SME Times News Bureau | 05 Jun, 2010
The government has cleared 28
micro & small enterprises - cluster development programme
(MSE-CDP) proposals, informed the ministry of micro, small and medium
enterprise (MSME) in a press release on Friday.
According to
the press release, a total of 28 MSE-CDP proposals with total project
cost of Rs. 91.53 crore were approved in the 22nd Steering Committee
Meeting for MSE-CDP.
The meeting was held recently under the
chairmanship of MSME Secretary at New Delhi.
The
proposal has Government of India assistance of Rs. 50.24 crore. The
scheme has a provision of Rs. 56.00 crore for the year
2010-11.
In the meeting 4 proposals of Common Facility Centres
in various clusters were given final approval, 11 proposals given
in-principle approval, 5 proposals for soft interventions and 2
proposals for conducting Diagnostic Study Reports were approved.
For
Industrial Infrastructure Development- 5 proposals for setting up new
centers in Tamil Nadu were also approved.
The details of
finally approved CFCs and new IID Centres proposals are as under:-
(Rs. in lakhs)
| S. No. |
State |
Proposal |
Project Cost |
GoI Assistance (approx.) |
| 1. |
Maharashtra |
CFC in Textile cluster, Vita Sangli |
910.09 |
743.15 |
| 2. |
Gujarat |
CFC for Gem & Jewellery cluster, Ahmedabad |
323.56 |
273.96 |
| 3. |
Maharashtra |
CFC for Raisin Making cluster, Sangli |
708.85 |
496.00 |
| 4. |
Rajasthan |
CFC for Readymade Garment cluster, Jaipur |
3537.78 |
1050.00 |
| 5 |
Tamil Nadu |
Proposal for setting up new IID Centres (5 Nos.) |
1212.00 |
727.20 |
Cluster based
intervention has been acknowledged as one of the key strategies for
comprehensive development of Indian industries, particularly the
Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs).
The Ministry of MSME,
Government of India has adopted the cluster approach as a key
strategy for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness as well
as capacity building of micro & small enterprises and their
collectives in the country.
Ministry of MSME has recently
modified the guidelines of Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster
Development Programme (MSE-CDP) & notified on 10th February,
2010.
So far, under the Cluster Development Programme - 457
nos. MSE-Clusters for various interventions and 121 nos. Industrial
Infrastructure Development (IID) project were undertaken. Out
of 457 clusters, 60 clusters are for Hard Interventions i.e. Common
Facility Centres (CFCs) etc.
