ABOUT FICCI

Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organisation in India. Its history is closely interwoven with India's struggle for independence and its subsequent emergence as one of the most rapidly growing economies globally. FICCI plays a leading role in policy debates that are at the forefront of social, economic and political change. Through its 400 professionals, FICCI is active in 39 sectors of the economy. FICCI's stand on policy issues is sought out by think tanks, governments and academia. Its publications are widely read for their in-depth research and policy prescriptions. FICCI has joint business councils with 79 countries around the world. A non-government, not-for-profit organisation, FICCI is the voice of India's business and industry. FICCI has direct membership from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 83,000 companies from regional chambers of commerce. FICCI works closely with the government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialised services and global linkages. It also provides a platform for sector specific consensus building and networking. Partnerships with countries across the world carry forward our initiatives in inclusive development, which encompass health, education, livelihood, governance, skill development, etc. FICCI serves as the first port of call for Indian industry and the international business community.

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The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is an association of business organizations in India, headquartered in the national capital New Delhi. FICCI is one of the main organizations to fund and support many governmental and non-governmental educational institutes. It was founded by GD Birla and Purushottam Takkur in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi. FICCI is also the permanent Indian host of the Global India Business Meeting,[1] an annual meeting organised by Horasis.[2] Dipali Goenka is a member of the Governing Body of FICCI FLO, the women's wing of FICCI, and the chairperson of FLO - Mumbai Chapter.

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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India, partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes. CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry managed organisation, playing a proactive role in India's development process. Founded over 116 years ago, it is India's premier business association, with a direct membership of over 8100 organisations from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 90,000 companies from around 400 national and regional sectoral associations. CII catalyses change by working closely with government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialised services and global linkages. It also provides a platform for sectoral consensus building and networking. Major emphasis is laid on projecting a positive image of business, assisting industry to identify and execute corporate citizenship programmes. Partnerships with over 120 NGOs across the country carry forward our initiatives in integrated and inclusive development, which include health, education, livelihood, diversity management, skill development and water, to name a few. CII has taken up the agenda of Business for Livelihood for the year 2011-12. This converges the fundamental themes of spreading growth to disadvantaged sections of society, building skills for meeting emerging economic compulsions, and fostering a climate of good governance. In line with this, CII is placing increased focus on Affirmative Action, Skills Development and Governance during the year. With 64 offices and 7 Centres of Excellence in India, and 7 overseas offices in Australia, China, France, Singapore, South Africa, UK, and USA, as well as institutional partnerships with 223 counterpart organisations in 90 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organisation, seeking to play a proactive role in Indias development process. The organisation works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry inIndia, partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes. The confederation is headquartered in New Delhi. B. Muthuraman is the President and Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of the confederation.
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1 Function 2 History 3 Membership

4 Library 5 Trade Fair 6 CII-Yi 7 Centres of Excellence 8 See also 9 External links

Function
CII aims to usher change by working closely with government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialised services and global linkages. It also provides a platform for sectoral consensus building and networking. Major emphasis is laid on projecting a positive image of business, assisting industry identify and execute corporate citizenship programmes. CII undertakes research, interacts with key government officials and disseminates information through publications, seminars and events. With 64 offices in India, 9 overseas in Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK, USA and institutional partnerships with 223 counterpart organisations in 100 countries, CII aims to serve as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.

History
CII was established in 1895. The initial partners were five engineering firms, all members of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In the beginning, the name of the organisation was Engineering and Iron Trades Association (EITA). EITA was set up with a goal to pressurise the British government to place government orders for iron and steel and engineering goods with companies based in India (the practice then was to place government orders with firms based in UK). The name was subsequently changed to Indian Engineering Association (IEA), Engineering Association of India (EAI), Association of Indian Engineering Industry (AIEI), Confederation of Engineering Industry (CEI) and finally to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in 1992.

Membership
It is India's premier business association, with a direct membership of over 8100 organisations from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 90,000 companies from around 400 national and regional sectoral associations.

