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PROGRESS OF SCHEME ON ENHANCEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS IN INDIAN CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR

PROGRESS OF SCHEME ON ENHANCEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS IN INDIAN CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR

Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II has a total financial outlay of Rs. 1207 crores with budgetary support of Rs.975 crore.  Total 29 projects with project cost of Rs. 891.37 crores and budgetary support of Rs. 714.64 crore have been sanctioned so far.State-wise distribution of the sanctioned projects is as under:

Centres of Excellence:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

Setting up of CoE by IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

Augmentation of CoE at IIT Delhi

Delhi

Augmentation of Centre of Excellence by IISc, Bangalore

Karnataka

Setting up of CoE at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

Setting up of Centre of Excellence (CoE) by IIT BHU, Varanasi

Uttar Pradesh

Augmentation of CoE at Si’Tarc Coimbatore

Tamil nadu

Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by AMTDC, IIT Madras

Tamil nadu

Common Engineering Facility Centres:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

Augmentation of CEFC at Smart Factory, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

Karnataka

Augmentation of Common Engineering Facility Centre by C4i4

Maharashtra

Setting up of CEFC at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

Setting up of CEFC at BHEL Trichy

Tamil nadu

Testing and Certification Centres:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at ARAI

Maharashtra

Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at CMTI, Bangalore

Karnataka

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at BHEL

Madhya Pradesh/Telangana

Augmentation of existing Testing and Certification Facility at (IAHT), Ludhiana

Punjab

Augmentation of testing and certification facility at Institute of Machine Tools Technology (IMTT), Batala

Augmentation of testing and certification facility at Fluid Control Research Institute, Palakkad

Kerala

 

Industry Accelerators:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

Setting up of Industry Accelerator (CAMRAS) by ARTPARK (IISc), Bangalore

Karnataka

 

Setting up of Industry Accelerator (SAMRIDHI) by (FSID), (IISc), Bangaluru

Establishment Of Industry Accelerator by CMTI

Setting up of Industry Accelerator at ARAI, Pune

Maharastra

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by IIT Madras

Tamil nadu

 

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by SASTRA University, Thanjavur

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by Indian School of Business

Telangana

Industry Accelerator at IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

Qualification Packages:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

1.

Development of 23 QPs by ASDC for automotive sector

Delhi

 

2.

Development of 23 Qualification Packs by (CGSC), Delhi

3.

Creation of Qualification packages for skill levels 6 and above by Instrumentation, Automation, Surveillance and Communication Sector Skill Council (IASC SSC)

In order to encourage the technology development and to augment the manufacturing infrastructure in the Capital Goods Sector, Ministry of Heavy Industries is implementing the Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II. Under the Scheme, Project Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC) has been constituted for each project in order to review the progress of the project.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Heavy Industries, Shri Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today

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