07 Oct 2020 The Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is one of the integral pillars of the Indian economy, with around 63.4 million units spread across the geographical expanse of the country. This sector is one of the largest job providers, providing employment to 111 million people. The…
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Easing Doing Business for Cost Competitiveness
13 Jul 2020 Improving the ease of doing business is critically important to attract investors. According this high priority, the Central and state governments have introduced a slew of reforms across various areas. Consequently, India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report has been climbing – it was 142nd (out…
AgRobotics: What is possible and where India stands
06 Jun 2020 Robots. What is the image that comes to our minds when we first think of this word? For most of us born in the final decades of the 20th century, the visual representation is either of gun totting terminators rampaging through our cities, or little scavengers left on…
India and Germany: A Strong Strategic Partnership
03 Mar 2020 The relationship between India and Germany goes back a long way. Post-World War II, India was the first country to establish diplomatic ties with Germany, and today the two countries enjoy a strategic relationship based on common values and principles of democracy, free and fair trade, mutual…
Future of Manufacturing
08 Jan 2020 Over the last few years, connected technologies have made inroads into all major industries and are set to disrupt the manufacturing sector too. The fourth industrial revolution, also termed ‘Industry 4.0’ (or I4.0) is about using emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things…
Tech Innovations have the Potential to Transform Agriculture Production
31 Oct 2019 When one talks of technology, one usually thinks of computers aiding manufacturing processes. In India, we usually do not associate technology with the agricultural sector. But things are changing. Soon we will witness innovative agri-technology transforming the sector, which even though it employs half of India’s workforce,…
Man-Machine Interfaces Set to Transform Industry
30 Aug 2019 Human-machine interfacing (HMI) is not a new concept. Throughout the first three industrial revolutions, man has been leveraging machines to improve productivity. First, it was steam and then electricity that powered machines. Then came computers and electronics, automation across global shop-floors and production lines. The fourth phase…
Cognitive Marketing to Enhance Customer Experiences
19 Aug 2019 The days of the friendly, counter salesman who was able to gauge your exact requirements every time you went shopping seem to be over. The digital economy, powered by the internet, has given birth to a new set of ‘cognitive’ marketers, changing the way goods and services…
India Must Leverage US-India Ties to Expand its Own Trade Profile
30 May 2019 The current pattern of international trade, which over the past few decades has coalesced around the concept of global value chains (GVCs), is under strain. Changes in technology and increased costs in key manufacturing nations, such as China, are leading to a pull-back from dispersed and specialised…
The Lion Conquers the Forest: Achieving a USD 1 Trillion Manufacturing Economy
25 Apr 2019 Recently, CII partnered with the Government to work on the target of creating a USD 1 trillion manufacturing economy by 2025-26. We brought out a report ‘The Lion Conquers the Forest, India: A USD 1 Trillion Manufacturing Economy’ which looked at how India could become a leading…