Interview with President of Gujarat Chemical Association

BANGALORE,INDIA.

Passion and a commitment to give back to society, to help entrepreneurs grow and become successful, are some of the driving factors for Mr. Jaimin R. Vasa’s epic journey as a successful businessman and President of Gujarat Chemical Association, Gujarat Pharmaceutical Association and also Chairman of MSME Committee of the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr. Vasa has over thirty years of experience in the industry. In conversation with Aparna S

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Some of the key initiatives taken up by Mr. Vasa for the progress and development of the Association include —

• Basic initiatives to re-brand the Association.
• Organizing knowledge series like Seminars, Exhibitions and Workshops — This gives an opportunity to get updated on the latest products, technologies and developments in the Chemical industry.
• Conducting programs for upcoming and fresh graduates called Industry Institute Interactive Programs — Under this initiative, they have signed up with several Institutes and University to provide training to the faculty, give opportunities of industrial visits and entrepreneurs a chance to serve as guest faculty.
• Also conduct Summits every two years. This began as Asian Chemical Leaders Summit in 2008, in 2010, the Global Chemical Leaders Summit was successfully conducted.

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Some of the overall requirements of the SMB industry according to Mr. Vasa include, that the SMB industry needs to grow. It is important as an association to create a framework in a way that there is no alternative but to grow, engender a change of mentality that SMB will not always be small but will grow too. It is also important to note that these organizations need to have a better understanding of using technology.

Till now, there was a perception that IT was meant only for the big companies, today that perception and trend has changed and organizations have a greater awareness of the value of technology as a beneficial mechanism or one that aids growth. Technology can be used to improve quality, reduce manpower and related costs, increase efficiency, build standardization, enabling is growing deep and wide to bigger markets and be relevant and useful at every stage and be an empowering agent.

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One of the issues that the SMB are still working on is the need to get better and faster financing for their projects. Here the Government also is helping a great deal by requesting Banks to give lucrative rates to SMB or even better a collateral-free financing aid.

Mr. Vasa’s voice of commitment says: It is important to be sincere and honest while keeping the objectives fundamentally clear. His advice to upcoming leaders is it is important to provide a good infrastructure and be overall equipped to face competitiveness in the market, have transparent relations with members, use the available platform to be productive and innovative and ‘motivating’ is a great factor.