'Youth India' scheme to ensure business opportunities to youth in industries: Sudhakar Shetty
Mangaluru, November 16: Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries chairman Sudhakar S Shetty said that the FKCCI has introduced ‘Youth India’ scheme to ensure business opportunities for youth in the industrial sector and encourage them.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday after holding a meeting with the representatives of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Shetty said that through this scheme, if the college students prepared any concepts related to industrial sector, nine projects among them would given all kinds of support. This programme was introduced to encourage the students community to participate in the industry and business sector. If the DCCIs brought such projects to the notice of the FKCCI, they would be encouraged, he said.
On an average, out of one crore population, there were more than 90 lakh youth and there was a need to create self employment to them. Those who want to come under this programme should be between 24 and 35 years of age. If at least 5 lakh youth were helped, they would help the remaining 85 lakh youth indirectly, he said.
The FKCCI has been working to find solutions to various problems in the commerce and industrial sectors by bringing those problems to the notice of the central and state governments. It has included more than 200 hotels and other federations and has been working with them, he said.
Development of the state does not mean the development of just Bengaluru. Instead, the FKCCI believed that all 30 districts should be developed. Interestingly, the private sector was in the forefront in providing jobs. Based on this, the products of the country should create demand in other countries like America and China. Now, the FKCCI has been working in this direction, he said.
Solutions to coastal problems
The entire state has made an achievement in GST implementation. FKCCI has conducted more than 340 GST awareness workshops due to which, it has got a good result. Among the problems in coastal region, Mangaluru NMPT Port and Chennai linking roads should be developed. This would increase the revenue of the NMPT. Shiradi ghat road should also be changed, for which FKCCI has submitted memorandums to the government several times, he said.
Cancel trade licence
The trade licence system introduced in 1954 was not necessary after GST was introduced. A notification was issued in Bengaluru region about this. But government order was not issued. In the name of trade licence, the business establishments have to renew themselves every year. Even the property tax does not have uniformity. It was better to remove this system. Otherwise, the government should bring in uniform tax system, he said.
Mentality of officials and people should be changed
The mentality of the government officials along with bank officials should be changed in starting new industries and businesses. If a person came forward to start an industry or business, he has to face lot of problems in banking system. For them, the FKCCI has been supporting, for which, a help desk was set up. If any industrialist or businessman faced any problems related to his or her project, he or she could contact FKCCI. Under FKCCI, an NRI Forum was opened and 18 countries were visited in just six months. Everyone was interested in investing in India. But the industrial policy should be relaxed, he said.
Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industries submitted a proposal on the problems in the development of the district to the FKCCI chairman. Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industries president PB Abdul Hameed, Vice President Issac Vaz, Treasurer Ganesh Kamath, General secretary Prashanth C.G, Secretary Shashidhar Pai Maroor and others were present.
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Gujarat: Mevani demands collector’s suspension over ‘anti-Dalit’ remark; IAS officer rejects charge
Mahnisagar, Oct 30: Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari, accusing her of making anti-Dalit comments, a charge the bureaucrat rejected.
Mevani’s demand comes a week after he sought similar action against senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian for allegedly misbehaving with him and one of his party colleagues.
Mevani targeted Kumari citing a purported video in which she was heard saying that 90 per cent of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, or the Atrocities Act, are used for blackmailing.
The IAS officer termed the lawmaker’s claims “baseless” and an unsuccessful attempt to get political mileage.
Mevani visited Lunawada, the district headquarters, and demanded that an FIR be registered against the collector under the Atrocities Act and that she was suspended over her “insensitive” remarks and “unparliamentary” words.
When one Vijay Parmar went to meet the collector with his grievance at the SWAGAT programme on October 23, she used “unparliamentary” words against him and also insulted the lawyer community by saying they should be “slapped with slippers”, the Vadgam MLA told reporters.
SWAGAT is an initiative of the Gujarat government for the redressal of people’s grievances.
According to Mevani, the collector’s claim that 90 per cent of cases under the Atrocities Act are misused for blackmailing is an insult to the SC and ST communities and amounts to an offence under the Atrocities Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
“We demand Kumari's suspension and that a case be registered against her,” he said.
The district collector called the MLA’s allegations a “political stunt”.
“The man whom the MLA called poor, innocent young friend (Vijay Parmar) has a police case against him, and his brother has more than one case of rape, kidnapping and assault against him,” Kumari said, adding that they keep visiting the collector’s office with grievances.
At the SWAGAT programme on October 23, he pressured the collector to file a case against police officers. When the collector told him that she did not have the power to file a case and that he should approach the superintendent of police (SP) or the court, he continued to pester her over his issue, she said.
He even threatened the officers and told the collector that she was a Brahmin and he would let her know what “section 4 of the Atrocities Act entailed”, she said.
“You can understand the direction in which this MLA wants to take law and order by keeping a person with a criminal history along with him even when the state government is sensitive about children and women,” she said.
The collector said that the way Vijay Parmar is “blackmailing” government employees in the name of the Atrocities Act is not at all right. “The MLA's support to such people makes it difficult for the real complainants and the real victims to get justice,” she said.
Last week, Congress leaders and Dalit community members gathered outside the office of the Director General of Police in the state capital Gandhinagar demanding the suspension of senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian over his alleged misbehaviour with Mevani and his party colleague.
