MCCI
The Madras Chamber
MONTHLY REPORT NOVEMBER 2021
The Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry
MONTHLY REPORT - NOVEMBER 2021 SCHEDULE OF VIRTUAL PROGRAMS - NOVEMBER 2021
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9th & 10th November 2021 UTC Conference “City Climate Ac�on- Building a Resilient Chennai”
17th November 2021 Session on Safeguarding against Financial Frauds in Digital Space
General Commi�ee Mee�ng
Expert Commi�ee Mee�ng
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MCCI
The Madras Chamber
MONTHLY REPORT - NOVEMBER 2021
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MCCI
The Madras Chamber
9th & 10th November 2021
UTC Conference on “City Climate Ac�on- Building a Resilient Chennai” The Chamber launched the Sustainable Chennai Forum (SCF) on November 9, 2011, during our 175th year and through this forum we focus on areas like Energy, Water, Waste Management, Transport and Urban Greening and have conducted Conferences, Seminars and awareness programs on a regular basis.
In the last four years, the Chamber has been privileged to host the Urban Thinkers Campus, the first of its kind in Chennai, under the World Urban Campaign, namely “Chennai as a Global City” in 2017, followed by “Roadmap to Zero waste in Chennai” in the year 2018 and “Making Chennai Water Posi�ve” in the year 2019 and “Making Chennai a Climate Smart City” in the year 2020. Our Knowledge Partner was Na�onal Ins�tute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) for all the four Conferences. Further, during the current pandemic, the Chamber took part in the #COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus Series 2 and had a Session on “Housing for All to Create Sustainable and Inclusive Ci�es” with NIUA and other partner organisa�ons. The Chamber organized the fi�h (virtual) Conference under UTC, on the theme “City Climate Ac�on- Building a Resilient Chennai”. The Conference spread across for 2 days on 9th and 10th November 2021 coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of Sustainable Chennai Forum. In the Inaugural Session, Mr.Srivats Ram, President MCCI gave the welcome address and briefed about the ac�vi�es of the Sustainable Chennai Forum. Ms Chris�ne Auclair,Head of Advocacy and Campaigns Unit External Rela�ons, Strategy, Knowledge and Innova�on ,UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya spoke on the UN Habitat ini�a�ves . Mr. Karthik Ganesan, Fellow and Director – Research Coordina�on, Council for Energy, Environment & Water (CEEW) Ms.K.Saraswathi, Secretary General proposed the formal vote of thanks
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Day 1: - Urban Thinkers Session 1: Policy and Planning for a Resilient Chennai Dr. Uma Maheshwaran Rajasekar, Chair Urban Resilience – Global Resilience Ci�es Network Na�onal Ins�tute of Urban Affairs(NIUA), New Delhi moderated the Session. The topics in this session and the speakers were Dr. Laveesh Bhandari, Economist & President, Indicus Founda�on addressed on the Impact of Climate Changes on Ci�es and the Need for Climate Proofing. Dr. Sugato Du� IFS,former Member Secretary, State Planning Commission addressed on Cri�cality of Land Use and Land Cover in resilience planning. Mr. S. Rajendran, Chief Engineer – General, Greater Chennai Corpora�on made a presenta�on on Chennai’s preparedness to cope and recover from climate disasters - Learnings from the Past. Ms. Eveline Bronsdijk, Sustainability Advisor, Urban Development Dept., Municipality of Ro�erdam made a presenta�on on Case Study & Experience sharing. Day 2 : Urban Thinkers Session 2: Cri�cal Physical Infrastructure for Building Resilience Mr. Rajivan Krishnaswamy, IAS ( R ) & Former Senior Urban Finance Specialist, World Bank moderated the Session The topics in this session and the speakers were Ms. Aishwarya Raman Associate Director and Head of Research, Ola Mobility Ins�tute (OMI) made a presenta�on on The Promise of Shared, Connected, Electric and Autonomous Mobility for India. Dr. Jayashree Vencatesan, Managing Trustee, Care Earth Trust made a presenta�on on Chennai Resilience – Blue Green Infrastructure. Mr. Benjamin John, City Advisor Bengaluru & Chennai, C 40 ci�es made a