The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCC&I) had organized an Awareness Programme for the MSMEs on Friday, 8th June 2018 at The Bengal Chamber, Kolkata.

The objective of organizing this programme was to showcase to the MSMEs (pertaining to manufacturing and services) about the various types of services/facilities available with the banks in relation to MSMEs, for MSME development and growth. Besides, the objective of the programme was to highlight the available government schemes for MSMEs, which would really help them in further development and growth of their business operations, in the near future.

The speakers present in the programme were Mr Subhankar Biswas, Promoter , Sapient Financial Services, Mr Prasanta Kumar Sahu, Head-SME, Bandhan Bank, Mr A Mandal, President - Business Development, Techno Electric and Engineering Company, Dr Anjan Ghosh, Former Vice President - Total Quality Management, Exide Industries Limited and Shri Sitanath Mukhopadhyaya, Assistant Director, MSME Development Institute (MSME DI) Kolkata, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India.

From the Chamber, present were Mr Debkumar Basu, Chairperson, Manufacturing and MSME Committee, The Bengal Chamber, Mr Pritish K Sen, Co – Chairperson, Manufacturing and MSME Committee, The Bengal Chamber and Prof (Dr) Siddhartha Das,Member, Manufacturing and MSME Committee, The Bengal Chamber.

The programme had encouraged good industry participation from MSMEs comprising of manufacturing and services and altogether, the total number of participants for the programme was approximately 35.

The programme had given a clear understanding to the MSMEs about the various services the banks offer to the MSMEs, as well as various MSME schemes of the State and Central Governments. It also discussed on the procedure in which these various services of the banks and the various MSME schemes of the Central and State governments,could be availed.