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MSME Ministry will be a major plank in the Govt's 'Make in India' initiative: Kalraj Mishra

Updated: Jan 18, 2016 05:40:01pm
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New Delhi, Jan 18 (KNN) The Ministry of MSME will be a major plank in the Government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, said Union MSME Minister Kalraj Mishra adding that the Ministry will rise to the challenge through action plans directed at Incubation, clustering, credit guarantee and skill development.

He said this while addressing the 13th Meeting of the National Board for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises here today under his Chairmanship.

Union Minister of MSME Giriraj Singh, MoS of Ministry of MSME was also present to address the gathering.

The Start-up issue of Laghu Udyog Samachar (January 2016) was released today by the Minister.

Releasing the monthly magazine of the Ministry, the Minister said that different schemes and campaigns of Government of India namely, Start-up India, Stand-up India, Make in India, Digital India will be focused in Laghu Udyog Samachar. The next issue of Laghu Udyog Samachar i.e. February 2016 is based on Make in India theme.

The Board deliberated upon various aspects of the MSME sector with special focus on popularization of Udyog Adhar, creation of a framework for Startups, evolving a system of easy credit availability, promotion of Marketing linkage, and publicity of new efforts like ASPIRE and revamped SFURTI.

Mishra, in his opening remarks described several initiatives of Ministry of MSME for overall development of the sector and emphasized that the Ministry of MSME is going to be a major plank in the Government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative.
 
The objective of make in India is to enhance ease of doing business gelling with Prime Minister’s initiative for ‘Start-up India, Stand up India’, he said.
 
The Ministry will rise to the challenge through action plans directed at Incubation, clustering, credit guarantee and skill development, he added.

Giriraj Singh, MOS also stressed the need for developing the MSME Sector to enable the upliftment of the rural masses.

Anup K Pujari, Secretary (MSME) emphasized upon creating an ecosystem through enhancing the Competitiveness and Productivity of the sector through various processes of simplification.
 
He highlighted the initial success of Udyog Adhar and stressed the need to popularize it further. (With PIB Inputs)

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