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Bhubaneswar, Sept 17: In a bid to create employment for 2 lakh people, the state government has targeted the setting up of 40,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) this year.
“The government has targeted to set up 40,000 MSME units with employment generation for 2 lakh people during the current financial year. About 13,500 MSME units have been set up till August this year that generated employment for 42,190 people,” MSME secretary LN Gupta said here Saturday.
Gupta made the claim after chairing a conference of the regional and general managers of district industries centres (DICs) here. He also asked the GM of DICs to resolve problems of export oriented units to boost exports and achieve the turnover target of `21,550 crore.
In order to sensitise and motivate youths to set up MSME units, it has been decided to organise 180 programmes across the state during the remaining part of the current financial year 2016-17, said Gupta.
The department has also decided to fast track setting up of 12 clusters under Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSECDP). These are groundnut cluster at Jajpur, coir cluster at Sakhigopal (Puri), dry fish cluster at Paradip, rice milling clusters at Kalahandi, Koraput and Balasore, and engineering clusters at Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Rayagada and Dhenkanal, the secretary said.
The Diagnostic Study Reports (DSRs) have been completed while special purpose vehicles (SPVs) have been already formed for coir cluster at Sakhigopal, dry fish cluster at Paradip, engineering clusters at Dhenkanal and Jharsuguda and rice milling clusters at Balasore and Koraput.
Besides, the government has also decided to develop mini-clusters of ginning industries at Bolangir, cashew industries at Nabarangpur, engineering industries at Cuttack and Koraput, fly ash industries at Balasore, Sambalpur and Dhenkanal.
Further, in order to train the identified youth in the nuances of entrepreneurship, a total of 180 entrepreneurship development programmes (EDPs) will be organised throughout the state by the GM, DICs and Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED), Bhubaneswar. “These programmes will boost the setting up of MSME enterprises in the state,” said director of industries Balwant Singh. The GMs have also been asked to conduct a fresh survey of ancillary industries and vendors already developed in their respective districts and complete it by November 2016.
