BloombergUTV, India’s premier business news channel, along with Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. (RBNL) and IMS Foundation (IMSF), hosted a curtain-raiser event to announce the second edition of the biennial India Manufacturing Show 2012.

The Karnataka Chief Minister, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, said, “The small and medium industries along with large industries contribute significantly to this socio-economic development of the country by way of employment generation and revenue contribution to the exchequer. It is the vision of my Government to make Karnataka the Asian epicenter of engineering manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, energy and infrastructure sectors.”

The IMS 2012, to be held from September 27-30, 2012 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, is supported by the Government of Karnataka; Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Government of India; Ministry of Science & Technology; Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Industries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).

The prime objective of the IMS is to promote micro, small & medium enterprises and to provide a platform for them to interact with large public sector industries/private sector industries/industrialists/business leaders/customers from India and abroad for an overall development of industrial sector in India. The exhibition will prove to be complementary to the government’s initiative in inviting foreign investments as the exhibitors/participants will be from India and the rest from other countries.