FISME President V.K. Agarwal’s open letter to UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav

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Adarniya Akhileshji, Congratulations for your resounding victory in the recent Assembly elections and for taking the helm of the rocking boat of Uttar Pradesh which badly needs good leadership and good governance. Your stunning electoral victory leaves no doubt that you understand the pulse of the people and hardly need … Continue reading


Haryana budget, neglected SMEs and politics

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We have been writing about how Mayawatiji never found time to meet SME representatives even once in all of five years during her tenure (see FISME press release on February 4, 2012) and which came to an end after Samajwadi Party’s resounding win in the recently held UP state elections, … Continue reading


SMEs eager to clear the cloud over Cloud Computing

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Nearly 200 entrepreneurs of small and medium units in and around Gurgaon turned up at the SME Connect event organised by the Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME), the voice of Indian MSMEs, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Gurgaon. Clearly they were not willing to … Continue reading


New MSME procurement policy in late March

The new public procurement policy which is expected to make it mandatory for all central government departments and undertakings to source at least 20% of their annual purchases from micro, small and medium enterprises is likely to come into effect in late March, according to Alok Roy, MSME Director, Odisha. … Continue reading


FISME organizes IPR Awareness programme at Meerut

FISME organizes IPR Awareness programme at Meerut

The Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) in collaboration with Partapur Industrial Manufacturers’ Association (PIEMA) organized an Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Programme in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on January 31, 2012, as part of the IPR component of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme (NMCP) of the Ministry … Continue reading


India’s first SME IPO launched

A dream has at last come true. The Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME), India’s largest organisation of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has for long advocated the establishment of a stock exchange dedicated to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). FISME has always felt that … Continue reading