CNCI appoints Vignarajah as Special Rep.

The Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI) has appointed past chairman K.V. Vignarajah as the Special Representative for SME and Infrastructure Development in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.

In announcing the appointment, CNCI Chairman Tissa Seneviratne said  Vignarajah, who is a Past Chairman of the Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI), is  one of the very senior advisors who is highly conversant with the Chamber Movement and enterprise development. He had been the Chairman of the Executive Board of Management of the famous Project “Small and Medium Enterprise Developers” (SMED) in Sri Lanka for its first 3 years.

The project was funded by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Germany. During this period, he and his team closely worked with the administration, chambers, and the SMEs in all the provinces, (except the North and East) in terms of providing them with training, technical assistance, advice on Product innovation, Quality assurance, Finance, Marketing and business linkages etc in order to uplift the SME sector in the country. He was unable to complete those tasks in the North and East at that time. They need special attention, care and assistance to develop as they have been isolated for nearly three decades.

“In our Annual Competition- “Achievers Awards”, we have specially recognised manufacturing and

service sectors in the Northern and Eastern provinces. We require Mr. Vignarajah to use his vast experience now to complete the balance work that had been left out for a long time to boost the SME Sector in the two provinces. He was a reputed industrialist and consultant in the country and internationally. Now he willingly spares much time to impart his knowledge and experiences with others in the country as a CSR work jointly with CNCI,”said CNCI Chairman Seneviratne.

“The Ceylon National Chamber of Industries has appointed Vignarajah as the special representative to serve the industrialists and Chambers in the North and East,” he added.