The Vizagapatam Chamber of Commerce & Industry hosted a first of its kind historic interactive meet with Vizianagaram Chamber of Commerce along with Youth Wing and Women’s Wing on 04th Oct 2023 at Hotel Daspalla to discuss the past & future activities of the Chamber along with the current Industry Scenario and issues/challenges faced by the business community in today’s time. The meeting was jointly presided by Mr. Sudarsan Swamy Mangalagiri, President VCCI and Mr. Prakash President Vizianagaram Chamber.
The interactive forum was attended and participated by more than 85 members including Mr. Sudarsan Swamy- President VCCI, Mr. Rolland Williams -Hony. Secretary VCCI, Mr. Md Riaz Khan- Hony Secretary VCCI, Ms. Jeeja Valsaraj - Women’s Wing VCCI President, Ms. Sandhya Godey- Women’s Wing VCCI Vice President, Mr. Rohit Kancharla - Youth Wing VCCI Vice President. Mr. Prakash Kapuganti - President of Vizianagaram Chamber, Mr. Ravva Srinivas - Secretary of Vizianagaram Chamber,Mr. Karteekm Gudisa - President of Youth Wing Vizianagaram Chamber,Mr. Venkanna Babu Kedarsetty - Secretary of Youth Wing Vizianagaram Chamber, Ms.Jyothi Gudisa - Women’s Wing Incharge and Chamber Vice President, Mr. Sobhan Prakash, Vice Chairman of AP Chambers, attended and graced the occasion.
The objective of the meeting is to exchange business ideas and explore business opportunities in both districts. during the session one fantastic out of the box idea was shared by a VCCI member company representative Mr. Winston S. K. Adams, Vice President, Fluentgrid Limited that when all industry committee segments are pretty actively engaged at Vizianagaram - if a IT Sub-Committee can be established in the Vizianagaram Chamber of Commerce and a plan to establish Vizianagaram as a IT hub would be great. It can cater to the huge number of educated youth (graduates, MCA and B.Tech in Computer Science) hailing from Palasa to Vizianagaram districts who are migrating to major cities and metros in want of a job. This will not only act as a boon for the students and their parents but also lead to economic growth of this region. All in all a decentralised IT cluster can be established, therefore contributing to the GDP of Andhra Pradesh as a whole. A detailed plan can be carved out after doing a survey of these districts with the concerned stakeholders and presented to honourable IT Minister and then to our honourable Chief Minister for their kind consideration. Hope this partnership between VCCI established in 1931 and the Vizianagaram Chamber of Commerce & Industry established in 1947 goes a long way in propelling its Members businesses and our country’s economy as a whole.
Both the Chamber Youth Wing and Women’s Wing have a group discussions on their individual business activities and the chamber activities. The Women’s Wing group was headed by Ms. Jeeja Valsaraj – VCCI Women’s Wing President and Youth Wing group was headed by Mr. Rohit
Kancharla VCCI Youth Wing Vice President. They also had a discussion on extending invitations for the future events.
The interaction was concluded with the joint summary session by Mr. Sudarsan Swamy Mangalagiri, President VCCI and Mr. Prakash Vizianagaram Chamber.
VCCI President and his team handed over a mementoes to the officer bearer of Vizianagaram Chamber of Commerce on behalf of VCCI as a token of their appreciation.
Mr. Riaz Khan Treasurer VCCI proposed the vote of thanks.
