The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India is organizing Udyog Manthan - a marathon of focused sector-specific webinars for promoting Quality and Productivity in Indian Industry in association with Quality Council of India, National Productivity Council, and Industry bodies. It is being held from January 4, 2021 to March 2, 2021.

Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Government of India will chair the session on 6^th January, 2021.

The webinar series comprising 45 sessions will cover various major sectors in manufacturing and services. Each webinar will be a two hour session involving discussions led by sectoral and industry experts in a particular sector. Participants will include representatives from industry, testing and standardization bodies. The discussions will be live streamed on YouTube for all those interested in following the sessions.

Udyog Manthan will identify challenges, opportunities; draw upon solutions and best practices. The conversations will enable learning across industries and sectors for enhancing quality and productivity to promote 'Vocal for Local' and realizing the vision of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'.

Shri Piyush Goyal has called upon the Indian industry to focus on improving Quality and Productivity, and undertake brainstorming sessions on these aspects so that the Country gets recognition as high quality, efficient manufacturer, trader and service-provider.

Industry quality and productivity initiative promotes local manufacturing and efficiency through sector-specific webinar series and expert discussions. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, with Quality Council of India, National Productivity Council and industry bodies, is conducting 45 sector-specific webinars across manufacturing and services featuring experts and representatives from industry and testing and standardization bodies, live-streamed for wide participation to identify challenges, share solutions and best practices, and enhance quality, productivity and local manufacturing in support of 'Vocal for Local' and 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'.