Union MSME Minister Kalraj Mishra said on Saturday that the ministry will try to clear the pending MSME Bill and will promulgate new policies for the betterment of the MSMEs in the coming year.

“Pending bills and policies will be considered this year. We will think about these matter and try to solve them in the coming year,” said Mishra.

He also enumerated the programmes launched for the development of MSMEs in the passing year 2016.

“We are thankful to our PM for the schemes such as SC-ST hub. Government is very interested in promoting Khadi in context to which there was first ever exhibition organized in Srinagar,” said Mishra.

On being asked about the impacts of demonetization over the industrial sector, he said that the Ministry officials visited Small Scale industries (SSI) and they seemed pretty supportive.

“We discussed the issue with the SSI, their response was positive. According to the industries workers are returning to their works,” said Mishra. (KNN Bureau)