Newsletter of CII Himachal Pradesh State Office

1. u CII D ELEGATION MEETS
UNION M INISTER FOR ISSUE 4 VOLUME 3 2009
S TEEL... .........................1
u T OWARDS INDUSTRIAL
COMPETITIVENESS ...........2
u CORPORATE S OCIAL Himachal in
focus
RESPONSIBILITY ..............4
“SUSTAINING GROWTH FOR TOMORROW”
CII delegation called on Mr Virbhadra Singh, Union Minister for
Steel on 24th September at New Delhi.
Steel depot for
Himachal Pradesh CII Delegation with Mr Virbhadra Singh
Himachal Pradesh has attracted many forging and engineering • Buying steel from outside the State incurs huge loss of
units in the last few years. As a result the consumption and time and effort
demand for steel has increased manifold. • Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)/ SAIL fix quota for
Approximately 50,000 tones of steel is being consumed by the each State where they have their own depots and only
industry in the state very year. Besides this various Govern- surplus is given to other States
ment projects and hydro power projects are also consuming To discuss these issues of concern, Hon’ble minister has
steel in bulk. promised to extend his full support and asked CII to identify the
However, the industry in Himachal Pradesh is facing number of suitable venue to set up this depot in consultation with RINL or
challenges and problems as there is no steel depot within the SAIL.
state:
A meeting with Mr Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary (Steel) , Govern-
• The Industry has to go out of state to neighbouring states
ment of India has been fixed under the Chairmanship of Chief
for buying steel which directly adds to the logistics cost
Secretary, Himachal Pradesh to discuss the possibilities of set-
• Industry has to pay 2% more in terms of Sales tax while
ting up of secondary steel units by Central PSUs 30th Novem-
buying steel from outside state
ber 2009.
• Preference is given to the buyers belonging to the State,
as a result of this it becomes very tough sometimes to get
the required quantity of Steel for entrepreneurs based in
Himachal

2. CII Manufacturing S MART
Technology Study LEARNING :
Mission Experience vs.
Industry stalwarts interact and share
Theory
Manufacturing Technology Best Practices with CII
Delegation
To enhance the competitiveness of the MSME practices being followed by them in the areas of
sector by sharing the best practices in the field manufacturing and technology and all were
of manufacturing and technology, CII Himachal “Cluster approach is a handful of appre-
Pradesh State Council organised a two day neighbourhood phenomena ciation to the clus-
Study Mission to industries based in Ludhiana where one learn from the ter approach of CII. Sharing of best practices is the
on 8-9 September 2009 others by sharing the best best way to learn in an indus-
practices”.
trial outfit. Thus, to be in lead
CII Mission visited four companies namely G S S K Rai, MD, Hero cycles ltd with the global players, Indian
Auto International Ltd, Bhogal Pvt Ltd, Hero
Cycles Ltd and Eastman Caste & Forge Ltd. industries need to be at par
Detailed presentations were made by the repre- with the global giants in the
sentatives of all the companies on the best sphere of manufacturing and
technology
Competitiveness through CII Himachal Pradesh
Innovative HR Practices State organized
Seminar on Competi-
a
tiveness through Inno-
vative HR Practices on 9 October 2009 at
Baddi.
Addressing the delegates in the seminar,
Mr B R Verma, Labour Commissioner,
Government of Himachal Pradesh
stated that efforts are being made by the
State Government to enhance the employ-
ability of the state youth and provide good
working environment through various poli-
cies and schemes, and for achieving the
motives, industry is also requested to work “Changing the mindset of the Himachali youth
in accordance with the State Government. through various innovative human resource
practices is the need of the hour and will also
Mr D L Sharma, Chairman, HR & IR Sub
Committee of CII Northern Region lead to more socially and economically stable
“Human Resources are considered to be the presenting the theme address was of the state”
greatest resources and assets for any or- view that innovative HR practices build Mr Anil Sehgal, Chairman, CII Himachal
ganization which leads to the attainment of competencies and capabilities for superior Pradesh State Council
organizational objectives and proper utiliza- and winning performances today and si-
tion of these resources through new and multaneously create long term fertility for
innovative HR practices is the need of the innovation of business ideas and strate-
hour in the present day scenario of global- gies for future. He also emphasized that
ization in order to survive and excel” HR manager needs to play a proactive
role in cultural integration & organization
Krishan Kapoor, Hon’ble Minister for In- transformation and for this attention needs
dustries and Labour & Employment to be paid to create a pool of talent whose
services can be shared.
Deliberations and presentations were
made by various speakers from Godrej,
Quark Media, Cadbury, Maruti Suzuki,
TVS Motors, Dr Reddy Labs, Raychem
RPG.

