NID conducts seminar for Ludhiana MSMEs on design awareness in bicycle industry

Ludhiana, Mar 20 (KNN) In order to make Ludhiana cycle industry, which is mostly dominated by MSME sector, competitive, National institute of Design (NID) conducted a seminar on Bicycle & Parts Design Awareness.

The programme was organized by United cycle and parts manufacturers association (UCPMA) in which Bindoo Ranjan and Vipul Vinzuda, Co-ordinators of NID, were the key speakers.

UCPMA General Secretary Rajeev Jain said that designing is important aspect of the industry and cycle industry needs expert designers to make new changes in the bicycle industry. This will help industry become globally competitive.

Vijay Kumar, Director of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) development institute said, "NID supports nationwide exposure to design awareness and helps to bring processes to the very door steps of industry clusters through design firms, institutions and independent design consultants and design students as service providers for design inputs at various levels. Financial subsidy upto 75% is available to different industry"

According to the recent figures provided by district industries centre (DIC), Ludhiana, there are 46,144 registered industrial units in the city. Ludhiana is one of the biggest manufacturing hubs in India for bicycle and bicycle parts manufacturers.