Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Department Secretary lN Gupta has directed General Managers of all the District Industries Centres (DICs) to resolve all export-related problems so that the State’s export target of Rs21, 550 can be achieved within stipulated time-frame.
Gupta said this at the conference of the DIC General Managers’ conference held here.
He informed that 12 clusters would be set up under the Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSECDP) and plans are afoot to develop mini-clusters of ginning industries at Balangir, cashew processing industries at Nabarangpur, engineering industries at Cuttack and Koraput, fly-ash industries at Baleswar, Sambalpur and Dhenkanal.
Gupta said 13,500 MSME units have been set up and 42,190 persons have been employed by August, 2016 against target of 40,000 units for the year.
While a groundnut cluster has been proposed at Jajpur, a coir cluster would come up at Sakhigopal (Puri), dry fish cluster at Paradip, rice mlling clusters at Kalahandi, Koraput and Baleswar and engineering clusters to be set up at Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Rayagada and Dhenkanal.
Diagnostic Study Reports (DSRs) have already been completed and SPVs already formed in respect of coir cluster at Sakhigopal, dry fish cluster at Paradip, engineering clusters at Dhenkanal and Jharsuguda and rice milling clusters at Baleswar and Koraput.
DIC GMs, under which the rest of the clusters are coming, have been asked to ensure completion of DPRs by November-end.
In order to train identified youths, a total of 180 Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs) will be organised throughout the State.