Cii Plan To Make Southern Staes Investor-Friendly
The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), southern region, will take up the issue of infrastructure development and related administrative reforms with the four southern state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
This initiative has been taken to make the southern region an attractive destination for domestic and international investments.
The chamber on Friday adopted a strategy to network the region for competitiveness and growth in the current year and plans to involve industries in this programme.
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Venu Srinivasan, chairman of CII (southern region), said the chamber has decided to focus on local action and issues while leveraging on its national strength in providing a competitive thrust to the region. For the first time, CII has constituted focus groups at the regional and state levels to deal with urban infrastructure issues in several southern cities and towns.
The southern chapter plans to make `total cost management' (TCM) as a movement in industry. A host of programmes are being planned to make TCM a major tool for competitiveness.
It will work out strategies with Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra to model their tourism policy on Kerala, which transformed this sector into a successful source of income. The chamber plans to develop a southern tourism circuit by involving the four state governments for building up common infrastructure.
It plans to set up an `exchange' to help small and medium industries to apply information technology in their industry.
The CII feels that the state governments have failed to cut down bureaucratic delays in step with the reforms announced at the Central level.