The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

 CII is a business association in India.

 CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization.
 Founded in 1895, it has over 8,300 members, from the private as well as public sectors,
including SMEs and MNCs
 CII works with the Government on policy issues.
 With 67 offices, including 9 Centres of Excellence, in India, and 11 overseas offices in
Australia, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Iran, Singapore, South Africa, United
Kingdom and United States, as well as institutional partnerships with 344 counterpart
organizations in 129 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and
the international business community.

Services
 Policy Advocacy
 International and National Business development
 Nurturing Competitiveness
 Corporate Business Responsibility

Key people- Shobhana kanineni (President)

Chandrajit banarjee ( Director Gerneral)

Roles of CII

Primary goal of CII is to develop Indian industry and to ensure that government and society as a
whole, understand both the needs of industry and its contribution to the nation's well being.

 To identify and strengthen industry's role in the economic development of the country
 To act as a catalyst in bringing about the growth and development of Indian Industry
 To reinforce industry's commitment to society
 To provide up-to-date information and data to industry and government
 To create awareness and support industry's efforts on quality, environment, energy
management, and consumer protection
 To identify and address the special needs of the small sector to make it more competitive
 To work towards the globalisation of Indian industry and integration into the world economy

This is done by adopting a proactive and partnership approach with the government on various
national and international issues concerning the Indian economy. It closely interacts on policy
issues at both the central and state levels. Extensive dialogue and interaction with members
and all sections of the community to build consensus are held.
Policy Advocacy
CII has over 500 ‘Intellectual Groups’ – Councils, Committees, Task Forces, Working Groups,
among others – working at the national and regional levels, across industry sectors. These Groups
give shape to and articulate Member concerns to Government policy makers, Regulators, Think
Tanks etc. They work pro-actively with Government to formulate policies that would empower
businesses.

International Business Development

CII aims to sustain India’s international worldwide and also perform towards building CII as the first
port of call for foreign delegations that wish to enlist with India and for the national industry that wish
to approach traditional and emerging markets overseas.
CII International works under CII International Policy and Trade Council. The principal goal of the CII
International Policy and Trade Council is to commence activities to relate Indian & global
businesses. The council also work towards developing market approach for Indian exporters;
identifying the requirements of the minor sectors to make them extra ambitiousadopting an
aggressive approach with foreign governments on various international affairs regarding the Indian
economy; restoring the industry about the current Round of negotiations under the Doha
Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization and the Free trade agreements that India has
signed or is negotiating with various countries / regions.
The CII International works at close proximity with the Ministry of External Affairs, the Ministry of
Commerce and Industry and the Indian embassies / missions’ overseas for creating helpful policies
and agendas for trade and investment.They also work closely with the foreign embassies / missions
in India, international institutions / multilateral agencies, think tanks and the various universities.

Nurturing Competitiveness
Centres of Excellence
In 1995, it began offering customised advisory and consultancy services and training programmes
through its "Centres of Excellence". Today, CII has 9 Centres of Excellence across India, each
focusing on different aspects to offer services to industry from diverse sectors.

 CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai

 CII Institute of Quality, Bangalore – CII Institute of Quality promotes awareness of Quality for
enhancing the competitiveness of Indian industry; provides education, training and counseling
services in 'soft technologies', relevant to the Quality process; recognizes organizations for
excellence in quality; and provides a knowledge sharing platform of best practices, performance
and strategies for enterprise competitiveness.
 CII – ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, Delhi – The Centre provides
direction to the business community towards achieving sustainability with the right tools to build
their business and frame their policies such that they attain the social, environmental and
economic objectives.[11]
 CII – AVANTHA Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs – The Centre works exclusively to
enhance the competitiveness of MSMEs in India and provide consultancy and trainings in areas
such as Manufacturing Excellence, Energy Efficiency, Cost Management, Total Employee
Involvement, e-Learning, Corrosion Management etc.
 CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad – CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green
Business Centre offers advisory services to the industry in the areas of Green buildings, energy
 efficiency, water management, environmental management, renewable energy, Green business
incubation and climate change activities.
 CII – Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership, Kolkata – The CII-Suresh Neotia
Centre of Excellence for Leadership serves as a facilitator for development of leaders in India.
The Centre works to establish partnerships with similar organisations and global institutions for
maximum mutual benefit. The centre currently organizes special programmes on leadership
development for Government officials, including managers of public sector undertakings and
institutions to meet their special needs.
 CII – Jubilant Bhartia Food & Agriculture Centre of Excellence, New Delhi- CII – Jubilant
Bhartia Food & Agriculture Centre of Excellence works closely with government, industry,
farmers and consumers to improve on and off-farm productivity through the introduction and
dissemination of global best practices and technological innovation, enhance capacity building
by providing training and consultancy services in the area of food safety, and strengthening
linkages across the agriculture and food value chain with an objective of reducing spoilage,
increasing value add and farmer incomes.

Corporate social responsibility

CII correlates with Government, NGOs, and civil society to help industry flourish effective programs
for social development. It provides numerous stances through which representatives can undertake
on various issues, such as gender equality, microfinance, development of backward
districts, HIV/AIDS and public health. Through focused interventions, CII endure to mainstream
economically and socially challenged entities and bring them into a phase of growth, development
and empowerment. All these interventions are launched under CII’s broad canvas of "Development
Initiatives".

Membership
CII has direct membership of over 8000 organisations and indirect membership of over 200,000,
from around 240 national and regional sectoral associations.
The membership is open to any company or firm in India engaged in manufacturing activity or
providing consultancy services.

myCII – Online Knowledge Resource Centre of CII

CII as a part of its knowledge management initiatives has developed a unique Knowledge Portal
'myCII' which is a state-of-the-art online knowledge resource centre of CII. This includes
premium research reports, recordings of conference proceedings, thousands of sector specific
presentations, online master class videos, Webinar recordings, Investment and Policy Trackers, B2B
Opportunities and online database of member companies.

The Doha Round

The Doha Round is the latest round of trade negotiations among the WTO membership. Its
aim is to achieve major reform of the international trading system through the introduction of
lower trade barriers and revised trade rules. The work programme covers about 20 areas of
trade. The Round is also known semi-officially as the Doha Development Agenda as a
fundamental objective is to improve the trading prospects of developing countries.