CII Recommendations on Lockdown Exit
20 Apr 2020 The guidelines issued by the Government on relaxation of lockdown after 20th April within the parameters of safety precautions have brought relief to industry as well as workers and farmers. CII has suggested continued stringent lockdown in specified containment zones with rest of the identified hotspot districts to be open to economic activities […]
Post-pandemic Revival of the Aquaculture Sector
20 Oct 2020 India is the second largest fish producer in the world with a total production of 13.7 million metric tonnes in 2018-19. Shrimp comprises the majority share (75%) of India’s aquaculture share. The fisheries sector in India has been growing impressively with an average annual growth rate of 10.88% from 2014-15 to 2018-19. In […]
Projections for Growth in Covid-19 Times
25 Apr 2020 When the second phase of the lockdown ends on 3rd May, it will have been 40 days since the lockdown was announced. The economic cost continues to mount, although the lockdown has helped flatten the COVID-19 curve. With each passing day, the economic impact of the lockdown across sectors is getting more pressing, […]
Digital Agriculture: The Future of Indian Agriculture
22 Oct 2020 If agriculture is to continue to feed the world, it needs to become more like manufacturing- Geoffrey Carr, The Economist The world population is projected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. This would lead to a significant increase in food demand, even as arable land and freshwater resources are decreasing rapidly. Therefore, […]
Helping the Logistics Sector Create Value
29 Apr 2020 The CII Institute of Logistics, a CII Center of Excellence (CoE) in the logistics and supply chain management domain, uses a multi-pronged approach to help transform the logistics sector, and is working to enable the sector to add value to manufacturing, domestic trade and exports. The Institute, which was started in 2004, […]
Select CII@125: The First Five CII@125: The First Five
30 Apr 2020 Around the last quarter of the 19th century, almost all regions of India had modern industry with firms engaged in cotton, coal, jute and tea. Sugar, shipping, and paper were some of the emerging industries. Engineering firms were also establishing themselves. Jessop and Company is perhaps the first recorded engineering firm in India. […]
Rural India gets a Mini-Public Works Boost
23 Oct 2020 In the space of a couple of months, rural India has been transformed into its new avatar as the Great Saviour of the Indian economy. With manufacturing and services reeling from their worst ever depression in decades because of the Covid lockdown, a good kharif sowing season coupled with adequate monsoon rains […]
Cyber Security in the Industry
01 May 2020 With an ever-expanding population of internet subscribers, India is one of the fastest-growing digitising economies in the world. While the digital revolution has opened a new set of opportunities for businesses, cyber threats have also increased, and become more sophisticated, with technological advancements. From viruses in the 1990s, cyber threats have evolved […]
Green Retail
04 May 2020 One of the major pillars of the Indian economy, the retail sector, accounted for 10 percent of the country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and 8 percent of employment, before the Coronavirus outbreak. The entire world is moving towards a ‘greener’ way of work and retail is no different. This sector has emerged […]
India Emerging as the top Investment Destination
25 Oct 2020 Economic crises are not recent. Their history goes back to mid-1637 when the ‘Tulip and Bulb Craze’ took place. It was followed by the ‘South Sea Bubble’ crisis in the 1700s, the Florida Real Estate Craze, and, of course, the more recent ones of the Great Depression (1929), the Crash of 1987, […]