3. Developing Supervisory skills
Well Knit & Competitive Workforce Criti-
cal to Build Achieving Organisations
Col Amar Bindra, Faculty for the workshop
shared, how Enhancing the productivity lev-
els of the associates/workforce through in-
puts is the responsibility of supervisors, es-
tablishing a sense of belongingness in them
towards their organisation and aligning them
with the goals of the organization, thereby
building an achieving
For supervisors across the organisation People are the core of any
world it is essential to lead by business; they have the
CII Himachal Pradesh State Council Dwelling at length Col power to build stronger
organized a one day Workshop on How example to become a true
Bindra said that it is successful organisations.
to Develop Supervisory Skills on leader Well-knit and cohesive
indispensable for su-
20 November 2009. COL AMAR BINDRA pervisors to facilitate workforce is the essence
change in the behav- of a competitive organiza-
During the day long interactive work-
shop the delegates were divided into groups and iour in a positive and constructive way to be tion. This was the key
further these groups shared their view points on able to make them -selves more effective at takeaway at the Workshop
different aspects of the supervisory skills that workplace and finally at the end of the day to well attended by industry
should be inculcated for achieving organizational be able to bring excellence in achieving representatives.
aims and objectives. The workshop proved to be a
functional/departmental goals set by the
very good tool for learning.
organisations
Issue Tracker F OR MEMBER ’ S I NFORMATION :
Outstanding Entreprenurship
Electronic Data Interchange System Failure at IG
International Airport – Resolved Award
It is noteworthy that exporters of the region faced difficulties due
to repeated failures of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) system
at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.
Due to this there was :
• Huge delay in shipments as these are being cleared manually
• Exporters are forced to forego export benefits to ensure fulfill-
ment of their promises to the clients
• Due to delay in shipments exporters are facing a decline in
further export orders
• Image of India as a serious exporting nation is also suffering
due to cut throat competition in the international markets.
In this context representations were made to Union Finance Minis- Shivalik containers Pvt Ltd, Kala Amb has been awarded
ter as well as Union Commerce and Industry Minister with copies
to DGFT and CBEC. the NATIONAL AWARD 2008 for Outstanding Entrepre-
neurship in Micro & Small Enterprises.
As a result of CII ’s efforts , the issue has been resolved and it
was also assured that a high tech server will be installed at the Special Recognition award was given by Shri Dinsha
airport to make the process more efficient
Patel, Minister of State for MSME on 28th August 2009 at
Vigyan Bhavan , New Delhi.
Shivalik containers Pvt Ltd has excelled in the corrugation
industry in India with the latest technology for manufactur-
ing of quality boxes for industrial & horticulture.

