Surat, Mar 25 (KNN) The foundation stone of Gujarat’s first common engineering facility centre (CEFC) for textile machinery and allied engineering industry will be laid at Bardoli on Sunday. The facility will help MSMEs in the region to improve product quality.

Union Minister of Heavy Industries, Anant Geete will lay the foundation stone.

The CEFC will come up on five acres of land at Faculty of Engineering Technology and Research (FETR) at Bardoli near Surat.

To be constructed at a cost of Rs 50 crore by Science Engineering and Technological Upliftment (SETU) foundation, the CEFC will enable textile machinery and other capital goods manufacturers to develop capital goods to meet the large requirements and improve capacity utilization, thereby reducing the variable cost of operation.

CEFC will be constructed with the support of local industry associations like Surat Engineering Vikas Association (SEVA), Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association of India (TMMAI) and Sardar Vallabhai Patel Education Society, Bardoli.

In December-2016, SETU foundation had signed an MoU with department of heavy industries, ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises, Government of India for setting up of the CEFC at Bardoli.