Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) may soon have to step up quality of products and services in order to bag private and government supply contracts. As part of the government’s ZED (zero effect, zero defect) initiative, SMEs will have to compete to get gold, silver or bronze quality certificati…
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Even in India quality is possible | Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, QCI
On the eve of 11th National Quality Conclave aimed at creating an ecosystem for quality in India, Quality Council of India (QCI) interacted with public via twitter on #QualityMatters. Chairman of QCI, Adil Zainulbhai led this engagement on the theme – ‘Even in India Quality is Possib…
Assam now the fore-runner among Indian states to implement GST
The BJP led state of Assam made headlines by being the first state ever to pass the Goods and Service (GST) tax Bill. The GST is the biggest reform in the country’s indirect tax structure. The 122nd Constitutional Amendment was recently passed by the Rajya Sabha, and was passed by the Lok Sabha o…
Central Cottage Industries enables online payments
The Central Cottage Industries Emporium, an undertaking of the Textile Ministry has enabled online payments. It is the single largest emporium for authentic handloom and handicraft products to enable digital payments. The emporium promotes handicrafts and handlooms on various platforms and sells …
Karnataka calls for finding tech solution to its problems
As part of its goal to elicit 25 innovative technology solutions with a social impact in sectors such as healthcare, education, food security, and environment, the Karnataka Startup Cell has laucnhed the first call for proposals in association with IKP Knowledge Park under its Grand Challenges. T…
Universal robots bullish on prospects with SMEs in India
Rapidly growing robot-making company Universal Robots is eyeing the evolving manufacturing practices across industries including automotive. With a focus on increasing productivity and efficiencies on the assembly lines in manufacturing plants that operate 24×7, the company looks to bank upo…
GST platform to become analytics powerhouse
The Goods and Services Tax Network, the information technology backbone that will implement the new indirect tax regime, will become a data analytics powerhouse in the months after the roll-out. “Once sufficient amount of data is generated, we will be able to generate analytics based on the requi…
Karnataka highly preferred IT investment state in last fiscal: ASSOCHAM
Karnataka has emerged as the most preferred investment destination in the country. The state attracted Rs 53,396 crore investments in the IT sector last financial year, a nearly 25 per cent of total Rs 2.2 lakh crore from both public and private sources across the country, says Assocham report. C…
Enterprise-level IT spawns many efficiencies
A study of 4,500 CRISIL-rated Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) shows that just four per cent of them have deployed business process management systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to generate better profitability and inventory management. Most of them limit their operations to bas…
Co-Bots next big thing for MSMEs
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and startups in India could well see a revolution in the way they do business. Collaborative robots, or co-bots in short, according to Pradeep David, General Manager, Universal Robots, India are being promoting to assist in sustaining the Make in India i…