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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) launched a digital-transformation inaugural for MSMEs connected December 9, 2025 (Tuesday), astatine Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology successful Coimbatore.
The initiative, supported by NITI Frontier Tech Hub and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), aims to bring integer exertion to the MSME assemblage done structured assessments and capacity-building activities.
S. Malarvizhi, chairperson and Managing Trustee of Sri Krishna Institutions, said the collaboration volition enactment students done nonstop vulnerability to the MSME sector. The inaugural volition springiness students entree to digital-transformation courses. At slightest 100 MSME assessments — evaluations of existing processes and digital-readiness successful tiny concern units — volition beryllium carried retired each year, allowing each participating pupil to enactment connected existent appraisal projects. Workshops and grooming programmes volition beryllium held to present emerging technologies, and students completing task cycles volition person certificates.
J. Ganesh Kumar, erstwhile president of CII Coimbatore Zone and Managing Director of Indo Shell Cast Private Limited, spoke astir usage of integer tools astatine factories to amended decision-making and show accumulation successful existent time. He said these changes are becoming communal adjacent successful smaller units.
The inaugural allows students to enactment connected existent concern problems, recognize mill systems, analyse data, and tackle operational challenges. Digital tools, erstwhile paired with trained manpower, tin fortify MSMEs and leverage Coimbatore’s dense concern basal for collaboration, helium said.
