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Hans India
10 hours ago
- Business
- Hans India
Quality Council of India launches revamped portal for MSMEs
The Quality Council of India (QCI), the national custodian of accreditation in the country, commemorated World Accreditation Day 2025 here on Monday with the launch of revamped portal of the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), aimed at streamlining the accreditation process and enhancing digital accessibility, particularly for laboratories and MSMEs. The QCI, through its constituent boards - the NABL and the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) - partners with global bodies such as the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) to align India's quality and conformance infrastructure with international benchmarks. This year's theme, "Accreditation: Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)", underscored the strategic role accreditation plays in enhancing competitiveness, market access, and credibility for MSMEs. The event opened with key messages from leadership and the release of a thematic video, setting the stage for dialogue on quality, innovation, and sustainable growth in the MSME sector. Reinforcing industry-wide commitment to quality, the event also featured 'Gunvatta Samarpan' - a unique initiative that encourages organisations to publicly pledge adherence to accredited standards across sectors. Addressing the gathering, Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Amardeep Singh Bhatia, underlined the importance of accreditation in enabling Indian SMEs to access both domestic and global markets. He noted that certification and assessment bodies are crucial to the vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Viksit Bharat @2047, by upholding quality, supporting exports, and promoting inclusive and sustainable growth. Quality Council of India (QCI) Chairperson, Jaxay Shah, in his keynote address, stated that accreditation is a gateway to global trust. He emphasised its role in helping MSMEs align with international standards, reduce rejection rates, boost productivity, and access new markets. Following the inaugural session, a Technical Session and concurrent CEO Forum featured expert-led discussions on how accreditation can drive MSME growth across sectors. Panellists shared insights on accreditation's role in improving diagnostic infrastructure, enabling international trade, supporting certified management systems and products, promoting third-party inspections, advancing sustainable manufacturing, and contributing to net-zero goals. Observed globally every year on June 9, World Accreditation Day highlights the role of accreditation in strengthening quality infrastructure, enabling global trade, and fostering economic development. This year's celebration by QCI reaffirmed accreditation as a vital enabler of innovation, competitiveness, and growth for India's small businesses in an increasingly globalised economy.
The Print
06-05-2025
- Politics
- The Print
After 100-day governance programme, Fadnavis' new challenge for civil servants—a 150-day programme
This 150-day programme, he said, will focus largely on three elements—a roadmap for a fully developed Maharashtra by 2047, 100 percent e-governance when it comes to delivery of services, and service-related administrative reforms. Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is keeping civil servants on their toes. Soon after concluding a 100-day programme for the state government to improve its service delivery and efficiency, Fadnavis Tuesday announced a second 150-day programme for all departments in the state. 'We had implemented a 100-day programme in the state. There were two parts to it, one was improving government offices and the other was implementing new policies. A total of 12,500 state government offices in the state participated in the drive to improve offices. Also, the 48 departments in the government had come up with 902 policy decisions to implement. Of these, 706, or 78 percent, were completed,' the CM told reporters. 'From today, 6 May to 2 October, we are announcing a 150-day programme.' The CM laid out the basic objectives of the 150-day programme, promising to elaborate more it 7 May when the Mahayuti government will felicitate government officials for implementing the 100-day programme. Separately, Fadnavis also welcomed the Supreme Court's directions to hold all pending local body elections in four months and said the Mahayuti alliance will contest these polls unitedly. 'At some places there could be a different decision, here and there, which will be taken at the local level. But, by and large Mahayuti will fight these elections as an alliance,' he told reporters. The Mahayuti comprises the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Also Read: The BluSmart-Gensol saga & why Anmol Singh Jaggi's green business is seeing red The new challenge The new 150-day challenge, the results of which Fadnavis will announce 2 October, will require departments to draw up a phase-wise road map for a fully developed Maharashtra by 2047. For the first phase, departments will have to chart out an action plan till 2029. The action plan for the second phase will be with the target year of 2035, and finally in the third phase, departments will lay down a roadmap till 2047. Overall, the state government has also set a target of becoming a trillion-dollar economy by 2028. 'Then, every department will have to implement e governance reforms. People should get 100 percent governance online. Nobody should need to come to government offices physically,' Fadnavis said. The CM did not give much details on the third aspect of the plan, which involves implementing service-oriented reforms. The 100-day plan concluded 1 May, for which Fadnavis had engaged the Centre's Quality Council of India to evaluate the performance of departments. The Mahayuti government completed 100 days in office 14 April, but the report was released 1 May. The Quality Council of India report said, of the 48 departments, 12 had completed 100 percent of the tasks assigned, while 18 had done more than 80 percent of the tasks. The bottom three departments—General Administration Department, Urban Development Department and Food and Civil Supplies Department—were led by the three Mahayuti leaders, CM Fadnavis, Deputy CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, respectively. (Edited by Tony Rai) Also Read: Linde India's minority investors have been fighting firm for 5 yrs. Now they've clocked a small win
The Hindu
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Opposition attacks Maharashtra CM's report, cites rural distress and farmer suicides
Opposition parties on Thursday (May 1, 2025) criticised the claims of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis regarding the State's progress under the Mahayuti government, pointing to a rise in farmer suicides and a perceived lack of substantive measures to address rural distress. The critique came in response to the Chief Minister's 100-day performance report, released on the occasion of Maharashtra Day. Mr. Fadnavis asserted that the government had made significant administrative progress since assuming office in December 2024. According to the report, which was said to have been evaluated by the Quality Council of India, 12 of the 48 departments had achieved their strategic targets in full during the period from December 2024 to March 2025. However, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Ambadas Danve, dismissed the report as 'cosmetic,' arguing that it failed to acknowledge the ground realities, particularly in rural regions. Addressing reporters in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Mr. Danve stated, 'The real contribution of the Mahayuti government over these 100 days has been an increase in financial burden through populist, election-centric announcements and a disturbing surge in farmer suicides. These factors, which directly affect livelihoods, find no mention in the government's glowing assessment.' Citing official data from the Divisional Commissioner's office, Mr. Danve noted that 269 farmer suicides were reported in the Marathwada region between January and March 2025, a significant increase from 204 cases reported during the corresponding period last year. The affected districts include Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Dharashiv, Latur, Beed, Nanded, Hingoli, Parbhani, and Jalna. Taking to social media platform X, Mr. Danve also criticised what he termed the government's reliance on 'divisive rhetoric and political theatrics.' Referring to the recent murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, he alleged that political discourse had degenerated into the use of terms such as 'aaka, bada aaka, bokya, and khokya'. 'Meanwhile,' he added, 'budgetary cuts in welfare schemes for students and farmers persist, and key promises such as loan waivers remain unfulfilled'. According to the government report, 12 departments achieved 100% of their targets under the 100-day programme, while 18 departments scored between 80 and 99%. Ten departments registered performance in the 60 to 79% range, and the remaining eight scored below 60%. 'In the last 100 days, all 48 departments implemented a time-bound action plan. Of the 902 strategic targets set, 706 — or approximately 78% — have been fully met,' the Chief Minister said in a statement. 'I extend my sincere appreciation to the departments for their dedicated efforts.'
