Govt policy within three months to e-nable small scale industries

Union minister of small scale, agro and rural industries Vasundhara Raje has said that her ministry would be coming up with a policy specifically aimed at promoting use of information technology among the small-scale industrial sector, in the next three months.

Vasundhara Raje was speaking at the inaugural function of indiamarkets.com’s launch of nationwide network of e-business centers aimed at e-enabling the operations of small-scale industries. indiamarkets’ e-business centers to be set up at 70 industrial locations of non-metro cities with an investment of $10 million, would train and familiarize industrial units in doing business on the internet.

“Given the current low penetration of internet delivery channels indiamarkets felt the need to proactively drive the e-business revolution in the country’s industrial hubs. The small and medium enterprise would be among the main beneficiaries of these centers since now they will have access to e-business at their doorstep, without even owning a computer,” said Rohan Ajila, managing director, IMO communications.

indiamarkets’ centres would assist members in sourcing suppliers, identifying alliance partners and finding new business opportunity.
In addition to providing the users with access to the virtual marketplace, the e-business centers will also provide physical infrastructure to carry out business on the net. The centers would also provide facilities for conducting conferences, seminars, making presentations and hosting road shows.