Mr. Chandrakant Salunkhe
Mr. Chandrakant Salunkhe is a Founder and President of Gujarat Industry Development Association (GIDA) and has been a serial & successful entrepreneur, influencer, mentor, business rights activist, having rich experience in the manufacturing sector, business management, international trade, SME empowerment, Government policies & international business co-operation. Mr. Chandrakant Salunkhe has spent 9 years in the family-owned business and later on established his own business group “Macro Group of Companies” in 1991, involved in the manufacturing and export of Industrial Packaging Machinery, equipments, industrial products, food processing Machinery & products. Macro Group is also involved in industrial construction and infrastructure development to support existing and upcoming SMEs & manufacturers to set up their advanced manufacturing units and smart factories in the various parts of India.
Mr. Salunkhe has observed during the early 90s that the competition has increased due to the globalization and therefore, the small & mid-sized enterprises, especially manufacturers have been facing the tremendous hurdles and issues for responding their business activities and therefore, he has founded “SME Chamber of India” in 1993 to provide a platform to small & medium entrepreneurs to connect each other to communicate and exchange business ideas, opportunities and identify partners for supply and procurement as well as to create awareness about various business opportunities, trends, competition, Government policies & schemes for their benefits.
The Chamber has been providing support to SMEs for business growth and expansion, acquisition of technology for quality productivity, banking finance for further growth, export opportunities in emerging markets, establishing collaborations with the foreign companies for contract manufacturing, joint ventures, technology transfers, new products design & development, innovations, inventions , patented and advanced industrial technologies for quality productivity and global competitiveness and connectivity with the large corporates for supply and procurement, franchise, distribution and marketing.
Mr. Chandrakant Salunkhe has been on the forefront to take up various issues and grievances related to SMEs, exporters & manufacturing sectors with Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Government officials, heads of regulatory authorities & financial institutions for providing level playing field by improving policy framework and speedy implementation of various schemes for availing the benefits for SMEs & manufacturing sectors. Mr. Salunkhe has always been advocating for “Ease of Doing Business” to secure and protect the interest and investment of SMEs and manufacturing industries, who have been providing large employment and competition for economic and industrial growth of the nation.
Mr. Salunkhe is always encouraging SMEs & manufacturers for adopting unique concepts and ideas to improve their excellence in manufacturing for quality productivity and global competitiveness and empowering them to accomplish the vision and mission of Hon’ble Prime Minister to march towards “Viksit Bharat” & to make India as a manufacturing hub of the world.
Mr. Chandrakant Salunkhe has put efforts for transformation and upgradation of the definition of SSI to MSME through late Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister in 2002 and simultaneously through late Dr. Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister in 2006, initiated “SME Stock Exchange” through SEBI in 2008, strongly advocated to set up TReDS platform to receive Trade Receivables from large corporate and Government agencies for MSME sectors during the tenure of Mr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of RBI, National Skill Development Corporation with the influence of Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the then Vice Chairman of Planning Commission to provide skilled manpower to MSME and manufacturing sectors, unique contribution for the benefit of small enterprises to get collateral free loans through SIDBI in 2002, upgradation of the Definition of MSMEs to compete with the international enterprises from Mr. Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister in 2019.
Mr. Salunkhe is regularly interacting with the Governor of RBI, officials of Ministry of Finance as well as senior executives of financial institutions and banks to enhance the financial facilities towards MSMEs and SME sector to continue their contributions for nation building. He has taken lead to set up SME Industrial Parks of India for providing end to end solutions to the SMEs to set up manufacturing units in the various of India, especially in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
Mr. Salunkhe has been travelling extensively for establishing business co-operation and partnership with the various international organisations, Government Departments, FIs, Investment Boards, Industrial Parks, and various Chambers of Commerce from USA, Canada, UK, Israel, various European Countries, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Singapore, Bahrain, UAE, South Africa, Oman, Mauritius, Qatar, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and all GCC Countries to support Indian enterprises for business, exports and channelise investments.
Mr. Salunkhe is regularly sharing his views, comments, suggestions, speeches and thoughts as a keynote speaker at the various business conferences, round tables, Government meetings, meetings, global events and other business activities on SMEs, manufacturing, Start-ups, banking, finance, international trade, technology, packaging, innovations, inventions, marketing, supply chain, international collaborations, industrial automation & transformation, family-owned businesses and other business sectors. He has been always writing articles and sharing his views/comments in the leading business newspapers and business TV channels.
Mr. Salunkhe has taken lead to encourage entrepreneurs, start-ups and women entrepreneurs to enter into manufacturing activities and providing support & guidance to explore various opportunities.
Mr. Salunkhe leads his own companies:
Mr. Salunkhe can be contacted on : president@gidaorg.com