CII to launch water resources mgtt tool in select states

Looks at PPP Start-Up Centres in States

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is planning to launch WATSCAN, an advanced tool for Water Resources Evaluation and Management at the watershed level, CII President Naushad Forbes said.

Speaking at a press conference in Chennai on Friday, he explained that this tool has been developed by CII to identify water generation, accumulation and losses in geographical areas. CII will apply WATSCAN in select states in the country.

While the key focus areas of CII for the states would be on ease of doing business, infrastructure, manufacturing and entrepreneurship, revival of rural demand would be given much impetus in the work plan for states. The organisation wants creating a policy enabling environment for Southern States to play a key role in boosting the overall growth of the country, he added.

Talking about CII's new initiatives for 2016-17, he said it has taken initiatives to establish Public Private Partnership Start-up Centres in the states -- a new model institution for end-to-end incubation of potential entrepreneurs to build future business houses generating large scale employments. This incubation program will promote non-IT and rural entrepreneurship.

He added that there has been an upturn demand in the industry and a turn in the investment cycle in the 6-8 months across the nation. CII has identified six manufacturing sectors & 26 sub-sectors in which India can be number one or two in the world, including automotives, aerospace & defense, engineering, cement & steel, chemicals & pharma and ICTE. It will soon release a strategic roadmap for these sectors, he added.

The organisation is launching 10 pilot projects to scientifically manage municipal solid waste on a PPP mode. CII member-companies will invest in designing, developing, implementing and managing comprehensive, sustainable, scalable end-to-end waste management solutions. This project will be scaled-up to 500 towns after the successful implementation of the 10 city-pilot projects.