HELPING SMES ADOPT ICT TO COMPETE & GROW
Nilaya Varma
DNA (Mumbai edition)
The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) landscape has reshaped significantly in the last few years, thanks to increasing competition, technology development and cost pressures, among other factors. The immense growth in the services segment has given rise to new opportunities and challenges, requiring increased efficiency, productivity and innovation. Small and medium enterprises will have to adopt ICT in their day-to-day business to remain competitive, grow and attract new businesses, especially in the new, globalised and competitive economic scenario.
Considering the MSME sector contributes about 17% of the country's gross domestic product, more than 25% of the manufacturing output and around 40% of the country's exports, the sector has a critical role to play in the India Growth story. And there is a renewed and urgent focus on how ICT can help these companies excel.
This, broadly, was the theme of discussions at a workshop organised in Mumbai recently by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which is currently implementing a project to promote ICT in the SME sector, to improve business effectiveness and create new business opportunities. The e-governance project, called "Economic development through e-Governance," is a joint initiative of German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the German bilateral agency, in cooperation with Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification Directorate, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
COMMON SERVICE CENTRES
Business Standard
About 55,000 Common service centres (CSCs) have been established in the country till October 31, 2009. Under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), the government sanctioned the CSC scheme of setting up 100,000 CSCs by the June 2010.
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