New Delhi, Nov 29 (KNN) The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has implemented Micro and small enterprises - Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP) and so far 35 clusters have been completed during financial year 2015-16 to 2018-19, said Nitin Gadkari.

According to the data shared by Gadkari in Rajya Sabha on Thursday,  under MSE-CDP so far,  35 clusters including 17 clusters during the financial year 2019, up from 13 clusters in FY18, only five in FY17 and nil in FY16 has been developed. 

The programme which also focused on developing infrastructure projects (ID) in new and existing MSME clusters and setting up common facility centres (CFC) completed development of 169 IDs and 75 CFCs as on October 18, 2019, according to Development Commissioner, MSME ministry portal.

The government had allocated Rs 227.90 crore for the cluster development programme for FY20.

The states where these new clusters have been developed since FY16 included Tamil Nadu (12), Maharashtra (8), Karnataka (5), West Bengal (4), Kerala (2), Andhra Pradesh (1), Haryana (1), Uttar Pradesh (1), and Odisha (1).

Gadkari also shared the FY20 budget allocation under seven MSMEs schemes apart from the cluster development scheme.

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