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A total of 28 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.
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05 June, 2010 by admin