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A two‑day MSME Connect 2025 — Vendor Development Programme‑cum‑Industrial Exhibition opened astatine MADITSSIA Hall present connected Thursday, with officials calling for stronger enactment to micro, tiny and mean enterprises and wider usage of the Government e‑Marketplace (GeM) portal to pat nationalist procurement opportunities.
Inaugurating the programme, District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar said the inaugural would assistance section entrepreneurs go vendors to nationalist assemblage undertakings (PSUs) and authorities departments by guiding them done GeM registration and tender procedures.
He said helium would beryllium blessed to spot Madurai’s MSMEs supplying adjacent “the tiny screws and nuts that spell into ISRO’s rockets,” and urged the units to standard up truthful that their components could participate national‑level proviso chains.
The Collector said the MSMEs were cardinal to inclusive growth, providing employment to astir 11 crore people, contributing astir 30% to GDP and implicit 40% of exports, and generating a important fig of jobs for women successful agrarian and semi‑urban areas. Madurai’s caller Master Plan offered relaxations successful onshore usage and readying norms to make a much conducive situation for industries successful the territory and crossed southbound Tamil Nadu, helium added.
The lawsuit is jointly organised by the Union MSME Ministry and Madurai District Tiny and Small-Scale Industries Association (MADITSSIA). J. Ashok, secretary, MADITSSIA; S. Suresh Babuji, Joint Director and caput of office, MSME Development Facilitation Office (DFO), Chennai; Karthikeyan, Regional Chairman of FASII; B.R. Arun Prasad, Chairman, MSME Connect, MADITSSIA; and Kiran Dev Satuluri, Assistant Director, MSME DFO, Chennai, were present.
Mr. Karthikeyan highlighted the combined efforts of MADITSSIA, the Ministry, SIDBI and different agencies to nexus section units with Central institutions. Around 25 stalls person been acceptable up by antithetic organisations, including NLC India Ltd., CPCL, defence instrumentality manufacturers and assorted departments, to explicate their procurement requirements and tender procedures.
He besides spoke astir ‘Zero Defect Zero Effect (ZED)’ certification scheme, related subsidies and enactment measures disposable to assistance the MSMEs upgrade quality.
Through the day, method officials from Integral Coach Factory, Southern Railway, NLC, BHEL, IOCL, Power Grid Corporation, SIDBI and NSIC explained to entrepreneurs however section vendors could conscionable specifications and summation the stock of nationalist procurement from the MSMEs to the mandated 25%. Seminars connected antithetic topics are being organised.
Entry to the exhibition, which is unfastened from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., is free.
