Progressive Managers' Forum: Alumni Meeting at EFAI

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Alumni Meeting at EFAI

“Visiting back the place which has made most of us the person we are today is always a wonderful experience. The memories of all those moments we have spent at the place bounces back in our mind. Who ever we are today whether manager, entrepreneur or simply a good person is something we have acquired from that place.”

Such a meeting of old students of NIFT-TEA was organised on 26^thJanuary 2011 which was conducted under EFAI. Mr. S. Dhananjayan CEO of MSS & Co, Tirupur and a reputed chartered accountant was the chief guest. Mr. Raja. M. Shanmugam, the chairman of NIFT-TEA presided over the function. CDM of ACDS Mr. Shabeer Ahammed K.M was the guest of honour who explained the Alumni about EFAI, Designers club etc and their area of functioning. He also gave a brief explanation on the project we do with the aid of SIDBI.

This Program was conducted under EFAI .This helped to make the executives of Tirupur more familiar with the activities of EFAI. The members could use EFAI as a platform for knowledge sharing As many as 200 Executives took part in the event. Lot of alumni talked about the Project and thanked ACDS as well as SIDBI for executing the same. Few of them also mentioned that these Programs under the Project helped them a lot to sharpen their skills.

Mr Raja M. Shanmugam explained the students how to get benefited from the project. He pointed out the importance of continuous knowledge sharing. He also requested the members to share the knowledge with students so that they can have more industrial exposure. He also stressed about the importance of industrial institutional linkages. He also added that the alumni can play a rather important role in strengthening the industrial institutional linkages.

Chief guest Mr. Dhananjayan requested the students to make use of the project to the maximum. He also mentioned about continuous knowledge sharing and importance of industrial institutional linkages.

Mr. K.J. Shivagnanam, Vice Principal of NIFT TEA thanked everyone.

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Government of India is implementing World Bank lead multi agency/ multi activity project called MSME Financing and Development Project (MSMEFDP) for development of Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the country under the aegis of Ministry of Finance.

The project is supported by KfW Bank, Germany, Department of International Development (DFID), UK, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is the nodal agency for implementing this project in 25 SME clusters across the country to develop them as “Role Models’ with strong demonstration effect. Tirupur Knitwear Cluster is one of the clusters selected for implementation of the project.

Objective of this project is (a) to strengthen growth and competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country (b) To make paradigm shift in the banking sector’s approach towards providing credit and financial service to MSMEs (c) to improve MSMEs access to market oriented financial and business development services, thereby festering MSMEs’ growth, competitiveness and employment creation.

Approach of the project is to faster the services of Business Development Service (BDS) providers in the identified areas of weakness of the MSMEs in the cluster to make them competitive.

M/s. Apex Cluster Development Services Pvt. Ltd (ACDS) is the consultancy firm appointed for the implementation of the project at grass root level in the cluster. M/s. Apex Cluster Development services Pvt. Ltd has commissioned a study to understand the issues, which are impediments for the growth of the cluster and to undertake necessary initiatives to overcome them, to make the micro, small and medium scale enterprises more competitive in the present environment. Comprehensive action plan covering from upgrading the human resources skills in the cluster to building the capacity of the cluster to diversify the products have been chalked out.

One of the important areas identified for building the competitiveness of the cluster is upgrading the human resources skills in the cluster. While separate action plans are drawn to improve the skill of work force and entrepreneurs, emphasis is given for improving the skill of the middle level managers in the cluster who are supporting the entrepreneurs and guiding the workforce to get the desired result. Although they are handling all resources in the organization they do not have formal knowledge in the management of men, materials and money. Many of them have grown in the organization with decades of industrial experience; they require formal technical knowledge to discharge their duties more efficiently.

Industry is growing complex. New technologies are being developed day by day in all areas of production and process. It is required to be adopted in the organization to be innovative.

It is also required to adopt possible tools and methods like Lean Manufacturing, SQC & OR Techniques and Industrial Engineering to improve productivity, quality, minimizing waste and cost. Middle level managers also required to get informed about the developments that are taking elsewhere in the competing countries and bench marking practices. They are also required to share their experiences among themselves to solve the problems they are facing on their day to day activities to avoid repeated occurrence of such problems.

While action plan has been drawn to build the capacity of NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion to provide practical inputs and to empower the students who are going to pass out of the college; efforts are being made to build the capacity of the middle level managers who are already working in the industry.

It has been proposed to conduct part time training programmes, short term and refresher courses depending on the need of the middle level managers. It has also been proposed to conduct seminars and workshops periodically to share the experiences among themselves and from the experts who will be visiting from other countries and from other technical institutions in the country to continuously share their knowledge to improve the capacity of the middle level managers in the cluster.

It is required to build a mechanism in the cluster which will continue to take up such efforts even after completion of the project.

Creation of KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (Named as Progressive Managers’ Forum) is an initiative to address such issues even after completion of the project. Anyone who is working in the industry in the middle level management with or without formal qualification in the relevant field; professionals working in the industry, technical support institutions; and even entrepreneurs who have their desire to upgrade their knowledge can become member of the “Net Work” by paying a nominal subscription of Rs.250 per annum.

While necessary support would be extended under the project for such initiatives initially, efforts will be taken to make its operation independent and self supportive by linking with appropriate schemes of the Government.

NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion will be nodal agency for implementing this programme. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has also been signed with them to work closely to undertake necessary initiatives to upgrade the human resource skills in the cluster.

This is an opportunity for all those middle level managers who want to upgrade their skill, share their experiences, express their views and need for areas of such support.

Anyone who is interested to become member of Knowledge Network can contact

Apex Cluster Development Services Pvt. Ltd, T-21, Topaz A Block, Prime Enclave, Avinashi Road, Tirupur- 641 602. Phone: 0421- 2470326 or through e mail; chitra@tirupurbds.com

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Alumni Meeting at EFAI

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