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Library
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Library is the Central Library & Information Centre of CII headquarters and has prime objective of supporting information needs of its members and staff. Library's main objective is to acquire, maintain and enhance access to business information available in print and non-print formats relevant to the research needs of users. Library has collection on various segments of Indian industry. The collection comprises mainly books, journals, CDs, audio-visuals, photographs and grey documents. Resources include CII publications and conference proceedings, national & international statistics, national & international directories and databases, exhibitor catalogues, corporate laws, and other documents such as Working papers, Govt. reports, annual reports of Companies, Ministries and Govt. Departments. Digital collection includes documents such as proceedings, presentations, statistical databases, industrial directories, digital books, annual reports and online databases. Services offered are reference and referral, document delivery, current awareness and database search. Library caters to the information needs of all those interested in business and industry: Entrepreneurs, Government officials, students, researchers, librarians, analysts, investors, and journalists. Customised information is also provided on request.

Trade Fair
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organises trade fairs to promote Indian industry. Some of the flagship trade fairs are: IETF, Auto Expo, Agrotech, IMME, etc. Auto Expo is the largest auto show in Asia. CII has been organizing a biannual trade fair called IETF. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) held the first Indian Engineering Trade Fair in 1975 to showcase the emerging capabilities of the Indian engineering industry. At a time when Indian industry was still at a fledgling stage, the event served to stress its growing capabilities. Today, under its new nomenclature of International Engineering and Technology Fair, IETF, with large international participation, covers a wide range of industry sectors under its main umbrella of engineering and technology. Held every two years, the fair has expanded to become among the largest such events in the Asian region. A wide range of products are exhibited at the show, highlighting the best of quality and standards across a spectrum of industry sectors. Large as well as small companies take part, with a special platform for small and medium enterprises. Each IETF includes focus industry sectors for displaying new and emerging trends across sub sectors. In the past, focus industry pavilions have included environmental and green products, water and sanitation machinery, safety and security equipment, etc.

A number of countries, both developed and developing, turn out in strength to take part in the IETF, setting up dedicated country pavilions to showcase the diverse strengths and capabilities of their manufacturing industries. Each edition of the IETF since 1985 has spotlighted a special partner country as the largest overseas participant, exhibiting products, technologies, and investment opportunities. The event is an occasion for the Partner Country to engage in bilateral economic partnership with India and delegations are usually led by a top minister. Cultural events too are hosted by the Partner Country to give a lighter side to the more serious business of doing business. Over the years, Partner Countries have included Germany, Japan, South Africa, Italy and many others. IETF attracts large numbers of top representatives from industry, government, and media from India and overseas. IETF 2007 saw the participation of nearly 55,000 business visitors including government and business delegates from 24 countries. The IETF offers a one-stop platform to industry members to disseminate information about themselves, learn about others, and interact with other businesses to expand their global presence. Many concrete business deals are finalized during the days of the exhibition. While business networking is the highlight of the show, the general public too displays keen interest in the exhibits and turns out in large numbers to learn more about other countries and different goods. The Partner Country concept was introduced with Italy as the first Partner Country at IETF 1985. Since then, Canada, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy(twice), Japan(three times), Korea, Spain, China, and South Africa (twice) have participated as Partner Countries at the IETF till date. IETF 2009 the 18th edition of the event attracted participation of around 200 exhibitors from 17 countries with South Africa as Partner Country for the second time. South Africa had showcased an impressive Pavilion with 70 South African Companies from sectors ranging from Aerospace, Marine, Defense, Steel, Electro technical, Manufacturing Technologies, Food & Beverages, Wines. Japan being the Guest country at 18th IETF, also been the Partner country at 17th IETF, was primarily focusing on the New and Non - Renewable sources of energy with around 50 exhibitors in an exclusive pavilion. Sector Specific concurrent shows focusing on Manufacturing Technologies, Energy & Environment, Robotics & Automation, Safety & Security were held during IETF 2009. IETF 2011 the 19th edition of International Engineering & Technology Fair was held from 10 to 12 February 2011 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India covering an area of 25,000 sqmtrs, IETF 2011 hosted around 250 exhibitors from 11 countries China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa and United Arab Emirates (UAVE) displaying the latest products and technologies on offer.

