Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said that inspired by the Government of India's ambitious MSE cluster scheme, Haryana has formulated the State Mini Cluster Development Programme and under this, a 90 per cent grant-in-aid is provided for setting up Common Facility Centres.
At present, the process of setting up 43 mini clusters is going on in Haryana, out of which 25 clusters have started. This scheme was also appreciated by the Government of India, said Khattar while interacting directly with the Micro Small, and Medium Entrepreneurs during a virtual Samvad programme.
The entrepreneurs thanked the Chief Minister for the pro-MSME schemes being run by the state government to promote industries.
The Chief Minister said that small-scale industries form the basis of strengthening the country's economy and in today's time MSMEs are playing an important role in realizing the Prime Minister's self-reliant India dream. He said that the state government is giving importance to big industries as well as is focussed on promoting Micro, Small, and Medium Industries. MSMEs need less investment capital but provide ample employment to more people.
"The State Government has formulated the Haryana Agriculture and Food Processing Policy, 2018 with the objective to develop strong infrastructure at the farm level and establish technologically advanced food processing units in the state," he said.
Khattar said that today Haryana's share in the total GST collection of the country is 6 per cent. This achievement has been made only with the cooperation of MSMEs which make a pivotal contribution of 30 per cent share in the State's GST collection.
He said that the state government has improved power availability and connectivity to promote industries and a strong network of roads and railways is spread across Haryana. Today 94 per cent of the rural areas of Haryana are getting round-the-clock electricity and such infrastructure provides ample opportunities for the development of MSMEs, he added.
CM UNVEILS SWAMI VIVEKANDNDA'S STATUE AT CBLU
In another function, as the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the two-day science conference on the topic ‘Role of Scientists in Nation Building’ at Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani on Saturday, Khattar called upon the students to move ahead expeditiously and bring laurels to the country by making new inventions in the field of science and technology.
During this, he unveiled the life-size statue of Swami Vivekananda at the university campus; built at a cost of about Rs 5.5 lakh and laid the foundation stone of the third educational building to be constructed at a cost of Rs 128 crore. The Chief Minister also visited the science exhibition organized by the students and the Srinivasa Ramanujan building.
Addressing the students at the science conference, Khattar said that 12 Indian scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their contribution to the field of science and technology.
“The Haryana government is making special provisions in the budget regarding innovation. In order to further develop scientific temper among the students, the Vigyan Ratna award prize money was increased from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh,” he said, adding that the science conference organized by Chaudhary Bansi Lal University will also prove to be very effective.
Vice-Chancellor of CBLU, Prof. RK Mittal said that the university has taken steps to implement the new National Education Policy 2020. “In order to make the students self-independent and self-reliant, the university is motivating them to adopt self-employment by providing them special training through the District Employment Generation Centre,” he said. More than 500 students from about 40 government and recognized schools of the region participated in the science exhibition.