and during the lockdown CWC all over India has handled \r\n    about 100 lakh metric ton of food ware and 20 lakh metric ton for \r\n    public distribution system and in Karnataka 2-3 lakh so is coming to \r\n    that further we have container filter essentials and still in this Covid \r\n    period the only problem we are facing is labour problem. Otherwise \r\n    or warehouses are heading on full capacity so we still want to \r\n    expand the basic</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Moderators</b> - Thank you for that sir. It was very helpful. Moving the \r\n    infrastructure that existed and moving the amount of work that has \r\n    been done, one thing Amith Ji mentioned was FPO. About the \r\n    ecosystem face and then there is capital which is on the ground and \r\n    which is executing on these firms. So Dr. KC I actually want to turn \r\n    towards you and you had mentioned very success stories especially \r\n    in this ecosystem, given there are chance to improve infrastructure, \r\n    to improve capacity and there are still incredible stories that you</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> mention of FPO&apos;s in the kind of draft they were doing. Would kind of \r\n    highlight those kind of examples?</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Dr. KC</b> - Good morning everyone and I congratulate ASSOCHAM for \r\n    hosting such an important webinar. Impact of Covid have been quite \r\n    harsh on other sector than agriculture sector. The first impact of \r\n    Indian agriculture is destruction in supply chain. There was an \r\n    interstate and inter district transportation ban and that really \r\n    disturbed the supply chain and there was a delay in permit thought \r\n    agricultural commodities were permitted so there was a delay in \r\n    transportation. So these things affected the storage of agricultural \r\n    commodities and also exports are effected due to international ban. \r\n    So overall scenario impact of Covid on Indian agriculture. Even the \r\n    other sectors are also badly effected the growth has been cut down \r\n    by 20% to 17%. Bu growth in agricultural sector fortunately has \r\n    come down by 1% or 2%. So this pandemic can be an opportunity. \r\n    Here I want to make one important point. You can leverage ICT for \r\n    location of storage structures like in Delhi they launched an app for \r\n    location of vacant beds. So like that we can develop an app for the \r\n    storage sectors. Second important point to make is we can leverage \r\n    FPO and we can go for a smaller warehouses instead of building a \r\n    big warehouse and again farmers has to take it for a longer distance. \r\n    The FPO&apos;s can be strengthen by state govt. providing requisite \r\n    assistance by having a storage structures. Mentioning the third point \r\n    to the minister bring agriculture and line departments into marketing \r\n    as well. For this policy change is required we can have a marketing \r\n    cell in each of the allied sectors because these people are closely \r\n    attached with the farmers can sensitize the farmers about different \r\n    marketing and various aspects and passage of the two ordinance by \r\n    GOI, role of the APMC is confined to that market area beyond that \r\n    now this APMC will have a new role by involving in the backward \r\n    linkages by developing warehouse, cold storages structures and \r\n    storages more than anything Karnataka is having an international \r\n    institute CFTRI Karnataka govt. can take a advantage of the institute \r\n    some technologies can be borrow and transfer to the farmers as well \r\n    as the total supply chain. These are the few points, Karnataka is</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    blessed with all climatic zones so cluster based approach export for \r\n    domestic marketing will help a lot.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Moderate</b> - Minister Sir, would you like to say something?</p> \r\n     <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>BC Patil - Now warehouses are there but still we need and I wanted \r\n    to convert some warehouses into cold storage which is quite \r\n    essential now a days after the Covid, we learnt that cold storage is \r\n    much essential because when the supply chain demand was less \r\n    farmers spoiled their vegetables and fruits instead of this they would \r\n    have stored in cold storage in Karnataka we have only 32 cold \r\n    storages and out of which they couldn&apos;t able to store all the things \r\n    and the perishable goods were big loss to the Karnataka farming \r\n    that time. That&apos;s why we look forward for more cold storage that&apos;s \r\n    what essential.</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Moderator</b> - Neeraj Ji, would you like to add something about the \r\n    govt. initiative and about the NABARD funding initiative in the \r\n    agriculture post Covid?</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    <b>Neeraj Ji</b> - Good morning. Thanks for having me in the webinar for \r\n    ASSOCHAM organizing this timely webinar topical theme by giving \r\n    the current Covid-19 situation and also I must thank our honorable \r\n    minister BC Patil sir stated as telling the FPO&apos;s should pitch in \r\n    and the honorable PM giving the importance to the rural India at the \r\n    pandemic time by bringing out the three strategic provisions through \r\n    ordinance to convert totally into beans and this time will come the \r\n    FPO&apos;s chance in the rural India. As I was CEO and MD of NABARD \r\n    two years back and in Karnataka I drove funding to the FPO&apos;s. So out \r\n    of 400 FPO&apos;s 250 FPO&apos;s has been promoted by NABARD and we lend \r\n    to 40 FPO&apos;s and this year also we going to lend 50 FPO&apos;s and also will \r\n    promote 50-100 the govt. of India has come up with FPO funds as we \r\n    have funds we want to fund across India 10,000 FPO&apos;s and also I&apos;m \r\n    sure the agriculture minister of Karnataka and of NABARD is there \r\n    and I&apos;m sure Karnataka will be the leading state in this mission of \r\n    FPO&apos;s promoting. FPO is key to everything from storage to marketing \r\n    aggregation to realization of value and the income FPO is the key. \r\n    The intention of GOI by doubling the farmer&apos;s income which \r\n    Dalwai will speak in the next panel. The next decade will be the</p> \r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n    FPO&apos;s decade GOI announced credit guarantee fund and also the \r\n    equity provided to the FPO&apos;s as heading the Karnataka NABARD we \r\n    will assure with the FPO&apos;s in NABARD in guidance and collaboration \r\n    with the Karnataka govt. under the leadership of honorable CM and \r\n    honorable agriculture minister we will be the leading in funding. For \r\n    FPO&apos;s all kind of facilities and credit facilities is for storage and \r\n    pandemic processing localizing centers the key localilse \r\n    aggregation at the farmers level is the key. This kind of FPO&apos;s will \r\n    evolve federation of the FPO&apos;s. The GOI Is planning the cluster one \r\n    district one cluster and that is also been identified and also we will \r\n    be having a meeting with the district level managers of NABARD and \r\n    tomorrow the GOI Agriculture Ministry will have the meeting with the \r\n    DGM&apos;s of across the country and the state with the FPO&apos;s and again \r\n    we will assure from NABARD to the agri ministry and very shortly we \r\n    will come out with the action plan going to be in Karnataka also and \r\n    this is regarding to FPO and also across the country this will be a \r\n    right movement. In pandemic times the farmers need all kind of helps \r\n    because the farmers will be the key drivers at this point of time \r\n    agriculture sector is the better place than other sectors because \r\n    they drive the economy of India also. Another key announcement by \r\n    NABARD we are going to provide storage facilities, processing \r\n    facilities to saturate throughout India to assist and to lend max 4% \r\n    and will give the grant for the capacity building. We have announced \r\n    and the circular has come and very shortly and this we will do it in \r\n    first phase in the year we notice the very first phase and across \r\n    Karnataka they are ready along with the FPO&apos;s form packs will be \r\n    there not only FPO&apos;s but packs are also there. The GOI has \r\n    announced the agriculture infrastructure fund and also announced 1 \r\n    lakh fund for interest of 3% along will the bankers in Karnataka the \r\n    NABARD will give the grater boost. These are the schemes from the \r\n    FPO&apos;s and packs which we are going to convert into multi-services \r\n    center and this schemes will be translated very soon we have to \r\n    come from paper to the ground and as our honorable minister as he \r\n    is travelling in the state with his enthusiasm I am sure today is the \r\n    starting point from today we are going to translate all the policies \r\n    into action and shortly we will do this in collaboration with the GOK \r\n    shortly. Thank you</p> ', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', '-impact-of-covid-19-on-agro-and-food-processing-industries-in-the-state-of-karnataka', 1, 0, '2020-07-15', '2020-07-15', '', '', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(80, 'ASSOCHAM Southern region presents webinar on \r\n         Emotional Wellness', '-Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program \r\n         and said organizations must reimagine their workspace and business models.', 'Invited speakers -<br>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>1. Roland Schatz, CEO and Founder, UNGSII Foundation</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> 2. Harjeet Khanduja, Vice President - Human Resources, Reliance Jio Communications</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> 3. Shalini Pillay, Office Managing Partner KPMG and India Head - Global Capability Centre</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> 4. Sangeeta Chandran, Head, Safety and Well Being Programs, TCS</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>5. Chandrasekhar Sripada, Practice Professor of OB and Strategic Human Capital, ISB</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>6. S Prem Kumar, 1to1Help.net</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma S Nair</b> - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the program \r\n         and said organizations must reimagine their workspace and business models. The HR have played a critical \r\n         role in building resilience during the pandemic and now preparing to play a pivotal role in crafting a \r\n         productive and rewarding work environment for their employees in the New Normal. As we now weave \r\n         momentum into our organizations, the emotional health of the leaders and employees is going to be a \r\n         critical factor in the fast-track recovery. To deliberate on this topic ASSOCHAM Southern region office in \r\n         collaboration with our partner 1to1 help is organizing webinar on &quot;Emotional Wellness and its Role in \r\n         Designing the New Age Organization&quot;.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Roland Schatz</b> - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n         program and said Most human resource management theories, practices and literature originate in the \r\n         Western countries. However, globalization and cross-cultural interaction increasingly highlights the \r\n         differences in national cultures, and it is clear that Eastern and Western countries have different \r\n         approaches, perspectives, norms and practices. Comparison of human resource practices in Eastern \r\n         countries such as China and Japan and Western countries such as the United States and United Kingdom, \r\n         therefore, reveals that they differ significantly in terms of organizational structure, motivational \r\n         programs, communication and conflict resolution.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Western and Eastern countries differ in their views on motivation; whereas Western countries tend to \r\n         place greater emphasis on individual rewards and compensation packages and personal career \r\n         development, Eastern countries value collective rewards and steady progression. In the Western context, \r\n         individual workers stand out when they exercise personal initiative and are duly rewarded through \r\n         competitive remuneration and opportunities for growth. Conversely, in the Eastern countries, there have \r\n         been various influences including Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized long-term orientation, \r\n         thrift, communality harmony and respect for tradition. As a result, workers receive promotion and \r\n         rewards on the basis of seniority and rewarding high-performance teams rather than individuals works \r\n         better as a motivational tool.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Conflict resolution is a major aspect of human resource management that Western countries practice \r\n         more overtly than the Eastern ones. In Eastern countries, there is a tendency toward harmony and a \r\n         holistic approach, and people resolve conflicts through accommodation and compromise. Western style</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>of competing emphasize withdrawing or ignoring a conflict altogether. The holistic approach also \r\n         advances that all people are part of a whole system and that each person has a definite role to play, which \r\n         has the overall effect of minimizing instances of disagreements. The converse is true of Western cultures, \r\n         where individuals are encouraged to explore and develop themselves and this has a greater capacity to \r\n         cause conflict.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Harjeet Khanduja</b> - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n         program and said the tech world is often seen as progressive when it comes to work-life initiatives, so it \r\n         was especially eye-opening to read the following quote from an industry powerhouse: &quot;There&apos;s no such \r\n         thing as work-life balance. There&apos;s work, and there&apos;s life and there&apos;s no balance.&quot;</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>It&apos;s hard to diagnose the culture issues in your company if you don&apos;t know what areas need to be \r\n         improved, added, or addressed. Often, communication is strictly top-down which limits the amount of \r\n         insight leaders have of the employee experience. But a workplace app creates two-way communication \r\n         which lets employees express what they need. Consider using mobile technology to send anonymous \r\n         digital surveys to get honest employee feedback. You can also present a series of new culture-building \r\n         initiatives focused on employee engagement to test what would make the most impact on your \r\n         workforce.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>If there&apos;s one business strategy that gets clear engagement results, it&apos;s flextime. According to a recent \r\n         study, 90% of employees said more flexible schedules would boost morale in their companies. This is \r\n         due in part to the changing demographic of today&apos;s employees. Millennials now make up the majority of </p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>the global workforce and they have different priorities than past generations. They&apos;ll take a job with \r\n         more flexible work options over more money. More companies are offering flex-time options, thanks in \r\n         part to Millennial managers now shaping corporate policies that include flexible work arrangements in \r\n         their companies.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shalini Pillay</b> - Welcomed the Speakers and panellists and the participants and partners to the \r\n         program and said Hygiene is an important and critical part of the life of any human being. The importance\r\n         of hygiene can be best understood by the fact that almost every religion on earth has preached hygiene. \r\n         The benefits of hygiene are not only limited to the physical structure of a human being, it also influences \r\n         some psychological behaviors. It creates self-confidence, boosts morale and uplifts the self-esteem of a \r\n         person.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Why is hygiene so important? Why has man converted his forests and lands into cleaner roads and proper \r\n         societies? The answer is simple. Hygiene is a measure of a person&apos;s way of life. A person having good selfhygiene not only enables himself to feel comfortable in his skin but it also helps others around that person, \r\n         to work in comfort. A person with good values will never ignore his personal hygiene.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Every workplace has its norms and policies. Cleanliness and personal hygiene are always part of these \r\n         norms and policies. All businesses have a dress code. This dress code is a part of the self-hygiene of \r\n         employees. Maintaining proper hygiene at the workplace is very important for the good reputation of \r\n         businesses. Both the official authorities and the employees need to take care of hygiene. No boss would \r\n         want a dirty person to represent his company in the market or in front of the public. Similarly, no \r\n         employee would want to work in a firm with dirty restrooms, cubicles, and the environment. The \r\n         contribution of both parties is essential for the good reputation of the firm.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Developing trust in the workplace is a key organisational predictor of performance. Many organisations \r\n         have stumbled and even failed outright where a lack of trust, doubt and suspicion have grown between \r\n         the leadership, management and employees. Previous studies have found that mistrust in the workplace \r\n         predicts high turnover rates, increased absence through sickness, lower levels of productivity, \r\n         performance and employee satisfaction.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Sangeetha Chandran</b> - Thank you, All the panels spoke today all are very hygiene factors. Coming to \r\n         the performance Management, we need to take few things into the consideration from few things what \r\n         Shalini said about keeping what hygiene now and turning now which we see differently all together \r\n         for instance trust need to be far more in terms when we need people to perform better we need to trust \r\n         our teams more you know the ODP culture and so much of intersects phones outside offices suddenly we \r\n         have people sitting at in their homes and no way to monitor them and we need to trust them so that is \r\n         one thing that is where we see and view our team and how do we motivate and inspire them in more and \r\n         more trust worthy.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Secondly in terms of how our terms perform is to have the highest level of empathy not from mangers to \r\n         the team but also from teams to the manger because also humans as well and this sort to and pro which \r\n         is very important in terms performance perspective and not from the performance management \r\n         perspective. The next is give the work to people are how flexible are they and how tensile our people are \r\n         able to function in cu active environment and still have structure around what they do and that is \r\n         important as well. So many of things will come into play and I think performance management will goal \r\n         oriented and may not be checking the people on how long spend at their desk be really about how they \r\n         have performed. But how do they facilitate the performance in these environment systems.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>I think the key is to the HR organization of the Future because no longer you can expect them to adhere \r\n         to them without understanding in them what is going on in their life. For instance we talk about the \r\n         leaders start the day early in the morning and start shooting up the mails and that&apos;s where she got up and \r\n         she realizes the pressure on her team and they have to respond to the ail very quickly and to show that \r\n         we are all working and not lacking up instead of that she has to put in the draft the timing they need to \r\n         respond and that is how we need to take out the pressure off.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The examples will help the leaders to know that how do we create environments where out teams are \r\n         willing to talk to each other and open door is actually a virtual door now and nobody see really what&apos;s \r\n         happening somebody door that&apos;s really important and leaders to be more venerable and show the human \r\n         face to them so that the teams know that actually come back to them anything.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>So other thing in performance management which we are seeing already is the inclusion of other than the \r\n         basic course and the holistic personality is looked up at how the person will look at this management and \r\n         it may not hit directly to your goals in terms how are you taking care of yourself. Welting factors \r\n         contribution to society and your ability to connecting to the other people because all this will feel the \r\n         people helping well rounded and productivity will be higher. In short that is the way the performance \r\n         management will move in terms of wellbeing perspective, Physical and Holistic wellbeing and that&apos;s the \r\n         way we are going to move as time is running out, we will quickly move to moderator.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Prof. Chandrasekhar Sripada</b> - Thank you ASSOCHAM to having me here, I thoroughly enjoyed my fellow \r\n         panelists and they all set an interesting background set context to what I am going to say including your \r\n         question so when Rolland reminded us interesting music on sustainable goals and particularly descent</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>work and we know that 100 and 1000 of companies we work is not yet descent and work is not descent \r\n         and the relationship at the work place is not descent the infinity will imposes in us the emotion is \r\n         extremely painful and hurtful but we do not have mechanism to deal with them.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>When shalini talked about digital colleague that is an interesting assault on human emotions the very \r\n         social need you go to work it&apos;s known it&apos;s interesting and it is confronted by a social and non-social and \r\n         not social required to be social digital colleague and that will create emotions which we have not \r\n         experienced before. When Sangeetha talked about new performance act structure has always are being \r\n         the most emotive part of our work life. People will really sweat will develop Blood pressure stress around \r\n         the famous and in in famous performance management discussion in organizations. Boss is not learnt \r\n         over years how to give feedback or not people have learnt to receive feedback.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Finally Harjeet talks about Hari Sardou type of Bosses and how work slips into life and how life slips into \r\n         work and we not yet ready to have a blende approach to understand both of them because they are two \r\n         together it is in that context the organization are going to surface emotions specially in WFM scenario and \r\n         so on the whole I believe that the organizations and the HR Functions at the new age surface confront \r\n         and fairly deal with emotions as an important part of the organization structure life.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>They cannot no more pushed under the carpet it is ok to cry it&apos;s k to be emotional we do not need macho \r\n         organization we need human organizations only then they can be sustainable and there is an article called \r\n         &quot;Unresolved Grieves&quot;. it&apos;s an unaddressed issue and it will happen only in America where 75 Billion Dollar \r\n         a year because the Grief at the organization the grief of missing the promotion losing a customer or a big \r\n         order getting fired by the boss in public being abused or just losing the team member or losing a mentor \r\n         on retirement many events in the organization create a huge of amount of emotions we do not have any \r\n         method today to deal with them to accept them or acknowledge them and hence employees to deal with \r\n         them and so time if they become excessive we think suspicious case needing so called counseling so we \r\n         need to change all this.</p> \r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>So, let me say emotions are important not able to deal with them because of money ability to deal with \r\n         will give you return on the investment or on the people to investment when they are dealt with 3 things \r\n         will happen firstly Awareness, secondly acceptance and third one is Dealing. Awareness itself is the ability \r\n         to surface emotions and talk about natural things are very important. When people loose identity or \r\n         purpose or attachment or control if any of those four factors at a higher level of abstraction really crate a \r\n         loss in the mind of people and create stroma and to stop that we need to have mechanisms where \r\n         managers are more empathetically deal with employees and help them to resolve this issue through these \r\n         three steps. And this will further increase in the new age organization and let&apos;s imagine the wide range of \r\n         grieves and emotions said by few examples. And that is more in the world because of Covid and this is the \r\n         universe grieve we are facing.</p>\r\n         <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>At least now we awaken now, and organizations recognize emotions and build mechanism to deal with \r\n         them and managers to be trained and employees need to be educated and organization should continue \r\n         to promote this cause. That&apos;s my point of view.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-southern-region-presents-webinar-on-emotional-wellness', 1, 0, '2021-01-30', '2021-01-30', '11:00AM', '01:00PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
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(81, 'ASSOCHAM Southern region presents webinar on \r\n           &quot;UPSKILLING Girls', '-ASSOCHAM in partnership with Brillio organized the webinar on Upskilling girls in STEM on Feb 10th\r\n           2021 to discuss the policies, best practices, and challenges around STEM education for girls in India.', 'Invited Speakers: \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Shri. Jayesh Ranjan,</b> IAS, Principal Secretary to IT E & C Department, Government of Telangana</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Smt. K. Ratna Prabha,</b> IAS (Retd), Chairperson, Karnataka Skill Development Authority, \r\n           Government of Karnataka</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Dr. Sukanyya Misra,</b> Senior Vice President, India Technology Hub, Mastercard</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Akilur Rahman,</b> Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Sudeepta Banerjee,</b> Co-Founder- Raise to Pi.Org and Advisor Partnerships & ProgramsSikshana Foundation</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Rekha Kumari,</b> Head - Programs, Kaushalya Foundation, SOAS University of London</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Rumi Mallick Mitra,</b> Leader, Strategy & New Initiatives, IBM Corporate Social Responsibility, \r\n           IBM</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Annapoorna Swarup,</b> Founder and CEO - Emotionalytics and Co.</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Smitha Thumbikkat,</b> Associate Director, Delivery Excellence and Data Engineering, Brillio</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Abhishek Ranjan,</b> Chairperson - ASSOCHAM Karnataka CSR Committee</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Uma S Nair,</b> Regional Director</b> - Southern region, ASSOCHAM</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><center>UPSKILLING GIRLS IN STEM FOR TECHNOLOGY LED INCLUSIVE GROWTH</p></center>\r\n           <center>Post event report</center>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM in partnership with Brillio organized the webinar on Upskilling girls in STEM on Feb 10th\r\n           , \r\n           2021 to discuss the policies, best practices, and challenges around STEM education for girls in India.</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Uma S Nair, Regional Director, Southern Region, ASSOCHAM,</b> welcomed the dignitaries and the \r\n           gathering. She highlighted that Government initiatives like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Digital India, etc. \r\n           have positively impacted the Gender Parity Index and there are increased trends of girl children \r\n           enrolment in primary and secondary schools. Also, the Digital solutions consumers have increased and \r\n           girls are not enabled to embrace and pursue STEM Education. The core problem still exists \r\n           unaddressed.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Abhishek Ranjan, Global Head, Sustainability & D&I, Brillio,</b> spoke about the challenges faced and \r\n           the need for a road map in STEM for Girls. He said that there are cultural issues and infrastructure \r\n           issues at school levels.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The first Panel discussion was on &quot;Up-Skilling Girls in STEM -Tech bridge. A leadership perspective,&quot; \r\n           moderated by<b> Smitha Thumbikkat, Associate Director, Brillio.</b> Introducing the speakers,Smitha spoke \r\n           about the need for nurturing the mindset of girls to achieve more for the inclusive sustainable growth. \r\n           <b>Smt. Rathna Prabha, IAS (Retd.) Chairperson Karnataka Skill Development Authority</b> shared that \r\n           during her school days, only one girl in her class took science and now she sees a lot of doctors and \r\n           engineers. 30% reservation in the state, 25% of reservation in IITs and IIMs has helped girls to place \r\n           themselves in science fields.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>She spoke about the need for the safety of women and girl children and the importance of developing \r\n           a conducive environment for girls. She emphasized the need for sensitizing the parents, train the \r\n           teachers for STEM Education. There must be a convergence of programs both by Govt and corporates \r\n           should work together and there is a need of evaluating what has been done and what needs to be \r\n           done.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal secretary of ITE&C, Govt. of Telangana</b> said we need to have a Life \r\n           cycle approach to encourage girl child in all walks of life without discrimination. He mentioned that \r\n           the girl child ratio drops in science, post-high school. In Telangana, the Girls in Tech program is</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>introduced in the early stage- 9\r\n           th and 10th. Career guidance intervention is provided to girls and new \r\n           generational skills like AI, Big data, Machine learning short courses have been provided and \r\n           encouraged girls. Next is to support women by creating a community of women under It umbrella- a \r\n           forum has been created called &apos;Cyberabad security council&apos;. Free shuttle -women exclusive busses are \r\n           provided. Women entrepreneurs are provided support through &apos;WeHub&apos;- an exclusive incubator for \r\n           women startups. He shared that the initial results of the initiatives are good and they want to scale \r\n           the model. We have to keep track of numbers and also the qualitative indicators have to be \r\n           methodically tracked.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Akilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi ABB Power Grids</b>- shared examples of what \r\n           Hitachi ABB Power grids are doing through CSR for women in engineering and manufacturing \r\n           programs for the community and for the employees to guide how they can enter heavy engineering \r\n           field. They also follow a life cycle approach to support the girl child to develop the interest and see \r\n           how she can enter heavy engineering.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice president, India Technology Hub, MasterCard</b> spoke about \r\n           Mastercard&apos;s investments in STEM education. Mastercard has introduced critical topics like Digital \r\n           convergence, Cryptology, False detection, cybersecurity, AI, Big data Analytics, ML, coding to be \r\n           future-ready. 8 to 12yrs age girl children interact with employees who are the mentors and \r\n           understand how technology is applied in the payment industry. She mentioned that partnership with \r\n           global and national level non-profit agencies is needed to scale the programs to reach millions of girl \r\n           children and train the teachers. Employee volunteering is critical to the application of STEM- develop \r\n           curriculum and interact with the girl child.</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The second Panel discussion was on &quot;Enabling Holistic Growth in Upskilling Girls in STEM - Post \r\n           Pandemic.&quot; This session was moderated by Sudeepta Banerjee, co-founder RaisetpPi.org & Advisor,\r\n           Shikshana Foundation said it is even though things are improving it is no closer to equality so needs a \r\n           lot more to be done.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Rekha Kumari, Head Programs, Kaushalya Foundation</b>- shared the challenges faced in the field \r\n           and access to education has been a very big differentiator, lack of role models, workplace gender \r\n           norms & issues, migrations, etc. Due to these factors, female labor participation is going down and we\r\n           need to work with a collaborative approach with necessary structural and policy changes.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Annapurna Swarup, CEO & Founder, Emotionanalytics & Co.</b> Most of the classes are onlinemobile/TV. Shared the reasons for the low female ratio in STEM -there is no infrastructure and children \r\n           go for domestic help. As we go up the careers, they get married and enter parenthood and hence they \r\n           drop out for family care. We need an ecosystem to support girls continuously. Should have the nearby \r\n           role models and need the change of mindset through emotional intelligence skills.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Rumi Mallick Mitra, leader- Strategy & CSR, IBM</b> shared that being pioneers in gender equality, \r\n           DEI is not a stand-alone agenda at IBM but it is inbuilt in the day to day business with strong policies \r\n           backup.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>To conclude, the webinar was attended by100 + participants. There is a need for the consolidation of \r\n           efforts and have the lifecycle approach to support the girls and replicate across states. Create interest \r\n           and awareness, encourage people to participate more. A lot of girls are not able to migrate to cities \r\n           for the Tech job in cities. We need to enhance communication and employability skills for girls. Socialemotional learnings should be brought into the curriculum and policy level changes are required to \r\n           retain women on the job.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Meghana Shashidhar, Brillio</b> rendered the vote of thanks to the gathering.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><center><b>KEY FINDINGS, KEY INSIGHTS OF THIS PROGRAM</p></center></b>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ovid & online learning mode has made access to education even more difficult for girls from \r\n           the underprivileged segments of the society. There are not enough devices available with the \r\n           families and the male child is prioritized when it comes to sharing the devices. So, there is an \r\n           immediate need to address this challenge. Unless girls get access to education first, they \r\n           won\'t be able to venture into STEM.</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Career awareness about STEM fields and showing off role models through community \r\n           outreach is extremely important. Now, these role models need to be someone whom these \r\n           girls can relate to not someone like Kalpana Chawla. They need to be the ones from similar \r\n           families or communities that these girls belong to.</p> \r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>empower women by also changing the mindset of men in the community. Spread awareness \r\n           in young boys about how life changes for good when the women of the community work and \r\n           get paid well.</p>\r\n           <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Corporates need to create robust follow-up mechanisms to track how the girls are doing after \r\n           the intervention and provide an end-to-end support to the ones already in the program and \r\n           ensure their journey is complete rather than running behind numbers.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-southern-region-presents-webinar-on-upskilling-girls-', 1, 0, '2021-02-10', '2021-02-10', '11:00AM', '01:00PM', 0, 1, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(82, 'CAREER 2.0', 'Due to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be\r\n          ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.', '<center><b>Knowledge Management Virtual Meet</b></center>\r\n          <center><b> CAREER 2.0 </b></center>\r\n          <center><b>A Step Towards Creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat </b></center>\r\n          <center><b> Tuesday, 29th June 2021, 3 PM </b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Due to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be\r\n          ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.