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COMMITTEE REPORT
Utkarsh Committee
Mr. Samarth Sheth
Co-Chairman – Utkarsh Committee
Itruly thank the Kayakalp initiative that brought Utkarsh of our activities and is an invitation for more
into existence on March 3, 2016 at Waterstone, Andheri participation.
East. Through the guidance of our mentors and well
wishers Mr. Sanju Desai, Sr. VP-AIPMA, Er. RK Agarwal, II. Industrial Visits
President & Chairman-Utkarsh, Mr. Haren Sanghavi, VP Our learning process as entrepreneurs is
West and Mr. Jagat Killawala, VP Finance; Mr. Kailash continuous and we learn best through experiences
Murarka, Chairman PVI, our learning curve so far has or actually being present at the time of the
been a steep one! Amongst the various activities we have process being conducted. Industrial Visits to
already involved ourselves, following are a few I would Automobile manufacturers, FMCG companies and
like to highlight: most importantly peer-peer group visits has been
• Newsletters planned; this initiative will start in September
• Industrial visits with a visit to Mercedes Benz plant in Pune. This
• Tying up with NGOs and Citizen Groups visit will soon be followed by a visit to some of
• Promoting Plastivision via Social Media and ideation our members’ plants in Daman.
for creative content III. Tying up with NGOs and Citizen Groups
I. Newsletters
One of the initiatives of the Environmental
While newsletters were a monthly affair, giving Committee is to tie up with as many NGOs and
the youth club 2 pages in the magazine and the Citizens groups as possible and see how AIPMA can
online version, we were able to put articles be instrumental in solving day to day problems
pertaining to the HR challenges, innovations
we have come across within our SME sector faced by these groups. Akhilesh
companies and reports on our visits to the NGOs has a dream to be able to touch
and citizens club, for 2 issues of the 4 we have a million lives by the good work
been in existence since. Our efforts are on the Environmental committee
to make a difference in conjunction with the is doing and will continue to do;
Environment Committee under the Chairmanship the Utkarsh team’s endevour is
of Mr. Akhilesh Bhargava and Mr. Haren Sanghavi. to be instrumental in achieving
The newsletters in effect will be a face of the this goal! Following are a few
team which will communicate to our members Organisations/ Citizen Groups
we have come in touch with:
• FORCE - Forum of Recyclers Community and
Environment
FORCE has a collection and segregation
centre in Bandra West where it collects
upto 1 MT of plastic bottles and upto 500
kilos of plastic related scrap
(Tetrapak, laminated wrappers,
etc), they also receive upto 1 MT
of Dry waste. BMC has provided
them with 3 tempos to collect
plastic waste thus generated from
Bandra and its vicinity, in addition
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