presenta�on on Cri�cal Grey Infrastructure for Building Resilience. Urban Thinkers Session 3: Strengthening Social Infrastructure for Resilience Dr.Nambi Appadurai, Director of the Climate Resilience Prac�ce of World Resources Ins�tute (WRI) India moderated the Session The topics in this session and the speakers were Dr. R. Jayanthi, Dean,Omandurar Government Medical College, Chennai addressed on the Enhancing Health care Infrastructure: Lessons learnt from the Pandemic Dr. Abdul Razak Mohamed, Professor and Head, Department of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh made a presenta�on on "Including the Excluded Urban Community Towards Building Social Resilience Dr. Ajith Kaliyath, Urban Chair/Professor, Kerala Ins�tute of Local Administra�on made a presenta�on on Community Resilience – Cri�cality of Social Infrastructure
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Valedictory Session The Valedictory Session was addressed by Dr. Jayanthi. M, IFS, Special Secretary (Environment & Climate Change) Department of Environment & Climate Change & Forests, Government of Tamil Nadu. The program was a�ended by 100+ par�cipants who gave a posi�ve feedback.
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17th November 2021
Session on Safeguarding against Financial Frauds in Digital Space
The Chamber organised an exclusive virtual session on how to safeguard against financial frauds in Digital Space on 17th November 2021 under the auspices of the IT & ITes Commi�ee. Ms. Saraswathi welcomed the speakers. Mr.L.Ashok, Chairman, MCCI IT & ITES Commi�ee gave the opening remarks and set the context for the session. He introduced the Chief Guest, Mr.Shankar Jiwal, IPS, Commissioner of Police. Mr. Shankar Jiwal IPS in his address elaborated on the ini�a�ves taken by the Chennai police to overcome the cyber crime as follows: CCT’s (Cyber Cell Teams) are placed in all the 12 districts in the Chennai City who happens to be the first responders. And this is headed by the Sub-Inspectors & few other people. Their job is to escalate the seriousness and will flag it to the NCRP (Na�onal Cyber Crime Repor�ng Portal). There is also a helpline 155260 for flagging in this. Then the Chennai Crime Branch Team will take it forward. He added that as of now there is one Police sta�on another 4 more are likely to come in future in the Chennai City.They are now insis�ng on IEC (Informa�on-Educa�on-Communica�on) to the target popula�on and to educate the public. This has to be a con�nuous mechanism and interac�on is necessary with the Public, He requested the Chamber to to join hands to make this possible. He also suggested they can have a “Cyber Arangam” where there can be a mee�ng with the industry people on a regular basis to address their problems.
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Some apps or tools can be made for the same. He said, ini�ally this interac�on can be commenced with a Newsle�er or an internal publica�on among us to know the volume of transac�ons to be addressed. Mr. V. Srinivas, Co-Chairman, MCCI IT/ITES Commi�ee proposed the formal vote of thanks. In the technical session, Mr. Vi�al Raj, Partner, Kumar & Raj moderated the session. Ms. G. Nagajothi, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch, Chennai City briefed on the theme, Untold Stories and Advice and Ac�ons from the Police Department followed by a presenta�on on Cyber Crime and Security by Ms. B.H.Shajitha, Addi�onal Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Wing, Chennai City. Mr. Ramesh Vijayakumar, Vice President & Head, Digital Banking, DBS Bank India Ltd. made a presenta�on on Digital payments, managing risks, protec�ng the transac�ons. Mr. Tarun Wig, Founder, Innefu Labs made a detailed presenta�on on Technology to your defence for iden�fying and ac�ng against financial frauds. In the Q and A Session, moderated by Mr. Vi�al Raj, all the queries were answered and the 200 + par�cipants gave a posi�ve feedback.
General Commi�ee Mee�ng General Commi�ee Mee�ng was held on 13th November 2021 Expert Commi�ee Mee�ngs Company Law Commi�ee – 25th November 2021 Legal Affairs Commi�ee – 30th November 2021
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