In the country, there are various Chambers of Commerce & Industry registered and functioning since long for the benefit of their members and their Class such as FICCI, CII, PHDCCI, Assocham, etc. It has been experienced that these Chambers have worked and have been working largely for the benefit of the trading class and upper castes.
The economic development in the country has been very much skewed and the gap between the rich and the poor has widened a lot. But, most importantly, the economic development in the country has also seen huge gap between the 10% Alpasankhyak communities high up in the social hierarchy and the 90% Bahusankhyak communities (mainly SCs, STs, SEBCs including Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians) traditionally engaged mostly in agriculture & allied activities, artisans, etc.
It has also been seen that while agriculture, dairying, horticulture, rural artisans, etc. has become professions of negative returns even with so called subsidies of the Government. But, at the same time, people and communities engaged in trade of these agricultural & allied sector produce have become prosperous. The prosperous communities have also diversified their Gen ‘X’ and Gen ‘Z’ in professions of high income and returns such as Public Procurement, Trading, Import/Export, Industries, Financing, Mining, Technology & Communications, Executive jobs in public & private sectors etc.
Many unjust artificial and man made entry barriers in the high returns giving professions/ avenues have been made/ evolved which is mostly against the entry of the Bahusankhyak samaj in these sectors of economy. These are mainly in the form of financial requirements, experience criteria, rules & guidelines of central & state governments, etc. The low level of awareness, education, traditional knowledge, skills and expertise amongst the Bahusankhyak samaj to diversify and venture into new fields of economic activities have been other major reasons that economic prosperity has left them largely untouched.
Post independence, INDIA has prospered but BHARAT living in rural, remote, backward areas and urban slums has largely been left untouched vis-à-vis economic prosperity. The requirement of economic platforms of and for the Bahusankhyak samaj has been felt for long by the social & political leaders of these communities. In this background SBCCI has been formed to work towards economic justice for all as enshrined in the Constitution of our country.