\r\n          Students need to be great communicators, collaborators, and critical-thinkers that can\r\n          tackle novel and unimaginable problems. There is a need to explore how digital technology\r\n          like smartphones, according to advanced learners can be used as a medium to develop the\r\n          critical thinking and problem-solving skills of students, and innovations to face a digital era\r\n          in this world.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> There is a paradigm shift witnessed in the education sector in India. Education Institutions\r\n          have been forced to adapt to e-learning leaving the traditional way of teaching. The\r\n          adaption of technology was reluctant for many and there is a huge digital divide in urban\r\n          and rural India.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital concern in\r\n          mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on CAREER 2.0 \"A step towards\r\n          creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat&quot;\\\r\n           Tuesday, 29th June 2021</p>', '', '', 'career2.0.jpg', 'CAREER-2-0', 1, 0, '2021-06-29', '2021-06-29', '3.00 p.m', '3.00 p.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(83, 'Emerging Technologies for Learning', 'In this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every \r\n          field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools.', '<center><b> Knowledge Management Virtual Meet </b></center>\r\n          <center><b> Emerging Technologies for Learning </b></center>\r\n          <center><b> Digital Education and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges</b></center>\r\n          <center><b> Wednesday, 16th June 2021, 1 PM</b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>In this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every \r\n          field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools. In \r\n          every field, there are numerous courses available digitally across the world and the learners are \r\n          eagerly filling up the seats. Digital learning is an advanced technological medium providing learners \r\n          with a great deal of flexibility, allowing them to study at any time from any place at their convenient \r\n          speed without worrying about timetables and schedules.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The adoption of new technology-aided learning tools has changed the way education is being \r\n          imparted in schools and colleges. The internet of things is turning out to be an affordable way to \r\n          impart education to young minds and a powerful way to integrate experiential learning for \r\n          everyone. The digital learning companies are constantly upgrading to advanced solutions to increase \r\n          access to education for people who are currently struggling to get proper education facilities. The \r\n          role of teachers is changing. They can now access the entire classroom through digital screens.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Even though online education has proved to be a solution for imparting education to the masses, there \r\n          are several challenges of online education that need to be addressed and fixed. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized\r\n          a <b> \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Development&quot;\\ </b>\r\n          on Wednesday, 16th June 2021</p>', '', '', 'learningevent.jpg', 'Emerging-Technologies-for-Learning', 1, 0, '2021-06-16', '2021-06-16', '1.00 p.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(84, 'Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and \r\n          Productivity', 'Even as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping \r\n          executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity.', '<center><b>Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and \r\n          Productivity</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>COVID 19 The way forward: Challenges and Opportunities</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>Saturday, 15th May 3 PM Onwards</b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Even as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping \r\n          executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity. In addition \r\n          to reduced air pollution, telework and virtual meetings are helping companies in reducing travel time \r\n          and cost, however, even though satellite images are revealing a significant decline in air pollution, but \r\n          sitting on the virtual platform also demands taking care of health.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The knowledge management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: \r\n          Health, Wellness, and Productivity included a discussion with respect to health and wellness and how it \r\n          has become crucial in these tough times. It also included discussion around innovative methods that \r\n          can enable actions and change in the next decade.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\"Setting more realistic resolutions, or micro-goals will be a wellness trend for 2021&quot;. Our perspective \r\n          on goals has changed due to the pandemic. Knowing the world can throw a wrench in our gears, we \r\n          realize it\'s important to remain open and flexible.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and is also working for the same. Keeping \r\n          this vital issue in mind ASSOCHAM organized a <b> \"Knowledge Management virtual meet on\r\n          Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity&quot;\\.</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Focus Areas and Global Trends:</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Self-care for the community</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Digital detoxes</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ➢ Flexible goal setting</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Immune Health: Stop Boosting, Start Balancing</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ The Self-Care Renaissance</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ The Year of the Travel Reset: Wellness Travel</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Yoga: Spiritual and Numinous Moments</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ \"Home&quot;\\ wellness</p>', '', '', 'healthjharkhandevent.jpg', 'Overcoming-Challenges-to-Ensure-Salubrious-Future-Health-Wellness-and-Productivity', 1, 0, '2021-05-15', '2021-05-15', '3.00 p.m', '3.00 p.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(85, 'SUSTAINABILITY 2.0', 'On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for\r\n          sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times.', '<center><b>Knowledge Management Virtual Meet</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>SUSTAINABILITY 2.0- A DRESS REHEARSAL, COVID19 THE WAY FORWARD: CHALLENGES AND \r\n          OPPORTUNITIES</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>Friday, 23rd April, 11 am</b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for\r\n          sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times. The event was \r\n          graced by the presence of Tarkishore Prasad, Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar. Alongside our \r\n          special addressee was Pradeep Hazari, Deptt. Of Agriculture, Government of Jharkhand. He\r\n          explained the entire scenario efficiently. Some other eminent speakers were Manu Seth, \r\n          Basant K Potnuru, Joseph Nixon, Neelam Pandita, Dr. Sumit Suseelan, and Bharat \r\n          Jaiswal</p>', '', '', 'SUSTAI.jpg', 'SUSTAINABILITY-2-0', 1, 0, '2021-04-23', '2021-04-23', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(86, 'Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Developmen', 'Nowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in \r\n          companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these \r\n          positions to women.', '<center><b>Knowledge Management Virtual Meet</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Development</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>Monday, 31st May 2021, 11 AM</b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Nowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in \r\n          companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these \r\n          positions to women.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>It is undeniable that women have the ability to be qualified either educationally or practically to \r\n          attain success in different branches and fields. Therefore, it is quite fair to get higher positions in \r\n          their careers. Although this makes practical sense, it ignores a lot of social and physical obstacles \r\n          that women face which interfere with their efficient performance. Such obstacles need gross efforts \r\n          exerted by both the family and the government to provide immanent support to women to achieve \r\n          success in their practical life.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Since the Vedic Era, Women have played a key role in the development of society and the nation as \r\n          a whole. They have been a pioneer for the development and evolution of mankind.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Women in society have proved their mettle in all the fields, including sports, finance, IT, law, space \r\n          technology, Government services, corporate, etc., and have set the milestones for others to follow.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized\r\n          a \\&quot;Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human\r\n          Development on 31st May 2021&quot;\\ </p>', '', '', 'womendiversity.jpg', 'Women-Diversity-Fundamental-Stone-of-Human-Development', 1, 0, '2021-05-31', '2021-05-31', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(87, 'Knowledge Management Virtual Meet ', 'On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n           On 23rd April 2021, a webinar was hosted by ASSOCHAM to put light on the ever-growing need for sustainability which has become more eminent in these COVID-affected times. The event was graced by the presence of Tarkishore Prasad, Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar. Alongside our special addressee was Pradeep Hazari, Deptt. Of Agriculture, Government of Jharkhand. He explained the entire scenario efficiently. Some other eminent speakers were Manu Seth, Basant K Potnuru, Joseph Nixon, Neelam Pandita, Dr. Sumit Suseelan, and Bharat Jaiswal. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity COVID 19 The way forward: Challenges and Opportunities Saturday, 15th May 3 PM Onwards </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Even as companies struggle to maintain their footing in a Covid-19 world, the pandemic is helping executives glimpse the healthcare and wellness inclusion for efficiency and productivity. In addition to reduced air pollution, telework and virtual meetings are helping companies in reducing travel time and cost, however,  even though satellite images are revealing a significant decline in air pollution, but sitting on the virtual platform also demands taking care of health. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The knowledge management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity included a discussion with respect to health and wellness and how it has become crucial in these tough times. It also included discussion around innovative methods that can enable actions and change in the next decade.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\"Setting more realistic resolutions, or micro-goals will be a wellness trend for 2021\". Our perspective on goals has changed due to the pandemic. Knowing the world can throw a wrench in our gears, we realize it\\\'s important to remain open and flexible. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and is also working for the same. Keeping this vital issue in mind ASSOCHAM organized a \"Knowledge Management virtual meet on Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Salubrious Future: Health, Wellness, and Productivity\".</p> \r\n           \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Focus Areas and Global Trends: </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Self-care for the community </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Digital detoxes </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ Flexible goal setting</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ➢ Immune Health: Stop Boosting, Start Balancing</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ➢ The Self-Care Renaissance </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>➢ The Year of the Travel Reset: Wellness Travel</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ➢ Yoga: Spiritual and Numinous Moments</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ➢ &quot;Home&quot; wellness </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Knowledge Management Virtual Meet Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Development Monday, 31st May 2021, 11 AM </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Nowadays there is an intense debate concerning the ability of women to fill high-level positions in companies. A growing body of opinion recommends the allocation of a fixed percentage of these positions to women. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>  It is undeniable that women have the ability to be qualified either educationally or practically to attain success in different branches and fields. Therefore, it is quite fair to get higher positions in their careers. Although this makes practical sense, it ignores a lot of social and physical obstacles that women face which interfere with their efficient performance. Such obstacles need gross efforts exerted by both the family and the government to provide immanent support to women to achieve success in their practical life.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Since the Vedic Era, Women have played a key role in the development of society and the nation as a whole. They have been a pioneer for the development and evolution of mankind.</p> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Women in society have proved their mettle in all the fields, including sports, finance, IT, law, space technology, Government services, corporate, etc., and have set the milestones for others to follow. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Women Diversity: Fundamental Stone of Human Development on 31st May 2021\".  </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Knowledge Management Virtual Meet Emerging Technologies for Learning Digital Education and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges Wednesday, 16th June 2021, 1 PM </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> In this digital era, a lot of students are steadily shifting towards online digital courses in almost every field including business, arts, engineering as well as programming languages and technical tools. In every field, there are numerous courses available digitally across the world and the learners are eagerly filling up the seats. Digital learning is an advanced technological medium providing learners with a great deal of flexibility, allowing them to study at any time from any place at their convenient speed without worrying about timetables and schedules. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The adoption of new technology-aided learning tools has changed the way education is being imparted in schools and colleges. The internet of things is turning out to be an affordable way to impart education to young minds and a powerful way to integrate experiential learning for everyone. The digital learning companies are constantly upgrading to advanced solutions to increase access to education for people who are currently struggling to get proper education facilities. The role of teachers is changing. They can now access the entire classroom through digital screens. </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Even though online education has proved to be a solution for imparting education to the masses, there are several challenges of online education that need to be addressed and fixed. </P>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital issue in mind organized a &quot;Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Development&quot; on Wednesday, 16th June 2021.</P>    \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Knowledge Management Virtual Meet CAREER 2.0  A Step Towards Creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat Tuesday, 29th June 2021, 3 PM </P>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Due to the current pandemic, the world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast-paced, complex, and diverse workplaces.</P> \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Students need to be great communicators, collaborators, and critical-thinkers that can tackle novel and unimaginable problems. There is a need to explore how digital technology like smartphones, according to advanced learners can be used as a medium to develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of students, and innovations to face a digital era in this world. </P>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>There is a paradigm shift witnessed in the education sector in India. Education Institutions have been forced to adapt to e-learning leaving the traditional way of teaching. The adaption of technology was reluctant for many and there is a huge digital divide in urban and rural India.</P>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM being a responsible chamber recognizes this and keeping this vital concern in mind organized a \"Knowledge Management Virtual Meet on CAREER 2.0 \"A step towards creating 21st Century Atmanirbhar Bharat&quot; Tuesday, 29th June 2021. </P>  \r\n           ', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'knowledge-management-virtual-meet', 1, 0, '2021-04-23', '2021-04-23', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 2, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(88, 'India Growth Story', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council initiated and organized first time its 1st BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) Summit 2018 with the theme <b>\\\"INDIA GROWTH STORY - MARKETS, THEN & NOW!\\\"</b>', '<center><b>19th January 2018 : Hotel Grand Hyatt, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council initiated and organized first time its 1st BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) Summit 2018 with the theme <b>\"INDIA GROWTH STORY - MARKETS, THEN & NOW!\"</b> with an objective to obtain compendium of articles on Investment Avenues in financial Space and get insights from the key decision makers from across the industry, in a fast growing BFSI Sector.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>The Summit was inaugurated by Shri. Saurabh Patel, Hon&apos;ble Minister of Energy, Government of Gujarat alongwith Bhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson - ASSOCHAM Gujarat and Shri. Madhu Menon, Chairman- BFSI Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Saurabhbhai Patel, Hon\\&apos;ble Minister for Energy, GoG </b>encouraged ASSOCHAM team by selecting the justify theme that is India Growth Story. He advised the audience to make the best use of the advice and guidance that will be given in the summit on their investments. He said that India&apos;\\s growth story has a very encouraging figures and comparing with other countries India is at a pace of 6-7% which is very promising and encouraging. He said that with the Government policy initiatives and vision to make India a global destination other developed countries are looking at investment opportunities in India. He pressed on the urgent need of inclusive growth and reforms to take India on the path of success and emphasized that returns will only come if each and every sector contributes in the overall development of the country.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Bhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b>said that today&apos;\\s summit is a great learning opportunities for investors and announced the first of its kind BFSI Summit is considered to be one of the most awaited topics that will give an overview on the regulations & policy by the Central & State Government, Investment Avenues in Financial Space, Insurance Solutions, Financial Planning & Wealth Management, Financing & Alternate Lending etc. She said that the strong, proactive policy level support from the government is much-needed boost to user adoption. She gave an overall concept of organizing this summit and announced that it will be taken forward in other cities spreading awareness on the subject and educating everyone on their investment front. She said the gathering will help everyone of us understand the Indian market scenario, trends in Capital Markets, Investments, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management, Alternate Investments, Insurance, Real Estate planning , will services etc</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Madhu Menon, Chairman, BFSI Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b>briefed the audience on the overall programme flow of the summit and the take aways from this Summit. He announced that how for the first time with technology like mobile app the audience will actively participate in the summit\r\n        and connect with the speakers. The Summit will be much interactive and the outcome of the summit will help each and every participant take wise decision on their investment front.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Summit marked the presence of eminent speakers from Nationalized Banks, and Industries like Ritesh Jain, Chief Investment Officer, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Sahazad Madon - Head- PMS & Alternative Assets, Reliance Portfolio Management, Ashish Goyal, AVP, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd alongwith Speakers across Capital Market & Investment World.</p>', '', '', 'indiangrowthgujrat.jpg', 'India-growth-story', 1, 0, '2018-01-19', '2018-01-19', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(89, 'THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT)', 'After receiving an overwhelming response to the first series of Beyond Pink, THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT) mentoring session on women empowerment, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council announced its second series this year with Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad&apos;s first lady Mayor of 1995', '<center><b>BEYOND PINK (series 2)</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> After receiving an overwhelming response to the first series of Beyond Pink, THE POWER OF SHE (SOARING HEIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT) mentoring session on women empowerment, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council announced its second series this year with Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad&apos;s first lady Mayor of 1995 with other record breaking women dignitaries like Bhagyesh Soni, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat council , Panna Momaya, GPS, Addl. DCP, Women Crime Branch, Ahmedabad, Dr. Arundhati Misra, Group Director, AMHTDG,EPSA, SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad, Dr. Sarika Mehta, Psychologist, Socialist and Founder Biking Queens, Smt. Pabiben Rabari, Founder Pabiben.com & Dr. Mona Desai, Chairperson, All India Women&apos;s Doctor Cell, Indian Medical Association (IMA).</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The event witnessed a huge participation of 200 women participants from across Gujarat. All women participants were welcomed by gifts sponsored by our gifting partners.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>During the event both the chief guests Chief Guests Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya, Chairperson, State Commission for Women & Smt. Bhavnaben Dave, Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad&apos;s first lady Mayor of 1995 distributed ASSOCHAM&apos;s &quot;Mahila Shakti Awards 2018&quot; to the women who have contributed to the society and nation for social cause, sports and bravery, making nation proud of their achievements.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Bhagyesh Soni</b>Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat council under her strong leadership took an initiative of celebrating and encouraging women by Organising a mentoring session on Women&apos;s Day called \"Beyond Pink\": The Power of SHE (Soaring Heights of Empowerment) for the second time in Gujarat. Last year in 2017 she had been conferred Women Excellence Award in Nigeria by WPDO (World Peace & Diplomacy Organisation) on International Women\\&apos;s Day</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt. Bhavnaben Dave,</b>Vice- Chairperson, University Granth Nirman Board, GoG, ex MP and Ahmedabad\\&apos;s first lady Mayor of 1995, spoke about gender equality and encouraged all women to come out of the gender boundaries and respect whatever role they have in society, be it a mother, daughter, wife anything. Being into the education field for years she emphasized on education that education should be the suo motto. She also spoke about family bonding and culture. She also motivated the audience that it is very important to be empowered first, love our nation and second our family.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt. Leelaben Ankoliya,</b> Chairperson, State Commission for Women welcomed all the participants and briefed them about the work of Nari Adalat set up with the help of Hon&apos;ble Prime Minister of India Shri. Narendra Modi and how this initiative is helping the poor and needy women resolve their issues free of cost without going to different courts for their rights and resolve the issues faced by them. She also emphasized on education for women for becoming empowered. She briefed about the difference medical colleges set up in Gujarat for education and encouraged women to take maximum advantage of it. By giving examples of different women of India in the field of education, sports, entrepreneurs she motivated all the audience to accomplish their goals.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Panna Momaya,</b> GPS, Additional DCP, Women Crime Branch, Ahmedabad spoke about the combating role of women in today&apos;s society. In her address she spoke about the various rights of women and how the women helpline nos is a boon to the women today. She emphasized women to be bold enough and come forward if they are facing any injustice and also advised to stop blaming other women if they are complaining on the issues facing related to eve teasing.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Arundhati Misra,</b> Group Director, AMHTDG,EPSA, SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad, spoke about the structural organization of ISRO and also announced about their human space programmme. She spoke about the achievements of ISRO and her role in the organization. She encouraged more women to come forward and join the space research team and be a part of Nation&apos;s development.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Sarika Mehta,</b> Psychologist, Socialist and Founder Biking Queens shared her thrilling experience and achievements of record breaking All India motorcycle ride with 35 women for social awareness in different villages taking the message of &quot;Sashakat Nari Sashakat Bharat&quot;. She also showed the AV of her family trip expedition to Mt Elbrus Russia one of the 7 Summit of the world at the height of 18,510 ft, with the message of &quot;Be the change you want to see in the world&quot;. She also spoke about time management and gave few tips to how to adhere to it.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt. Pabiben Rabari,</b>Founder Pabiben.com, spoke about her story that how she became a successful entrepreneur and how she empowered other women of her community and village by making them self reliant. During the event she also launched her product catalogue which was very much appreciated by the audience. She thanked ASSOCHAM for presenting her the Award.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Mona Desai,</b>Chairperson, All India Women&apos;s Doctor Cell, Indian Medical Association (IMA), gave a presentation on the issues and diseases related to women health and urged the women participants not to remain ignorant about the same as they are the pillars of their family. She also appreciated about the multitasking activities that women do today managing her stress level.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The technical session speakers were also recipients of many national and international awards and few of them had also published their books on entrepreneurship and women empowerment. A session on women safety, domestic violence and role of women helpline number was also discussed and demonstrated by our learned speakers.</p>', '', '', 'gujratthepowerofshe.jpg', 'the-power-of-she-soaring-heights-of-empowerment', 1, 0, '2018-03-08', '2018-03-08', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
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(90, 'Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges', 'The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Gujarat Council alongwith Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous research organization under the Ministry of External Affairs & DEA, jointly organised 2 days conference on Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges.', '<center><b>Conference on </b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>\"Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges\" </b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>19th April 2018, Hotel Grand Hyatt, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>DATE: 19th- 20th April 2018</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>VENUE: - Hotel Grand Hyatt, Ahmedabad</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Gujarat Council alongwith Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous research organization under the Ministry of External Affairs & DEA, jointly organised 2 days conference on Urban Development: Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The event was attended by eminent experts, policy practitioners, officials from central government, industry leaders, bilateral partners and representatives of the Multilateral Development Banks including AIIB to deliberate on the pertinent issues relating to financing, institutional and regulatory environment, technological options for sustainable future, financial sustainability and other relevant aspects.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The event witnessed participation of more than 100 participants from across the country. During the event both the Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & Co- Chairman ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council presented the dignitaries with ASSOCHAM memento for their gracious presence.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Bhagyesh Soneji, Chairperson ASSOCHAM Gujarat council</b>highlighted on the missing part and challenges faced in the infrastructure development of the state. She spoke about the DMIC project in Gujarat. She said that nearly 62% of the population has fallen under the DMIC project. She emphasized on the supplies as major rural population has migrated to the urban cities and the challenging part today is to manage supplies. She said that need of an hour today is to build infrastructure to manage the migrated population to the big cities and also for rural-urban infrastructure management. She thanked all the participants and dignitaries for sparing their time and attending the very important conference.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Professor Amitabh Kundu,</b>Distinguished Fellow, RIS, and chair of the Inaugural session of the conference welcomed all the dignitaries and highlighted the work and research carried out by the dignitaries present on the dais for sustainable smart urban infrastructural development of the nation and the challenges & way forward.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Kenichi Yokoyama,</b> Country Director, Indian Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank, while welcoming all the delegates to the conference addressed the challenges and opportunities faced during their working in India and at state level. He highlighted on the various projects being undertaken by ADB in the country as well as state. He stated in his presentation about the recent economic survey in India that nearly $180 bn investment is being projected upto the year 2040. He said that urban infrastructure is growing rapidly and their bank in India has invested around USD 39.4 bn from (1986-2016). In his presentation he also highlighted about the various projects being undertaken in India with ADB viz India-East Coast Economic Corridor.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Prof O. P. Mathur</b>Senior Fellow and Head, Urban Studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi thanked all the stakeholders for their active participation. He said it is high time state and central governments recognize the role of municipali governments in development of urban infrastructure and it is important to fiscally empower them. One of the ways this can be done is through monetizing land, which must be used as a source of revenue in addition to property tax.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Kumar V. Pratap,</b>Joint Secretary (Infrastructure, Policy & Finance), Ministry of Finance, Government of India said that one third of the indian population, which lives in urban areas, contributes two-thirds to the GDP and therefore urban dwellers are the most productive segments of the population. He emphasized that augmenting urban infrastructure will cost a lot of money. However, ULBs own revenues as a percent of GDP is very low below 1%. According to the economic survey 2016-17 of the Ministry of Finance estimates that currently Bengaluru and Jaipur are collecting no more than 5 to 20% of their property tax potential. This implies that cities could increase their resources 5 to 20 fold from property taxes only. HE also educated about the catalytic missions such as Smarty City Mission, AMRUT and the Swachh Bharat Mission of Central ministry.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Mukesh Puri, IAS</b> Principal Secretary, Department of Urban development and urban housing, Government of Gujarat spoke about the governance challenges and how the administration is planning to overcome those challenges. He said that around 70% of GDP of Gujarat, the tax is coming from the urban areas and there are still many such areas which needs to come under the corporation for collection of tax for infrastructure development. He spoke about the Government & corporation plan of deputing regional municipal commissioner in various areas for unlocking the assets and covering the untapped potential of the state.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>He also spoke about the town planning schemes of Gujarat and the spending of AUDA for infrastructural development. He said that AUDA has a capital of 1000 crores for 2018-19 out of which 250 crores has been spent on infrastructural development.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Ke Fang,</b>Manager (Investment Operations), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank spoke about their role in infrastructural development and their major areas of investment for sustainable infrastructure are renewable energy in sustainable cities, cross border connectivity, regional connectivity such as express way. He emphasized on project financing and educated the audience about the aspiring 6 projects which is about USD 1.2 billion. He informed about a multilateral development bank mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia and beyond.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Bharat Patel,</b>Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council spoke on the overall perspective of urbanization ratio of 32%, which is still low. He said that total investments of at least $640.2 billion are needed for urban infrastructure and services until 2031 to meet the needs of the growing urban population and improve the standard of living of the existing urban population. To bridge this gap it has been emphasised that the private sector who is not only the primary user of the economic infrastructure but is the key stakeholder in implementation, designing, operations etc. It is equally pivotal to ensure private sector participation in resource generation through effective mechanisms of costs, risks and benefit sharing.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The technical session speakers also shared their views on urban infrastructure development, their challenges, issues on PPP participation, Government role and way forward in development of smart cities and infrastructure for urbanization.</p>', '', '', 'urbandevelopmentgujrat.jpg', 'urban-development-technologicalsolutions-and-governance-challenges', 1, 0, '2018-04-19', '2018-04-20', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(91, 'Impact of COVID 19 on Small Indian Businesses & strategies to rise up', 'Many small Indian businesses & are finding it disruptive to continue smoothly due to coronavirus which has impacted the business entities and has emerged as a concern of sustainability for several enterprises.', '<center><b>Webinar Report </b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Impact of COVID 19 on Small Indian Businesses & strategies to rise up</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>10.30 am to 11.50 am Wednesday, 15 April 2020<br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Many small Indian businesses & are finding it disruptive to continue smoothly due to coronavirus which has impacted the business entities and has emerged as a concern of sustainability for several enterprises. These enterprises include basically the Medium and Small Scale Enterprises. Post lockdown, it is very necessary to think upon the strategies to rise those enterprise up again in the market. Therefore, to address this alarming topic on the Impact of COVID19 on Small Indian Businesses & Strategies to rise up. ASSOCHAM along with other industry leaders has hosted webinar on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 10.30 am to 11.50 pm.