The Manufacturing Committee of BCC&I organized the eight edition of the annual MSME Excellence Awards titled “Seminar for BCC&I Awards for Excellence in Best Practices of MSMEs” with the participation of senior representatives from the Government, Industry, Academia and experts on Saturday, 16th January 2016 at 10.00 a.m. at The Park, Kolkata.

The focus of the event has always been to create a benchmark for the MSMEs by giving them exposure to the best manufacturing and service practices adopted and implemented by their peers/counterparts so that they could learn, adopt and implement these practices in their respective organizations, which would help them to achieve better productivity as well as quality at lesser cost.

This is an annual event of BCC&I and it is being organized to reward the MSMEs for their “Excellence in Best Practices” in spite of the severe logistical and infrastructural constraints they come across. The focus is also to give exposure to the MSMEs and extend them the opportunity of networking with industry which comprises of large corporates and MSMEs. The event helps the large scale industries to contribute in their continuous endeavour in developing or upgrading their vendor base by inducting quality vendors for furthering growth and development of their businesses.

This year, our award programme was presided over by Mr Ambarish Dasgupta, President, BCC&I, who commenced the session by giving a Welcome Speech. Mr Sutanu Ghosh, President – Designate, BCC&I presented the BCC&I Trophies and the Certificates of Appreciation to the award winners and concluded the eight edition of the BCC&I MSME Excellence Awards by giving the concluding remarks.

The key speakers were :

Shri R K Middya, Jt Director (P&S), Directorate of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Government of West Bengal

Shri P.K. Saha, Ex Chief General Manager of SIDBI & Currently representative of Kolkata Chapter of Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE)

Mr. Soundarajan.V, Sr General Manager, Business Development, BSE Limited

Mr Biswanath Bhattacharya, President, Federation of Small and Medium Industries (FOSMI), West Bengal

The panel of judges who evaluated the presentations of the participating MSMEs was headed by Mr Aloke Mookherjea (Chief Judge), Past President, BCC&I and Chairman, Howden Solyvent (India) Private Limited; Mr Debkumar Basu, Director, ZETADEL Technologies P. Ltd.; Dr. Anjan Ghosh, Former Vice President, Total Quality Management, Exide Industries Limited; Mr P N Gupta, Consultant – Industrial Engineering and Productivity, Tata Steel Processing and Distribution Limited (TSPDL) and Dr Suman K Mukerjee, Sr Professor and Former Principal & Dean, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute of Management Science (Kolkata Kendra).

The judges selected the one best case study presentation in Steel & Manufacturing Category and two best case study presentations in Service Category out of a series of presentations made by the participating MSMEs. Following were the MSMEs which won the Award along with the Certificate of Best Case Study Presentation.

Steel & Manufacturing Category :
- I & B Engineers Pvt Ltd

Service Category
- Orion Edutech Pvt Ltd
- Indus Net Technologies

The award programme was attended by well over 170 delegates from industry representing sectors like manufacturing, engineering, petrochemicals, chemicals, financial institutions, bankers and others. The feedback from the session was extremely positive as it was an excellent learning experience and networking forum.