More demand for diploma holders in industries: PP Upadhya

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Jan 5,2013: PP Upadhya, Managing Director of Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), has said that MRPL has an annual turnover of Rs 57,000 crore and plans to manufacture new products in the expansion phase.

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He was speaking after inaugurating two-day national Vendor Development Programme and seminar cum industrial exhibition organized at Karnataka Polytechnic on January 5, Saturday. The programme was organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSME Development Institute (MSMEDI), District Industries Centre (DIC) and District Small Industries Association (DSIA).

Upadhya also said that the company would be executing a Polypropylene unit with an investment of Rs.1803.78 crore with a purpose of producing Polypropylene from the Propylene products.

He said that MRPL sells 45 %- 50% of its manufactured products in the export market and further aims to produce Petroleum Coke as a value added product.

Around 50-60 percent of staff in MRPL are diploma certificate holders, he said adding polytechnic institutes must produce more diploma holders to provide sufficient workers to the growing industrial sector, he said. There is much demand for diploma holders in small and mega industries as large number of students opt for engineering courses as the number of engineering colleges increase.

M Prabhu, Additional Director for MSME said that MSME contributes largely to the Nation’s GDP and MSME in the state supports it with 40 percent of the industrial output and 30 percent of the exports.

He also said that registered MSMEs is just about 5 percent, hence it is necessary to promote incubator centers and facilitation councils in the state.

MSMEDI Director SM Jamakhandi presided over the event. MSMEDI Deputy Director K Socrates, DSIA President K Jayaraj Pai, KCCI President Mohammed Amin, Karnataka Small Scale Industrial Association Joint Secretary Santhosh D’Souza and DIC Joint Director SG Hegde were the chief guests.

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