Aurangabad: After the second wave of Corona Pandemic, the morale of small, medium and large industries across the state has broken down. Entrepreneurs are restless due to lack of growth in business. The Maharashtra State Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is engaged in increasing the uneasiness and broken morale among the entrepreneurs. This information was given by Sudhir Muthalik, Chairman of Maharashtra State Council of CII, Raman Ajgaonkar, Chairman of Marathwada Zone, Shriram Narayanan, MD of Andres & Hauser Company, Prasad Kokil in a press conference.
The meeting of different zones of Maharashtra State Council of CII was held in Aurangabad. After that he spoke to the journalists. He said that after the second wave of Corona epidemic, CII is particularly engaged in work at two levels. In which the economic loss of entrepreneurs due to the lockdown imposed on the second wave of the first epidemic, bottlenecks in supply and distribution, dilemmas in getting payment of goods supply after billing has broken the morale of entrepreneurs across the state. In particular, there has been a sharp decline in investment in the industry sector. There is a brake on the expansion of industries.
diminishing employment opportunities
Employment opportunities are not available. Due to which the morale of the entrepreneurs has been broken and they have become frustrated. In order to boost the morale of the frustrated entrepreneurs, CII officials in 3-4 districts of the state are engaged in discussing with the entrepreneurs and knowing their problems and solving them.
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CII managed to solve many questions
Sudhir Muthalik, Chairman, Maharashtra Pradesh Council of CII has claimed that in the last few years, CII has been able to solve the queries of the entrepreneurs by presenting them before the Central and State Governments. We had put 20 issues before the government, out of which CII has been successful in resolving 8 issues. A high fee was imposed on the traffic of the goods used for the construction of the industry. CII was successful in bringing him down.
Our priority is to reduce the cost of electricity per unit
There is a difference of 2 to 4 rupees per unit in the electricity supplied to the industries in the states of Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Goa adjoining Maharashtra. CII has been making efforts with the state government for the last few years to reduce the cost of electricity supplied to the industrialists. Regarding this, the officials of CII discussed several times with the State Industries Minister Subhash Desai and top officials of Maharashtra State Electricity Regulatory Commission, Mahavitaran. The commission had given assurance to CII to reduce the cost of electricity intermittently. However, till date the electricity prices have not come down. Expressing displeasure over this, CII officials expressed concern about the high cost of electricity for industries in Maharashtra. Mutalik said that Aurangabad is the auto hub of Marathwada. Spatter parts of vehicles are produced on a large scale here. But, due to higher per unit price of electricity here, the cost of the goods produced becomes higher as compared to other states. Due to which many problems are created in the sale of manufactured goods. On the other hand, due to lower electricity prices in Gujarat state than Maharashtra, the prices of goods produced there are less. Sudhir Muthalik said that soon the officials of CII will hold a meeting with the State Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Industries Minister to reduce the cost of electricity. If there is less than Re 1 per unit, then the entrepreneurs will get a lot of profit in their production.
Massive benefit from the policies of the Center
CII’s Marathwada Zone Chairman Raman Ajgaonkar expressed happiness over the policies being adopted by the Central Government for the growth of industrial sectors and said that the policies of the Central Government have benefited the entrepreneurs in a big way during the Corona period. The Central Government is paying the amount of Provident Fund (PF) to the workers working with small entrepreneurs troubled in the Corona epidemic. Earlier its duration was till 31 December 2021. On the demand of CII to increase it further, the Central Government has decided to pay the PF amount of the workers working with small entrepreneurs for the next three months.
Great relief in doing business
Raman Ajgaonkar said that there was a rule to give a government bank guarantee of 10 percent of the total business to small, medium enterprises to do business with government companies. Due to which the entrepreneurs were facing a lot of difficulties. With the efforts of CII, the Union Ministry of Industries has increased the amount of guarantee to 3 percent. Due to which small and medium industries have got a lot of relief in doing business with government companies.