Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Offices of the Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce, circa 1939

Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, formerly Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce, is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organisation, whose primary function is to work for the development of industries in South India. It is one of the founder-members of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

South India Group of Southern Indian states

South India is the area including the five Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, as well as the three union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area. Covering the southern part of the peninsular Deccan Plateau, South India is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south. The geography of the region is diverse with two mountain ranges–the Western and Eastern Ghats, bordering the plateau heartland. Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Tungabhadra and Vaigai rivers are important non-perennial sources of water. Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Coimbatore Visakhapatnam, Madurai and Kochi are the largest urban areas.

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History

The Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce was founded with about 100 members, at Ramakoti Buildings, the headquarters of the Indian Bank, on October 9, 1909. [1] South Indian politician Sir P. Theagaraya Chetty was its first President. [1] Some of the important founder-members of the chamber were M. A. Kuddus Badsha Sahib, Lodd Govindoss Chathurbhujadoss, D. V. Hanumant Rao, Pandit Vidya Sagar Pandya, [1] and Jamal Mohammad.

Indian Bank

Indian Bank is an Indian state-owned financial services company established in 1907 and headquartered in Chennai, India. It has 20,924 employees, 2851 branches with 2857 ATMs and 693 cash deposit machines and is one of the top performing public sector banks in India. Total business of the bank has touched Rs.3.64 lakh Crores as on 31 March 2018.Bank's Information Systems & Security processes certified with ISO27001:2013 standard and is among very few Banks certified worldwide. It has overseas branches in Colombo and Singapore including a Foreign Currency Banking Unit at Colombo and Jaffna. It has 227 Overseas Correspondent banks in 75 countries. Since 1969 the Government of India has owned the bank.

Khan Bahadur Mohammed Abdul Kuddus Badsha Sahib was an Indian merchant, politician and philanthropist of the Madras Presidency. He was also one of the founders of the Indian Bank.

Diwan Bahadur "Lodd" Govindoss Chathurbhujadoss was a Gujarati businessman, socialite and philanthropist from Madras. He was the owner of C. Kushaldoss and Sons and served as Sheriff of Madras.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Diwan Bahadur S. E. Runganadhan, ed. (1939). "The Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce by M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar". Madras Tercentenary Celebration Committee Commemoration Volume. Indian Branch, Oxford Press. pp. 225–228.
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