By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Dec. 29: Chamber of Industry Morang has implemented CIM Business Clinic as a service to solve the problems of industry and business.
The business clinic has come into operation after the delegation of the CIM presented to the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies Arjun Prasad Pokharel and the team of the Ministry about the problems related to 104 different areas and subjects of the member industry establishments collected so far.

Suyash Pyakurel, president of the CIM, said that the member industry establishments have agreed to set up a contact coordination point at the Ministry of Industry and conduct meeting between the business and the Ministry to facilitate for problem solving.
The CIM is conducting an industry tour programme to visit the member establishments directly to collect the problems of the member industries, according to a press statement of CIM.
The problems collected in this way are categorised into implementation level, policy level, industry specific or common problem and energy, tax, revenue, labour, customs, export-import, banking and financial sector, local government and so on.

With the focus on the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, it will be easier to take initiative and make efforts to solve the problems of the industrialists from one place, said Pyakurel.
He said that the business clinic has been implemented as a model programme realising the need for the business clinic with the objective of lobbying for the solution of the problems of the member industry establishments as per the annual strategic action plan of the CIM.

The business clinic run by the CIM has two components, including internal and external. Under the internal component, business health checkup service is available to diagnose the internal potential of the related industry or business and under the external component, visit the industries for collection and identification of business problems, classification of problems, policy analysis and research and solution under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies.

Director General of the CIM Chudamani Bhattarai has said that issues such as facilitation through focal points have been included.
During the discussion held at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, other programmes of the CIM, including skill development programme, startup and innovation programme, Centre for industrial studies, policy debate and advocacy framework were also presented.

Speaking on the occasion, Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies Pokharel said that the government was ready to work in collaboration as all the programmes put forward by the CIM are under the objective of the government.