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History | Achievements | Award | Registration | Aims & Objectives | Services Offered | Representations | Golden Jubilee |
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Representatives of some prominent factories gathered together on 16th February 1948 to form this Association. It has a glorious past with chequered history, of innumerable instances where it has raised its voice against the anti-industrial policy of Central & State Government, Quasi Government organizations & Municipal bodies, setting up of infrastructural facilities for common man with tremendous successful results over the period of more than four decades. |
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The first successful protest to raise its voice against the then Kurla Borough Municipality which levied arbitrary and exorbitant tax assessment on the industries in the region. Through continuous pressure, the Government had to relent and supersede the Municipality.
History reveals that the Association was instrumental in setting up several infrastructural amenities, like setting up of Bus Services, Postal and Telegraph Offices, Separate Telephone Exchange even by offering extra space then available with the concerned industries for the benefit of public interest. It also once contemplated to take over the then Suburban Bus Service- which was not operating properly inconveniencing the public.
Its marvelous achievement was to set up Two Industrial Estates viz. Kurla Industrial Estate and Marol Industrial Estate, in the early sixties, which are still humming with Hi-Tech Industrial activities, and bears testimony to the Association's Monumental efforts to contribute to the industrial growth of State of Maharashtra. |
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In 1992 - Bombay Industries Association has been adjudged as the best Association among the various Chambers of Commerce, Federations of Industries Trade, etc., and has been awarded the prestigious JAMNALAL BAJAJ UCHIT VYAVAHAR PURASKAR for Fair Business Practices upholding interests of common man. |
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So far BIA has been a forum of over 1000 cross-section of manufacturing industries located in and around Bombay and now ready to spread its wings to cover the entire nation as it has now received recognition from the government of India by incorporating it as a Company u/s 25 of Companies Act 1956.
Its present management Committee Members are humble enough to affirm their faith to tread on the enshrined aims, objects & social services offered so far and to widen its scope further for the betterment of industrial progress and service to humanity at large. |
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The Association acts as a platform to bring the Government and Industry together and services the needs of the industrial community. In addition, Bombay Industries Association aims are to encourage and promote a sense of fellowship and sound understanding among industrialists and businessmen, keeping in view their general, commercial and industrial interests. |
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SERVICES OFFERED » |
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The Association has catered to the needs and benefits of its Members and Business Community at large. It is not just a Grievances Ventilating Body, the common concept of other Associations, but, it is a service forum rendering important services to the Industrial Community. It acts as a channel to ventilate the Members views, by way of reactions, to the State and Central Government. |
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Members are informed, regularly, of all important happenings concerning the Industrial and Business Community by means of Circulars, News-letters, Lectures, Seminars & Dialogue Meetings. |
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Panel of Consultants » |
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The Association has a panel of highly qualified Consultants to guide Members on various matters relating to Labour, Customs, Central Excise, Income Tax, Sales Tax, Company Law, Organizational Management, Patent Law and Patent Registration, etc. |
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The Association has arranged several Business Promotion Visits to study and adopt the modern technologies of developed and developing countries for the benefit of our Members. Needless to add that several of our Members have established excellent contacts for Export and have also entered into Collaborations, to their mutual benefit.
The countries visited so far are Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius. This year a visit to Main-land China is planned. |
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Inter-City & Intra-City Industrial Visits » |
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The Association arranges the above visits for Industrial Study and Vendor Development. Over the years, many of our Members have benefited, some even culminating as Ancillary Units of Large Industrial Units. |
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Lectures and Seminars » |
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Lectures and seminars on important Legal, Tax, Legislative Enactment and Policies are regularly organized by the Association. |
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We hold our Representation Committee Meetings regularly, where our members are given an opportunity of discussing with officials from various departments of the Central, State & Quasi Government bodies on matters of Individual or Collective Interest. This enables the Government officials to obtain a first hand report on practical difficulties faced by the Industry and Business. Similarly, these Meetings also enable the Members to understand and appreciate the thinking of the Government on present as well as proposed policies. |
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Bombay industries Association submits Pre-Budget and Post-Budget Memoranda both on Direct and Indirect Taxation reflecting the views of our Members. |
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Bombay Industries Association also organizes Public Meetings on the Post- Budget reactions jointly with Forum of Free Enterprises. Eminent tax experts / consultants highlight the main proposals and how these affect the Industries, Trade and Common Man. |
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On behalf at its Members, Bombay Industries Association submits Several representations to the Central, State Governments, Public Sector Organizations, Municipal Corporations, Electricity Boards, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Police Authorities, etc and these receive due considerations from the concerned authorities. |
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Financial institutions viz. Reserve Bank of India, lndustrial Development Bank of India, Unit Trust of India, Indian Banks Association also send us information and even questionnaire to elicit our views and suggestions on several important issues. |
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In order to have an effective voice, Bombay Industries Association has its affiliation with Premier Organizations like ASSOCHAM, Indian Merchants Chamber, Employers Federation of India, Council for Fair Business Practices. We are represented on the Managing Committee of the first three Organizations. This helps us to cover a wide spectrum of subjects and issues which help its to receive and submit feedback from our Members. |
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Golden Jubilee » |
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Bombay Industries Association completed 50 glorious years of its existence in 1998. Over the years, the association has emerged as a rallying point for small and medium scale industries in Bombay. Throughout the history, the Association has rendered yeoman service to Bombay's industries, championing the rights of industry before the government and educating its members about changes in the regulatory, technological, financial and commercial spheres. The Association has gone from strength to strength and stands over a 1000 industries today. The Golden Jubilee Year of the BIA was celebrated in a grand fashion. Several events had been planned between February 1998 and February 1999 as a part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations. These included a series of lectures, debates & seminars, a charity drive, film shows and more. |
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14 February 2012
