EMERGING CONTRIBUTORS TO INCLUSIVE GROWTH MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES S.K.AGGRAWAL, MA., LL.B., M.B.A., F.C.S. DIRECTOR, VIMAL ORGANICS LTD. SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

SME Sector is important, needs no elaboration How and why SME sector is successful and is the economic catalyst for the country ? Let us look at some data compiled by MSME MINISTRY ANNUAL REPORT

GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (MSMEs) The Sector accounts for : 28 million units 65 million people employed 6000 products 45% of manufacturing output 40% of the total exports of the country

NUMBER OF ENTERPRISES IN MSME SECTOR

EMPLOYMENT IN MSME SECTOR

Recognizing the contribution and potential of the sector, the definitions and coverage of the Small Scale Industry (SSI) sector were broadened significantly under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 which recognized the concept of “enterprise” to include both manufacturing and services sector besides, defining the medium enterprises.

MSME Sector – Higher Growth Rate viz-a-viz overall industrial sector COMPARATIVE DATA ON GROWTH RATES OF MSE SECTOR YEARGROWTH RATE OF IIP (BASE ) (%) IPP (OVERALL INDUSTRIAL GROWTHRATE OF SECTOR) (%)

NATURE OF ACTIVITY SECTOR(%) Manufacturing/ Assembling/ Processing % Repairing & Maintenance16.33 % Services17.00 %

TYPES OF MANAGEMENT/OWNERSHIP No. of enterprises managed by Male86.17 % Female13.83 % Total100 %

TYPES OF ORGANIZATION DISTRIBUTION BY TYPE OF ORGANISATION Proprietary90.36% Partnership3.85 % Pvt. Company2.69 % Pub. Ltd. Company0.53 % Cooperatives0.30 % Others2.27 %

According to YouGov and Legatum Institute Survey of 4000 business SME in China and India, the Indian entrepreneurs say their main motivation is independence, being one’s own boss. - reported in the Economic Times dt FICCI has set up : FICCI – MSME Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre in association with MSME Ministry, Govt. of India

SME STOCK EXCHANGE SMEs contribute around 20% of GDP and are the largest generator of employment (approximately 25 million). In India, SME sector is the second largest employer, after agriculture. With the Indian economy growing at more than 9 percent and size of the economy crossing the $1 trillion mark, the need of SMEs to raise capital is becoming increasingly critical – SEBI discussion Paper

1. SEBI Issued a modal listing agreement for SMEs seeking listing on SME Exchange 12 Aug “ At present, nearly 3000 SMEs trade through BSE which number is expected to grow manifold” ET, Friday June 4, There are 210,000 listing under the heading “ SME Stock Exchange in India,” at the Google Search Engine.

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1 Instant decision making No notes, no papers, no consultation Gut feeling 2 Personal Knowledge 3 Personal first hand information 4 No time clock for work (0 HRS to 24 HRS ) 5 Often times –more often than not – everyone in the family is a contributor to business

6Negligible labour problems: interpersonal relationship between the owners and the employees is intimate. 7 And when he needs, he can always take help from outside, but here he always remembers (even if he has not read E. Dickinson) “That Love is all there is, Is all we know of love, it is enough, the freight should be proportionate to the groove”.

Achievement motivation motivates none more than a SME entrepreneur. Here everything is in First Person Singular, there is hardly any plurality.  Centralized and yet decentralized

 Personal attention to every detail; he would almost personally know all his employees, know his customers and know his suppliers. He would also know, again personally, all the associates in the Electricity Department, Excise, ST, IT, Local Police Station, etc.  SME sector- there is no unemployment; in fact it is a big fraud by Politicians that there is unemployment. Where are the men available ?  SME sector is the largest provider of trained manpower to large scale sector

RISING INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS  Consumer spending in Asia is likely to reach $32 trillion by 2030  Asia to contribute 43% of worldwide consumption in next 20 years  205 million Indians joined the ranks of those spending $2 to $20 per day from 1990 to 2008  Over the next two decades, the Indian middle class is expected to touch 1 billion mark. The Economic Times, 20 th August 2010, Page-4

This confirms that an individual CS can carve out a profitable niche for himself.  be a job-provider as against a job-seeker  turn employer and not worry to be employee  be a master of his own destiny  Instead of working within a Delegation of Powers given by others, enjoy all the power given unto himself.  Untold, Unlimited freedom - financially - emotionally - psychologically