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The welcome address was delivered by moderator of the Webinar Shri. Bharat Patel, Chairman, Startup Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. Shri Bharat highlighted the importance of this webinar in the present situation. Very smoothly, Shri Patel moderated between all the panelists. His prime focus was discuss all the minute detail of the topic. Every aspect including merits and demerits were explored thoroughly.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Dr. Aman Aggarwal, Dean, Indian Institute of Finance, NOIDA was one of the three panelists. Dr. Aggarwal talked insights on all the impacts imposed by COVID19 on MSMEs and other small scale businesses in India. He has come up with several other financial strategies to cope up with the fall of market. Major issues which he covered were the steps which every MSMEs are taking as Indian Economy is at the risk of borderline.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Col. Sanjeev Dutta, another panelist, Executive Director, Brainamaze Corporate Services Ltd. Shri Sanjeev addressed the issue and gave some very practical and pragmatic approach to overcome the situation of recession at coming times. Shri Dutta suggested that financial support should be given by Indian government to SME,MSME and Small traders who are registered with company act. Another step can be to boost to the transport sector with changing policy so that supplies are replenished immediately after lockdown is over. At last Shri Dutta suggested that policy formation can be done in such a way that money comes in the hands of the user.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Another panelist, Shri Saurabh Khandelwal, Director, Business Doctors, India gave some precious suggestions in the wake of this topic. According to Shri Saurabh&apos;s suggestion period interest in the lockdown times should be bare minimum (not justified for for banks to make profit over and above what they make on home loans) as they cannot expect premium in this difficult time and make benefit. Also, insolvency and bankruptcy code was the most important tool to balance their rights in the hands of msme , limit of threshold which is raised to 1 crore must be brought back to 5 lakh for msme and 20 lakh for others.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Subsequently, the participants raised several Q&A which were answered jointly by all the panelists. All IT related support was extended by Rohit Bhatia, Director HR, ASSOCHAM. The webinar attracted registrations of professional participants which included Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, CMAs, Directors, Legal and Compliance Heads, and Academician etc.</p>', '', '', 'impctoncovidgujrat.jpg', 'impact-of-covid-19-on-small-indian-businesses-strategies-to-rise-up', 1, 0, '2020-04-15', '2020-04-15', '10:30 a.m', '11:30 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(92, 'Operation Green', 'India has the potential to become the World&apos;s food factory; Tomato, onion and potato are basic vegetables consumed throughout the year.', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>India has the potential to become the World&apos;s food factory; Tomato, onion and potato are basic vegetables consumed throughout the year. However, seasonal and regional production of these perishable commodities poses a challenge in connecting farmers and consumers in a manner that satisfies both. The Government proposes to launch an &apos;&apos;Operation Greens&apos;&apos; on the lines of &apos;&apos;Operation Flood&apos;&apos;. &apos;&apos;Operation Greens&apos;&apos; shall promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), Agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. However, there is a strong need to develop Good Infrastructure and to strengthen nexus between farmers, food processing industries & markets through FPOs (Farmers Producers Organization). As Market Linkages, good infrastructure and value-added products are the best strategies farmers can employ to improve net profitability. Hand-holding by the Government agencies is need of the hour to improve living standards of the farmers. Value addition in agriculture presents an opportunity to integrate agriculture with industry and market.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>With this background & to give a boost to Agriculture & Food Processing industry through FPOs we are happy to inform you that ASSOCHAM has announced <b> Conference on \"Operation Green\" Awareness Program on \"TOP\" Scheme on 14th December, 2018 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Judges Bungalow Road, Ahmedabad.</b> The Summit will create a platform for Industries and organized Farmers, Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and regulate the market Prices of TOP (Tomato, Onion, and Potato). The conference will be a key event for cluster of TOP farmers and related stakeholders, Central & State Governments, Researchers, Bankers, Farmers, FPO\\&apos;s/VPO\\&apos;s, Agri Consultants, KVKs, Technology Providers, R&D Institutes, Economists, Trade industry, Professional associations, Cold Chain providers, Start ups, Organic farming and small scale Agro & Food-industry, Government Agencies, Autonomous bodies, Boards & Corporations, Private sectors, PSUs & Joint Ventures, Economists to come under single roof for capacity building in this sector.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Given the scale of the Program and the opportunity it offers, ASSOCHAM, invites you to attend <b>Conference on \"Operation Green\" Awareness Program on \"TOP\" Scheme</b> and play a visibly strategic role in this event of great significance.</p>', '', '', 'operationgreen.jpg', 'operation-green', 1, 0, '0000-00-00', '0000-00-00', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(93, 'POST BUDGET SEMINAR', 'ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council organized post budget seminar on 7th February 2018 in order to bring greater awareness about the new tax proposals and policy initiatives in the Union Budget 2018-19.', '<center><b>POST BUDGET SEMINAR </b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>7th February, 2018, ICAI, Bhawan, Ahmedabad</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM, Gujarat Council organized post budget seminar on 7th February 2018 in order to bring greater awareness about the new tax proposals and policy initiatives in the Union Budget 2018-19.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The post budget seminar aimed at providing clarifications about the recent announcement made in the budget on tax structures like LTCG, Corporate Tax, process of E-way bill Refund Process etc. along with the Policy initiatives having significant impact on trade, industry and Indian economy.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>The Speakers of the seminar were Shri. Gyanchand Jain, Commissioner - Commercial Tax, GoG, Shri. R R Patel, Jt. Commissioner (Enforcement) Commissionerate of State Tax, GoG, CA. Chintan Patel Chairman AHMEDABAD BRANCH OF WIRC OF ICAI, CA. Amish Khandhar, Partner, KMS India & Chairman ASSOCHAM Taxation Committee, Gujarat Council, Shri Divyang Shukla, Shri. Amit Kumar Prajapati, Manager Business Banking, IDFC Bank Ltd, Shri. Saurabh Khandelwal, Business Doctor & Member ASSOCHAM</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>All the speakers gave their views, clarifications and suggestions on the announcement made in the budget and how it is going to impact the industry as a whole. The different refund processes and e-way bill introduction details were also discussed in the seminar.</p>', '', '', 'postbudgetseminar.jpg', 'post-budget-seminar', 1, 0, '2018-02-07', '2018-02-07', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(94, 'Agro & Food Processing', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised <b>Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \\\"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\\\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state.</b>', '<center><b>Conference on</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Agro & Food Processing</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Innovation - Investment - Infrastructure</center><br>\r\n        <center><b>(The I3 Model)</center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Date : 27th February, 2018</center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Venue: Hotel The Fern, Rajkot</center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised <b> Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state. The objective of the conference was to promote the recent initiative by MoFPI i.e. \"PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA (PMKSY)\" the Scheme for Creation of Infrastructure for Agro Processing Clusters.</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The conference focused on the untapped potential of the State in Agro & Food Processing sector as well as Farmers Welfare programme and the aim to double their income promoting agriculture sector. The session marked presence of key stakeholders from,<b> Food Processing, MSME companies, consultants, Govt representatives, R&D institutes, professionals, Agri & Food retails companies, etc.</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Ranchhodbhai Faldu,</b> Hon\'ble Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of Gujarat congratulated MoFPI and ASSOCHAM for organizing such programmes to promote farmers and the entire FP and allied sectors. He encouraged the industry and investor to form clusters and put forth their projects for investments in agro and food processing. He emphasized on people&apos;s participation with government and get maximum benefits from the various schemes of the government. He ensured the industry for maximum government support. He also urged the farmers to get together and indulge themselves into large production as the scope of growth is much high in large scale production</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Conference also discussed Induction of modern technology in the food processing industries to help & encourage entrepreneurs and small industries in exports of Agro & processed Food products. The deliberations from the conference to help entrepreneurs in setting up of common pack houses, export houses, mega food parks, cold storage and infrastructure facilities in the Agro, Food Processing & horticulture sector was welcomed by the participants .</p>', '', '', 'gujratinvestmentevent.jpg', 'agro-food-processing', 1, 0, '2018-02-27', '2018-02-27', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(95, 'Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2020', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council had successfully organised <b>summit \\\"APETA 2019 : Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2019 with theme of Higher Education Sustainability & Quality Initiative\\\" on 3rd January, 2019 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad</b>', '<center><b>3rd APETA - 2020</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2020</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Higher Education Sustainability & Quality Initiative<br>\r\n        <center><b>Date : 10th February 2020<br>\r\n        <center><b>Venue: Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad<br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council had successfully organised <b>summit \"APETA 2019 : Education and Technology Awards & Summit 2019 with theme of Higher Education Sustainability & Quality Initiative&quot;\\ on 3rd January, 2019 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>APETA is one of the reputed program in the Education & Technology sector. APETA is a curtain raiser of universities promise quality and research based education. The summit has also focus on the educational institutions and organizations which are in technology and innovations especially for social sectors which are most sought financial investments in Asian countries. There are institutes who are focusing their energies on overall quality of education and making their students more employable so that they can make meaningful contribution towards making India a true superpower in the coming years. APETA is providing the best opportunity available to get recognition of education Institute/Universities by Global leaders of Education technology Sector.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Summit had provided a platform to discuss on \"Higher Education Sustainability and Quality Initiatives (HESQI)\" with UN-SDGs on the occasion of the 2018 session of high level political forum on sustainable development- The United Nation&apos;s central platform for follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and sustainable development goals (SDGs).</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The summit was inaugurated by <b>Shri. Bhupendrasinh Chudasama,</b> Hon&apos;ble Minister for Education (Primary, Secondary and Adult) Higher and Technical Education, Government of Gujarat other dignitaries on dais where <b>Shri. Jaxay Shah,</b> Chairman - ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter ; <b>Prof. Goutam Dutta,</b> Professor at IIM-Ahmedabad and Chair, FWA Western Region ; <b>Dr. M Venu Gopala Rao,</b> Vice President, MODY University Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan and <b> Shri. Nakul Sharedalal,</b> Chairman, IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Summit had marked presence of key stakeholders from education sector <b>Vice Chancellors, Senior Professors, Edupreneurs, corporate, Bureaucrats, Directors, Journalists & Students.</b>', '', '', 'gujratapeta2019.jpg', 'education-and-technology-summit-2020', 1, 0, '2020-02-10', '2020-02-10', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(96, 'ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST', '<b>Dr. P. D. Vaghela, IAS, Commissioner (State Tax), Ahmedabad, GoG inaugurated ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, Hotel Pride Plaza, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad</b>', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. P. D. Vaghela, IAS, Commissioner (State Tax), Ahmedabad, GoG inaugurated ASSOCHAM National Seminar on GST on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, Hotel Pride Plaza, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>The seminar marked a benchmark on the various issues related to GST with their proposed solutions/ suggestions by the panelists and delegates as the seminar also aimed at interaction of industry with the government authorities and agencies.</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>AHMEDABAD:- Commercial State Tax commissioner, Gujarat, Dr. P D Vaghela has address the industry during the GST seminar organized by ASSOCHAM in the city strongly representing the issues and demands related to Goods and Service Tax (GST) before the central government and the GST Council.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Addressing a seminar of ASSOCHAM Vaghela said,\" I have heard the various problems and issues faced SME\\&apos;s, traders, & textile Industry. The issues are genuine and the state government will seriously take up the issues with the central government and the GST Council.\"</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Dr. Vaghela in his speech gave an overview of reduced GST rates for various goods and services across the board. He further added that India is rapidly going through economic and monetary transformation with the rate reduction from 28% to 18%. He also said that it will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance etc. He further added that Government has made various recommendations/ decisions on issues relating to policy, law and procedures, including key recommendations on reduction in GST rates of more than 50 items, rationalization of return filing system for small taxpayers. He also highlighted that Implementation of GST was challenge for all but now GST has stabilized because of the GST Council&apos;s efforts and contribution. He also focus on the issues like inter-state e-way bill provision etc which will be sorted out by the state government</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Dr. Vaghela said they had successful in enabling migration of 5 lakh Gujarat traders on GST network much before the schedule. He also said that conducted outreach programme in 200 towns and cities to help traders understand GST better.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Ajay Jain, IRS, Chief Commissioner (Central Goods & Services Tax), Government of India</b><br>He said that there are so many changes in GST. Mainly changes focus on facilitation of trade, migration registration, simplification of procedure etc. He further added that policy related issues have to be tackled at policy level. He has invited the views and queries for GST through ASSOCHAM platform.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Amish Khandhar, Chairman, Taxation Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b><br>ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council welcomed all the dignitaries, experts of the technical sessions and participants to this important seminar on GST. He also added that changes in GST will provide significant visibility to industry, and highlights the Government&apos;s intention to move ahead.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Nakul Sherdalal, Chairman, IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b>in his vote of thanks he Thanked all the dignitaries and Technical Experts, all participants and Sponsors. He further added that this GST seminar may provide opportunity to the participants for better understanding of the new tax regime and discuss important aspects of Model GST law, rules, procedures and their implications on different business segments and industry sectors.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'assocham-national-seminar-on-GST', 1, 0, '2018-07-24', '2018-07-24', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(97, 'National Conference on GST Friday, 20th January, 2017, Hotel Express Tower,R C Dutt Road, Vadodara', 'ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council alongwith MoFPI organised <b>Conference on Agro & Food Processing sector with the theme \\\"Investment- Innovation- Infrastructure The (I3 Model)\\\" on 27th February 2018 at Rajkot to promote Ease of Doing business & investments in the state.</b>', '<center><b>National Conference on GST Friday,20th January, 2017, Hotel Express Tower,R C Dutt Road, Vadodara</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>GST will be implemented and maximum tax levied would not be more than 26% as on today it is 75% inclusive of VAT, Excise, ST etc: Shri. Arvind Singh</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM),</b> India\\&apos;s Apex Chamber of Commerce organized a conference on Goods and Services tax (GST) which was inaugurated by <b> Shri. Arvind Singh, Chief Commissioner (Central Excise & Customs), Vadodara ,GoI.</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>GST conference was organized to spread awareness about the bill which will subsumes various Central indirect taxes, including the Central Excise Duty, Countervailing Duty, Service Tax, etc. It also subsumes State value added tax (VAT), octroi and entry tax, luxury tax, etc. The conference marked the presence of experts, technocrats on GST software, chartered accountant firms and business fraternity from manufacturing, service and banking sector.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The conference marked a benchmark on the various issues related to implementation of GST with their proposed solutions/ suggestions by the panelists and delegates as the conference also aimed at interaction of industry with the government authorities and agencies.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Arvind Singh, Chief Commissioner (Central Excise & Customs), Vadodara, GoI,<br></b> gave an overview of the proposed GST Bill and its implementation. He future added that India is rapidly going through economic and monetary transformation. The mega tax reform of replacing multiple indirect taxes by uniform Goods and Service Tax is an important part of this transformation. He also said that GST will be a game changing reform for the Indian economy by creating a common Indian market and reducing the cascading effect of tax on the cost of goods and services. In his speech is also said that It will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system. He further stated that the total amount of 26% of indirect tax is highly proposed under GST regime as against 75% today. He stated that we are a socialistic democratic country and should minimize the bridge between have and have-not&apos;s. He also gave a positive overview on demonetisation. He emphasized that GST is a single point tax to control black money.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>  Bhavesh C Shukla Joint Commissioner (Commercial Tax), Vadodara, GoG</b>in his speech shared their expertise and industry perspective on the implementation of GST as they have been working closely with the Union Finance Ministry on this project and are well updated on all the recent developments on the proposed GST Bill. He also added that GST will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system. It is a game changer reform which will change the way people do business in India. It is therefore important to understand its implications on economy in general and one&apos;s own business in particular and prepare for the transition. He emphasized that Government is working very closely with the GSTN team and informed the business fraternity to be ready for GST as it will not be delayed beyond15th September 2017. At present he informed that there are 4 slabs under GST 5%-12% 18% - 28% and said that as the government is working hard GST can also be implemented by 1st April 2017 also.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Arpan Dodia Chairman Western Region ICAI,</b>in his speech said that this conference on GST is considered to be one of the most awaited topic that will give an overview on which taxes are to be levied by the Centre, States and local bodies and which goods and services will be subjected to GST and the basis and the rates at which GST will be applied.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Bhagyesh Soneji Chairperson, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b>on behalf of ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council welcomed all the welcome all the dignitaries, experts of the technical sessions and participants to this important conference on GST. She also added that GST will provide significant visibility to industry, and highlights the Government&apos;s intention to move ahead with the introduction of GST.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Amish Khandhar Chairman, Taxation Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</b> l in his vote of thanks he Thanked all the dignitaries and Technical Experts, all participants and Sponsors. He further added that this GST conference may provide opportunity to the participants for better understanding of the new tax regime and discuss important aspects of Model GST law, rules, procedures and their implications on different business segments and industry sectors.</p>', '', '', 'gujrateventgoodsandsevice.jpg', 'national-conference-on-GST-friday-20th-january-2017-hotel -express-tower-r-c-dutt-road-vadodara', 1, 0, '2017-01-20', '2017-01-20', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(98, 'Manufcturing Finance Export', 'The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is an important pillar of Indian Economy as it&apos;s contribution to the country\\&apos;s GDP is expected to increase to 22% in 2020 from 17% in 2011. India\'s MSME sector faces a major problem in terms of getting adequate credit for expansion of business activities.', '<center><b>DATE: 30th October, 2018 (9:30 AM- Registration)</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>LOCATION: - Hotel Pride Plaza, Ahmedabad</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt. Alpa B. Bhatt,</b>Deputy Commissioner, Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (Incentive Branch), GoG</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. K. V. Tirumala,</b> ITS, Deputy Director, DGFT - Ahmedabad</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. P. K. Jha,</b>Zonal General Manager, NSIC</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Neeraj Srivastava,</b>DGM, (SIDBI) Small Industries Development Bank of India, Regional Office</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is an important pillar of Indian Economy as it&apos;s contribution to the country\\&apos;s GDP is expected to increase to 22% in 2020 from 17% in 2011. India\\\'s MSME sector faces a major problem in terms of getting adequate credit for expansion of business activities. Keeping in mind the potential of MSME sector, it becomes all the more important to give special attention for growth of small and medium Enterprise sector since they only have the potential to provided wage employment for Indian labor force highest next only to agriculture as well as to provided goods and service at a lower cost</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Manufacturing and Export has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India. Prime Minister of India,   Narendra Modi, had launched the &apos;Make in India&apos; program to place India on the world map as a manufacturing hub and give global recognition to the Indian economy. The sector is challenged by credit and finance issues, technology & innovation, regulatory environments and credibility issues.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The objective of this sammellan is to provide a platform for awareness and discuss the opportunities and challenges for Equity loan fund raising, Financing, Government & Banks financial assistance, Innovative ways of funding and funding issues for start ups, recovery protection for SME.</p>', '', '', 'manufacturingeventgujrat.jpg', 'manufacturing-finance-export', 1, 0, '2018-10-30', '2018-10-30', '9:30 a.m', '9:30 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(99, 'HEALTH & WELLNESS TOURISM', 'ASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 22 July, 2021. Theme of the virtual conference was <b>\\\"WELLNESS TOURISM: \\\"Transforming Wellness Tourism Sector & Roadmap to Reopening post COVID 2nd Wave\\\" on July 22, 2021 ; 11 AM Onwards.</b>', '<center><b>ASSOCHAM\\&apos;s Virtual Conference on</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>HEALTH & WELLNESS TOURISM</b></center><br>\r\n        <center><b>Transforming Wellness Tourism Sector & Roadmap to Reopening post COVID 2nd Wave</b></center><br>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 22 July, 2021. Theme of the virtual conference was <b>\"WELLNESS TOURISM: \"Transforming Wellness Tourism Sector & Roadmap to Reopening post COVID 2nd Wave\" on July 22, 2021 ; 11 AM Onwards.The main objective behind this Virtual Conference is to connect the dots and strengthen the support mechanism by establishing a platform to promote and popularise Gujarat as a Wellness Tourism Destination across the nation.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Welcome By: Shri Nikhil Agarwal</b> , Chairman, Tourism Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council and Director, Lalooji & Sons</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderated By: Shri Nishat Shah,</b>MD, SITC Group & Member, ASSOCHAM - Gujarat Council</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Special Guest - Khyati Nayak,</b>, Manager, Business Development and Skill Development, Gujarat Tourism, Government of Gujarat</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Panelists were - </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> -  Dr. Rekha Chaudhari,</b> Global Wellness Ambassador for India and a social entrepreneur of non-profit organizations</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> -  Dr P K Shaji,</b>Chief Medical Officer, Nimba Nature Care </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> -  Shyamapriya Sarkar,</b> Key Catalyst, Lokayurved </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> -  Shri. E. M. Najeeb,</b>  Senior Vice President, IATO </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> -  Shri Rajesh Mishra,</b>  General Manager, Hotel Narayani Height </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE- </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Khyati Nayak</b> Manager, Business Development and Skill Development, Gujarat Tourism, Government of Gujarat -  \r\n        </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>In these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been infected, and half of the worlds population is in some form of lockdown.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Health & Wellness Tourism Sector just before the onset of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic situation was promising and had gained enough momentum over the past few years. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Travel & Tourism market across the different levels. A huge loss to the tourism industry is expected due to this impact after second wave of COVID, specially to the tour operators, hospitality centres etc. even after considering the fact that last year, The Hon&apos;ble PM Shri Narendra Modi symbolically reopened India&apos;s arms after first long lockdown to welcome the tourists from all over the world.</p> \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>While equipping with best infrastructure of hospitals, treatment centers, and attractive tourist places, Gujarat can be considered as a hub for Health & Wellness Tourism for India and the rest of the world. The time tested principals of Ayurveda, ancient natural medicine practice from back 3000 years, combines medicine and philosophy and promotes wellness of mind, body and soul with a renewed stress on holistic well being, nutrition & rejuvenation as an aftermath of pandemic. Health & Wellness Tourism sector is poised to grow more aggressively in the new normal & this holds a lot of promise as we have our traditional strengths in the form of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Rekha Chaudhari, </b>  Global Wellness Ambassador for India and a social entrepreneur of non-profit organizations</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Never before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health schisms between the world&apos;s haves&quot; and have nots.&quot; The haves&quot; also include individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems form the first line of defense against infectious disease.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Indeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions - such as diabetes, heart disease, and compromised immune systems - are at high risk for severe illness and death. </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr P K Shaji,</b> Chief Medical Officer, Nimba Nature Care </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Wellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or weakens another. He also presented a ppt attached with this document.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shyamapriya Sarkar,</b>  Key Catalyst, Lokayurved </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>If we talk about wellness though healthy food, a shift in the dietary pattern of the people have been observed during the outbreak of COVID-19 was observed among the population which could also be driven by the fear and anxiety many people around the globe are experiencing. Consumers are more focused on the products with nutritional aspects which could help in boosting immunity. By consuming balanced & Nutritious Food not only immunity can be boosted but also mental & physical wellness can be attained rapidly. She also presented a ppt attached with this document.  \r\n        </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. E. M. Najeeb, </b>Senior Vice President, IATO \r\n        </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>He has said that frontline tourism workers in travel and tourism should be given priority for COVID-19 vaccination. \"For a state like Kerala, a healthy, robust tourism industry is critical to the overall recovery of the economy as it contributes over 10 per cent of the GDP,\" he said.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Confederation of Kerala Tourism Industry, which is the united voice of Kerala Tourism Trade, is seeking urgent financial aid package for the survival of the state\\&apos;s biggest service industry sector - Tourism.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Tourism Sector is the most important revenue generating sector in Kerala with a total revenue of Rs 45,000 crores, which makes up 11.5 percent of the state&apos;s GDP and giving employment to more than 15 lakh people. The sector&apos;s foreign exchange revenue during the last financial year is Rs. 10000 crores, which goes far beyond the IT sector. It is one of the hardest hit sectors in Kerala. Unfortunately, no relief measures have given by both the central or state governments till date and most of the skilled and experienced professionals within the industry workforce are out of jobs because of lockdown and majority of the investors and industry stakeholders are finding it difficult to maintain their businesses. Some of the professionals and investors have moved to different areas trying to salvage their businesses like fish sales, online and offline trade of pickles and food stuff, housekeeping contacts etc. just to make ends-meet. </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n        The various tourism industry associations under CKTI have submitted many representations and suggestions to the governments for the mere survival and existence of the sector through financial aid packages and expect favourable decisions. These demands are completely justifiable given the situation and include waiving of taxes for one year and fixed electricity tariffs. The industry requests this from both state and Central Governments in order to ensure that the tourism industry survives this crisis.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Rajesh Mishra,</b> General Manager, Hotel Narayani Height </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>He has explained the role of Hotel industries in Health and wellness. When booking a hotel room, there are certain basic amenities most people expect will be available to them. 24-hour access to a gym or pool is not a surprise in most full-service hotels and is even starting to become standard at focusedservice properties around the world. More recently, however, many hotels seem to be expanding beyond the standard gym and pool amenities. </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>It is no surprise that the hotel industry has responded to this wellness trend accordingly. For years, upscale hotels have offered &quot;health and wellness options&quot; for guests (think spa services like massages and facials). But times are changing and these service just don&apos;t cut it any longer. Beyond these typical spa services, hotels now offer amenities such as paddleboard yoga classes, fitness apparel boutiques, and juice and oxygen bars to name a few.  Some of the trendier hotels offer more eccentric amenities such as aromatherapy, astrology readings and sound therapy.  The upscale Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa in Paradise Valley, AZ offers one-on-one classes with an in-house nutritionist, paddleboard yoga, and \"Zennis\"- tennis classes that focus on body awareness and relaxation. These amenities are more commonly found in boutique hotels, but even larger hotels seem to be jumping on the bandwagon by offering more extravagant amenities.</p>', '', '', 'healthandwellnessgujrat.jpg', 'health-wellness-tourism', 1, 0, '2021-07-22', '2021-07-22', '11:00 a.m', '11:00 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
