KOCHI:
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) will be focusing more on & ease of doing business & in the state in coming days, its chairman Dr. Christy Fernandez said.
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Financial Planning Systems Private Limited, Dr. Fernandez said KSIDC is trying to create a favourable eco-system for start-ups.
So far KSIDC was functioning as an agency to provide finances to the entrepreneurs, he said. But in the coming years the focus will be on the “ease of doing business”, he added.
He said that KSIDC, in its new role, will handhold the new units and equip them to meet the challenges of the market. There are many institutions to provide finance, he said. But there are very few agencies that can nurture the units and provide solutions to their problems at every stage, he added.
Dr. Christy Fernandez said that there are those who see only the short comings of the state’s effort to promote investments. There are many small investors with new ideas in every field. They can bring about a major change. The example is the tourism sector, he pointed out. It was the small investors who invested in infrastructure to make Kerala tourism a success story.
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