Shreekant Somany elected as the New Chief of CII Northern Region

Says skill development, good governance and inclusivity will continue to remain as the focus of CII's regional work

Shreekant Somany, chairman & managing director, Somany Ceramics has been elected as the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Northern Region, for the year 2015 - 16, while Rumjhum Chatterjee has been elected as the deputy chairperson. She is group managing director (human capital development) at Feedback Infra Pvt Ltd.

Apprising on CII’s focus for the year 2015-16, Somany said, “CII Northern Region’s theme for the year 2015-16 will be ‘Build India, Build North : Invest in Development’. CII’s endeavours would primarily focus on facilitating investments, enhancing ease of doing business, promoting Make in North, ensuring peaceful industrial relations, enhancing MSMEs competitiveness, supporting agriculture, strengthening Infrastructure (both social and industrial) and societal initiatives including focus on Affirmative Action, Sanitation in Schools, CSR, Women Empowerment, etc.”

“Skill development, good governance and inclusivity will continue to remain as the focus of CII’s regional work”, he added.

“CII would draw and implement a sustainable growth model for the northern region, which on one hand is seeing an unprecedented scale of urbanization and on the other has a very strong agriculture-based economy”, further informed Somany.