Saurabh Gupta | 15 Nov, 2010
After recovering from his health, the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Dinsha Patel has inaugurated âTechmart India 2010â and âMSME Expo-2010â at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) in the national capital today.
âTechmart India 2010â organized by the National Small Industries
Corporation Ltd. (NSIC), under the Ministry of MSME. While the MSME Expo-2010 organized by the Development Commissioner
(MSME).
Going around the exhibits the Minister said that NSIC
through Techmart India is providing single window platform for showcasing clean
and energy efficient/ employment generating technologies to start their own
industry.
Minister said, âThese kinds of platforms are the best place
for development of MSMEs and also for promotion of there products.â
Uday Verma, Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises and H. P. Kumar, CMD, NSIC were also present on the occasion.
About 200 MSMEs coming from all over India including North
Eastern States representing various industrial sectors are participating this
year and 35 foreign delegations from African and South-East Asian regions are expected
to visit the Techmart.
NSIC organises Techmart India exhibition every year where
its showcases the Technological Development achieved by Indian MSMEs, exposing them
to domestic and international market. It is a perfect platform for those associated
with the Micro, Small and Medium sector as also an ideal platform to network/ establish
new business contacts/ renew old contacts, discover new market opportunities.
Going around the MSME Expo-2010 the Minister praised the
exhibits and the work done by the clusters. He said that the need is to make
special efforts to publicize the activities and schemes to create greater
awareness and to reach out to the villages and bring economic prosperity and
social upliftment of the rural masses.
The MSME Expo will help the MSMEs to exhibit their products
manufactured by MSME entrepreneurs in order to provide marketing opportunity to
MSMEs within the country and abroad to focus on their products.
Encouraged with the overwhelming response of previous year,
70 MSME entrepreneurs from all over the country exhibited their products. A
large variety of products like ready-made garments, artificial jewellary,
leather products, food products, toys, chemical products, electrical products,
consumer products etc. are put for display.
Patel was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital
in Kochi after he complained of chest pain and breathing difficulties on November
13. He was discharged on Sunday after his condition continued to remain stable.