INSERT INTO `events` (`id`, `title`, `short_desc`, `long_desc`, `registration`, `reg_link`, `image`, `slug`, `status`, `deleted`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `start_time`, `end_time`, `sector_id`, `region_id`, `priority`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(100, 'ASSOCHAM&apos;s Virtual Conference on CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS', 'ASSOCHAM&rsquo;s Virtual Conference on &ldquo;CONSUMER HEALTH &amp; WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;</b>', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>ASSOCHAM&rsquo;s Virtual Conference on &ldquo;CONSUMER HEALTH &amp; WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products&rdquo;&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 21 April, 2021. Theme of the virtual conference was <b> &quot;CONSUMER HEALTH &amp; WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products on April 21, 2021 started at 11 AM Onwards</b> The key objective of this Virtual Conference is to develop a concrete roadmap for regaining&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Welcome &amp; Moderated By: Shri Vishal Rajgarhia, Chairman, Pharma Committee ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council &amp; &nbsp;CEO &ndash; Finecure Pharmaceuticals Special Guest - Dr Ishwar Basavaraddi, </b>Director, Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India. </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Panelists were -</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> &nbsp;- Shri Dhiren Rathore,</b> COO, Asclepius Wellness Private Limited </b\\p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Ajay Dubey,</b> Faculty, Dr. B R Ambedkar University of social Sciences, MHOW, Indore&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>-<b> Dr. Sunil Joshi,</b> Dean - Ayurvedic, Gokul Global University </b>- Dr. Harit Parikh,</b> MD, Harit Remedies Pvt. Ltd</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Pawankumar Godatwar, </b>Dean (Research), Professor and HOD, PG Dept. of Roga &amp; Vikriti Vijnana, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri. Sunil Sangani,</b> Director, Envitro Laboratories Pvt Ltd </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Vibhuti Arora, </b>Expert &nbsp;&amp; Founder, House of Beauty &nbsp;\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Mandeep Kaur,</b> Associate Professor, Gujarat Ayurveda University.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; In these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been infected, and half of the world&rsquo;s population is in some form of lockdown. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Never before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health schisms between the world&rsquo;s haves&rdquo; and have nots.&rdquo; The haves&rdquo; also include individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems form the first line of defense against infectious disease. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Indeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions &ndash; such as diabetes, heart disease, and compromised immune systems &ndash; are at high risk for severe illness and death. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Wellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or weakens another. &nbsp;</p>', '', '', 'consumerhealthwellness.jpg', 'assocham-virtual-Conference-on-comsumer-health-wealth', 1, 0, '2021-04-21', '2021-04-21', '', '', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(101, 'Global FAD 2018', 'Food processing is the key to the viability of agriculture sector. Reduction of wastages of agricultural produce and value addition are the pre-requisites for achieving this viability', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Food processing is the key to the viability of agriculture sector. Reduction of wastages of agricultural produce and value addition are the pre-requisites for achieving this viability. This is the only sector that gives economic sustainability to the farmers by providing opportunities for demand driven cluster farming which further results in ample employment opportunities from the landless labour up to highly skilled individuals.FAD is a flagship event of ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. This year FAD 2018 is the 12th edition of ASSOCHAM. The earlier 11 series of FAD was a grand success with participation from various country partners, delegation from International business community &amp; state partners.<b> All the earlier summits witnessed presence of more than 200 delegates and eye catching media presence with presence of Hon&rsquo;ble State Minister for FPI, GoI, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Recognizing and Celebrating Food &amp; Agri Innovation Excellence Awards 2018&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;Food &amp; Agri Innovation have transformed several sectors hence Food processing Sector also desperately needs to get its share for excellence in new food, agri and innovation to move forward. In this context ASSOCHAM for the last five editions have been announcing its Innovation &amp; Excellence Awards, which have been a grand success because of versatility of applications, thoroughness of evaluation process, and presence of experts in food, agri , innovation and business space as Award Jury. &nbsp;This year too ASSOCHAM announced it&rsquo;s &ldquo;INNOVATION &amp; EXCELLENCE AWARDS-2018&rdquo; in concurrence with 12th FAD 2018, Summit cum Exhibition on 19th September, 2018 at Hotel Pride, Ahmedabad, to recognize and felicitate food &amp; allied industry to continue &amp; contribute in providing excellence in this sector thereby bringing new approaches for accelerating country&rsquo;s economic growth and social development in FP sector.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>FAD 2018 witnessed presence of more than 200 delegates from different sectors of Industries alongwith participation of other states like Telangana, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab as partner for the summit.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;The Summit was very timely and fitting, as food processing has moved on from being a craft to a modern technology. The principles of operation and design of industrial equipment, used in the processing, storage and packaging of foods may play an important role in the processed foods of the future. In order to meet the sensory, quality, safety, nutrition, health, economic and novelty demanded of food products by consumers, it is necessary to design and engineer food process operations to enhance product&apos;s quality, safety, yield, and profitability to compete at international market.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti,</b> &nbsp;Hon&apos;ble Minister of State, Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India congratulated ASSOCHAM for organizing such programmes to promote farmers and the entire FP and allied sectors. She encouraged the industry and investor to form clusters and put forth their projects for investments in agro and food processing. She emphasized on people&rsquo;s participation with government and get maximum benefits from the various schemes of the government. She ensured the industry for maximum government support. She said that Gujarat Government is very active in Food Processing sector and Gujarat has the appropriate environment for Industry. Synthesis of Ministry-AgricultureIndustry plays vital role for developing our country more. She announced about the various subsidies under this scheme for setting up cold chain and mega food park.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>During the Summit Knowledge Paper on Food Processing, Agri and Dairy &ldquo;Challenges &amp; Strategies : Doubling the Farmer&rsquo;s Income : Mission 2022&rdquo; &nbsp;was released. The Knowledge Paper was prepared by Abhyuday Techno Economic Consultant.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Innovation and Excellence Awards 2018 were distributed by the Guests of the Summit to recognize and honor the Indian food industry brightening stars who have achieved excellence in various segments involved in Agriculture, Dairy and Food processing Sector. &nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>While congratulating ASSOCHAM and addressing the participants, &nbsp;<b>Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti,</b> Hon&rsquo;ble Minister of State, Food Processing Industries, GoI informed about the SAMPADA scheme launched by GoI, which will be implemented by MoFPI with an objective to boost the food processing sector in the country and help farmers provide better value for their produce and ensure doubling of farmer&rsquo;s income. She said that the scheme is to promote SMEs in Food Processing sector. She announced about the various subsidies under this scheme for setting up cold chain and mega food park. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;To enhance the competitiveness of the FP and allied sectors in the world market by developing value-added foods based on higher quality standards, skilling manpower, improved processing techniques &amp; innovations, development and promotion of high-quality and value-added agro-products combined with changing market and consumer preferences amid recent trends in economic development and globalization, were discussed during the Summit.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;The Technical session&rsquo;s speakers also shared their expertise, technological know-how and presented new innovations and trends prevailing in the national and international market. Topics on employment generation, skilling manpower in this sector as well as Food safety were also discussed. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;FAD 2018 also gave an opportunity of exhibition to the Industry, Banks, and Institutes to showcase their products/ services.&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>', '', '', 'gujratglobalfad.jpg', 'global-fad-2018', 1, 0, '2018-09-19', '2018-09-19', '9:30 a.m', '9:30 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(102, 'National Education Policy', 'Virtual Conference on National Education Policy - Implement &amp; Implementation&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p>&nbsp;ASSOCHAM&rsquo;s Western Region organised a virtual conference on 29th October, 2020. The topic for this webinar was &ldquo;National Education Policy - Impact and Implementation&rdquo;&nbsp;', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Virtual Conference on National Education Policy - Implement &amp; Implementation&rdquo;&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;ASSOCHAM&rsquo;s Western Region organised a virtual conference on 29th October, 2020. The topic for this webinar was<b> &ldquo;National Education Policy - Impact and Implementation&rdquo;&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>&nbsp;SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE </p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Special Guest: Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Welcome Note: Shri Bharat Patel, Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Dr Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of Management Eminent Speakers -</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri Harish Sanduja, Director, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Schools &amp; Member Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Dr Mahendra Sharma, Pro-Chancellor &amp; Director General, Ganpat University - Shri Achin Bhattacharyya, CEO and Founder, Notebook </b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr Umesh Chandra Jain, Secretary (North Zone), Association of Chemistry Teachers, Mumbai &amp; Principal, Academic heights Public School, Morena \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr Amit Joshi, Director, Global Knowledge Research Foundation</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri Saurabh Kumar, Director Academics, Vidyamandir Classes&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SUMMARY OF WEBINAR &nbsp;</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The session was welcomed and introduced by Shri Bharat Patel, Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. After Shri Patel, the session was took over and moderated by Dr Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of Management. Dr Jitendra also delivered the opening note of the webinar. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;The special guest of the session was Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE. Prof Anil highlighted the salient features of National Education Policy recently launched by the Govt. of India. He also laid emphasis on how well the new forwardlooking policy has covered all the aspects of higher education. The session was then took over by Shri Harish Sanduja, Director, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Schools &amp; Member Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad. Shri Sanduja laid emphasis on how actively his organisation is imparting training and educating teachers with the needed necessary skills for teaching at primary level. The main theme of Shri Sanduja&rsquo;s address was Early Childhood Care and Education. Another Speaker Shri Achin Bhattacharyya, CEO and Founder, Notebook, took over the session after Shri Sanduja. Shri Achin focused on NEP Approach (Language, Disability and Digital Content) - PPT. He also focused on the role of technology in imparting the quality education at school level. The session was followed by &nbsp;the address of another speaker Dr Umesh Chandra Jain, Secretary (North Zone), Association of Chemistry Teachers, Mumbai &amp; Principal, Academic heights Public School, Morena. Dr Jain gave a crisp gist of NEP, highlighting its feature specially on Senior Secondary level of education. Another Speaker Dr Mahendra Sharma,&nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Pro-Chancellor &amp; Director General, Ganpat University address the session on NEP offering much to University scholars. Shri Saurabh Kumar, Director Academics, Vidyamandir Classes followed the speaking session and shared his brief insights on NEP and its relation to Competitive exams. &nbsp;</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Session was given a conclusion and quick round of Q&amp;A by Dr Amit Joshi, Director, Global Knowledge Research Foundation.&nbsp;</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'national-education-policy', 1, 1, '2018-10-30', '2018-10-30', '9:30 a.m', '9:30 a.m', 0, 3, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(103, 'Odisha Energy Sector: Learning from the State\r\n                    \r\n                      Interactive Session with Shri Dibya Shankar Mishra', 'ASSOCHAM Eastern Region orgianised a Webinar on Odisha Energy Sector: Learnings from the State on 19th May, 2021. Chief Guest was Shri Dibya Shayankar Mishra, Hon&apos;ble Minister of State, Department of Energy, Government of Odisha.', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Odisha Energy Sector: Learning from the State</b></p>\r\n                      <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Interactive Session with Shri Dibya Shankar Mishra, Hon&apos;ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Department of Energy, Govt. of Odisha</b></p>\r\n                      <center><b>18th May, 2021</b></center>\r\n                      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM Eastern Region orgianised a Webinar on <b>\"Odisha Energy Sector: Learnings from the State\" on 19th May, 2021.</b> Chief Guest was Shri Dibya Shayankar Mishra, Hon&apos;ble Minister of State, Department of Energy, Government of Odisha. Speakers included Shri Vishal Agarwal Chairman ASSOCHAM Odisha State Council, Shri. Somesh Dasgupta Chairman Energy Council ASSOCHAM, Shri. Partha Chatterjee, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub-Council, Shri. Sabyasachi Sarkar, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub-Council - Eastern Region, Shri M Shenbagam of CEO TP Central Odisha Power Distribution (Tata Power), Dr. Raj Shekhar Malur, Vice President and Head Power Business Tata Consulting Engineering Ltd, Shri M Shenbagam, CEO, TP Central Odisha Distribution ltd., Shri. Vikas Gaba, Partner & India Head, Power & Utilities Sector, KPMG, Shri. Sabyasachi Sarkar, Vice Chairman, ASSOCHAM Energy Sub Council - Eastern Region & Executive Director, S.K. Samanta& Co. Pvt. Ltd. Addressing the Energy Meet Hon&apos;ble Minister said Odisha government is futuristic and is very\r\n                    \r\n                      focussed on welfare and economic development of the state. Odisha over the years has emerged as key investment destination. He said, the government is open to suggestions from industry and assured full cooperation while speaking on the learnings from Odisha Energy Sector for Other States. He said the state is committed to provide 24/7 energy to everyone in the state while being responsible towards environment. He stated that is State believes in firming up business friendly policies and stands by the same and is among the first for having privatised the power distribution.   Vishal Agarwal Chairman ASSOCHAM Odisha State Council in his welcome remark said energy demand will grow as economic activities would continue to grow in the state. Somesh Dasgupta Chairman Energy Council ASSOCHAM and whole time Director India Power invited thoughts from Hon&apos;ble minister on key learnings for other states from Odisha in terms of privatisation and the future plans of the state in terms of energy transition and grid development. M Shenbagam of CEO TP Central Odisha Power Distribution (Tata Power), spoke about the capex investment and the extensive support of all stakeholders in terms of distribution privatisation and he also spoke about the infrastructure built by the state over the years. Key inputs were presented by Former Coal Secretary   AlokPerti ,   Vikas Das, Partner KPMG and   Bishwadeep Parida PwC. The meet ended with a vote of thanks by Chairman Odisha Chapter of ASSOCHAM as he thanked Hon&apos;ble Minister for his responses and the time spent with members.</p>', 'registration', 'https://orissadiary.com/energy-minister-dibya-shankar-mishra-assured-support-to-industry-as-he-shared-odisha-energy-learnings-for-other-states/amp/', 'odisaenergysector.jpg', 'odisha-energy-sector-learning-from-the-state', 1, 0, '2021-06-18', '2021-06-18', '', '', 0, 6, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(104, 'Report Cold Chain Goa', 'ASSOCHAM\'s Western Region organized a virtual conference on 25 February, 2021.Theme of the webinar was The Strategic Perspective on The Cold Chain Industry', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Virtual Conference on The Strategic Perspective on The Cold Chain Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and a Way Forward</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM\'s Western Region organized a virtual conference on 25 February, 2021.\r\n                  Theme of the webinar was <b> \"The Strategic Perspective on The Cold Chain Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and a Way Forward.\"</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Shri Dhaval Raval,</b>Chairman, Food Processing Committee,\r\n                  ASSOCHAM Western Council</P>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Panelists were</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Dipak M. Bandekar,</b> Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce,\r\n                  Government of Goa</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Shri Manguirsh Pai Raikar, </b>Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa State </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Rajesh Goyal,</b> President, Federation of Cold Storage Associations of India</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Kiran Gubba,</b> Director and CEO, Gubba Cold Storage Pvt Ltd</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Jaya Jha,</b> Manager, MAERSK Lines Limited</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Anil N. Fadte,</b> Managing Director, Goa Dairy</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt Usha Ramesh,</b> General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, Goa</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Pamarty Venkataramana,</b>\r\n                  International Corporate Lawyer/Business Strategist & Chief, PVR LAWS</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Pramod Shetgaonkar,</b> Owner, Cold Chain India logistics</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Swarup Bose,</b> CEO , Celcius Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SUMMARY OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Shri Dipak M. Bandekar,</b> Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce,\r\n                  Government of Goa</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The cold chain industry is seen as an emerging and fast growing business sector in\r\n                  India. Considering the current issue of food shortage and food security in India, cold\r\n                  chain facilities will play an important role in the country. According to Food and\r\n                  Agriculture organization (FAO) of the UN, approximately one third of the food\r\n                  produced for the human consumption, which amounts to 1.3 billion tones, gets lost\r\n                  or wasted.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• However, this sector has witnessed a considerable growth in the last decade and is\r\n                  expected to have further improvement in growth rate in the years to come.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The role of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India is instrumental\r\n                  in development of cold chain infrastructure in India and is implementing scheme for\r\n                  its promotion. Other departments such as National Centre for Cold-chain\r\n                  Development (NCCD), NABARD, National Horticulture Board (NHB) and State\r\n                  Governments are also taking initiatives for the development of cold chain industry in\r\n                  India.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Manguirsh Pai Raikar,</b> Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa State Council</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Latest technology used world over in cold chain sector, is making inroads in India.\r\n                  And with the government sanctioning new cold chain projects in the recent past, the\r\n                  demand for more efficient cold storages is going to increase in the future. Hence,\r\n                  with further support from government, new players are going to enter India and a\r\n                  platform is required where these latest know how, equipment s and infra facilities\r\n                  gets noticed and new players are made aware of.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The industry should play its part in doubling farmer s income by ensuring that the\r\n                  fruit grown by the farmer should reach the end consumer without intermediaries and\r\n                  with the help of a well-established cold chain which will ensure a good price to the\r\n                  farmer. Due to the cooperation of the industry, with the farmers, they have not only\r\n                  created storages and cold transportation but a total solution which not only benefit\r\n                  people from the cold chain but the farmers in getting the better price for their\r\n                  produce.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The $ 5 Trillion Indian economy will not be brought from the top down but from the\r\n                  bottom up. He said that the second important point to focus on is jobs as GDP of\r\n                  India growing but not similar to the world and we don t want a GDP growth without\r\n                  employment. Cold chain is capable of generating employment for hundreds of\r\n                  people.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Rajesh Goyal,</b> President, Federation of Cold Storage Associations of India</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The third part of cold chain which is the export of sea foods from India. India has a\r\n                  huge coastline but the extent of fishing has gone down in recent years. Export of\r\n                  fishing and cold chain will create a value proposition for the fisherman of India which\r\n                  is most important thing.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• We need to act as intermediaries that not only develop cold chain but a total solution\r\n                  to increase the level of income.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Kiran Gubba,</b> Director and CEO, Gubba Cold Storage Pvt Ltd</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold chain is experiencing a boom in the current India and that many reports have\r\n                  suggested that Indian cold chain market is projected to reach around 2300 billion\r\n                  (INR) at a CAGR of 15.4% during 2019-2023. This growth is due to growing demand\r\n                  of processed foods and strict regulatory checks in cold chain supply and storage\r\n                  domain. The increase in e-commerce has paved a way organized retail contributes\r\n                  significantly in the growth of cold chain market.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The importance of cold chain agriculture as there are huge post-harvest losses due\r\n                  to inadequate storage and transport facility. It is dire need to make cold chain\r\n                  facilities assessable to the farmers. Cold chain a very fragile industry and has a huge\r\n                  scope of improvement. It is important to understand that cold chain is capital\r\n                  intensive industry and a collaborative approach between the industrial stakeholders\r\n                  along with government bodies that a strong industry and be built and India Growth\r\n                  Story can be derived.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Jaya Jha,</b> Manager, MAERSK Lines Limited</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold storage is a temporary storage to avoid wastages. Cold Storage is not cold\r\n                  chain but only a part of it which connects the growers to the consumers. The capacity\r\n                  creation today is 88% in storage and only 12% in transportation.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The gap between the cold storage capacity and the cold transportation facility with\r\n                  the help of relevant data. These storages are mostly for potatoes, chilies and seeds\r\n                  while the other perishables do not have access to it.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The gap between the requirement of the nation and the available facility. It is\r\n                  necessary to think about a value chain where FPO is the central activity to connect\r\n                  growers to the consumers with cold chain as the underlying infrastructure. It can be\r\n                  this model which can connect the farmers to market, reduce the losses, increase\r\n                  their income and make every player across the value chain benefitted.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dr. Anil N. Fadte,</b> Managing Director, Goa Dairy</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• If we are talking about doubling farmer s income we need to focus on different\r\n                  aspects of agriculture and strategically shifting the focus from production approach\r\n                  to income approach.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold chain in agriculture is a crucial part in reducing the post-harvest losses as in\r\n                  case of horticulture and perishable crops it can be more than 50%. The efforts should\r\n                  be made to minimize the losses and incorporating every farmer as a part of\r\n                  agriculture value chain.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold storages won t suffice, there is need of an integrated chain from farm to\r\n                  consumer. Pack- houses at farm level and multi model transportation will play a\r\n                  crucial part in improving the value chain.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Major challenge in cold chain is sometimes limitation of technology and parts of\r\n                  delivery. There is a need to decentralize cold storages and energy infrastructure.\r\n                  The government will be a part of the whole value chain with the support and\r\n                  participation of the industry.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt Usha Ramesh,</b> General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, Goa</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The cold chain should be integrated and multi- dimensional, and not focused on just\r\n                  one aspect. Every aspect of the complete cold chained should be focused upon so\r\n                  that they can be discussed in further such conferences. Not just focusing on the postharvest losses but collecting region-wise data of the whole of the country as every\r\n                  region faces different problems and different issues.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• It is important, for the people in the cold chain business, to understand the needs\r\n                  and requirements of different regions, what is being produced there and how it can\r\n                  further utilized.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The topic for development of cold chain as there was no such innovation before\r\n                  which can safely bring the food from farm to fork without being wasted. 1/3rd of the\r\n                  total produced is wasted and we can prevent these wastages than there is definite\r\n                  chance of increasing the farmer s income. The conference can benefit for the nation\r\n                  as these are the rare chances that the people from industry sit together and have\r\n                  such discussions.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Pamarty Venkataramana, </b>International Corporate Lawyer/Business Strategist\r\n                  & Chief, PVR LAWS</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold chain in India started with frozen foods, ice cream, frozen meat and fisheries\r\n                  and it is fully developed for such product but on the other hand F&V is suffering this\r\n                  chain aspect. The reefer trucks which are manufactured are not product centric\r\n                  rather they are multi-product reefer trucks which is not correct. Dedicated\r\n                  transportation for F&V should be developed with a temperature range of 4-10°C so\r\n                  using the same reefer truck for different temperature requirements is expensive and\r\n                  wastage of its capacity.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The logistics company generate more revenue when they transport ice cream rather\r\n                  than F&V which is why the transportation is not even available to the farmer. Even\r\n                  when it is available the cost is way too much for the farmers.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The cold chain is a fairly new concept for the farmers. Carrier developed a working\r\n                  and profitable cold chain for a specific commodity and he shared a success story\r\n                  that how Carrier managed to transport the kinnow of Punjab to the southern parts\r\n                  of India, without any wastage, which seemed impossible to the farmers as they were\r\n                  hesitant to use new technology. It even fetched a better price to them.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Swarup Bose,</b> CEO , Celcius Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Cold chain in India started with frozen foods, ice cream, frozen meat and fisheries\r\n                  and it is fully developed for such product but on the other hand F&V is suffering this\r\n                  chain aspect. The reefer trucks which are manufactured are not product centric\r\n                  rather they are multiproduct reefer trucks which is not correct. Dedicated\r\n                  transportation for F&V should be developed with a temperature range of 4-10°C so\r\n                  using the same reefer truck for different temperature requirements is expensive and\r\n                  wastage of its capacity.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The logistics company generate more revenue when they transport ice cream rather\r\n                  than F&V which is why the transportation is not even available to the farmer. Even\r\n                  when it is available the cost is way too much for the farmers.</p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The cold chain is a fairly new concept for the farmers. Carrier developed a working\r\n                  and profitable cold chain for a specific commodity and he shared a success story\r\n                  that how Carrier managed to transport the kinnow of Punjab to the southern parts\r\n                  of India, without any wastage, which seemed impossible to the farmers as they were\r\n                  hesitant to use new technology. It even fetched a better price to them.</p>', '', '', 'goacoldchainevent.jpg', 'report-cold-chain-goa', 1, 0, '2021-02-25', '2021-02-25', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 9, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14'),
(105, 'MEASURES TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT OF GOA TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID 19', 'During COVID times, every state of India has come up with some unique ways to fight back with\r\n                  COVID cases. Amongst these, the state of Goa came stood first to claim corona free state in the\r\n                  nation. ', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>WEBINAR REPORT</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>MEASURES TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT OF GOA TO FIGHT AGAINST\r\n                  COVID 19</b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Thursday, May 07, 2020 ; Time - 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM \r\n                  </b></p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>During COVID times, every state of India has come up with some unique ways to fight back with\r\n                  COVID cases. Amongst these, the state of Goa came stood first to claim corona free state in the\r\n                  nation. With this background, the interactive session with Dr Pramod Sawant, Hon&apos;ble CM Goa\r\n                  was organised by ASSOCHAM to discuss over the various measures taken by the state of Goa to\r\n                  combat the challenges arising from the Covid19 pandemic. This interaction was organised on May\r\n                  07, 2020 at 04.00 PM to 05.00 PM \r\n                  </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>On behalf of ASSOCHAM, Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary-General; Shri Niranjan Hiranandani,\r\n                  National President, ASSOCHAM and Shri Mangirish Pai Raikar, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Goa state\r\n                  council had a discussion with Dr Sawant.</P>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The session was moderated by Shri Deepak Sood. To take this discussion further Shri Mangirish\r\n                  Pai Raikar congratulated Government of Goa for becoming the pharmaceutical supplier to the\r\n                  world, especially in order to meet the high demand for hydroxychloroquine and paracetamol. </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Further,   Mangirish emphasised on the rapid revival of the tourism industry as the economy of\r\n                  Goa, majorly revolves around this industry. He also highlighted the issue of the State having the\r\n                  highest number of government employees and roughly one in 26 is working in government office,\r\n                  major budget is spent on their salaries, which leaves very little for development work. \r\n                  </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Another Panelist, Shri Niranjan, laid focus on two other economic factors, one is liquidity crisis that\r\n                  Indian industry and business is facing today. Se stimulus package is also need to be introduced in\r\n                  terms of giving funding to the states adequacy to meet the problems which are taking place. </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Chief Guest of the interaction, Hon&apos;ble Chief Minister of Goa, Dr Pramod Sawant announced that\r\n                  he is not only open to FDI from companies who are now moving out of China but will look into how\r\n                  Goa can be made a logistics hub, an idea suggested by the former civil aviation minister Suresh\r\n                  Prabhu to Goa about two years ago. Dr Sawant shared his plans and steps taken so far for the\r\n                  rapid revival of the economy of Goa and he also welcomed all the industry bodies to the State for\r\n                  investment purpose. \r\n                  </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Further Dr Sawant welcomed all the industries those who wish to invest in Goa and also thanked\r\n                  ASSOCHAM for their concern and recommendation for the speedy revival of the economy. \r\n                  </p>\r\n                  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>At last, ASSOCHAM Secretary General, Shri Deepak Sood, ensured the whole hearted\r\n                  cooperation for the economic revival in Goa. He also stated that ASSOCHAM is future ready and\r\n                  willing to work with Government of Goa for the better economic condition of the state.</p>', '', '', 'covid19goaevent.jpg', 'measures-taken-by-government-of-goa-to-fight-against-covid-19', 1, 0, '2020-05-07', '2020-05-07', '4.00 p.m', '5.00 p.m', 0, 9, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:14', '2021-10-26 04:45:14');