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Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Indias premier business association, formed in the year 2002, with an objective of creating a platform for young Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. Yi has over 1200 direct members in 25 city chapters. Yi engages another 12,000 members through its Farmer Nets, Student Nets and Corporate chapters. The Yi membership includes young progressive Indians between the age group of 25 & 40 years. The members include entrepreneurs, professionals and progressive achievers from different walks of life. To become the voice of young Indians globally being the vision of Yi, it provides a platform for young Indians to participate in and contribute by becoming an integral part of the Indian growth story. Yi works effectively for promoting leadership skills for the development of its members through the learning programs; the development and engagement of students in schools and colleges through its 59 Student Net platforms which engage more than 4000 students from various educational institutions across India; and two Farmers Net platform that has enrolled 8500 young & progressive farmers from all across the country, providing them with real time agricultural inputs and know-how. Yi has successfully conducted campaigns and developed successful projects across the focus areas of primary education, environment, primary healthcare and employability, contributing positively to its surrounding eco-system and the nation. Through its initiatives like Akshara, Yi has impacted 15000 students across 50 centers, skilled & placed 1300 youth under the aegis of its Yi labs employability program. Under the healthcare initiative, over 170000 children have been dewormed in addition to the many health awareness programs that have been conducted, across the community in different cities. Yi organises an annual national summit with themes relevant to India and its youth. The national summits include sessions and interactions with some of the finest and eminent personalities from various fields, across India and the world. 6 editions of the National Summit have been organised to

Centres of Excellence
One of the USPs of CII has been the uncanny ability of its membership to perceive global trends, build technical capabilities and then spread the trend among the industry members. The centres of Excellence were set up specifically for this purpose. The first of the centres to be established was the Institute of Quality in Bangalore. The CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre was established in Hyderabad to bring in focus on "Green Business" - Green Buildings, Energy Efficiency,Environment & incubation. The CII ITC Centre for Excellence for Sustainable development in Delhi focuses on promoting Tripple bottom line concept. Institute for Logistics, Chennai, Naroji Godrej Centre of Excellence on corporate governance Mumbai, L M Thapar Centre for Competitiveness, Chandigadh for Cluster initiatives, Water Institute Jaipur are the other Centres of Excellence. The technical expertise available with the centres, coupled with dedicated industry membership makes the institution an ideal medium to reach out of industry

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Indian chamber of commerce is a consortium that serves as an interface to the Indian software industry and Indian BPO maintaining a state of the art information database of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas. Encourage members to provide world-class quality products, services and solutions in India and overseas and help build brand equity for the Indian IT software and services industry. Taking effective steps to campaign against software piracy.

Provide an ideal forum for overseas and domestic companies to explore the vast potential available for Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, Marketing Alliances, Joint Product Development, etc., by organising Business Meets with delegations of various countries.

Work actively with Overseas Governments, Embassies to make the Visa and Work Permit Rules more "India Industry Friendly". Disseminate various policies, market information and other relevant statistics by sending more than 200 circulars (annually) to all members.

Involve membership participation in various forums of Nasscom on subjects such as HRD, Technology, Exports, Domestic Market, EGovernance, IT Enabled Services, IPR, Finance, Government Policies, Quality, etc.

NASSCOM is the global trade body with over 1200 members, of which over 250 are global companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM's member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce. NASSCOM has been the strongest proponent of global free trade in India. NASSCOM strongly supports the elimination of the cap on H-1B visas in the United States as this protectionist anti free market legislation allows overpaid underskilled

American nationals to hold jobs which are better and cheaply performed by Indian expatriates. NASSCOM was set up in 1988 to facilitate business and trade in software and services and to encourage advancement of research in software technology. It is a not-for-profit organization, registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860. Currently, NASSCOM is headquartered in New Delhi, India with regional offices in the cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata. NASSCOM has been the strongest proponent of global free trade, and is committed to work proactively to encourage its members to adopt world class management practices, build and uphold highest standards in quality, security and innovation and remain competitive in todays rapidly changing technology landscape. NASSCOM's Vision is to maintain India leadership position in the global offshore IT-BPO industry, to grow the market by enabling industry to tap into emerging opportunity areas and to strengthen the domestic market in India. By 2010 India's IT-BPO industry could potentially generate US$60 billion in export revenues, account for 5.8 percent of the GDP, pay for a massive infrastructure build-out, and sustain around 10 million jobs. To achieve this, NASSCOM is constantly raising the bar across processes and quality standards within its member companies and making them partners of choice for customers across the globe. It also enables the Indian IT-BPO industry to evolve in accordance with the rapidly changing technology landscape by adopting, implementing and often creating world class practices.
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1 NASSCOM initiatives 2 NASSCOM Forums

3 Flagship Events 4 Services 5 Membership 6 Prominent members 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

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Domestic Market Initiative: It provides the platform to link the non IT sector with the IT industry and to develop a vision for sustainable growth of the domestic IT market.