4. P&G ADOPTS
CII Himachal Pradesh State Council recog-
SCHOOL
nized the need for Government, Industry and
FMCG Giant adopts a school in Himachal
Community across the state to work in Pradesh as part of its CSR initiative
“Bhagidari” in rural areas of Himachal
Pradesh. Under this campaign, 4 CII Member Under the first phase of organized by Proctor &
companies Colgate Palmolive India Ltd, the project new toilet Gamble Ltd wherein Mrs
Proctor & Gamble Consumer Products Ltd, blocks, a new school Mamta Chaudhary,
Ind Sphinx Precision Ltd and Shivalik Solid gate and drinking water CEO, BBNDA was the
Waste Management Ltd have adopted 4 vil- tank has been con- Chief Guest.
lages near their industrial areas in Himachal structed. Looking from
Pradesh. The main focus for adoption of the security point of Other dignitaries present
these villages is to develop the basic ameni- view, the height of the during the function were
Proctor & Gamble Consumer
ties in these villages boundary walls of the Mr Madhav Rao - Plant
Products Ltd. started a school
school has also been Head, P&G Baddi, Mr
development project in Lodhima-
increased under this Aashish Dubey - GR
jra village (Manpura). P & G iden-
project. Head, India P&G,
tified an NGO “Saral” for the exe-
Mrs Sonali Roychaud-
cution of project. NGO worked
The newly constructed hary - HR Head India,
with the Village Panchayat, Vil-
infrastructure in the P&G and Mr Rajender
lage Education Committee, Par-
school premises were Guleria, Past Chairman,
ent Teacher’s Association and
handed over to the CII Himachal Pradesh
School authorities to identify the
school administration in State Council.
key priorities and has completed
a function
the first phase of this project
ACC Gagal Cement
Works goes Green
For almost 50 years corpo- HR Block” which is a single of natural light.
rate have been remodeling storied building spread over • Open office plan with
their offices to improve the 250 sq. meters and is now low height partitions.
aesthetics, increase space, green and hi-tech. The • Integrated building
make the office more em- structure is modernised management system –
ployee-friendly or to raise completely, including added centralised fire-alarm
the quality of work life. features of access control, system
intelligent lighting,
• Use of materials with
The 21st century is a wake state-of-the-art office equip-
high percentage of re-
up call to go “Green” and ment, modular furniture, and
cycled content (All the
everyone is now interested well equipped conference
partitions, workstations
in reducing their carbon foot room and workstations.
and furniture is made of
prints and retrofitting their
Bagasee Boards)
offices. Following are the Energy
saving and Water saving
Water-saving features
Green is the new mantra of features of the building:
corporate India and we Energy-saving green fea- • Native and adaptive
(Gagal Cement Works) as a tures landscapes
part of India’s cement major • Capturing maximum • Harvesting rainwater
ACC Ltd converted our daylight with large win- for gardening and other
“Time Office” building into dows – double-glazed use.
“OHS & units which allows 47%

5. Seminar on Industrial Safety
Management
Industrial safety is important issue as It
is proven and increasingly believed that
Workshop on Climate Change 'Safer' work environment increases
worker productivity. But still this issue is
& Carbon Markets generally neglected or given least impor-
tance by most organizations till date.
CII Himachal Pradesh State is organizing a workshop on Cli-
mate Change & Carbon Market: Challenges and Opportuni- With this objective in mind, CII Himachal
ties on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 from 1000 hrs registra- Pradesh State Council in association
tion to 1330 hrs followed by lunch at Hotel Gianz, Baddi. with Department of Labour and Employ-
ment, Government of Himachal Pradesh
The purpose of the workshop is to generate awareness amongst is organising a one day Seminar on
industry about the Clean Development Mechanism (Carbon Cred- Industrial Safety Management on Fri-
its) with an objective to enable participants to identify the in house day, 4 December 2009 at Hotel Gianz,
projects with the potential to generate Carbon Credits. This prac- Baddi, Himachal Pradesh.
tice will not only bring a financial incentive to the project proponent
but will also be a tool to scale up this practice which will add to
the noble cause of preventing Global Warming. It also elabo-
rates on the potential benefits they can gain in terms of carbon
Awareness Session
credit revenues as well as implementing projects leading to
sustainable clean development.
on Gearing For
Goods & Service
Workshop on The proposed introduction of Goods and
Autonomous Maintenance Services Tax (GST) regime from April
2010 is
Autonomous maintenance is a team -based approach to mainte- expected to bring about a fundamental
nance activities and part of a total productive maintenance (TPM) overhaul of the Indian Indirect tax regime,
process. The process is a partnership between operators, mainte- aligning it
nance technicians, engineers and leaders in the operation and with the global standards . Against this
maintenance of the equipment. The goal of autonomous main- backdrop, , CII Himachal Pradesh State
tenance is to prepare operators to do some equipment care Council is organizing an Awareness
independently of the maintenance staff. Session on Gearing for Goods & Ser-
vice Tax on 10 December 2009 at Hotel
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing a one day Gianz, Bagbania, Baddi – Nalagarh
Workshop on Autonomous Maintenance on Monday, 21 Road, NH 21-A, Baddi
December 2009 from 0930 hrs – 1700 hrs at Hotel
Windsmoor, Sector 2, Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh.
Contact Us
Ms Neeta Chauhan
Mr Vinod Dhiman CII Shimla Office
Head-CII Himachal Pradesh State C/o Directorate of Industries
Confederation of Indian Industry Room No. 105, 1st floor
Sector 31-A, Chandigarh-160030, Udyog Bhawan, Bemloe, Shimla-171001
T: 0172-6515505(D), 2605868, 2607228 Telefax: 0177-2654323
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