MAIT, Karnataka government to host workshop-Ease of Doing Business

NEW DELHI: Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT), the apex body actively representing ICT Manufacturing, Training, IT, Design, R&D and associated services sector is hosting a National Workshop on 'Ease of Doing Business' in association with the government of Karnataka.

The workshop, which will be conducted on 10 th December in Bengaluru, aims to assess the prevailing business environment in the State of Karnataka.

“Attendees have an opportunity to voice out small but persisting operational and regulatory issues which require the cooperation and support of the state government as well as and regulatory authorities such as KIADB (for land acquisition), KSPCB (for e-waste compliances), Department of e-Governance (for favorable IT Procurement policies) and also the Commercial Taxes, Labour and Employment departments,” a release said.

"MAIT intends to gather inputs from key industry members so that it can formulate its recommendations and take up important policy-related issues with the Government of Karnataka. This requires immediate attention so that Karnataka continuous to remain as a favorable IT destination." said AnwarShirpurwala, Executive Director, MAIT.

The workshop is in line with the government's 'Make in India' campaign to boost domestic manufacturing and help emerge India as a manufacturing hub for the world. Invitees of the event include Karnataka Industries & Commerce Minister  R V Deshpande, IT, BT & S&T Minister S R Patil, K Ratna Prabha, Additional Chief Secretary, Commerce & Industries and V Manjula, Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT and S&T.

The 'Digital India' campaign has an ambitious target of achieving Net Zero Imports by 2020 in Electronics and IT Hardware goods by reducing its imports, encouraging indigenous manufacturing and increasing exports. This would be possible only if persisting issues are addressed.