Innovation Initiative: It seeks to address the specific needs of the large, medium and small companies and create a conducive ecosystem in the country.

Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act as bridge between industry, academia and government. Women in Leadership-IT Initiative: NASSCOM has launched the Women in Leadership-IT Initiative to enhance participation of women into the workforce and create more women leaders in the IT-BPO industry. Security Initiative: Aim towards creating an enabling environment in the country for information security and compliance through awareness and conducive legal framework. The Data Security Council of India is one such security initiative. [edit]NASSCOM Forums

BPO Forum: Aims to build a sustainable ITES-BPO advantage in India through research, events and manpower development initiatives.

EMERGE Forum: The forum serves as a platform to the SME segment to share experiences, ally on critical projects and even focus on partnerships to cater to customer demands..

An EMERGE Blog and EMERGE community site facilitates collaboration amongst members. 1. Participate in highly focused and deeper discussions in the areas of building, developing and transforming IT services and creating product organizations 2. Hear from the experts and successful entrepreneurs 3. Find opportunities to identify and develop business partner network 4. Discuss about government policies and collectively convey the opinion to authorities towards making India a better place for IT services and product organizations 5. Ask the experts and gain knowledge on various best practices Why struggle alone; Harness the people around to collectively grow. Product Forum: Aims to promote India as a significant player in the product arena and build India as an IP destination.

Engineering Services Forum: Aims to build the India value proposition in engineering services and develop a coordinated strategy for building a Engineered in India brand.

Quality Forum: Aims to help India and India based companies achieve next generation leadership in quality through best practices sharing and benchmarking. RIM Forum: Aim to make India the leader in Remote Infrastructure Management and bring different stakeholders at a common platform for building demand and supply side industries. In addition, at a regional level, regular best practices and information sharing sessions are held under the CEO Forum, CFO Forum & HR Forum. [edit]Flagship Events

NASSCOM organizes the India Leadership Forum in Mumbai every year. The conference has been evolving with each passing year, getting more international in its outlook and focus, and drawing thought gurus and influencers from a cross-section of industries. The conclave, an important platform for capturing triggers for boardroom decision making, also provides participants a perfect occasion for networking and experience sharing. The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009, a milestone event will mark NASSCOMs 20th year and will bring under one roof industry leaders, thought gurus, analysts and IT users from across the world. The global conclave will journey through three key themesone for each dayto completely transform the experience for delegates. The conference has a blog site where the sessions would be covered live
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Among its services, NASSCOM provides industry reports. NASSCOM also conducts various training programs and workshops for the industry professionals to upgrade theirs skills and knowledge. They have regular training programs spanning across different areas. One such program which the NASSCOM conducts on a yearly basis is the NASSCOM Animation and Gaming India for the gaming industry professionals. "India has become the world's back office as Western firms set up call centres, number-crunching and software development outlets," according to Forbes.[1] Membership NASSCOMs members are primarily companies run by Indian nationals in the business of software development, software services, and ITenabled/BPO services. The consortium was set up to facilitate Indian business and trade in software and services and to encourage advancement of research in software technology by Indians. It is a nonprofit organization, funded entirely by its members. NASSCOM has played a role in ensuring quality of service, and the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Indian Software and BPO industry.

As on June 2007, more than 1,100 information technology companies in India were members of NASSCOM. Membership includes domestic software / ITES companies as well as multinationals operating in India. The wide range of member companies gives NASSCOM the ability to represent the interests of the Indian software industry with authority. NASSCOM also has a Mentorship Programme for the mid sized companies which helps the company leadership develop a keen sense of what needs to be done to take the venture to the next level. This is a six month engagement, which will help the organization to develop a better assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. Prominent members Here is a list of prominent members of executive council of NASSCOM.

Som Mittal - President of NASSCOM for 2009-2010 Pramod Bhasin - Chairman of NASSCOM(former) Harsh Manglik -Chairman of NASSCOM for 2010-2011 Mr. Rajendra S. Pawar as the new Chairman of its Executive Council for the year 2011-2012 (April 26, 2011) Nandan Nilekani Bhaskar Pramanik Bobby Mitra Sharad Sharma Raman Roy