New Delhi, Mar 14 (KNN) The Department of Heavy Industry has already approved four Centres of Excellence (CoE) in the fields of Textile Machinery, Machine Tools, Welding Technology and Smart pumps under the Scheme for enhancement of competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Industry, Parliament was informed. 

Centres of Excellence will help to increase technology depth of the domestic Capital Goods Industry and render it amenable to adoption of new high precision and more efficient ways of manufacturing.

Institutions for setting up Centres of Excellence (CoE) were identified in the Notification for the Scheme on Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector.

Minister of  State in the Ministry of  Heavy Industries  and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo, in reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha, said, “At present Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka is developing Hi- Tech shuttle less looms; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Tamil Nadu is developing 11 Machine Tools Technologies; PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu is developing 3 welding technologies and Scientific and Industrial Testing and Research Centre (Si’Tarc), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu  is developing  smart submersible pumps.”

Institutes like Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science  and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore are also engaged in working out advanced manufacturing technologies in collaboration with Industry.