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(106, 'AGRO & FOOD Processing Summit 2017\r\n          Technology - Investment - Infrastructure', 'ASSOCHAM\'s Madhya Pradesh Council has organized AGRO & FOOD Processing\r\n          Summit 2017 on May 25, 2017 at Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bhopal, with an\r\n          objective to focus on potential in food processing sector in the state with a view to\r\n          Increase business opportunities and investments', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>AGRO & FOOD Processing Summit 2017\r\n          Technology - Investment - Infrastructure </b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Venue - Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bhopal\r\n          </b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Date: 25-May-2017 </b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM\'s Madhya Pradesh Council has organized<b> AGRO & FOOD Processing\r\n          Summit 2017 on May 25, 2017 at Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bhopal, with an\r\n          objective to </b>focus on potential in food processing sector in the state with a view to\r\n          Increase business opportunities and investments</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE SUMMIT</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Inaugural Session -</b></p>  \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Speakers were -</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Surya Prakash Meena,</b> Hon ble Minister of State Dept. of Horticulture and\r\n          Food Processing, Govt. of MP</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. Dhaval Raval</b> Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee,\r\n          ASSOCHAM Western Council</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. K. K. Singh,</b> Director, Central Institute of Engineering</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. Satyanand,</b> Director, Department of Horticulture& Food Processing, Govt.\r\n          of MP</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. Hansmukh Jain Gandhi,</b> President MP Cold Industry Association</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Surya Prakash Meena,</b> Hon ble Minister of State, Department of Horticulture and\r\n          Food Processing, Govt. of MP was delighted to see an active participation of more\r\n          than 150 delegates from the Agro & Food Processing Industry and informed the\r\n          business community and stakeholders that the Govt of MP has already allocated\r\n          Rs.350 crore worth of fund to set up cold storage chains with a 25 per cent subsidy\r\n          plan to set up the chains. This was in response to the issues the farmers were facing\r\n          in terms of storage of their food produce and vegetables they grow in their farms. He\r\n          briefed the audience that the state is being the leader in food grain production and a\r\n          solid position in horticulture produce it has immense scope for food processing sector.\r\n          He welcomed the investors to come and invest in the state and assured all the help\r\n          from the state government in setting up their projects in Agro & Food Processing\r\n          sector.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee ASSOCHAM\r\n          Western Council started his welcome address by welcoming the Chief Guest and\r\n          dignitaries on the dais with the flower bouquet. Firstly he expressed very warm\r\n          welcome to everyone who had gathered for the Agro & Food Processing SUMMIT\r\n          2017 organized by ASSOCHAM. He briefed the audience about the objective of the\r\n          Summit. He discussed the opportunities & challenges, technological advancements,\r\n          investment opportunities and infrastructure availability to promote Agro & Food\r\n          Processing sector in the State. He also gave an overview of the Agro & Food\r\n          Processing sector and discussed ongoing projects in the State. He also appreciated\r\n          the participants by saying that the enthusiastic participation from across the country\r\n          from Agro & Food Processing industry has made the efforts of ASSOCHAM worth and\r\n          meaningful. Lastly, he wished ASSOCHAM a great success for the session and its\r\n          remarkable contribution towards Agro & Food Processing sector.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. K. K. Singh</b> Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Congratulated\r\n          ASSOCHAM for its initiative of organizing Agro & Food Processing Sector in Madhya\r\n          Pradesh. He encourages the participants by saying that there is lot of potential in the\r\n          State. He digged into the food production statistics of Madhya Pradesh and said\r\n          although it has increased immensely but said still we are not able to match\r\n          international standards to utilize our production to ensure better returns. He said we\r\n          are far behind China, America and even countries like Philippines and we should try\r\n          to match the international standards and increase more production in this sector.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Shri. Satyanand,</b> Director, Department of Horticulture& Food Processing, Govt. of MP,\r\n          welcomed the initiative of ASSOCHAM for organizing Agro & Food Processing\r\n          SUMMIT in the State for promotion of this sector. He put forth towards the industries\r\n          his views & feedback on how to improve the economic status of farmers in the state.\r\n          He said that by fixing minimum purchase price industry can support the farmers and\r\n          how to motivate organic farming to meet the international standards so that there is\r\n          an increase in exports of the Agro & Food processing commodities. He said tapping\r\n          the international market is very much essential today and we should foucs on quality\r\n          of our food products. The farmers should be encouraged to produce pestcides free\r\n          crops so that it can be easliry sold in the international markets.</p>  \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Hansmukh Jain Gandhi,</b> President MP Cold Chain Industry Association educated\r\n          the audience on the ample opportunities the State has in terms of Agro & food\r\n          processing products. He stated that the state stands 2\r\n          nd largest in the country in terms\r\n          of area and is the largest producer of soya bean. He was of the opinion that State\r\n          government should come up with plan to help the food producers and farmers\r\n          especially the onion, garlic, tomato and potato farmers. These farmers are facing\r\n          problem due to huge production and inability to sell their produce at profitable\r\n          proposition. If they can have storage facility they can wait for right time to seek better\r\n          price.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Technical Session -1 Investment & Financing Opportunities in Agro & Food Processing Sector</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Session Chairman - Shri. Satyanand, Director, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP</p>\r\n\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Other Speakers - D. K. Puranik,</b> DGM, MP State Agro Industries Development Corporation Ltd </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Arun Hajela,</b> Horticulture Development Officer, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Vikash Pandey,</b> Consultant, agro & Food Processing, Malwa Group </p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>M. S.R.K. Murthy, </b>Branch Head & AGM, SIDBI</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Satyanand,</b> Director, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP; and session chairman for ASSOCHAMs technical session welcomed other panelists and participants for the Technical session. He gave a presentation on opportunities and advantages in Madhya Pradesh in Agro & Food processing sector. He encouraged the participants by briefing on the government proactiveness in promoting agro & food processing sector. He gave an overview of the states Agro & Food Processing Policy. He emphasized on how horticulture produce can be marketed and made profitable so that the farmers are benefited. Their needs a lot of improvement in the quality & standard of the horticulture produce to meet the international standards he suggested. He also replied to lots of queries and invited suggestions from the participants for the growth of this sector. The session was very interactive as the\r\n          \r\n          audience was very much interested to know about the development in this sector and understand government support.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Vikash Pandey,</b> Consultant, Agro & Food Processing, Malwa Group, gave an overview on the Indian scenario of food processing industry and the horticulture and food processing sector advantages in Madhya Pradesh. He said in his presentation that agro & food processing sector in one of the rapidly growing sector in the state exhibiting several distinguished features. He said this sector contributes an average of 32% share f the toral industrial output value in Madhya Pradesh. He also spoke about the robust infrastructure facilities in Madhya Pradesh conducive for investment in this sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Adil, </b>SIDBI; shared with all the dignitaries on the dais and participants about the various financing schemes of SIDBI in setting up Agro & Food Processing Industry. He briefed the audience about the various incentives the Bank is offering to promote investment and encouraging entrepreneurs to set up food processing industry in the state as well as country. He gave an overview on all the loan options available with the bank at a very nominal rate of interest., He urged the delegates to visit their nearest branch to get awareness on the various developmental schemes offered to the industries in making investment and start up in this sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>D.K. Puranik,</b> DGM, MP State Agro Industries Development Corporation Ltd briefed the participants about the objective of state Agro Industries Development Corporation. He said that all assistance in providing modern technology for the increase in agricultural production and increase in the availability of subsidiary and complementary food grains is being taken care by the State. He also highlighted on the Agro & Food Processing Policy of the state and assured assistance to farmers and other allied groups. The aim of the state is to increase the flow of investment across the supply chain from farm to market and increase direct and indirect employment in the state and develop agricultural based industries.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Arun Hajela,</b> Horticulture Development Officer, Department of Horticulture & Food Processing, Govt. of MP, was overwhelmed on seeing a huge participation of delegates from Agro & Food Processing sector. He had come specially toa ddress the issues of the industries and farmers related to horticulture and to brief about the various initatives of the Department to support farmers and industries across the state and encourage investment in this sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Technical Session -2 </b>Latest Trends & Technology in Food Processing Sector with\r\n          \r\n          a focus on safety & Global Best Practices in Food value Chain</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Session Chairman - Dr. K. K. Singh,</b> Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering</p>\r\n\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Other Speakers - Nitin Aras, </b>Director Technical, Odtin Food Solutions Ramnath Suryawanshi, CEO, Global Foodtech</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman Food Processing & SME Committee, ASSOCHAM Western Council</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Hansmukh Jain Gandhi, </b>President MP Cold Chain Industry Association</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ajay Malhotra,</b> Director, M. M. Consultancy Services</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. K.K. Singh,</b> Director, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, and (Session Chairman) welcomed the participants for the Technical Session II, on latest trends and technology in food processing sector with a focus on safety & global best practices in food value chain. He briefed on the global technology scenario in this sector and how Indian companies can adopt these technologies to become globally competitive. He spoke about multiple industries in the food processing sector and their technological front. He welcomed the other speakers and panelist to share their views on the technological front.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Nitin Aras,</b> Director, Odtin Food Solutions shared presentation on the food solutions their company is offering and briefed on the technology adopted by their company to meet the international standards. He welcomed questions from the participants and also briefed on the various opportunities the state provides to explore business potential in this sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ramnath Suryawanshi,</b> CEO Global Foodtech, in his presentation gave details of the horticulture produce in the state and its scope for development. He briefed on teyh various food parks that are up coming in the state and major investments from the foreign companies in this sector. He said that we are lacking behind in global competition due to various reasons. He suggested on various horticulture processed products that are very much in demand and can be sold in the international as well as domestic markets. By giving an example of tomatoes which are largely produced in the state can be processed and tomato puree from the same apart from dehydrated banana powder as well onion & garlic can be sold in the international market. These products he said is very much in demand internationally. He encouraged the participants to invest in this sector. He with his expertise in this field and research of 37 years was ready to help the investor to get an estimate of setting up of food processing unit in the state.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Hansmukh Jain Gandhi,</b> President MP Cold Chain Industry Association educated the audience on the ample opportunities the State has in terms food processing products. He shared the details on the number of food chains the state has alongwith its storage capacity. He gave district wise details of the cold chain facilities in the state. He was of a view that since the horticulture production is increasing the need for more cold chain storage facility is need of an hour today and we should try to increase this facility in the state.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ajay Malhotra, Director</b> M.M. Consultancy Services shared a video on the latest technology the companies in food processing sectors are adopting to meet the global standards. He said it is not difficult to adapt to the new technology as it is easy to use and helps the industries achieve and compete in the global market. With his experience and expertise in this field he had helped various industries achieve the quality & standard required in the international market. Various technologies adopted in different industries was shown to the participants which was very informative and educative.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dhaval Raval,</b>Chairman, Food Processing & SME Committee, ASSOCHAM Western Council, gave an overview of the food processing sector in India and Gujarat. He also talked about the various business potential available in Madhya Pradesh as well. On industry perspective he said that there is lot of scope for development with the help of government support. He highlighted on the various food parks schemes of government and incentives made available for promotion of this sector. He also gave an idea about the various horticulture products that can be used, preserved and sold in the international market as the state and country is rich in agriculture production. Lot needs to be done to tap this untapped potential of Agro & Food Processing sector. He also welcomed questions from the delegates for development of this sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>RECOMMENDATIONS/SUGGESTIONS</b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Madhya Pradesh has a vast scope and opportunities for the investment in food processing sector as there is easy availability of raw material and good transportation linkages all over India as well. Central as well as State Government is also focusing to the sector and taking new steps in favor of encouraging food processing industries in Madhya Pradesh. ASSOCHAM recommends the following recommendations for implementation, in order to click untapped opportunity-</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Investment in innovative products like ethanol is needed which can be produced from raw and low cost material like sugarcane husk and corn. These types of products needs to produce in India and should have the potential to export as well.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>To get good food, vegetables, milk, grains, fruits etc there is a need to focus on rural production and also to encourage farmers for farming the potential crops for processed food.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Skill Development is needed with the help of training in school and to teach various courses related to this sector in institutes.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Industry needs to put their code of conduct very tight and needs to be more and more ethical in standards.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>In GST i) Poor people food should be exempt from the tax. ii) Low unit value should be totally exempt from the tax. iii) Wherever exemptions are there, keep exemptions & if providing lesser tax right now, in GST also keep the same lesser tax. iv) Vishesh Krishi needs to increase from 5% to 7%.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>To make the assurance of raw material to the processing industry and precise remuneration to the farmers through direct communication and MoU between the farmers and Industries.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Since a lot of attention is given to the hygiene and quality factors of food, food testing is one of the major avenues where the potential is still untapped.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Farm mechanization is gaining pace in Indian agriculture. So, to ensure adequate deployment of farm machines available to the farmers at affordable costs, Farm Machinery Banks can be established for facilitating the hire/purchase of farm machines and equipments. This, in addition to augmenting power availability, will also assist the removal of disparity in farm power availability among different states, and subdue the drudgery associated with several farm operations.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>FOLLOW-UP ACTION TAKEN/TO BE TAKEN:</b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>After successfully organizing this summit on Agro and Sector with a great participation from all walks of the sector like Corporate & industry, System integrators, assemblers and distributors, Suppliers of raw material, Journalists and Consultants, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Government agencies, Environment Agencies, Panels manufacturers etc...ASSOCHAM is aiming high to take this lead further.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>It has planned to take the following actions to help Agro and Food Processing Sector:</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> India is a large country and Agro and Food Processing is an emerging sector; Agri products manufacturers are spread all over the country. So, in the event organizing committee and expert committee meeting it is decided that ASSOCHAM, Western Council will organize the Agro and Food Processing Summit 2017 summits in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Goa so as to cover the maximum area of operation.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>To begin with, ASSOCHAM is organizing Agro and Food Processing Summitwith theme of opportunities and challenges in various parts of Gujarat. In accordance with the recommendations of participants which entail a roadmap for Government of India, State Governments and other stakeholders, ASSOCHAM will take up the recommendations with the respective state Governments on a regular interaction basis. ASSOCHAM will work closely with the stakeholder and groups for capacity building measures with a view to increase production so as there is no short fall in the supply chain of the sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Preparation of set of recommendations for submission to Ministry of Food Processing Industries, APEDA, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and other apex government and trade promotion bodies to roadmap the future course of action and support necessary policy framework up gradations.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Constant interaction with participating members from Manufacturers, Supplier, Agencies, Trade Promotion bodies and other International organizations to provide support for the development of Indian solar sector products, business & trade.</p>', '', '', 'madhyafoodandagro.jpg', 'agro-food-processing-summit-2017', 1, 0, '2017-05-25', '2017-05-25', '', '', 0, 11, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(107, 'Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Madhya Pradesh', 'ASSOCHAM\'s Gujarat Council has organized a webinar on 14 July 2020. Theme ofthe webinar was Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in th.e State of Madhya Pradesh: Challenges and way forward', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Webinar on \"Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Madhya Pradesh: Challenges and way forward\"</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>14 July 2020 </b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM\'s Gujarat Council has organized a webinar on 14July 2020. Theme ofthe webinar was<b> \"Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in th.e State of Madhya Pradesh: Challenges and way forward\"</b></p>\r\n\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Prof. V Padmanand,</b> Partner, Grant Thornton India LLP</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Speakers were</b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri Sanjay Pathak, </b>Deputy Director, Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of Madhya Pradesh</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. D. S. Chauhan,</b> General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, MP</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. DhavalRaval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council &CMD, Abhyuday Group of Companies</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri. Gerald d\'Almeida,</b> Director, SBAGS International FPC Ltd</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Davish Jain,</b> Group Managing Director, PRESTIGE Group</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. RamnathSuryavanshi,</b> CEO, Global Food Tech</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. NareshMaheshwari,</b> MD, FTI Food Tech Pvt. Ltd</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> SUMMARY OF WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Prof. V Padmanand,</b> Partner, Grant Thornton India LLP</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Food and grocery constitute a substantial part of India&apos;s consumption basket\r\n          \r\n          accounting for around 31 percent share in the total.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · In contrast, consumers in other countries spend a much lower proportion of their income on food and grocery—9 percent in the United States (US), 17 percent in Brazil and 25 percent in China.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Food and grocery is the largest segment in India&apos;s retail sector, with a share of more than 60 percent in India&apos;s total retail market.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Most of its agriculture exports serve developing and least developed nations. Indian agricultural/horticultural and processed foods are exported to more than 120 countries, primarily to the Japan, Southeast Asia, SAARC countries, the European Union and the United States</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. DhavalRaval, Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council &CMD, Abhyuday Group</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· India is Fastest growing economy in the world, with largest production of several agri commodities. It ranks 2nd in terms of total food production globally, next to China.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Food processing was only sector perform positive growth in COVID-19</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Madhya Pradesh is having too much potential for Food processing sector which is untapped as of now</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· There are over 1.2 billion consumers with increasing demand for branded food. Apart from that we are the 4th largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. Our country will excel and accede in Agro & Food Processing Sector with the help of proactive government policies attractive fiscal incentives, focusing on development of infrastructure, ports, logistics & Supply chain, and availability of skilled personnel.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Sanjay Pathak,</b> Deputy Director, Department of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of Madhya Pradesh</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Madhya Pradesh has been selected as it is blessed by natural resources and abundant raw material. MP is the second largest State in the Country stretching over 308,000 sqkms. Nearly about 75% of the population in Madhya Pradesh depends on agriculture.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Investment promotion assistance with Government Proactiveness have encouraged the State&apos;s development in Agro & Food Processing Sector. Secondly, the agriculture sector forms almost one-third of the GSDP and this forms the backbone of the MPs economy.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Madhya Pradesh is also the largest producer of pulses and oilseeds in the country. Apart from that many food parks are coming to Madhya Pradesh to explore their business potential.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. D. S. Chauhan, </b>General Manager, NABARD Regional Office, MP</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· All the manufacturing and service sectors were hit not only in domestic but also in the foreign markets.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· It is only the agricultural industry which has defeated Corona as during the Corona lockdown, our farmers not only sold rabi crops but also sown for kharif season.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Gerald d\'Almeida,</b> Director, SBAGS International FPC Ltd</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· MP is the top in the country in production of Pulses, Oilseeds, Oranges, Coriander, Gram and Soybean, while the state is second largest producers of food grains, sesame seeds, guava, tomato, garlic, mustard, green peas, green chili and onion.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· In the production of, Citrus fruits, Cabbage, Red Chili and Cereals, Madhya Pradesh stands on third position, while the state stands fifth in the production of Milk.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· The US has developed, over 600 soybean value added products whereas in our country, hardly 20 soya products are currently manufactured.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Global market of soybean and its products like soya oil, soyameal and by products like phytosterols, tocopherols, choline are in the stages of development.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dr. Davish Jain,</b> Group Managing Director, PRESTIGE Group</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· The Corona pandemic has not only changed our personal lives, but also the way we think and do business.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· If we have had bumper Rabi harvest this year, the monsoon for the season indicates that the kharif crop would also be bountiful. The agriculture sector has proved that as long as there is hunger, there is negligible effect of the pandemic on the food and agricultural sector.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · Food processing could also provide Nutraceuticals to 135 Crore Indians as also to the people across the world so as to enhance immunity with strong ability to fight against diseases that is why we say prevention is better than cure.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · This is what has happened in the development of Madhya Pradesh. Almost 78% of population in our state is dependent on agriculture.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· After COVID-19 epidemic China is on backfoot thus India has great opportunity in soya advance value products like phytosterols and many more.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· The Madhya Pradesh government should also understand that about 78 percent of the state\'s population is dependent on agriculture. Soybean cultivation has proved to be a boon for small farmers of the state.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· With abundant farming of agricultural produce in the country, Madhya Pradesh has all the potential to become the largest food processing state of the country. Proper development of the food processing industry here will not only create new jobs for agriculture but it will also increase income of the farmers.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. RamnathSuryavanshi,</b> CEO, Global Food Tech</p>\r\n        \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· Explained FSSAI Food Hygiene and Food Safety Guidelines for Food Businesses during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · It is the responsibility of the FBO to follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) as prescribed in Schedule IV of FSS (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· He also explained roles and responsibility of Food businessman during COVID19 pandemic</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. NareshMaheshwari,</b> MD, FTI Food Tech Pvt. Ltd</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>· MSP should be replaced by a more equitable hectare and quality based pricing in other words the Bhavantar scheme. Imports of oils should be discouraged with duty mechanism and may be a quota capping.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · Encourage exports by way of enhanced incentives.</p>\r\n          \r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> · GST on all agricultural produce and products including the processors output should be totally exempt and to say that there is no tax on the food plate for Indians.</p>', '', '', 'madhyaevent.jpg', 'impact-of-covid-19-on-agro-and-food-processing-industries-in-the-state-of-madhya-pradesh', 1, 0, '2020-07-14', '2020-07-14', '', '', 0, 11, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(108, 'Webinar on Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Pro-cessing Industries in the State of Maharashtra', 'ASSOCHAM\'s Western Region has organised a webinar on 13th August, 2020. Theme of the webinar was Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Maharashtra', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Webinar on Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Pro-cessing Industries in the State of Maharashtra: Gap - Chal-lenges - Opportunities & Way Forward</b></p>\r\n\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM\\\'s Western Region has organised a webinar on 13th August, 2020. Theme of the webinar was<b> \"Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Maharashtra: Gap - Challenges - Opportunities & Way Forward\"</b></p>\r\n\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Shri Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman Food Processing Committee, AS-SOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Eminent Speakers were</b></p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri R. Ravindra,</b> Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Vijay Chole, </b>Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd.</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Sandeep Sonawane,</b> Chairman, Sambha Agro</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri Aviruk Chakraborty, </b>Founder & CEO, Archeron Group</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr Omkar Hari Mali,</b> Founder President, Udyami Maharashtra</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Ritwik Bahuguna, </b>Partner, Wazir Advisors</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Rajaram Sangle, </b>Director, Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd.</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Bhushan Nikam, </b>Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SUMMARY OF WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>The Session was moderated by Shri Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group. Shri Dhaval Raval also delivered the opening note of the webinar.</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Session was then addressed by <b>Shri R. Ravindra,</b> Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA He helped the session with the better understanding of Govt. policies and perspective taking account the loss occurred in Agro-Food Sector due to pandemic. Another Speaker <b>Shri Ritwik Bahuguna,</b> Partner, Wazir Advisors, gave the highlights on the needs of agro-food consumer in today&apos;s time and how much hard the COVID has impacted the Agro industry at large. Followed by another speaker <b>Shri Aviruk Chakraborty,</b> Founder & CEO, Archeron Group. Shri Aviruk shared insights on how well Artificial Intelligence is doing in helping farmers - doubling their income. Also, he focused on all the technological advancement in Agro-Food sector. After Shri Aviruk, session was addressed by another speaker <b>Shri Vijay Chole,</b> Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. Shri Vijay&apos;s whole address was on paving the new roadmap for Agro-Food Industry, recovering from COVID. He shared his experience on efficiently managing mega food park amidst pandemic.</p>\r\n        \r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Sandeep Sonawane,</b> another speaker for the session and Chairman, Sambha Agro shared his timely thoughts on the various helpful methods which are practiced by the local farmers of Maharashtra to reduce the impact of COVID and giving upthrust to the Agro-Food sector. This was followed by<b> Shri Rajaram Sangle.</b> Shri Sangle is Director at Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd. He also supported the thoughts of Shri Sandeep and shared the collective experiences of the local farmers community from Maharashtra. Another speaker<b>Shri Bhushan Nikam,</b> Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies threw light upon how his organisation is helping farmers to sup-port them financially amidst of this pandemic. The farmers are helped with not only finances but the families of farmers who committed suicide were taken well care of. This session was joined and addressed by the last speaker of the session <b>Dr Omkar Hari Mali.</b> Dr Omkar Mali is a Founder President of Udyami Maharashtra. Dr Mali highlighted the disturbance observed in the import and export of Agro-Food and how this can be managed in better terms. He also revealed the concrete roadmap to retract economics involved in Agro-Food Sector.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'webinar-on-impact-of-covid-19-on-agro-and-food-pro-cessing-industries-in-the-state-of-maharashtra', 1, 0, '2020-07-14', '2020-07-14', '', '', 0, 12, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(109, 'ChandiKrit Industrial Excellence Awards & Expo', 'Chandigarh has the true potential to play a key role in building growth momentum of the North \r\n      India.', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Chandigarh has the true potential to play a key role in building growth momentum of the North \r\n      India. With an aim to chart a holistic growth trajectory for industries in the UT, Chandigarh \r\n      ASSOCHAM in partnership with Dept of Industries, Chandigarh organized Chandikrit \r\n      Industrial Excellence Awards & Expo of Chandigarh from March 26 to March 30, 2021 on a \r\n      virtual platform. The five-day event had a slew of eminent personalities and experts from the \r\n      government, and industry. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Hon&apos;ble Minister of State, Ministry of \r\n      MSME, other govt officials Shri Yashpal Garg, IAS, Secretary, Industries, Chandigarh \r\n      Administration, & Shri Jagjit Singh, Director, Industries, Chandigarh Administration and \r\n      prominent panellists included   Vivek Atray, Former Director - Industries, Haryana, Author \r\n      & Motivational Speaker,   Raju Kapoor, Managing Director, Frontier Agrotech Pvt Ltd,   \r\n      Sarvjeet Singh Virk, Managing Director, Finvasia India Pvt Ltd and   Mukul Bansal, \r\n      Chairman, Emm Bee Group engaged in panel discussions and talks on pertinent topics. 18 n \r\n      XELERATE NORTH ANNUAL COMPENDIUM 2020-21 The initiative received an \r\n      overwhelming response from the industry and stake holders with healthy participation. The \r\n      interaction was greatly supported by the presence of the Govt. officials and industry leaders \r\n      of Chandigarh.</p>', '', '', 'ChandiKritIndustrial.jpeg', 'ChandiKrit-Industrial-Excellence-Awards-Expo-March-26-30-2021', 0, 0, '2021-03-26', '2021-03-30', '', '', 0, 13, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(110, 'The Land of Emerging Opportunities, Focus: IT SEZ, Imphal, Manipur', 'ASSOCHAM in partnership with Government of Manipur hosted a session on Business Opportunities at\r\n  ITSEZ, Manipur on 22nd June, 2021', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>The Land of Emerging Opportunities, Focus: IT SEZ, Imphal, Manipur</b></p>\r\n  <center><b>22nd June, 2021<b></center>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM in partnership with Government of Manipur hosted a session on Business Opportunities at ITSEZ, Manipur on 22nd June, 2021. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon&apos;ble Minister of State, DoNER said that in the post-covid India, north-east, including Manipur is going to have a very critical role in the resurgence and supplementation of economy and the path to power post-covid India roadway via north-east is destined\r\n  to lead India\'s post-covid economy. Dr Rajesh Kumar, Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur informed\r\n  that the state government is focusing on tourism and IT as major employment generating sectors. Dr B.K. Panda, IOFS, Zonal Development Commissioner, East and Northeast also addressed the industry leaders during the interactive session</p>', 'registration', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x2IMZibRo4otNoobGxnsPUvhxmFSJp7U/view?usp=sharing', 'landeventnorth.jpg', 'The-Landof-Emerging-Opportunities-Focus-IT-SEZ-Imphal-Manipur', 1, 0, '2021-06-22', '2021-06-22', '', '', 0, 15, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(111, 'Manipur Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions', 'ASSOCHAM North Eastern Council in association with NABARD, conducted the National Conference on Manipur Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions', '<p><center><b>Manipur Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions</b></center></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM North Eastern Council in association with NABARD, conducted the National Conference on Manipur Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions, which had several panelists present from different sectors, who came together to put forward their views on dynamics of agro logistics and\r\n    discuss the challenges faced by the tribal of the state as well as present solutions. The session was moderated by Ranjeeta Ghosh, Advisor, ASSOCHAM Eastern and North Eastern Region and the meeting was presided over by M.S. Rao, General Manager, NABARD Manipur.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Arunachal Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:center;\'>31st July, 2021</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM North Eastern Regional Council in association with NABARD Arunachal Pradesh, conducted\r\n    the National Webinar on Arunachal Pradesh Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions, which had\r\n    several panelists present from different sectors, who came together to put forward their views on\r\n    dynamics of agro logistics and discuss the challenges faced by the people and tribal of the state as well\r\n    as present solutions. The webinar was honored by the presence of Shri Tage Taki, Hon&apos;ble Minister Dept.\r\n    of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Govt. of\r\n    Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from the distinguished panelists, the webinar also saw the presence of  .\r\n    Mahendra Agarwal, Chairman, North Eastern Development Council ASSOCHAM, who gave the welcome\r\n    address and B. P. Mishra, Deputy General Manager, NABARD.</p>', 'registration', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1afHEH1iXPTSxpN8msXoWYKzUEaTTdGNv/view?usp=sharing', 'Manipuragro.jpg', 'Manipur-Agro-Logistics-Challenges-Solutions', 1, 0, '2021-07-17', '2021-07-17', '', '', 0, 15, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(112, 'Arunachal Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions', 'ASSOCHAM North Eastern Regional Council in association with NABARD Arunachal Pradesh, conducted the National Webinar on Arunachal Pradesh Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Arunachal Agro Logistics Challenges & Solutions</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:center;\'>31st July, 2021</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM North Eastern Regional Council in association with NABARD Arunachal Pradesh, conducted\r\n    the National Webinar on Arunachal Pradesh Agro Sector Logistics Challenges and Solutions, which had\r\n    several panelists present from different sectors, who came together to put forward their views on\r\n    dynamics of agro logistics and discuss the challenges faced by the people and tribal of the state as well\r\n    as present solutions. The webinar was honored by the presence of Shri Tage Taki, Hon&apos;ble Minister Dept.\r\n    of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Govt. of\r\n    Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from the distinguished panelists, the webinar also saw the presence of  .\r\n    Mahendra Agarwal, Chairman, North Eastern Development Council ASSOCHAM, who gave the welcome\r\n    address and B. P. Mishra, Deputy General Manager, NABARD.</p>', 'registration', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x2IMZibRo4otNoobGxnsPUvhxmFSJp7U/view?usp=sharing', 'arunachalagro.jpg', 'Arunachal-Agro-Logistics-Challenges-Solutions', 1, 0, '2021-07-31', '2021-07-31', '', '', 0, 15, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(113, 'MSME SAMVAAD SERIES- Haryana May 21, 2021', 'As northern region of the country has strong potential to grow MSMEs, ASSOCHAM Northern \r\n  region started an initiative called &apos;MSME Samvaad&apos; to discuss the roadmap and present \r\n  scenario of MSMEs in states like Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and UT of Jammu and \r\n  Kashmir.', '<center><b>MSME SAMVAAD SERIES- Haryana May 21, 2021</b></center>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>As northern region of the country has strong potential to grow MSMEs, ASSOCHAM Northern \r\n  region started an initiative called &apos;MSME Samvaad&apos; to discuss the roadmap and present \r\n  scenario of MSMEs in states like Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and UT of Jammu and \r\n  Kashmir.</p> \r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Series of MSME starred with Haryana, as Haryana&apos;s industrial ecosystem thrives on the \r\n  back of 9.7 lakh MSMEs which is employing 19.06 lakh people. The major MSME footprint \r\n  present in the State includes sectors like automobile, food & beverages, textiles, engineering, \r\n  and metals sector. The manufacturing MSME spectrum in the state comprises of both stateofthe-art medium enterprises as well as a large number of traditional micro and small \r\n  enterprises. Haryana MSME Samvaad was inaugurated by Pratap Chandra Sarangi, \r\n  Union MoS MSME and Dushyant Chautala, Dy CM Haryana, who were the key speakers \r\n  in the inaugural session among many other Industry leaders. </p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The session started with the welcome address by Vijay Sharma, Chairman ASSOCHAM, \r\n  Haryana State Development Council & Director, Jindal Stainless following other speakers \r\n  like Vineet Agarwal, President, ASSOCHAM & Managing Director, Transport Corporation \r\n  Report: Haryana MSME Samvaad 12 of India Limited, Kulwin Seehra, Chairman, \r\n  ASSOCHAM Regional Council on MSME & Executive Director GNA Axles Ltd., \r\n  Dushyant Chautala, Dy CM Haryana and Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Union MoS MSME.</p>', '', '', 'HARYANA MSME SAMVAAD - Session 1 (1).jpg', 'MSME-SAMVAAD-SERIES-Haryana-May-21-2021', 1, 0, '2021-05-21', '2021-05-21', '', '', 0, 16, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15');
