VENDOR DEVLOPMENT PROGRAMMES

Small Industry Development Organisation through its field institutes i.e. Small Industries Service Institutes is conducting a number of National/State level Vendor Development Programmes which provide a common platform for buying as well as selling organizations to inter-act with each other with a view to identifying emerging demands of the buyer organizations while simultaneously providing an opportunity for displaying the capabilities of the small scale entrepreneurs and their industrial ventures. Such Programmes have proved to be of immense use in locating suitable entrepreneurs by a number of buying organizations including the various Wings of Defence, Railways and others in indigenising a number of products which hitherto were imported at a colossal cost that too from the hard currency areas.

Keeping in view the benefits from holding of such VDPs-dum-Buyer-Seller-Meets (BSM)-cum-Exhibitions, the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India while announcing a Comprehensive Policy Package fro Small Scale industries & Tiny Sector specifically mentioned "The Vendor Development Programmes-cum-Buyer-Seller-Meets and Exhibitions will take place more often and in dispersed locations".

Director General Quality Assurance, Directorate General Air Quality Assurance, Eastern/Western/Southern Naval Commands, the Railways, the ONGC, Defence Public Sector Undertakings and a number of large industrial undertakings (Public and Private Sector) besides a large number of small scale industrial undertakings have been participating in our Programmes and have registered useful gains.

40-50 such programmes are being conducted every year throughout the country of which 15-20 are of national level. During 2001-2002 about 50 programmes are to be conducted of which 20 will be of national level.