Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises laid the foundation stone for MSME Technology Centre at Greater Noida.
“The Centre will focus on technological and skilled manpower support to electronics systems design and manufacturing (ESDM) and automotive electronics sectors of the region. It will also ensure competitiveness of the MSMEs in ESDM eco-system by strengthening their linkages to the mainstream manufacturing sectors across the globe,” the minister said. Ram Naik, Governor, Uttar Pradesh, Ministers of state for MSME, Giriraj Singh and Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism and Culture, among others, were also present on the occasion. An exhibition on National Vendor Development Programme (NVDP) was also organised during this event.
The Technology Centre, apart from providing technological support to the industries, would train nearly 3000 persons annually on becoming fully operational. The NVDP would facilitate matchmaking between large scale public sector undertakings and MSMEs by bringing them together at a common platform for mutual benefit of both.
It’s one of the 15 new technology centres that are being established in the country by the ministry. The centre will provide support to ESDM and automotive electronics sector particularly MSMEs towards their technological and skilled manpower requirements. The programme would be implemented at an estimated cost of Rs2,200 crore including World Bank loan assistance of US $200 million.
The UP Government has also provided 15 acres of land free of cost, for the technology centre. Also, Government of India will be investing more than Rs145 crore for creating facilities towards plant and machinery, for development of civil and associate infrastructure.
“The Centre will to cater to ESDM sector development, innovation and design services, prototyping, testing and calibration, incubation and training in electronic repair and maintenance. Also computer hardware and software services would be the prominent activities to be undertaken by the Centre,” said Giriraj Singh.