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(114, 'ASSOCHAM and NABARD Webinar on Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain Industry in the State of Tamil Nadu, 17th March 2021, 11am to 1pm.', 'Thanking ASSOCHAM, speaking about the activities of NABARD, on the Food Processing Funds available from NABARD and also Subsidy schemes available and NABARD done on Cold Storage units.  ', '<p>ASSOCHAM and NABARD Webinar on Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain Industry in the State of Tamil Nadu, 17th March 2021, 11am to 1pm.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Dr. S Sudharsan, DGM, NABARD, Tamil Nadu&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. BNS Murthy, CEO and Advisor, Dept. Agriculture &amp; Co Operation, GOI&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. AD Padma Singh Issac, CMD, &nbsp;Aachi Msala Group&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. S AnandaKumar, ME Phd, Asst. Professor, IIFPT&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr, K Rathnam, CEO, Milky Mist Dairy&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Mohanan N K, Sr. VP, Business ( South &amp; East ), Rinac India Ltd.&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Smt. Uma S Nair, Regional Director, Southern Region, ASSOCHAM&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Release of Knowledge Report&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Dr. S Sudharsan, DGM, NABARD, Tamil Nadu </b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thanking ASSOCHAM, speaking about the activities of NABARD, on the Food Processing Funds available from NABARD and also Subsidy schemes available and NABARD done on Cold Storage units. &nbsp;Presently NABARD implemented and features of this is Special fund of Rs. 2000 Crore created in NABARD 2014-15. Corpus contributed by scheduled CBs from out of priority sector lending shortfall. To provide affordable credit to Food processing units in Clusters. Eligible Institutions Like, State Govt. entities promoted by State govt./GOI, JVs, SPVs, Cooperatives, Federation of COOP., FPOs, Companies, Partnerships, Entrepreneurs, Etc.</p> \r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Eligible projects for Finance designated Food Parks notified by MOFPI and Food Processing Units. Projects Eligible for Credit from FPF are no 1 Establishing new DFP&rsquo;s such as new Food Parks, Agro Processing Cluster, approved MoFPI or any State Govt. No.2 Modernization. Additional Infrastructure in existing DFPs No.3 Setting up new food Processing Units in any of notified DFPs, No.4 Modernization of new Food Processing are already established in any of the DFPs. Activities of Food Processing Fund provides post-harvest resulting in value addition and enhances shortage Life in Primary, Secondary Tertiary Processing. &nbsp;Product of Processing like Food, Vegetables, Mushrooms, Plantation crops and other Horticulture Crops, Milk and Milk Products, Poultry and Meat, Fish and &nbsp;Aquatic and other Marine Products, Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Oil Crops, Herbs, Medicinal and aromatic Plants Forest Produce and Consumer Food Product such as Bakery items.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b> &nbsp;The Lending Terms of Food Processing Funds&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Borrowing Entities Like State Govt. Maximum Loans up to 95%, &nbsp;tenure of 7 Years with Interest of 1.50%.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Entities Promoted by State Govt. (With Govt. Guarantee) Maximum Loans up to 95%, &nbsp;tenure of 7 Years with Interest of 1.50%.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp; &bull; Entities Promoted by State Govt. (Without Govt. Guarantee) Maximum Loans up to 95%, &nbsp;tenure of 7 Years with PLR + Risk Premium. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull;&nbsp; Entities promoted by GOI, JVs, SPVs, Cooperatives, Federation of COOP., FPOs, Companies, Partnerships, Entrepreneurs Maximum Loans up to 75%, &nbsp;tenure of 7 Years with PLR + Risk Premium.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;The Borrowing Entity has to provide the security Collaterals like Primary security, Collateral Security and Guarantees under various State Govts., State Govt. Entities (with Guarantees of Sate Govt.) State promoted Entities (without State govt. Guarantees) Private Sectors. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:center;><b>Process of Loan Sanctions</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> &bull;&nbsp; Submission of Loan Applications to NABARD RO.&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Payment of Advance Amount of Appraisal Fees.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Appraisal of the Project by NABARD (Desk &amp; Field Appraisal).&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull;&nbsp; Assessment of Technical Feasibility, Financial Viability, Bankability, Credit Risk Rating.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Sanction/ Rejection of Loan Proposal.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Agriculture Marketing Infrastructure the Sub- Scheme for (ISAM) for the Cold Storage Units. </p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>Standalone Cold Storage up to 1000MT under the category&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; North Eastern States, State of Uttarkhand, HimachaL Pradesh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir UTs, Hilly and Tribal Areas are eligible for 33.33% subsidy with 30.00 (in Lakhs)&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Other areas of Registered FPOs, Panchayat Raj Institutions, Women Farmers, Entrepreneurs, SC/ST Entrepreneurs and their cooperatives are eligible for 33.33% subsidy with 30.00 (in Lakhs)</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; For all other Categories and other Beneficiaries are eligible for 25% subsidy with 25.00 (in Lakhs)&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>NABARD Geotagging of Agri- Storage Infrastructure has come in the Budget in 2020-21 GOI, has says India has the capacity of 162 Million MT in Agri Warehousing, Cold Storage, Reefer Van Facilities. In that NABARD will undertake and exercise to map and geo tag them.\r\n<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b> &nbsp;o&nbsp; Objectives&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Mapping of Agri Storage Structures.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Develop Spatial Intelligence for effective utilization of available Warehousing Capacities.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Development of IT enabled services to Farmers. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Development of Logistic Network.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Ensure network of Markets with Storage Infrastructure. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>&nbsp;Methodology Adopted to the Benefits of Farmers. &nbsp; &nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp; &bull; Development of Mobile Application to capture the Field Level Data.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp; &bull; Web Portal for capturing the data in the Mobile Application.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Submitted data verification at different Level. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Farmers App on the use of Storage Information. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;Present Status in Tamil Nadu NABARD has completed with Field Survey, Verification of Data in progress and Farmers app being developed and tested. Tamil Nadu Status of Geo Tagging so far no of Agri Storage Infrastructure 7176 no of Geo tagged Infrastructure is 7011 with percentage of 97.82 compare to all India no of Agri Storage 111291 no of Geo tagged Infrastructure 99456 with percentage of 89.37. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>&nbsp;Shri. BNS Murthy, CEO and Advisor, Dept. Agriculture &amp; Co Operation, GOI </b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Thank you ASSOCHAM, Capacity Building and Employment generation through Cold Chain.&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some points of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building &amp; Employment Generation through Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or Agriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these the theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the skill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon. As said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects and they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be some direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved &nbsp;which benefit the 260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about 325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and Vegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing manually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to export Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India is authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering all this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the better price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing post-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses including during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in the field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the dining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model that we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable mostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to spoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits and vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also higher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has to be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of the producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate and these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment controlled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes near farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In Horticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable produce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. &nbsp;So each crop has a specific requirement temperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector wise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining 2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma&rsquo;s, 5% is used for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and Meat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold Storage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need to look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and subcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening require is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different efforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in creation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in the policy. It&rsquo;s important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the vision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the losses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently announced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the gaps. &nbsp;GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial Institutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO&rsquo;s, Agri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore available for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for repayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under sec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting &amp; Grading &nbsp;Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility, Projects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming assets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for Employment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but there are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the domain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in ignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of domain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused development of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. &nbsp;NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs like entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also send for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain sector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level, govt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO&rsquo;s and skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like sensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank you.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. AD Padma Singh Issac, CMD, &nbsp;Aachi &nbsp;Masala Group</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Thank you ASSOCHAM, during pandemic time Aache group has taken a big role in the Food Industry and have invested 55 crore in cold chain products and able to supply Masal to entire South India 24/7 when other were closed. Even also played a great role in Supply Chain area we loaded the shelves of retail with our products and able to 38 percent extra growth and created 650 employment this pandemic period and also 750 extra exclusive agents pan India in this pandemic period there by our cold chain storage has helped in a very big way. In this forum particularly want to tell one thing we have created a lot of employment in the cold chain and same time crated employment in Agriculture area because of cold chain projects.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>We are confident in giving any number of quantity to the society, and by using our technology by reducing the cost through reducing the power that really helped cold chain Industry in a very big way and we have created a lot of employment in the last 20 years about &nbsp;4,000 employees with 3,000 exclusive agents. &nbsp;With the new project We have going backward because of Natural Farming and we have identified nearly 1000 farmers and have conducted nearly 200 meetings and we have educated farmers and one sampling has given for cultivation and are happy for cultivating chili and other turmeric crops so by April end we can get the crop from farmers with a doubled price to our cold storage and ensuring them what are they produce we will be buying from them and that is the success of our cold chain project. With the help of govt. and NABARD we are planning to put more cold storages in Tamil Nadu in the near future as we are leading in Food processing sector in Tamil Nadu industry we are also leading in India also particularly in the area of Horticulture and our dream is to play a major role and in Tamil Nadu we are the largest cold storage occupier. Thank you.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>&nbsp;Shri. S AnandaKumar, ME Phd, Asst. Professor, IIFPT&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thank you ASSOCHAM, Focusing more on Technical aspects on Advances in Frozen Food Processing Packaging Storage to minimize the post-harvest costs. The Indian Cold Chain Logistics like type of Infrastructure, Infrastructure requirement, Infrastructure created, all India gap and percentage of Share Shortfall.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Food Preservation in the cold storage produces high quality of Nutritious that offer the advantage of a long storage life.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Cold chain potential remain untapped due to multiple reasons.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; The Food losses have been stated high Rs. 52,000 to 95,000 crores per annum from Agriculture sector.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Cold chain Infrastructure has hampered India&rsquo;s Food Export as well.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; India has a huge Export potential, reflected in the fact that domestic commodity prices were below parity in 72 percent of cases. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp; We need to have Cold Supply Chain to Some products which need to be cold or frozen storage like Milk, Frozen Foods, Tolu and etc. Extends the shelf life of fresh foods. Prevents loss and improves food safety by 20-30% food loss occurs in transportation or storage. If we take Indian scenario in Horticulture extent losses in the food and vegetables is about 10,000 to 12,000 crores annually. &nbsp;Agriculture Commodity supply chain comparison with India to the developed countries the passing options of foods from Farmers to the consumer are high compare to developed countries so minimizing the passes we can contain the losses and amount of economy will be minimized. The Agriculture commodity particularly in Horticulture in the Field Heat &amp; Vital Heat need of the hour is product Temperature upon Harvest, Major fraction of the Heat load to be removed, Influences the rate of reactions during storages, rate of reduction influences the fate of the product. Normally the pre cooling are done with technology n the Industry and the methods of pre cooling with 4 types that are Forced-air Cooling, Hydro cooling, Vacuum Cooling and Package icing. The points to be noted in the freezing is basically product type, Size, In-feed temperature and condition (any prior process such as cooking or marinating) appearance, production line capacity, critical operating times, and factory space limitations. &nbsp; Transportation guidelines has to be followed properly in staking strength, bracing the load and load on Pallet or slip Sheet. In the Ministry of Food processing Industry support by Govt. under PM Schemes cold chain schemes, National Horticulture Board and National Horticulture Mission, Small Farmer Agri Business, Consortium assistance to cold storage, Cold storage and Fruits &amp; Vegetable development program under National Cooperative Development Cooperation, APEDA assistance for cold chain, Venture capital for Small Farmer Agri Business Consortium, NABARD Ware Housing Schemes. Suggestion On Way Forward Shift from Unorganized to Organized Market, Focus Shifting end to end cold chain not just Storage, Modernization of Existing Stores, Better and more Sophisticated Machinery and Equipment, setting up of multi-purpose cold storages, Modern pack Houses, Ripening facilities, Farm Gate or Cold Storage point, Energy efficient technology and new storage technology, Integrated cargo complexes are being planned at major Airports in India which will be equipped to all types of goods.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr, K Rathnam, CEO, Milky Mist Dairy&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thank You ASSOCHAM, we are the value added dairy manufacturing company and we are procuring the milk and value addition to it and selling as a product to the Market. We have 20 different category and collect a half million liters of milk daily directly from Farmer&rsquo;s daily and no middle man or agents or bulk vendors are involved so we get very good quality of milk and very good control over the raw material and we have standard technology to manufacture every type of dairy product. Couple of years back invested 550 crores t set up new plant to manufacture different type of Dairy products we also operate the logistics with 3 different vehicle end to end we own and operate the logistics from depot to retails and with much control on our operations. Cold chain needs. The key element to preserve the product is transportation between the practices to the various destinations providing the infrastructure facilities at the retailer point level. We started building infrastructure facilities at the retailer level &nbsp;we are the only company in India to the data we have put 15,000 vehicle across our market with no cost and maintenance. As for as dairies is concerned we have to go &nbsp;long way and there are reasons for the development is not taken place most of the dairies in south particularly Tamil Nadu focused in Chilling centers which are expensive to operate rather than the bulk setting of the chiller center, reason for not becoming popular unlike Maharastra, Gujurat or any other places the support from the agencies or the govt. agencies little less in dairy field having said that we have problems in Village level more than 2 players in competition and no possibilities of putting chilling facilities because it is not viable and this is clear disadvantage in Tamil Nadu so with the help of NABARD with finance with subsidies we can bridge the gap we can able to put bulk setups in small villages it will improve the quality and secondly going long way it will improve farmers economy as Tamil Nadu is growing in Milk production and will get higher input that is the handicap &nbsp;is there things to be worked out and in terms of Infrastructure development &nbsp;facility it is tremendous development on 10 to 15 years in terms of connecting roads to villages in Tamil Nadu and to channelizes more we need subsidies and schemes from state govt. cold chain in ant farm weather it is Frozen chill or cold storage AC Coolers or the refrigerator freezers or de freezers in the market place Is going to dominate in the coming years because of consumers are demanding for quality product and manufacturing company we realized to provide the quality product to the consumers. &nbsp;Thank you.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Shri. Mohanan N K, Sr. VP, Business (South &amp; East), Rinac India Ltd.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;Thank you ASSOCHAM, Cold Chain Infrastructure and best practices and the Way Forward. Cold Chain Infrastructure required not merely a cold storage but an uninterrupted cold chain with effective operational qualification. Segments where cold chain Infrastructure extensively being used like Agri. Horti, Fruits &amp; Vegetables, Dairy Milk, Milk Products &nbsp;Ice cream, Food Service/ Retail, RTE, Hospitality, Meat &amp; Poultry Processing, Sea food Processing, Pharma &amp; Health Care, Engg.-Auto/ Chemical/Aero. India is in No.1 position in production of milk, 2nd iN foods &amp; Vegetables production, 3rd In Sea food Segment, 5th In Livestock like poultry and 6th Meat production and over all if we look at food Industry size Rs. 11,25,000 Crore, Processed food sector is Rs. 5,45,000 Crore and unprocessed sector Rs. 5,80,000 Crore. What is the need for cold chain is to Reduce Wastage Ensure Safety for Consumption, Retain Quality, preventing Decomposition, and eliminating the fermentation. So current Infrastructure starts from Field Level, Pack House, Pre-coolers/ Ripening /Ice Machines etc. Blast Chillers and Freezers, induvial quick freezers, Conditioned processed Area, Walk-in Chillers/ Freezers, Cold Logistics/ Ware House/ Reefer Vans, Distribution Cold Storage and Front end retail. S o today&rsquo;s Cold Chain Challenges are</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>&nbsp; Lack of awareness of the type of Cold Chain requirement- product Specific &nbsp;&amp; Segment Specific</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Technology Up gradation.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Lack of Skilled Team.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Improper Storage &ndash; FIFO/LIFO Storage Cocept&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Data Logging and Mining&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Effort to maintain SOPs&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; In ability in maintaining consistent Parameters required for the cold chain product &nbsp;specific and segment Specific.</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Product specific Packaging&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Usage of inappropriate MHEs&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Energy Efficiency&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Lack of Technology and Automation&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; ROI. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Cold chain the way Forward :</b></p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Rack Assisted Ware House</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;&bull; Mezzanine Assisted Ware House Segment based Ware House&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Retrieval Based Ware Houses&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; Stored Energy Transportation</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&bull; AERS-Automated Storage and Retrieval System \r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Rinac market solutions on cold storage Racking and warehousing Solutions customized and segment specific storage solutions Storage inside the Building, RAS Rack assisted storage</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>&nbsp;</p>', '', '', 'tamilnaducoldchain.jpg', 'assocham-and-NABARD-webinar-on-revamping-the-future-indian-cold-chain-industry-in-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-17th-March-2021- 11am-to-1pm.', 1, 0, '2021-03-17', '2021-03-17', '11.00 a.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 17, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15');
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(115, 'Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain Industry', 'ASSOCHAM & NABARD webinar on \"Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain \r\n  Industry: Innovation, Challenges, Trends, Opportunities and Way Forward in the \r\n  State of Andhra Pradesh\"\\ 4th March 2021(11 Am to 1 Pm).', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>ASSOCHAM & NABARD webinar on \"Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain \r\n  Industry: Innovation, Challenges, Trends, Opportunities and Way Forward in the \r\n  State of Andhra Pradesh&quot;\\ 4th March 2021(11 Am to 1 Pm).</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>1. Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS\r\n  Special Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Co Operation\r\n  Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>2. Shri. Chiranjiv Choudhary, IFS\r\n  Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> 3. Dr. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD,\r\n  Department of Agriculture, Co Operation & Farmers Welfare.</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>4. Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, Chief General Manger,\r\n  NABARD Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> 5. Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO\r\n  Gubba Cold Storage</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>6. Dr. B Madhusudana Rao, M.V.Sc., Ph.D.\r\n  Principal Scientist, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology\r\n  Visakhapatanam, AP.</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>7. Dr. Giridhar Kirshana, M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D.\r\n  Registrar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur, Ap<b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>By Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS, Spl. Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and \r\n  Co Operation, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thank you for having this very Important Webinar, as we all know that India is the 2nd world largest \r\n  group in fruits and vegetables but we have a substance in Meat and Poultry in the recent research \r\n  report in the cold chain Industry in this sector 13 to 15% growing CAGI and set to reach 47, 000 \r\n  Crore by 2022. But it is not only the food product and also Bio Medical and Manufacturing which is \r\n  another key driver for the growth of Cold Controller of Supply Chain and also the trend that are \r\n  actually driving growth of Supply Chain in India as well are may be consumer behavior and more \r\n  consumers are moving towards and that is getting preserved and this is getting promoted in \r\n  Consumers and changing by the modern trade Super Markets. Which organize the food retail \r\n  demand Chain. Similarly the farmers are also now moving towards cultivation of fruits and \r\n  vegetables which give them better deals and remunerative values. So moving to Agriculture and \r\n  allied sectors, in these types of behavior consumer work and Farmer is also driving the \r\n  requirements of cold stores closer to the to the farms and farmers and in India predominant \r\n  Industry being Agriculture and farming the need on developing the supply Chain with focus on \r\n  Temperature control and is highly disorganized interior base and completing with infrastructure and \r\n  cold chain transport is equally important. We are aware that the Indian&apos;s present cold chain \r\n  positioning as a very high share of single commodity cold storages particularly in Agriculture Sector. \r\n  There are also challenges in cold storage transport facilities and there is challenge in high initial\r\n  investment paneling is covered with inadequate enabling Infrastructure like Road, Water Power \r\n  Supply as well as drainages near to the farms and in the interior where actually the fruit and \r\n  vegetable production is happening. In addition to this, there is also lack of awareness about \r\n  handling temperature sensitive goods and the challenge to an immediate need and an urgent need \r\n  for not only having network of modern multi chamber cold storage and cold transportation \r\n  infrastructure and also having safety with global standard of quality enhancing efficiency and \r\n  Investment and also need to create a reformed and trained work force to handle this. It is very \r\n  important and very sensitive Industry move forward and we also assist it&apos;s impact on environment\r\n  so that the climate foot prints of these activities remain well and within in the margin that would \r\n  enable the long term sustainability. About Andhra Pradesh we are is 1 of the India&apos;s Largest \r\n  consumer foods and third largest producer of agriculture according to the Top Market report and \r\n  cold chain International Trade Administration. Around 25 to 30% what we produce ways to \r\n  adequate cold chain infrastructure and 1% part of the losses in the current storage as well as in \r\n  transit. It is not only the fruits and vegetables we have a digital production of around 50 to 50.25 \r\n  metric tons ranking 5th in India and also a study growth in Fish and Meat Industry in state of AP. We \r\n  also have 404 storage facilities that include fish and poultry efficient altering with installed capacity \r\n  of 22.41 lakh Metric Tons and these are mostly used for storing Chilies and tamarind and also have \r\n  fisheries storage pf 44 thousand metric tons per day and 5250 insulated vehicles on transport \r\n  sector with 650 refrigerator vehicles. There is need to step up this and the existing sources of \r\n  funding for cold storage infrastructure and from 2011/12 has given infrastructure status and \r\n  subsidy is also there on cold storage budget cost and the key challenge is to bridge the gap in cold \r\n  storage ware housing capacity and only 25% of storage facility is available for food, vegetables, \r\n  processed food and pharmaceuticals and 75% capacity is dedicated to 1or 2 crops in Chilies and \r\n  Tamarinds. AP Govt. has taken measures on the gaps to address by CM, and have Raith Baravasa \r\n  Kendra in every Village with 10732 Kendra in the state of AP which are handled by Agri & \r\n  Horticulture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry graduates and this kind of man power we have is not \r\n  there in any other state. Now the govt. is producing large number of FPO&apos;S and will become very \r\n  important component in handling this and this work force are well trained. The Raitha Baravasa \r\n  Kendra have major 3 pillars like knowledge capacity building 2nd is all farmers are connected to the \r\n  internet so can reach them through various modules with TV connectivity and iPad which is given to \r\n  all the workers and next step is to train the farmers and how to produce the crops on the first level \r\n  handling of the crops which is called primary processing and also coming with multipurpose facility \r\n  centers which will have collection centers and also wet storage go downs and 400 places to start \r\n  with and cold storage go downs will be established at the Farm gate so at the large extent will fill \r\n  need of filling gaps of taking the cold storage to the Farm gate in agriculture is very crucial and \r\n  similarly in Fisheries. Addition to this secondary processing centers are coming at 25 location in the \r\n  state of AP. And also coming up with 175 Aqua Hubs with cold storage facility with a refrigerated \r\n  transport system which will carry from farms to Aqua hubs to Aqua Hub retails and so the entire \r\n  back end forth will be covered from farmers to the producers and all this are taken from Agri Infra \r\n  Fund and Large number of this Projects are funded by NABARD. Similarly bulk milk cooling units will \r\n  also come along with automatic mill collection Units al this are estimated with 3678 crores. And this \r\n  will give good network for the 9000 add villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Food processing \r\n  policy has recently released by AP govt. where the govt. itself investing in Infrastructure\r\n  development at 25 location on plug and play model where investors can come to AP and start \r\n  processing plants. In addition to this 170 crore program is there and a market called Janatha Bazar \r\n  and this market has also have cold storage facilities as well as link to secondary process centers \r\n  where all processing foods can come and also from aqua center to this Markets. AT 10,000 crores \r\n  investment are coming 10, 600 locations and entire supply chain has large extent both in \r\n  vegetables and fruits and also in Food Grains and also in Fisheries and Aqua from the govt. side \r\n  And all are worked closely with NABARD and other banker friends. And the universities are playing \r\n  very important role in this as back bone when the technologies are concerned and also happy to \r\n  inform program will start by March 21 and will be able to complete in 24 months&apos; time and this \r\n  point of time these are the things are happening from AP Govt. Thank you.