Once my clients were confident the business grew manifold. Now I can say I am enjoying my work; I have given work to a few people. With the initial struggle behind me I can now safely say I am comfortable What are the issues you face as an industry now? Our industry, despite giving good revenue to the government, hasn’t received its due recognition. We are dealing with our own issues. We are grappling with taxation problems. Uniformity in taxation is lacking. For example, while UPS is charged a VAT of 5.5%, tax for input materials like transformers, box, and close to 50 percent of the raw materials, is at 14.5 percent. We finally have to approach the government for refund. It is an additional burden for proprietors in terms of time and effort. Of course, in 2003 I was helped to a great extent by the government of Karnataka. UPS and battery were sold as two different units then with UPS attracting 4 percent tax and battery 13 percent. We obtained an advance ruling that if battery is sold within UPS then it would be charged at 4 percent. This was a very big benefit. Does the inverter industry make any concerted effort for the common good of the industry? UPS Manufacturers and Dealers Association has looked into the issues the industry faces and has worked for the industry in the past. A few of us, like-minded proprietors of small units, have now come together to form a consortium. What was not possible for us as individuals, this consortium has helped us achieve. We have a centralised manufacturing unit and have united 23 units to form Mayuka Power Products Pvt Ltd, where UPS and inverter systems are manufactured in mass. We have sorted out challenges like manpower issues, infrastructure, risk of service, low business volumes, high production cost and so on. Only fabrication is outsourced, we are doing everything eise in-house. We have continuous manufacturing. We have stuck as well as systems against orders. Laghu Udyog Bharati – Karnataka has supported us a lot and has advised us to look into cluster-approach to get more benefits. We are now looking at the pros and cons of that. While cluster approach has its logic as the government will provide infrastructure and machinery, which are investment-intensive, the plant and machinery belongs to the government. We are still con dering the option the initial stages, we can utilize cluster as a support as a stepping stone especially where investments into crores of rupees.