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SURAT, Nov 25: The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry SGCCI, in a bid to popularise products manufactured in the city and region, has launched its own website. Municipal Commissioner S Jagadeesan, while inaugurating the website on Wednesday evening, said that the move would not only help popularise the local industry in the country, but internationally as well.
Talking to reporters, president of SGCCI Rajendra Chokhawala, said that the SGCCI was the first chamber of commerce that had introduced its own website, through which industrialists could now advertise and popularise their products on a wider scale with nominal costs.8220;Besides the website, people can now have access to information on CD-ROM and printed matter too,8221; he added.
The chamber has already invited those who wish to advertise their products on the Net. Providing details, chairman of the Information Technology committee of the SGCCI, Sharad Kapadia said that advertising costs of one page would cost Rs 13,000 which would include graphics and text. Launched at an initial cost of Rs 1 lakh, officials stated that the costs of the project would be incremental as records would be updated and added periodically. Kapadia said that in order to speed up access and linkage of the website which has been named as htpp.//suratchamber.com, it will be run on 40 search engines.
The website has been designed by Aplitech Solutions, Ahmedabad and will be updated periodically from there. The index page of the website has already been completed, while other details are still being loaded onto the site, officials said.