</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, CGM, NABARD, Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>We congrats ASSOCHAM for organizing this webinar on cold chain Industry, as a challenging subject \r\n  and really thank you and making NABARD as its partner I his particular webinar. In the recent \r\n  economy service table department has highlighted the India&apos;s Agriculture sector has shown the \r\n  resilience and growth rate of 3 to 3.5% and this was the only industry was growing at the pandemic \r\n  and especially food processing sector has done very well. One side India is producing lot foods and \r\n  other side lots of food is wasted, so in this area we have the cold storage has a big role where as in \r\n  the past the challenges simply supply addictive food and in the future the challenge will be to \r\n  provide optimal nutrients genetic profile and that&apos;s the challenges will take place. So we need to \r\n  take this challenge and work in this process. The operation links in 2015-16 stood at 146.45 Million \r\n  of which 85% are small and marginal farmer and operational size of 1% has reduces to .08 Hector. \r\n  There are good number of people and again the cold storage place a big role here because the \r\n  wastage can be stopped here and farmers can get the better price for their produce. The \r\n  Agriculture enterprise during covid -19 has recommended that the use of the crises as an impetus to \r\n  the crises to strengthen the institutional capacity of association to enhance the little more to \r\n  income to small farmers. The GOI schemes like PM Schemes has good number of subsidies project \r\n  and they have taken up in large scale to name the few Mega food park, Integrated cold chain, \r\n  Infrastructure for cluster development for backward linkages, creation for expansion of food \r\n  processing and preservation capacities and operation Greens. So many schemes has been floated \r\n  here even though it is launched 6 years ago the takeoff id not to that extent. One more change is \r\n  the essential commodities amendment act 2020, which remove a commodity like a serial sponsor \r\n  from the essential commodities and these are the very big step taken by the govt. legislation will \r\n  help to drive up in more investment in storage and modernization of the full supply. Now coming to \r\n  the cold chain industry there&apos;s the way the farmer produced then it is stored and transported and \r\n  then it is marketed. We find some issues in this regard produce there is absolutely no problem \r\n  where we can say we are producing surplus to export. After produce we need to store and has \r\n  become a problem. To overcome this required to take up just to not to encourage farmers to to \r\n  produce 1 type of crop so that they can crop another type. It can be eliminated to price and it will \r\n  be good for all. There are few challenges in this particular industry. Here you required large amount \r\n  of finance, the cost of goods storage is very high it cannot be in a small scale and another thing is \r\n  the main cold storage keeping in the view the climate the Energy business that is very high and that \r\n  is the biggest challenge for crop selection for a particular area for particular format. It is policy \r\n  should be taken by the state and Central. So that every farmer they produce as per the plan of the \r\n  govt. so that there won&apos;t be any problem and also not excess. Here it is observed who are managing \r\n  the cold storage they do not have proper knowledge at even normal standards and also the hygiene \r\n  has not done which we need to look for. The challenges here is capacity building Institution which \r\n  can forward and look into the different challenges here. Training on operation and skilling is \r\n  required and NABARD will give necessary support for such trainings and for giving capacity \r\n  building. In India we are having maximum of single crop or single commodity cold storages when \r\n  the govt. earlier have floated subsidies and has given good number subsidies around 50laks and so. \r\n  All the entrepreneurs who take up the cold storage is they used construct the multi chamber that \r\n  was the big issue practically look into that multi chambers were used for single commodity so very \r\n  purpose of stating that we lost. We need to look into this. It won&apos;t be a revenue relative to the cold \r\n  storage owners though the rent they take which has been fixed as there is a rotation of 2 to 3 \r\n  times. The economic will be better rather than keeping in single commodity for all after the 2,3 \r\n  months it is vacated some cleaning operation are taken up and this is the big challenge here where \r\n  we need look for. The Instance moment of India there is a Geo Tagging for all Agri. Infrastructure \r\n  almost in completion stage. More than 1 lac Agri. Infrastructure are available in India as gathered \r\n  there are 4400 cold storages are available and AP have 240 Cold Storages and operational cost and \r\n  awake need look into alternative power like solar for the cold storages. According to NCCD Data we \r\n  have there is the tremendous gap we found in cold storages and we request to bankers to support \r\n  the reformer again and again so the produce can be saved and made more economical. Lastly 1st is \r\n  the different fund from NABARD Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and NABARD \r\n  Infrastructure Development Fund and these funds can be given to the Govt. and govt. owned \r\n  corporations so that they can take more structures can be set up in district or villages so farmers \r\n  will be benefited and Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund are conditional funds and also on \r\n  Fisheries and Aqua Development Funds as we have huge demand in AP as we are developing lot of \r\n  Fisheries hope govt. will use this particular fund. We also Have Food Processing Fund as this funds \r\n  are available at nominal rates and anyone interested in buying Infrastructure will be helpful. These \r\n  structure couldn&apos;t because of high cost. The GOI recently announced 3% intervention for the \r\n  borrower who take the Agri. Infrastructure activity for the next 3 to 4 Years. NABARD has 5000 \r\n  crores for supporting the Agri. Infrastructure will be given to the primary Agri. Co Operative \r\n  Societies rather directly to the borrowers and under this window we are supporting AP govt. 1500 \r\n  crore for this process. In the state of AP we have formed 300 Farmers produce organizations and \r\n  these are the different schemes from NABARD and Thank you.</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Good Morning, the very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some \r\n  points of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building & Employment Generation \r\n  through Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or \r\n  Agriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these \r\n  the theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the \r\n  skill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon. \r\n  As said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects \r\n  and they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be \r\n  some direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved which benefit the \r\n  260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about \r\n  325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and \r\n  Vegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing \r\n  manually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to \r\n  export Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India \r\n  is authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering \r\n  all this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the \r\n  better price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing \r\n  post-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses \r\n  including during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in \r\n  the field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the \r\n  dining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model \r\n  that we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable \r\n  mostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to \r\n  spoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits \r\n  and vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also \r\n  higher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has \r\n  to be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of \r\n  the producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate \r\n  and these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment \r\n  controlled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes \r\n  near farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In \r\n  Horticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable \r\n  produce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. So each crop has a specific requirement \r\n  temperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector \r\n  wise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining \r\n  2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma&apos;s, 5% is \r\n  used for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and \r\n  Meat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold \r\n  Storage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need \r\n  to look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and \r\n  subcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening \r\n  require is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different \r\n  efforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in \r\n  creation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries \r\n  (MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in \r\n  the policy. It&apos;s important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the \r\n  vision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the \r\n  losses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently \r\n  announced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the \r\n  gaps. GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial \r\n  Institutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO&apos;s, \r\n  Agri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore \r\n  available for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for \r\n  repayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under \r\n  sec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting & Grading Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility, \r\n  Projects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming \r\n  assets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for \r\n  Employment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but \r\n  there are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the \r\n  domain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in \r\n  ignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of \r\n  domain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused \r\n  development of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs \r\n  like entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also \r\n  send for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain \r\n  sector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level, \r\n  govt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO&apos;s \r\n  and skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like \r\n  sensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank \r\n  you</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Chiranjiv, Choudhary, IFS, Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Good Morning, talking about some of the practical issues and experience we have seen and little initiative what we \r\n  taken in for this, the overall infrastructure availability in the state of AP, the data base in the last 5 years has a substantial \r\n  progress and there has been a lot of awareness amongst various stakeholders and there are positive indication that thy \r\n  demand has increased and we are trying to live up to the demand. There are initiative in tune with the latest trends in cold\r\n  chain industry like Modernization/ Retrofitting of existing Infrastructure. No of cold storage has been modernized with the \r\n  high speed engines and PUF Insulation. Use of sophisticated machinery and equipment. Setting up of multi commodity cold \r\n  storage rather than conventional single commodity storage. Modern Pack Houses with integrated facility. Ripening Facility. \r\n  Energy efficient and new storage technology. Development of integrated Cargo complexes to handle all kinds of good&apos;s , \r\n  including perishables. Shift from unorganized to organized Market. Focus on development end to end cold chain and not just \r\n  storage. Recently in coordination with TATA Trust, we have gone ahead with the establishment of this and it is Biomass \r\n  technology. It is a complete integrated system where starching grading and collection center and it is a multipurpose and \r\n  getting installed and will be operational by end of this month. We are looking cost effective technology where it can reduce \r\n  the cost of the service providers and cost in the producers who use it. No of Grid connected Solar PV Panel Systems to \r\n  reduce the power consumption charges. Challenges what we seen is Insufficient market survey. High Initial capital cost with \r\n  increasing cost of land. Land availability at suitable Locations. Cumbersome procedure for accessing Bank Credit. Lack of \r\n  adequate and reliable power supply. Outdated technology and conventional single commodity storage. Lack of coordination \r\n  between monitoring quality and Food Safety Systems. Lack of Skilled Personnel. Lack of Reefer Transport. Looking all these \r\n  challenges we need to focus on technologies which are also cost effective. So the back end produce Fruits and Vegetables \r\n  where the ingredients are washing and packing everything we done are created by our own. Support of GOI, set of Officers \r\n  are authorized as issuing authority and locally the officers are able to identify. The Opportunities are Farm Level/ Village \r\n  level Small scales units with alternate energy Sources. Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and consequent higher returns. Utilization \r\n  of Railway Network. Creation/Strengthen of Cold Chain Infrastructure will not only encourage only Farmers but also promote \r\n  entrepreneurship among the youth. Creates direct and in direct Employment for Skilled and Un Skilled Youth and creates \r\n  better standard of Living. PPP Project. Promotion of R&D. Reduced CO2 emission leading to reduced carbo foot print and \r\n  cleaner Environment and these are the game changing thing. The Way Forward are Development of Common Infrastructure \r\n  for Multi Commodity Storage in order to give unrestricted access to small Farmers. Technology Development at low cost \r\n  technologies to be developed to address the problems of local Supply Chain and low cost small capacity Reefer Trucks to be \r\n  developed to connect. Projects are to be considered without Credit Linkage for self-Finances Projects may be considered. \r\n  Even NBFC should be considered for the new projects. PPP should be promote to undertake the emerging new technologies. \r\n  Reduction of GST on Processed Foods and Vegetables from 5 to 0&. Strengthening the cold chain Infrastructure at all Airports \r\n  and Sea Ports. Gamma Irradiation facilities is very much required to promote Export of Fruits and Vegetables. Incentivizing \r\n  the front end Infrastructure for small players and these are the experience and key area if you really know the farmers to get \r\n  know proportionate returns to their hard work. Thank you we look forward the suggestion from all of you as you all know \r\n  the Horticulture is also of the Hub of AP with the largest producer of Fruits and with 60 to 70 % of Food production from AP \r\n  and we require Guidance, Support, Innovative Ideas from all of you. Thank you. </p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO, Gubba Cold Storage, Hyderabad </b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thank you for the given opportunity to speak, the strategic perspective of a Cold Chain Industry opportunities & \r\n  Challenges.\r\n  We have established in 1987 with a 500 modest capacity in terms of volume we are growing up largest in the \r\n  country we in the last 20 years we have diversified ourselves from a normal regular cold storage to the state of \r\n  the facilities which is probably less than 5% of Indian Industry size. We have l15 probably less than 1% Indian\r\n  Cooling Industry is having such facilities supported Euro Pallet track Supported facility set up in 2008 for the \r\n  Industry. The cream, butter, Meats and the Fruits like Apple Orange are stored in these type of storage facility. \r\n  These are little high in Capital because the high value products absorb this checklists. Block Stocking Multi Level \r\n  Cold Storage - 2 Ton Jumbo Bag those are the block tracking each bag is 2 ton there are baffles and non-baffles \r\n  inside the cold storage so we can create and give it back to client supply chain become fast and easy. These \r\n  facility are available in developed countries but in India slowly the culture is staring beginning. \r\n  When the Industry seed of Volume is growing the optimization was needed and that is how we started \r\n  optimization optimizing this facility and operation is faster and easier cost of packing decreases and in total look \r\n  at the cost of the packages versus a gunny bag should be less and manpower savings so all put \r\n  together it make sense to optimize the Cold Storage facilities. We should also have Web enabled \r\n  Inventory Monitoring System in the cold storage for the client if the client sends 3 trucks of chilies \r\n  with good premium quality with the purchase from various vendors so the client will be knowing \r\n  about his stock monitoring. So the Indian cold chain industry is slowly gearing up and doing such \r\n  enabled Inventory system. They are slowly migrating from typical Excel and going beyond. The client sit and \r\n  see by a click of a button anywhere and we are doing since 10 years. By doing Inventory Audit couple of things \r\n  the SOP&apos;s should be right or less it will a great challenge and there is increase in Man Power, increase in system \r\n  there is an impact in the bottom line so when we plant with such Inventory Management system, such things\r\n  pay back maintain the stock accurately and giving back right feed back to the client. The various reports which \r\n  will inspire the clients like Product Expiry Report, FIFO Report, Automated Previous day Transaction Report, \r\n  Stock Report (Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly), Space Utilization Report, Transaction Mail/SMS, Monthly Audit Report, \r\n  Air Monitoring Report, Temperature Mapping Report. It has to collective effort in bringing out this aspect to the \r\n  cold storage owners. There are 95% unorganized sector dose error by keeping vegetables in required \r\n  temperature so they have to face the cost reduction at the end at least by 30% and finally they lose the value on \r\n  the investment. So we need to bring such Management quality systems into the cold storage Industry with real \r\n  time access of temperature & Humidity and we need to adhere to Rodent Management system in the Cold \r\n  Storage Industry. It is better to have certification because that will have system and structure in place when \r\n  Auditor comes in will question when you don&apos;t have certification especially pharma should have GDP guideline \r\n  for storage facility and safety measures to be adhered strictly. Thank you.\r\n  </p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Madhusudan Rao, Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, (ICAR)</b></p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thanks for the opportunity, CFTI has been working in the area of post-harvest in fisheries, we are responsible for \r\n  sustainable Fishing resilient Fishing and also to maintain the quality. There are several characters to spoilage \r\n  and affecting food perishability. One fourth of the world food supply and 30% of Landed Fish are lost through \r\n  microbial activity alone like External Condition, Product Conditions, and Biochemical and Microbiological \r\n  distraction, Contamination of Food by Microorganisms pesticides and adulterants. Rancid flavor warmed over \r\n  Flavor change of Texture. Food Borne Diseases. There are several process of preservation methods Thermal \r\n  processing and Non Thermal Processing, in Thermal Processing Baking, Frying, Ohmic Heating, Microwave, Radio \r\n  Frequency, Infrared, Drying, Extrusion. In Non-Thermal Processing Chilling, Freezing, Freeze Dying, High \r\n  Pressure Processing, Pulsed Electric Field, Pulsed Light, Ultrasound, Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ozone , \r\n  Eradication, Gas, Cold Plasma. The basic difference as far as Fish is concerned, it is necessary to preserve the \r\n  Fish 0 degree centigrade after the catch as it&apos;s spoilage is very fast. There are two types of store like chilled \r\n  store and cold store especially for the Fish Industry and the freezing of Fish happens with slow Freezing and \r\n  Rapid Freezing. At the time of Harvest Capture and preprocessing the temperature should be -4 degree and time \r\n  of processing, storage or distribution it should be -18 degree. And these two things should be maintained \r\n  weather it is for consumer consumption or for Export Market. AS per the dept. of Fisheries trends in Indian Fish \r\n  Production India is the second Largest Fish producer in the world with 125.9 lakh Tones of production in 2017-\r\n  18. In that Marine Fish production was 36.88 Lakh Tons and Inland Fish 89.02 Lakhs Tons with the contribution \r\n  of 1,33,492 crores. There are impressive growth in Indian Fisheries Export in 2019-20 the 6679 million US \r\n  Dollar. The cold chain Fisheries the maximum exports are Frozen Foods is the mainstay of sea food exports from \r\n  India at the quantity of 10,55,310 tons with the value of 42,600 crore. Fish produced in India is marketed mainly \r\n  as Fresh/ Chilled Fish and Frozen Fish. At CFTI we have the system where the consumer can get the information \r\n  about the product depending upon the changing the color of the dot you can have a visual assessment weather \r\n  the fish is being sold or in good condition or they are ready to eat and these dot will help the consumer. In AP \r\n  the most of the production is coming from Inland Aqua culture. ICAR-CIFT has developed a refrigeration enabled \r\n  fish vending kiosks to improve the handling and marketing practices of Fisher Folks. This Kiosk is found favorable \r\n  and affordable to small scale and retail fish vendors and all the harbors need to have chilling facility. Availability \r\n  of good Ice should be there at all Fishing harbors so it is useful for processing the Fish then we need to have \r\n  refrigerator display cabinet for the markets and the shipment of chilled fish will be having a very less shellfire \r\n  right from the point of catch through the processing and packing and distribution then the only it is enable us to \r\n  get the good quality of fish. I conclude here. Thank you.</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. Giridhar Krishna, Registrar, Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Thanks for ASSOCHAM for giving opportunity, I think we play a very important role by educating the students \r\n    on Agriculture and other in the Industry Sector pertaining to the Farmer. So this is the important subject at the \r\n    present situation especially agriculture commodities. We have seen last year even during post pandemic we \r\n    should all compliment the farmer who was there outside all the time in the fields and produced food for the \r\n    population which was actually closed doors due to this corvid pandemic. So here our Agriculture University HQ \r\n    at Guntur, is serving the research needs and Education needs to the 13 districts of AP and Agriculture Research \r\n    center nearly 32 no&apos;s in these 13 districts and we have 13 University KVK&apos;s and 8 to 10 NGO&apos;s KVK&apos;s which are \r\n    under technical control of our University working the districts and every districts we have Data Centers so we \r\n    are working as liaison as state govt. Initiated 10,000 and odd Raita Barawasa Kendra( RBK) so our 2 scientist are \r\n    situated at 2 districts working as liaison district resource center looking after the needs of these RBK&apos;s. at district \r\n    level and at education side we have 8 Agriculture collages and 6 private collages established last year. So the \r\n    cold chain Management our university have specialized courses especially in Under Graduate courses. So lack of \r\n    storage facility and also long distance travel by keeping temperature control of quality foods. So India is \r\n    dependent 70% on Agriculture and so we need to know how best we should understand to reduce the losses \r\n    through this cold chain and also establishing the facility also bringing a fresh produce from the field from the \r\n    farmer&apos;s production site it to the consumer&apos;s outlet apart from the Meat, Fish and milk. So we have Milk chilling \r\n    centers especially in the production of milk side is very tailor made and farmer produce milk is reaching the \r\n    consumer with all the support from govt. and all the private industries which is reaching to the consumer. \r\n    Similarly all the agriculture producers right from the farmer production site in the field it should reach the \r\n    consumer and the farmer should get benefited because of this cold chain facility established at different centers. \r\n    If the RBK are connected to the cold chain or supply chain facilities by giving time to store his produce at this \r\n    place for longer time so he can sell at a better price later on at a cost effective cold storage facility will benefit \r\n    the farmers. Similarly AP we are seeing farmer will be producing the tomato and onion with limited water \r\n    facility and we farmer comes to the market the glut will be there through Imports and finally not able \r\n    to sell his produce and transportation cost not able to meet finally will be throwing away his produce \r\n    by leaving away his profit. So these kind of things require maximum attention if we can established \r\n    the cold chain facility near to the farmer&apos;s production areas. In Krishi Vignana Kendra we are building\r\n    the capacity of the farmers to adopt the latest technologies by training them we are also evaluating \r\n    certain technologies in farmer fields so that he can transmit the same to other farmer. Around 6 years back \r\n    Indian council of Agriculture Research has conducted a program called ARYA. KVK are training the youth farmers \r\n    to retain them in Agriculture in villages by making profitable and be a profession and also by using the cold chain \r\n    technologies by training them for 3 to 6 months and we can generate the skilled employment so that they will \r\n    be given opportunity like alternate employment. Farm Mechanization is doing by Agri. Engg. For ease of doing \r\n    Agriculture with the help of this implements. In the seed supply chain it is for Agriculture from the university \r\n    side we are producing breeder seed which is a pure seed from that again Foundation seeds and certified seeds \r\n    will be supplied to the farmers the vital seed which is viable to the next season if this cold chain or cold storage \r\n    facility is there they are extended at the villages&apos; level so farmer can definitely can store the seed with a normal \r\n    cost and viable and germination is not affected. Thank you.</p>', '', '', 'DSC_0590.jpg', 'Revamping-the-Future-Indian-Cold-Chain-Industry', 1, 0, '2021-03-04', '2021-03-04', '11.00 a.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 19, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(116, 'Renaissance of Manufacturing Sector: A 3D Printing Perspective', 'During current lockdown, a major role is being played by the health sector. And in order to support health sector, equipment wise, 3D printing industry is proving itself to be the backbone of this sector. ', '<center><b>Webinar Report</b></center>\r\n  <center><b>Renaissance of Manufacturing Sector: A 3D Printing Perspective</b></center>\r\n  <center><b>11 AM to 12.00 PM Monday, 18 May 2020</b></center>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>During current lockdown, a major role is being played by the health sector. And in order to support\r\n  health sector, equipment wise, 3D printing industry is proving itself to be the backbone of this sector.Whether it may be reusable mask, face shield, etc. But, this 3D printing industry itself is going\r\n  through various ups and downs. Therefore, to address this alarming topic on the Renaissance of Manufacturing Sector: A 3D Printing Perspective. ASSOCHAM along with 3D industry leader SAHAS\r\n  Softech has hosted webinar on Monday, 18 May 2020 at 11.00 AM to 12.00 PM.</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The introductory & welcome address was delivered by Shri Vipul BG, Regional Director - West, ASSOCHAM. The moderator of the Webinar was Shri. Bharat Patel, Chairman, Startup Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council. Shri Bharat highlighted the importance of this webinar in the present situation. Very smoothly, Shri Patel catalysed the entire session. His prime focus was discuss all the minute\r\n  detail of the topic. Every aspect including merits and demerits were explored thoroughly.<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Shri Sohrab Kothari, Co-founder, SAHAS Softech LLP was our main speaker and presenter. Shri\r\n  Sohrab laid focus on the use of Digital inventory in bridging liquidity crunch.Technology is the solution for that and SAHAS is leading the way for the same. Digital inventory will help you in reduced\r\n  investment in the stocking. It will give you the freedom on minor edits and customizing products for\r\n  individuals. Passing digital inventory is through a click of the button rather than transporting actual\r\n  inventory around different locations. The digital inventory in additive manufacturing gives you the\r\n  confidence of manufacturing any kind of geometry, which might not be possible through traditional\r\n  manufacturing. said Shri Sohrab.</p>\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>On the future of 3D printing, Shri Sohrab added that The next industrial revolution, industry 4.0 or we\r\n  say smart factories 3D printing would be an excellent tool for such companies. 3D Printing in future\r\n  will disrupt the manufacturing value chain, allowing a shift from mass production to full customization,\r\n  from centralized to distributed production. There is definitely going be a lot of innovation on applications, Material development, and different parameters to achieve properties of actual materials. 3D\r\n  printing has some amazing applications apart from industrial, like Edibles, Tissue engineering, memory\r\n  and reactive material (4D Printing) etc.\r\n  <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Subsequently, the participants raised several Q&A which were answered by Shri Sohrab the panelists.\r\n  All IT related support was extended by Anoop Negi, IT Dept., ASSOCHAM. The webinar attracted\r\n  registrations of professional participants which included 3D Printing Professionals, Directors, Legal\r\n  and Compliance Heads, and Academician etc</p>', '', '', 'westerneventmanufacturing.jpg', 'Renaissance-of-Manufacturing-Sector-A-3D-Printing-Perspective', 1, 0, '2020-04-18', '2020-04-18', '11.00 a.m', '12.00 p.m', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(117, 'CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of\r\n    Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products', 'ASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 21 April, 2021. Theme of the virtual conference was CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products on April 21, 2021 started at 11 AM Onwards', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>ASSOCHAM\\&apos;s Virtual Conference on \"CONSUMER\r\n    HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of\r\n    Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products&quot;\\</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM organized a virtual conference on 21 April, 2021. Theme of the virtual\r\n    conference was <b>\"CONSUMER HEALTH & WELLNESS: Exploring Health Benefits of\r\n    Micronutrients and Nutraceutical Products on April 21, 2021 started at 11 AM Onwards</b>\r\n    The key objective of this Virtual Conference is to develop a concrete roadmap for regaining Health & Wellness Through Balanced & Nutritious Food</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Welcome & Moderated By: Shri Vishal Rajgarhia, Chairman, Pharma\r\n    Committee ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CEO - Finecure Pharmaceuticals\r\n    Special Guest - Dr Ishwar Basavaraddi, </b> Director, Morarji Desai National Institute of\r\n    Yoga (MDNIY), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Panelists were -</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Dhiren Rathore,</b> COO, Asclepius Wellness Private Limited</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Ajay Dubey,</b> Faculty, Dr. B R Ambedkar University of social Sciences,\r\n    MHOW, Indore</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Sunil Joshi,</b> Dean - Ayurvedic, Gokul Global University</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Harit Parikh,</b> MD, Harit Remedies Pvt. Ltd</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Pawankumar Godatwar,</b> Dean (Research), Professor and HOD, PG Dept.</p>\r\n    of Roga & Vikriti Vijnana, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri. Sunil Sangani,</b> Director, Envitro Laboratories Pvt Ltd</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Vibhuti Arora,</b> Expert & Founder, House of Beauty</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Dr. Mandeep Kaur,</b> Associate Professor, Gujarat Ayurveda University.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE-</b></p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• In these difficult times, wellness can offer a vision for the future and can provide a\r\n    roadmap for healing and growth. COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the world. One\r\n    moment people were going about their normal lives, jobs, school, and activities, and\r\n    then in a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been\r\n    infected, and half of the world&apos;\\s population is in some form of lockdown.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Never before has health and wellbeing declined so rapidly and simultaneously for so\r\n    many people across the globe. The Coronavirus pandemic is exposing great health\r\n    schisms between the world&apos;\\s haves&quot;\\ and have nots.&quot;\\ The haves&quot;\\ also include\r\n    individuals who are in good health, because our own health and immune systems\r\n    form the first line of defense against infectious disease.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Indeed, healthy people have a good chance of mild symptoms and recovery from\r\n    COVID-19, while those with chronic conditions - such as diabetes, heart disease,\r\n    and compromised immune systems - are at high risk for severe illness and death.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Wellness is never more important than in difficult times like these. Wellness is the\r\n    active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health.\r\n    Our wellness is multi-faceted, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social,\r\n    environmental, and spiritual dimensions. We are not whole or truly well when any of\r\n    these foundations of life are missing or deficient; each dimension strengthens or\r\n    weakens another.</p>\r\n    <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Apart from this, if we talk about wellness though healthy food, a shift in the dietary\r\n    pattern of the people have been observed during the outbreak of COVID-19 was\r\n    observed among the population which could also be driven by the fear and anxiety\r\n    many people around the globe are experiencing. Consumers are more focused on\r\n    the products with nutritional aspects which could help in boosting immunity. By\r\n    consuming balanced & Nutritious Food not only immunity can be boosted but also\r\n    mental & physical wellness can be attained rapidly.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'CONSUMER-HEALTH-WELLNESS:-Exploring-Health-Benefit-of-Micronutrients-and-Nutraceutical-Products', 1, 0, '2021-04-21', '2021-04-21', '11.00 a.m', '11.00 a.m', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15');
