Consultative Status 

The Institute's Consultative status at various levels, equip it to come forward with and to represent its vision and mission to the policy process. Our track in this context is varied.

• Member, Mission on Small Enterprise Sector Policy. Switzerland Embassy, New Delhi.

• Member, Prime Minister's Consultative Group on the Unorganised Sector, Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi.  

• Member, High-Power Committee on Small Enterprises. Planning Commission. 
  
  
• Chairman, Working Group for the Eleventh Five Year Plan.

• Member, Expert Group on SSI sector, (Eighth, Ninth and Tenth and Eleventh Plans) State Planning Board, Kerala.

• Member, National Focus Group on the Small Industries Development Act.

• Member, Expert committee  on Unorganised Manufacturing, National Sample Survey Organization, Ministry of Planning and Programme Implimentation,  Government of India.

• Member, Indian Political Economy Association.

• Member, State-Level Bankers' Committee.

• Permanent Member, Indian Association of Social Science Institutions, New Delhi.

• Member, Technological and Industrial Referral System of the UNIDO, Vienna.

• TPO, International Trade Center,    UNCTAD,    Geneva TIO,   ESCAP, Bangkok.

• Expert Institute on SMEs with the ESCAP, Bangkok.

• National Standing Advisory Committee on Flow of Institutional Credit to SMEs, Reserve Bank of India. 

• National Renewable Energy Advisory Committee.

• International Committee of Non- state Actors in Small Enterprise Development.