Pithampur industrial area of Dhar district provided jobs to the 75000 employees working in around 1000 micro small medium enterprises (MSME) industries which is located in 5 sectors of Pithampur industrial area Dhar district during the second wave of lockdown.
The MSME is very important sector which supports the supply of essential goods like food item, medicines, edible oil, soaps, pharmaceuticals employment. It supports GDP, generates revenue in form of GST tax.
According to sources 30 percent of GDP is supported by MSME and also contributes to 30 percent of India’s export.
The GM of Dhar DTIC Sunil Tripathi told The Pioneer that the MSME industries of Dhar district provided the jobs to 75000 people during the second wave of lockdown and for which I myself went to various industries for random checking. The full corona guidelines were followed by the employees in MSME. Assistant director Shivendra Pratap Singh told The Pioneer that on the instruction of G M Sunil Tripahti inspection of employees is continuously going on in MSME Pithampur industrial area and the financial assistance given to the industries is sanctioned only when all the mandatory conditions mentioned in the MSME promotion scheme are fulfilled of which 70 percent employment to the MP resident is compulsory this is verified on the field by the DTIC officers.