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The Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) and the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) formalised a strategical concern done a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate Karnataka’s integer economy, with a absorption connected district-level and cluster-based improvement beyond Bengaluru.
The collaboration volition leverage FKCCI’s web of implicit 30 territory chambers, alongside KDEM’s cluster-led ecosystem initiatives to thrust MSME digitisation, start-up growth, concern readiness, and entrepreneurship crossed non-metro districts successful Karnataka.
As per the MoU signed connected December 24, KDEM and FKCCI would jointly absorption connected concern promotion and facilitation, Beyond Bengaluru ecosystem development, cluster-specific interventions, capableness gathering and skilling initiatives, associated research, marketplace studies and sectoral reports, public–private partnerships, argumentation recommendations and stakeholder consultations.
Speaking astatine an event, ‘Tech-Talk: Districts to Digital Powerhouse’, astatine FKCCI successful Bengaluru, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO, KDEM, said, “Karnataka’s integer maturation indispensable beryllium built arsenic a statewide system, not constricted to a fewer centres. The concern with FKCCI would alteration KDEM to determination from intent to execution by aligning policy, ecosystem development, and manufacture participation.
“By activating districts and emerging clusters, we purpose to unlock caller investments, accelerate entrepreneurship, and guarantee technology-led maturation takes basal crossed Karnataka.”
According to Mr. Gupta, this collaboration unites KDEM’s integer system mandate with FKCCI’s extended manufacture web spanning enterprises, MSMEs, start-ups, and territory chambers to physique investment-ready ecosystems crossed IT/ITeS, Global Capability Centres (GCCs), startups, incubators, accelerators, skilling institutions, investors, and emerging exertion domains.
Uma Reddy, President, FKCCI, said, “For industry, this MoU translates into clearer pathways to enactment successful Karnataka’s integer economy. Through our territory chambers and subordinate network, we volition enactment with KDEM to link enterprises, startups, and MSMEs to investments, skills, and innovation opportunities.’’
The accent is connected enabling businesses connected the ground, particularly territory and clump ecosystems, to grow, collaborate, and standard successful technology-driven sectors, she added.
N. Manjula, Secretary, Department of Electronics, IT & BT, authorities of Karnataka, said, “By strengthening district-level ecosystems and encouraging manufacture participation, we are creating the instauration for inclusive innovation, employment generation, and sustained economical improvement beyond Bengaluru.”
