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ADVANCED CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

ADVANCED CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II is a pan India demand driven Scheme under which proposals are submitted by Project Implementing Organizations (PIOs) in association with Industry Partner(s) from any UT/ State of the country.

Details of Advanced Centres of Excellence under the Scheme, State-wise are as under:

S.No.

Name of Project

State

1.

Setting up of CoE by IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

2.

Augmentation of CoE at IIT Delhi

Delhi

3.

Augmentation of Centre of Excellence by IISc, Bangalore

Karnataka

4.

Setting up of CoE at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

5.

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

Uttar Pradesh

6.

Augmentation of CoE at Si’Tarc Coimbatore

Tamil Nadu

7.

Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by AMTDC, IIT Madras

Tamil Nadu

 

Details of Common Engineering Facility Centres, State-wise are as under:

S.No.

Name of Project

State

1.

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

Karnataka

2.

Augmentation of Common Engineering Facility Centre by C4i4

Main centre of the project is at Pune (Maharashtra) and one of the Experience centres is located at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

3.

Setting up of CEFC at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

4.

Setting up of CEFC at BHEL Trichy

Tamil Nadu

           

Details of Testing and Certification Centres, State-wise are as under:

S.No.

 

Name of Project

State

1.

 

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at ARAI

Maharashtra

2.

 

Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at CMTI, Bangalore

Karnataka

3.

 

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at BHEL

Madhya Pradesh/Telangana

4.

 

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

Punjab

5.

 

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

6.

 

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

Kerala

 

Details of Industry Accelerators, State-wise are as under:

S.No.

Name of Project

State

1.

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

Karnataka

 

2.

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

3.

Establishment Of Industry Accelerator by CMTI

Karnataka

4

Setting up of Industry Accelerator at ARAI, Pune

Maharastra

5.

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by IIT Madras

Tamil Nadu

 

6.

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by SASTRA University, Thanjavur

7.

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

8.

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by Indian School of Business

Telangana

9.

Industry Accelerator at IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

 

Details of Qualification Packages sanctioned, State-wise are as under:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

Development of 23 QPs by ASDC for automotive sector

Delhi

 

Development of 23 Qualification Packs by (CGSC), Delhi

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

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. Statement of funds for projects approved under all the components of the Scheme is as under:

                                                                             (in Rs. crore)

Financial Year

Allocation ( RE)

Funds released/ utilized

2021- 22

29.00

28.93

2022-23

199.60

199.24

2023-24

187.20

83.34

2024-25

184.00

171.63

2025-26

120.00

107.67

(as on 03.03.2026)

           

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

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