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(118, 'Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry in COVID Times', 'Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry in COVID Times:Challenges and a roadmap Ahead', '<center><b>POST WEBINAR REPORT</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>ASSOCHAM&apos;s Webinar</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>on</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>Fisheries and Aquaculture</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>Industry in COVID Times:</b></center>\r\n      <center><b> Challenges and a roadmap Ahead</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>Date - July 16, 2020;</b></center>\r\n      <center><b>Time - 11 AM to 02:00 PM</b></center>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Chief Guest: Shri P C Sarangi, Hon ble MoS, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Govt.\r\n      of India</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Guest of Honour: Shri Parimal Suklabaidya, Hon\'ble Minister of Fisheries, Govt. of Assam</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri. K Lalrinliana, Hon ble MoS, (I/C), Fisheries, Govt. of Mizoram</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Speaker:</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri K S Srinivas, IAS, Chairman, MPEDA</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Rajeev Ranjan, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Govt\r\n      of India</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Manoj Sharma, Director, Mayank Aquaculture Pvt Ltd</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Shri Rajamanohar Somasundaram, Co-founder & CEO, Aqua Connect</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Subrata Mandal, Chief General Manager, NABARD, West Bengal</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary-General, ASSOCHAM</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr. Worawit Wanchana, Policy & Program Coordinator, SEAFDEC, Bangkok, Thailand</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Prof Baskaran Manimaran, Founder Vice-Chancellor (Retd.), Tamil Nadu Fisheries University</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Challenges Faced by the Sector-</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Gaps in supply chain, infrastructure, skilling of people to newer ways & value addition.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Lacking in adequate technology for fish farming.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• No proper scaling is there in the fisheries and aquaculture industry\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Lack of quality and consistency of supply of fish and its products.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Not paying attention to domestic market in fisheries, shrimps and fish allied activities.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Only have some govt and cooperative ponds for aquaculture</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Fish Exports have come down by 44% in April 2020 as compared to April 2019.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Labour was also not able to go to the fields. April was the worst month. Even some of the areas,\r\n      the workers are not allowed to enter the factories by their family people.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Only dependent on 01 or 02 varieties of shrimps which are - 95% on l - vannamei shrimp and 5%\r\n      on black tiger shrimp.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• In southeast asia, farmers have the lowest farms output.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Insurance policy is not there for fishery as we have Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for agriculture. Insurance cover is much needed as state govt are also asking for it.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Lack of knowledge in the production area, lack of knowledge on the availability of materials and\r\n      working of equipments required for feed production.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Demand from the factories were decreased and regarding the ready to eat products the impact is\r\n      low as it also impacted the chilled and frozen products like salmon and shrimps. The orders from\r\n      the importing countries cancelled or postponed.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Suggestions and Recommendations By Industry Experts-</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Job generation and investment can do a lot of value addition to the sector.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Much need of quality and consistency of supply</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• In order to double the production and export, need to approach countries like European Union,\r\n      South Africa, Japan, Korea, Russia will give us better price for the fish.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• For fish production, need to open resources to private industry in a large number. As today we only\r\n      have some govt and cooperative ponds; we need to establish more of these.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Need to pay attention to domestic market in fisheries, shrimps and fish allied activities.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Slogans like \"Sunday ho ya Monday, Roz khao ande&quot;\\has changed the whole egg-poultry industry\r\n      inside-out. So, similar can be launched for the fish industry by Govt of India, and it can prove to be\r\n      the biggest game changer inside industry.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• If 50% population of the nation, consumes even 1 kg fish and 1 kg shrimp per annum. Then also\r\n      our India&apos;s entire production can be consumed within our country.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Improvement in Exports is directly proportional to the Improvement in production. So need to improve production and export will improve by its own.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Coming up with new technology - Biofloc fish farming and RAS technology for fish farming.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Improve the productivity; at present it is as low as 01 metric tonne per hectare to 10 metric tonne\r\n      per hectare and taking average we can say that it is 05 metric tonne per hectare, it has to be\r\n      increased to 10 metric tonne per hectare per annum.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Introducing the fish consumption as a part of midday meals will propel the growth and domestic\r\n      consumption of the country.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Use of AI & Technology in the farm production is the need of the hour.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Urge MPEDA and other govt stakeholders to initiate subsidy and better tax return to incentivise\r\n      technology adaptation; that goes the long way to improve the farm income of the farmers.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Under FPOs, the credit guarantee should be extended for fisheries as we have for farmer producer\r\n      organisations.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Need for eco-friendly technology in order to save biodiversity and mother earth.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Building up of confidence amongst citizens to increase production.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• We need to implement the PMMSY scheme on ground, simply announcing it will not help. In order\r\n      to utilise it fully we need to do basic ground work, research and data collection etc.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• To implement it properly we need any nodal coordinating agency to prepare its own plan, in order\r\n      to go forward. Also Private players can be involved in this task.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Our goal is to double the farmers income, we cannot do it unless production is not increased. And\r\n      if production is increased then marketing is lacking.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Rumours like - Eating fish will lead to corona are spreading inside the society. We need to mitigate\r\n      such apprehensions.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• More fish consumers are fond of eating boneless fish, if we produce that at large, more demand\r\n      of fish will rise.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Knowledge of nutrition should be given to masses such as fish is the cheapest source of protein.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Promotion of cage culture to increase fish production.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Reduce the cost of production through application of technology.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• There should be a feeling of cooperation instead of competition; the goal if of becoming Aatma\r\n      Nirbhar.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Be vocal for local for global outreach by PM Modi; we can apply this concept in the fish industry\r\n      too.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>ASSOCHAM\\&apos;s view over the topic:</b></p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>In the current time and situation, amidst unprecedented contraction of the economy and large scale\r\n      destruction of the livelihoods, a market changed pattern of the consumption can be observed clearly.\r\n      Another challenge which we are facing is the proper opening of the industries and also a massive\r\n      labour shortage due to migration in pandemic. If we focus on the fisheries and aquaculture industry,\r\n      we will find that 14 million people are employed currently in the industry, out of which 90% of women\r\n      are involved in certain states. This employment of fishermen is at stake and they are finding it really\r\n      hard to sustain in current pandemic. Hence, the industry of fisheries and aquaculture needs a huge\r\n      investment, which can do a lot of value addition to the sector. Also, we at ASSOCHAM welcomes\r\n      the Government of India&apos;s Scheme -PMMSY - Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana- We are\r\n      sure of the fact that a package of 20,000 crore rupees by the Union Government of India for the\r\n      fisheries and aquaculture industry will help the industry retracting the economy and employment.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Another aspect is the application of technology to the industry. Use of technology for fish production\r\n      can not only save time, money and other resources but also can save a lot of human lives from\r\n      contaminating them from virus. Sadly, we see a lack of technology in the industry. Coming up with\r\n      technology for fish farming such as Biofloc fish farming and RAS technology is the need of the hour.\r\n      We also need to propel innovative approaches for bringing more productivity and quality in the sector\r\n      of fisheries and aquaculture such as Crab Farming, Ornamental fish farming, Circulatory Aqua System, Cage Culture, breeding of indigenous aquatic species etc. The cost of production will also be\r\n      suspended with the application of technology to the sector. Another thing which we as a fishery and\r\n      aquaculture industry need is to come up with the development of more number of artificial ponds so\r\n      as to promote the production aquaculture at local level.</p>\r\n      <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Our focus should also be to promote the consumption of fishery and aquaculture products domestically. If exports are hit by any reason, whether it may be pandemic or natural calamity, then we as a\r\n      nation may have the capacity to consume the fish products, domestically. This will not hamper the\r\n      potential of fish production of our country. Last but not the least, we not only need better quality of\r\n      the fisheries, aquaculture and other value added products, but we also need the consistency in the\r\n      supply of these products. A robust supply chain is the need of the hour to meet the demand of the\r\n      consumer. In such challenging times, it is very difficult to transport the products from on part of the\r\n      country to another part of the country, but we need to come up with some technique and procedure\r\n      so that we as a supply chain sector can overcome all the problems which comes our way from\r\n      producers to consumers. ASSOCHAM is always focused for the betterment and bringing quality to\r\n      the industry of fisheries and aquaculture.</p>', '', '', 'fisheriesevent.jpg', 'Fisheries-and-Aquaculture-Industry-in-COVID-Times', 1, 0, '2020-07-16', '2020-07-16', '11.00 a.m', '2.00 p.m', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(119, 'ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region Presents TechnoIntelligence e-Conclave 2020', 'ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region organised an e-Conclave on 10th September, 2020.The topic for this was \\\"Techno-Intelligence e-Conclave 2020 - Digital Framework in COVID times and a Roadmap to Resilience and Sustainability', '<p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region Presents TechnoIntelligence e-Conclave 2020</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region organised an e-Conclave on 10th September, 2020.\r\n        The topic for this was<b>\"Techno-Intelligence e-Conclave 2020 - Digital Framework\r\n        in COVID times and a Roadmap to Resilience and Sustainability &quot;\\</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE VIRTUAL CONCLAVE</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Special Guest:Ankita Anand, IAS,</b> Director, Dept. of Information Technology,\r\n        Govt. of Goa</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Shri Bharat Patel,</b> Chairman, Startup & Skill Development Committee,\r\n        ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Speaker:</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Shri Minesh Doshi, </b>Director, Silver Touch Technologies</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Sanjay Moralwar,</b> Global CIO, Cadila Healthcare, ZYDUS Group</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Shrikant Navelkar, </b> Director, Clover Infotech</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Hemanth GC,</b> Head of Product, Crediwatch</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Alok Bansal,</b> Managing Director & Country Head - India, Visionet India</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Atul Vir,</b> CEO and Founder, Equator Advanced Appliances</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> SUMMARY OF VIRTUAL CONCLAVE</b></p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The session was welcomed and introduced by <b> Shri Minesh Doshi,</b> Director, Silver\r\n        Touch Technologies. The session was took over for moderation by <b> Shri Bharat Patel,</b>\r\n        Chairman Startup and Skill Development Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The special guest of the session was <b> Ankita Anand,</b> IAS, Director, Dept. of\r\n        Information Technology, Govt. of Goa.Ankita laid focus on the current status of\r\n        Digital India and opportunities provided by IT in this ongoing pandemic. Ankita\r\n        also highlights the common problems in Cyber space such as hacking and spamming.\r\n        After Ankita, the session was joined by <b> Shri Sanjay Moralwar, </b> Global CIO, Cadila\r\n        Healthcare, ZYDUS Group. Shri Sanjay highlighted the role of AI in COVID Times.\r\n        How easy way the AI and Technology has put up in today&apos;s time, where pandemic is\r\n        being handled by the use of technology. Be it Aarogya Setu App etc. Another Speaker\r\n        <b>Shri Shrikant Navelkar,</b> Director, Clover Infotech addressed the session on\r\n        Empowering Business through Digital Transformation. He shared his experience on\r\n        rise in no. of new online businesses taking place due to the easy online operation of\r\n        Business.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>After Shri Navelkar, the session was followed by <b> Shri Alok Bansal, </b> MD and Country\r\n        Head - India, Visionet India. Shri Alok highlighted the roadmap to resilience and\r\n        sustainability through AI and IT. Followed by his address, another speaker <b>Shri\r\n        Hemanth GC,</b> Head of Product, Crediwatch talked about how useful the FinTech\r\n        Companies are being in lending finance and money towards mitigating financial crisis\r\n        in society. Also he focused on how AI-based Insights-as-a-service platform is helpful\r\n        in providing credit intelligence and monitoring to financial institutions, corporates,\r\n        professional services firms & MSMEs. The last speaker of the session<b>Shri Atul Vir,</b>\r\n        CEO and Founder, Equator Advanced Appliances joined and addressed the session\r\n        on the Technology shaping in the home appliance segment and how there is a dire\r\n        need of using smart appliances where human potential can be saved.</p>\r\n        <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> The session was concluded by Shri Bharat, followed by a quick round of Q&A.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'Western-Region-Presents-Techno-Intelligence-e-Conclave', 1, 0, '2020-09-10', '2020-09-10', '', '', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(120, 'Celebrating International Day of YOGA', 'To celebrate the occasion of International Day of Yoga, ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western\r\n          Region organized a special interactive virtual session on \\\"YOGA: Balancing Stress\r\n          & Boosting Immunity&quot;\\ on June 21, 2021 from 11 AM to 01 PM.', '<center><b>Celebrating International Day of YOGA</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>ASSOCHAM Western Region Presents</b></center>\r\n          <center><b> Special Interactive Virtual Session on</b></center>\r\n          <center><b>&quot;YOGA: Boosting Immunity & balancing Stress&quot;</b></center>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:center;\'><b>ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region Presents TechnoIntelligence e-Conclave 2020</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>To celebrate the occasion of International Day of Yoga, ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western\r\n          Region organized a special interactive virtual session on <b>\"YOGA: Balancing Stress\r\n          & Boosting Immunity&quot;\\</b> on June 21, 2021 from 11 AM to 01 PM.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>EMINENT GUEST SPEAKERS AT THE SESSION VIRTUAL SESSION-</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Dr. Naaznin Husein, </b>Chairperson, Nutrify Today, Dietetics\r\n          & Nutritionist, Dietician & Wellness Expert</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Guest Speakers were -</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> • Dr. Deepak Sachdeva,</b> Medical Yoga Expert & Founder & Director, Dr. Deepak\r\n          Sachdeva s Medical Yoga Center</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Vibhuti Arora,</b> Face Yoga-Wellness Expert & Founder, House of Beauty</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Namisha Singh,</b> Yoga Instructor & Faculty, MDNIY, Ministry of AYUSH</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Swami Hira Yogi,</b> Yoga Enthusiasts & Practitioner</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> SUMMARY OF SPECIAL VIRTUAL SESSION-</b></p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Dr. Deepak Sachdeva,</b> Medical Yoga Expert & Founder & Director, Dr. Deepak\r\n          Sachdeva s Medical Yoga Center</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Medical yoga is defined as the use of yoga practices for the prevention and\r\n          treatment of medical conditions. Beyond the physical elements of yoga, which\r\n          are important and effective for strengthening the body, medical yoga also\r\n          incorporates appropriate breathing techniques, mindfulness, and meditation in\r\n          order to achieve the maximum benefits. Multiple studies have shown that yoga\r\n          can positively impact the body in many ways, including helping to regulate blood\r\n          glucose levels, improve musculoskeletal ailments and keeping the\r\n          cardiovascular system in tune.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- It also has been shown to have important psychological benefits, as the practice\r\n          of yoga can help to increase mental energy and positive feelings, and decrease\r\n          negative feelings of aggressiveness, depression and anxiety.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Within the past decade, yoga has infiltrated not only Western culture, but also\r\n          Western medicine. The more we learn about this ancient practice, the more we\r\n          realize that its benefits go far beyond increased flexibility and muscle tone.\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- A common misunderstanding is that yoga predominantly focuses on increasing\r\n          flexibility; however, although Hatha Yoga, or the physical practice of yoga, does\r\n          emphasize appropriate postural alignment, musculoskeletal strength and\r\n          endurance as well as balance, the study and practice of yoga incorporates\r\n          mindfulness-based practices such as mindful breathing techniques, focused\r\n          concentration, meditation and self-reflection.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> • Vibhuti Arora,</b> Face Yoga-Wellness Expert & Founder, House of Beauty</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- First impressions are the most lasting. And you only get one chance to make that\r\n          first impression. Moreover, your face is the first thing that people look at. A\r\n          smiling face lightens the mood, attracts people, and puts them at ease. A popular\r\n          study reveals that a baby smiles 400 times a day while an adult smiles barely 8\r\n          times.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Lack of any kind of facial exercises and accumulation of stress can cause a buildup of tension in your facial muscles. A yoga technique called Sukshma Yoga can\r\n          help release this tension. This technique consists of short, simple and subtle\r\n          yoga exercises that can work wonders for your face. Facial yoga can rejuvenate\r\n          your face within minutes and brighten it up. Your facial muscles and nerve\r\n          connections will relax, thereby delaying the onset of wrinkles. Sukshma yoga is\r\n          an excellent way of toning up your face.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> • Namisha Singh,</b> Yoga Instructor & Faculty, MDNIY, Ministry of AYUSH</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- Yoga is one of the seven AYUSH systems. It is essentially the art and science of\r\n          healthy living which focuses on bringing harmony between the body and mind.\r\n          The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning to join&quot; or to\r\n          unite&quot;. Another meaning of Yoga is samadhi&quot;, the higest state of consciousness\r\n          or the state of absolute knowledge which leads to freedom. The aim of Yoga\r\n          practice is to overcome all kinds of sufferings that lead to a sense of freedom in\r\n          every walk of life with holistic health, harmony and happiness.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - In the present era, Yoga is popular worldwide because of its spiritual values and\r\n          therapeutic credentials. Also, its role in the prevention of diseases, promotion of\r\n          health and management of lifestyle-related disorders are revered globally. The\r\n          speciality of this system is that it can be practised with any other systems of\r\n          health care.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>• Swami Hira Yogi,</b> Yoga Enthusiasts & Practitioner</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> - Yoga has evolved as one of the promising and potential domains of career over\r\n          the past few decades, especially with the tide of globalisation sweeping across\r\n          the world. There is a great career scope for Yoga professionals not only in India\r\n          but also in abroad like schools, colleges, universities, wellness and healthcare\r\n          centres, corporate places, etc.</p>\r\n          <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>- The awareness amongst people about the benefits of Yoga for a healthy mind\r\n          and body has increased the prospects of Yoga as a lucrative career. Further with\r\n          the declaration of 21st June as International Yoga day by the UNO, the\r\n          importance of Yoga as a career has increased many folds.</p>', '', '', 'Celebratinginternationaldayofyoga.jpg', 'Celebrating-International-Day-of-YOGA', 1, 0, '2021-06-21', '2021-06-21', '11.00 a.m', '1.00 p.m', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(121, 'Industry Innovation & Intellectual Property in\r\n            times of COVID & Post Corona Era in Conversation with\r\n            the Entrepreneurs & Experts', 'Webinar on Industry Innovation & Intellectual Property in times of COVID & Post Corona Era in Conversation with\r\n            the Entrepreneurs & Experts', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Webinar on Industry Innovation & Intellectual Property in\r\n            times of COVID & Post Corona Era in Conversation with\r\n            the Entrepreneurs & Experts</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM&apos;\\s Western Region organised a webinar on 26th August, 2020. The topic\r\n            for this webinar was<b> \"Industry Innovation & Intellectual Property in times of COVID & Post Corona Era in Conversation with the Entrepreneurs & Experts&quot;\\</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Moderator: Shri Nakul Sharedalal, Chairman - IPR Committee, ASSOCHAM\r\n            Gujarat Council and Founder, NS Legal</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Eminent Speakers were</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Julie Desai, Lawyer & Human Rights Activist, Mehul Vakharia\r\n            Associates Advocates</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Udeet J Banker, Partner, Manus Aktteva Biopharma LLP</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shri Tarun Bothra, Co-Founder, Saathi</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>- Shaina Shah, Co-Founder, Limelight Pictures</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> - Shri Sahil Arora, Founder & CEO, Indemniti</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SUMMARY OF WEBINAR</b></p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The session was moderated by <b> Shri Nakul Sharedalal,</b> Chairman - IPR Committee,\r\n            ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council and Founder, NS Legal. Shri Nakul also also delivered\r\n            the opening note of the webinar.</p>  \r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The speaker panel observed a diversity of profiles belonging to different forte. The\r\n            session was addressed by <b>Shri Udeet J Banker,</b> Partner, Manus Aktteva Biopharma\r\n            LLP. Shri Udeet highlighted the impact of COVID on sector and how new business\r\n            development has been effected by the pandemic. The session was took over by\r\n            another speaker <b> Julie Desai.</b> Desai is Lawyer & Human Rights Activist at\r\n            Mehul Vakharia Associates Advocates. She highlighted the problems/disputes\r\n            occurring inside the industry. She also shared her work on girls education,\r\n            improvement in political, economic , social and health status of women for sustainable\r\n            development. After this, the session was address by <b> Shri Tarun Bothra,</b> CoFounder, Saathi. Shri Tarun shared his experience of doing well in entrepreneurship.\r\n            Saathi Pads has not only been a role model to a startup fraternity but also has excelled\r\n            in bringing social change by serving Sanitary industry.</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> Another Speaker <b> Shaina Shah,</b> Co-Founder, Limelight Pictures shared her\r\n            experience of film making and production amidst ongoing pandemic. She highlighted\r\n            the challenges faced by the whole Film making and production industry due to COVID,\r\n            followed by the financial struggle faced by the film artists and other small associates.\r\n            This Conversation was followed by another speaker <b>Shri Sahil Arora,</b> Founder &\r\n            CEO, Indemniti. Shri Sahil shared the insights on the cyber crime and digital hacking\r\n            and cyber attacks taking place. He also laid emphasis on the concrete roadmap\r\n            provided by his organisation in building an attack proof cyber space for the better\r\n            future.</p>\r\n            <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>At last, Shri Nakul thanked all the speakers and ended the session with a crisp\r\n            conclusion.</p>', '', '', 'press-releases-img-3.jpg', 'Industry-Innovation-Intellectual-Property', 1, 0, '2020-08-26', '2020-08-26', '', '', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
(122, 'International Women&apos;s Day Special Virtual Session', 'On the Occasion of International Women&apos;s Day, ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region organised Special Virtual Session ENTHUSIASTIC SHE - Celebrating the Power of SHEROES on 08th March, 2021.', '<p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>International Women&apos;s Day Special Virtual Session\r\n              \"ENTHUSIASTIC &apos;SHE&apos; - Celebrating the Power of\r\n              SHEROES&quot;\\</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>On the Occasion of <b>International Women&apos;s Day, </b> ASSOCHAM&apos;s Western Region\r\n              organised Special Virtual Session <b>ENTHUSIASTIC SHE - Celebrating the Power of\r\n              SHEROES</b> on 08th March, 2021.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>BACKGROUND OF THE SPECIAL SESSION</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>Women are being empowered to break barriers and making a positive difference. The\r\n              position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 20th century.\r\n              The credit goes to the education which has become the right and ideal channel for\r\n              awakening and promoting the retention of constitutionally guaranteed gender equality\r\n              on all fronts. Women are playing bigger and bigger role in economic field and are\r\n              becoming role models for the other women to excel in their area.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>India has experienced rapid growth and development in the past years in many\r\n              spheres. Gender equity is not one of them. This is deplorable considering the\r\n              important role played by women in the socio-economic growth of the country. The\r\n              number of women are increasing and gradually seen marching into domains which\r\n              were previously reserved for males (sports, politics, police, navy, astronauts, pilots,\r\n              chartered accountants, commandos).</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ASSOCHAM believes that It s time women should be given their due. Equip them with\r\n              the best, and then see India give rise to its more daughter and excel in every sector.\r\n              It s not a pipe dream. As they say, Every day is a new opportunity. In order to\r\n              encourage the women to lead and excel into every sector, promoting zeal \\&apos;n&apos;\\ zest of\r\n              women, ASSOCHAM on<b> International Women&apos;s Day 2021</b> organised an special\r\n              virtual session on <b> ENTHUSIASTIC SHE- Celebrating the Power of SHEROES, on\r\n              March 08, 2021 ; 03 PM Onwards, </b> with an aim to have the concrete discussion with\r\n              the faces who changed the perspective of Indian Women, with more focus on uplifting\r\n              and making opportunities to encourage and empower more and more women to excel\r\n              in their respective fields at national and international level.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE SPECIAL SESSION</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Moderator:</b> CA Tripti Shinghal Somani, Co-Chair, ASSOCHAM Startup Council,\r\n              CEO KGS Advisors & Founder - Womennovator</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Key Women Enthusiasts were -</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Srushti Jayant Deshmukh,</b> IAS, Asst. Collector, Dist. Dindori, Govt. of MP</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Advocate Seema Kushwaha, </b> Nirbhaya&apos;s Advocate & Adv. Supreme Court of India</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Merin Joseph,</b> IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kerala HQs, Govt. of Kerala,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dr Laxmi Bhawani,</b> Chief, UNICEF Gujarat,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dr Sarika Mehta,</b> Campaigner & Founder Biking Queen,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Pragya Prasun,</b> Acid Attack Survivor & Campaigner Stop Acid Attack,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Shital Shah,</b> Actor & Director, Gujarati Cinema,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Mona Desai,</b> Immediate Past President, Indian Medical Association, WDW</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> s Tripti Katiyar,</b> Sr Space Scientist, ISRO,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Hardi Oza Patel, </b> Travel Enthusiasts & Entrepreneur,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Sarita Dalal,</b> Director, ROB, Ahmedabad,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Mx Dhananjay Chauhan,</b> Transgender Activist</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>SUMMARY OF THE SPECIAL SESSION</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Srushti Jayant Deshmukh,</b> IAS, Asst. Collector, Dist. Dindori, Govt. of MP</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Always dream high. Don\'t be discouraged if anyone criticises you. Always dream\r\n              with dedication and hard work and strive to make it come true.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • For all the women out there, each one of you is unique. We are all multitaskers and\r\n              we are capable of doing it. So, always love yourselves and do what\'s good for you;\r\n              only then you will be able to add more value to everyone around you.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Start listening to the stories of women. Whether we are men or women or don&apos;t\r\n              identify with either of the two genders, no matter where we fall on the spectrum, it&apos;s\r\n              important to listen to the stories of not only women but of all those who have\r\n              historically been marginalized and of course to offer us more and more scope to tell\r\n              our own stories.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Advocate Seema Kushwaha, </b> Nirbhaya&apos;s Advocate & Adv. Supreme Court of India</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Women are still not treated equally in India and still women are considered as just a\r\n              tool. Today\'s system is entirely male-dominated even today, it is not properly\r\n              accepted that a woman is in any position. Even today, women\'s opinion is not given\r\n              importance. Women\'s opinion must be taken into account in every field, that is the\r\n              demand of women. A woman who is very educated can give an opinion on what\r\n              women want.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Be what you are and enjoy what you do. You came to this world to live your life; do\r\n              not let others live it. Stand tall against all prejudice, be it work or home!</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Merin Joseph,</b> IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kerala HQs, Govt. of Kerala,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Never give up working, never stop being financially independent because it adds a\r\n              lot to your sense of self. Speak out because the environment today is finally allowing\r\n              women to support other women who are speaking out</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Laxmi Bhawani,</b> Chief, UNICEF Gujarat</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Women s rights are human rights. Investments in gender equality contributes to\r\n              lifelong positive outcomes for children and their communities. On International\r\n              Women s Day, let us pledge to do everything we can to overcome prejudice and\r\n              promote gender equality and women s empowerment.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Dr Sarika Mehta,</b> Campaigner & Founder Biking Queen</p>\r\n             <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• I want to salute the independence of spirit that women have been expressing over\r\n              the last few decades. They have made a mark in every field. I believe that with time\r\n              the women of India will not only be skilled and financially independent but a force to\r\n              be reckoned with!</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Pragya Prasun,</b> Acid Attack Survivor & Campaigner Stop Acid Attack</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• There are people with two different attitudes, one who takes the path always\r\n              grumbling along the way, while the others who follow the grateful path, and I have\r\n              learned to see the glass half full. Here I stand as proof that I&apos;m not what happened\r\n              to me, I&apos;m not my face, I&apos;m what I make of myself. I&apos;m a story with happy ending.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Shital Shah,</b> Actor & Director, Gujarati Cinema</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Women should grow up to be self-reliant. They should grow up to give, not to take.\r\n              They should grow up to believe you are as good as you think for yourself. Prepare\r\n              and optimally use whatever is within your own grasp, capacity and around.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Dr Mona Desai,</b> Immediate Past President, Indian Medical Association, WDW</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • I feel every woman should standup for their rights and support each other. We should\r\n              all practice and preach equality.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> s Tripti Katiyar,</b> Sr Space Scientist, ISRO</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Investing in women and girls has a multiplier effect on productivity, efficiency, and\r\n              sustained economic growth and that increasing women&apos;s economic empowerment\r\n              is central to the achievement of the Millennial Development Goals and to the\r\n              eradication of poverty, the greatest global challenge facing the world today, and an\r\n              indispensable requirement for sustainable development.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Hardi Oza Patel,</b> Travel Enthusiasts & Entrepreneur,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>•Hardi is very fond of traveling, she has traveled to 72 countries in just 10 years,\r\n              with a main objective is to provide an opportunity for people to see each country in\r\n              depth. I am promoting toy tourism, rural and tribal tourism.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b>Ms Sarita Dalal,</b> Director, ROB, Ahmedabad,</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'> • Women should be given more resources since childhood and should be taken proper\r\n              care of, then only Women can lead the society in real terms.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> Mx Dhananjay Chauhan,</b> Transgender Activist</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• The awareness about &apos;Gender&apos; is very bleak and faces obstruction from all facets of\r\n              society, including the Kinnar community as they think that people like me who don&apos;t\r\n              beg and live their life are perilous to their business of begging. It&apos;s important to\r\n              remember that - One&apos;s caste or creed doesn&apos;t always structure them to a particular\r\n              profession which goes on for ages.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'><b> CA Tripti Shinghal Somani, </b>Co-Chair, ASSOCHAM Startup Council, CEO KGS\r\n              Advisors & Founder - Womennovator</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>• Women have always been a strong source of energy to society and have the\r\n              potential to empower others. Our energies must nee reflected and channelised in\r\n              empowering each other and strengthen women hood. It&apos;s time we join hands to\r\n              create real women GDP.</p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>ATTENDEES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION</b></p>\r\n              <p style=\'text-align:justify;\'>The Session was attend by approximately <b> 300 attendees along with 50 </b> females from Gujarat\r\n              Narmada Valley Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd (GNFC), Gujarat who attended this session live\r\n              in their auditorium.</p>', '', '', 'internationalwomenday.jpg', 'International-Women-Day-Special-Virtual-Session', 1, 0, '2021-03-08', '2021-03-08', '3.00 p.m', '3.00 p.m', 0, 20, 0, '2021-10-26 04:45:15', '2021-10-26 04:45:15'),
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