Cluster Governance

The recent civil society agitations have highlighted an important issue of governance within the congress party. In spite of all good intentions by the government, what is missing is the face of governance. There is excess of virtual governance by the leadership. This has to some extent resulted into trust deficit with the common men.Dr. Manmohan Singh need to more visible to common public to convert the values of government in the belief of people. Similarly the role of field agency and leadership is critical important to make any cluster globally competitive. How a cluster leadership conduct itself in the cluster is very important. The play of cluster norms through cluster networks converting into functional trust is direct function of leadership or more clearly the visible leadership.

NEW STAKEHOLDERS IN CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

In the last six month there is daily news in the newspaper on the role of national chambers in the development of clusters. A new bred of stakeholders in the cluster development work is evolving due to a large chunk of funds is allocated to Clusters related activities by Government India.

Most of the National Industry Chambers suddenly activated interest in MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (most of these Chamber don’t even have provision to make MSMEs as their members). The inorganic growth of such stakeholders also doesn’t understand the actual meaning of cluster. There is now competition among chambers to control the large amount of funds available for cluster development.

The very interesting part of the scenario is that anything and everything related to group of firms is equated to a cluster (unlike network) if CII is working with 10 companies for quality improvement they call it cluster development programme.

The cluster concept by new stakeholders in cluster development is perceived in a much narrower and very limited sense and to a great extent not even actually applying cluster development tools for actual competitiveness of the clusters.