Technology centre to come up at Samba’s Industrial Growth Centre
Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Kalraj Mishra today said J&K was not ‘making much use of various schemes of the ministry’. He urged the state government to come up with more proposals so that more assistance could be provided.
The Union Minister said this while addressing a press conference here. He said it had always been the endeavour of the NDA government to bring ‘all sections of society into the mainstream, especially the ones which are militancy affected’.
Mishra said 23,140 people of Jammu and Kashmir were employed in 3,772 Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) units across the state during 2015-16. He said Rs 38 crore was utilised in the past two years for assisting more than 2,200 PMEGP units in the state.
Earlier, the Union Minister inaugurated a PMEGP workshop at the Institute of Hotel Management, Rajbagh. He said under the Technology Centre System Programme, 15 new technology centres with the help and assistance of World Bank would be set up in various parts of the country.
“More than 6,50,000 units have already got registered on Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum and 15 new technology centres at a cost of Rs 2,200 crore are coming up in various states. One of them will be located in the Industrial Growth Centre, Samba, as proposed by the state government,” he added.
Earlier, while interacting with the representatives of the Khadi Federation, the minister promised them of early release of the MDA. He said for the first time, Rs 155 crore of MDA had already been released in the first months of the financial year.
Mishra on Saturday inaugurated the Harmukh Khadi Gram Udyog Sansthan, a spinning and weaving centre and marketing plaza for khadi goods at a function in Srinagar.
