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He
further informed that under the 10th plan
IFCOMA is setting up One stop resource Centre in four
- five footwear manufactuiring areas and a proposal for
Kolkata has been handed over to the Honorable Chief
Guest Shri Somnath Chatterjee, MP and Chairman West Bengal Industrial
Development Corpn Ltd. for his support. He also requested the
Honorable Minister and the CLE for taking up the matter with
the Honorable Finance Minister for "Exempting footwear
components & accessories from purview of Excise" for
atleast 3 years and "to rationalise the custom duty on its
imports" so that level playing safeguard is provided against
unhealthy imports from China affecting growth in our domestic
industry. He expressed fear that delay may lead to large scale
un-employment world over and that may cause revolt in the
implementation of WTO agreement in next 2-3 years. Mr Almal
informed of huge raw material consumption by this sector and
was confident of self reliance in producing "Sole Moulds",
"Last modelling" and the "Designing"
work in the next 2-3 years making India self reliant.
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Dr. Ramasami
in his address emphasized the
importance of the Component sector for
overall growth of the footwear sector and
stressed the need to develop this sector if
India has to become a major player in the
world "Footwear" trade. He informed of
financial support being formulated for
development of the Footwear component
industry during the 10th
five-year plan period. He further told that
the tanners should take the shifting to a
new complex as modernization of their
tannery while the unorganized footwear units
should also do modernization adopting
latest technology.
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Mr Ehsanuzzaman
praised the move of IFCOMA
and assured all support to the component
sector for mutual benefit. He stated, as
shoe-manufacturing process is very
complicated and need development in
component industry can give boost to the
footwear units. Reacting to the development
of mould highlighted by IFCOMA president, he
informed that Bata India Ltd. is looking for
international standard moulds to substitute
their import dependence from Italy.
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