Co-Curricular Activities

Management Development Programs

Export Opportunities and Challenges in key Sectors

On

September 22^nd, 2012 (Saturday)

at

Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003
(Entry from Gate No. 3 on Vardhman Marg)

As per the WTO statistics, India ranks 19th among the top exporters in the world but india’s share in the global exports is only 1.6%. Our foreign trade policy 2009-14 sets out goal of doubling indias exports of goods and services by 2014 with long term objective of doubling india’s share in the global trade by end of 2020 through appropriate policy support.

Obtaining increased market access to the world market, diversification of export markets, reduction of transaction costs, simplification of export procedures and improvement of infrastructure related to exports poses great challenges to india in our endeavour to increase our exports and to double our share.

If manufacturing is to have larger share of GDP and create larger employement, then engineering and chemicals are the key to our future. Engineering exports accounts for over 20% of our total export basket. Machinery and transport Equipments is the dominant sector of world exports and accounts for more than 1/3rd of world exports but india’s share in this sector is negligible. Here also we have a huge portential for growth.

Pharma industry has really done well in establishing our global reputation for affordable and quality products. India is today one of the largest exporters of generics. Prospects for expansion in this segment are very good and offers great opportunity as more and more drugs come off patents.

In textiles there is high growth opportunities since the dismantling of quota regime. Product diversification in garments has become essential to achieve increased export growth rate.

Other key sectors are gems and jewellery which is highly labour intensive. Apart from these, processed fruits and vegetables, organic agricultural produce and fresh fruits and vegetables for retail in super market also hold out great promise

Objectives

• To learn about export opportunities that exist today in key sectors
• To enhance understanding of the export market and to develop export strategies
• To widen the scope of exports in your existing business
• To explore new markets based on market opportunities.

Contents

• Overview of Indian exports
• Opportunities and challenges in:
• Engineering sector
• Pharma Sector
• Readymade garments
• Agricultural and processed food products
• Handicrafts
• Institutional frame work to enhance exports
• Usefull links

Participants- Who should attend this program?

• New and upcoming exporters
• Exporters wanting to expand their existing business
• Entrepreneurs who want to explore international trade opportunities
• Students / Researchers of International Business

Key Resource Persons

Dr. Sudhanshu
E – Mail: dgmmpd@apeda.gov.in
Dr. Sudhanshu is post graduate in Business Administration and Computer Application. He also holds PhD in Commerce.
Dr. Sudhanshu has over 25 years of work experience out of which last 22 years he has been with Agricultural and Processed Food Export Development Authority (APEDA). He has a rich experience of 20 years in manging IT department and also in development and implementation of traceability systems for various products.
He was also project head for design and development and implementation of traceability system for export of organic products implemented at national level. Dr. Sudhanshu received national award for E-governance for the year 2007-08 for the project of traceability system for grapes-Grapenet. This system was given Agriculture leadership award in the year 2011.
Dr. Sudhanshu was responsible for export promotion of fresh fruit and vegetables. He worked on a project on development of vegetable clusters for exports in the country and set up 22 vegetable clusters in the western and southern region.
Dr. Sudhanshsu represented APEDA in the meetings of various committees of Ministry of food processing industries, National horticulture board, National co-operative union of India and GS1, India under Ministry of Commerce & industries Govt. of India. He was also involved in organizing number of International and National conferences/Workshops.
Dr. Sudhanshsu has written several articles on traceability which were published in international and national journals / magazines. Dr. Sudhanshu is currently Deputy General Manager, APEDA and also Vice President, of GSI India

Mr. Abhay Sinha
E-mail – abhay.sinha@rediffmail.com
Mr. Abhay Sinha is post graduate in MBA with specialization in marketing and holds a masters degree in International Trade from Symbosis Pune. He obtained specialized training on International Trade Related Sources of Information and Databases by UNCTAD and also received training in Market Information System by CBI, Netherlands.
Mr. Sinha has over 14 years of experience in promotion of international trade, market research and international trade information services. He was associated with various projects of Export Promotion Councils, UNCTAD, Coffee Board, APEDA and Coir Board while working with National Centre for Trade Information-a joint venture of ITPO and NIC under Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
Mr. Sinha headed Western U.P. Zone of CII based at Noida during the period 2005-2008, besides taking charge as State Head-UP in the year 2007. Also Headed the Manufacturing Competitiveness Sub-committee of CII-Northern Region. Took up a number of activities related to promoting Innovations, Industry-institute partnership, skill development programmes and CSR.
Mr. Abhay Sinha is currently working as Regional Director in Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (PHARMEXCIL), an organization set up by Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt of India. He is also pursuing PhD in Management from AIMA-AMU.

Mr. Cherian George
E-mail – cherian.george@jimsindia.org
After having graduated from Hindu College of University of Delhi, he completed his master’s degree in Business Management (MBM) from Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University in the year 1976. Mr. George has an interesting and varied corporate experience of over 34 years of which 21 years was involved in marketing of services. He has considerable experience in marketing with Remington Rand of India Ltd. Times group of publications and marketing of Business Information Services with Reed Business Information – a division of Reed Elsiever Group Plc. Mr. Cherian George also served as head of marketing for over 13 years with National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) - a leading provider of Business Information, Training and Development and Consultancy Services in the area of International Trade.
Mr. George is widely travelled and during his tenure with NCTI conceptualized, marketed and implemented several projects involving market surveys, exports potential studies, industry reports, capacity building programs and also setting up Trade Information Centres for Ministry of Commerce, Export Promotion Councils and Commodity Boards.
He is currently associated with JIMS as an Associate Professor and Head of MDP Cell.

Certificate of Participation:

All the participants attending this program will be awarded “Certificate of Participation” at the end of the program.

Participation charges:

Above charges are inclusive of course material, Lunch, Tea/coffee and refreshments.

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