09 Apr 2021 16th May 2020 was a historic day for all those who were looking at the Indian space domain as the new frontier for business. Finance Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement of space sector reforms gave a boost to investors, start-ups and corporates which were looking to venture…
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Leading through the Crisis of 2020
24 Mar 2021 Circa March 2020: World War-C is upon us. Our world as we know it is on an indefinite pause. We have moved into the seemingly safer cocoons of our homes. Work has come to a standstill. The unseen enemy has slammed sudden brakes on all our lives.…
The Partnership Summit 2020 Report: A Useful Guide for Future Policymaking
23 Mar 2021 The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in collaboration with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, held the largest ever Partnership Summit over a virtual platform during 15-18 December 2020. The Partnership Summit, CII’s annual flagship international event, provides…
Powering the Indian Manufacturing Sector
15 Mar 2021 With the objectives of making Indian manufacturers globally competitive and making India an integral part of the global supply chain, the Government introduced the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme to boost domestic manufacturing in India, in the three sectors of large-scale electronics manufacturing, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals…
CII Movement on Low Cost Automation: Building a competitive Industrial Ecosystem
10 Mar 2021 CII initiative on Low Cost Automation (LCA) and Digitalisation Robotics & Automation (DRA) Movement towards Industry 4.0 started in December 2018. The first-ever, ‘National Level Competition on Low Cost Automation,’ was the first step to catalyze LCA a methodology for value automation culture building. A CII Core…
Potential for the defence industry
24 Feb 2021 2020 was a tough year for the industry, filled with challenges and unprecedented circumstances not seen in nearly 100 years. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great leveller, affecting everyone, regardless of organisational parameters including size, maturity, geographical locations or individual parameters including age, gender, race and…
‘Atmanirbhar’ in Defence Production
16 Feb 2021 Since its opening for private sector participation in 2001, the Indian Aerospace and Defence Sector has grown steadily. In recent years, it has marked its presence, albeit in a small way, in the global market as well. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the Defence Industry in the same…
Assessing Inclusion in Corporates: CII-GPTW Workplace Inclusion Index
09 Feb 2021 Over the last few decades, with the greater movement of people within the country, especially from rural to urban areas, and availability of better educational opportunities, CII set up the Indian Women Network (IWN) and India Business and Disability Network (IBDN) as vehicles to champion and promote…
Sharing the mission: Indian industry has a critical role to play in Covid vaccination programme
26 Jan 2021 The government has made massive efforts in strategising for a mega vaccination programme. Indian industry, which has been a partner in the mission since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, is now gearing itself to participate in this critical endeavour. Since the start of the lockdown, companies have re-engineered…
CII Task Force on COVID Vaccine
18 Jan 2021 India began the world’s biggest vaccination drive on January 16, 2020. The target is to inoculate 30 crore people viz. healthcare workers, frontline workers, people above 50 years of age, and people with comorbidities in the first phase. Indian industry has been closely involved with the mission…