Develop Goa as value-addition destination: Mangirish
GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 18 June 2013 13:16 IST
GCCI President Mangirish Raikar with DG R S Kamat
Goa needs to be developed as a value-addition destination with focus on service sector rather than manufacturing industry, feels outgoing GCCI president Mangirish Pai Raikar.
According to him, the focus areas should be Pharma, Entertainment, IT, Education and Hi-tech Engineering.
With the possibility of mining playing much lesser role than before due to several restrictions now expected by the Supreme Court, Raikar also felt that Goa should also be developed as a logistic hub.
The Mormugao Port Trust should be thus developed as a multi-commodity port with more container cargo.
He expressed satisfaction that the GCCI, during his tenure, could play a substantial role in fulfilling the slogan – convert job seekers into jog givers – by developing entrepreneurship skills of Goan youth.
With the help of i-Create and colleges, Raikar said the GCCI could facilitate in creating 60 success stories of college youth, who started their business in several fields.
Similarly, he informed that more than 40 young entrepreneurs are presently getting orientation at the IT Incubation Centre started by the GCCI to take ahead their business to new heights.
The efforts of the GCCI have not only helped the educated youth to start a business but even the commercial sex workers have started a laundry in Sancoale.
Similarly, he said the jail inmates, whose sentence was getting over, were oriented to start a business of supplying pastry and snacks at the Verna Industrial Estate.
As a step further, the GCCI would now hold Masters’ Training Courses for the students of 19 technical colleges, including Polytechnics, said Raikar.
