GJ-MSME-INTEGRATION

Centre planning to integrate MSMEs with big enterprises
    Gandhinagar, Jun 10 (PTI) The Ministry of Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises is planning to set up enterprise
facilitation centres across the country to make MSMEs more
competitive and help them integrate with big enterprises, a
senior official said Monday.
    MSME ministry's additional secretary Ram Mohan Mishra
told reporters here that these centres, being planned to be
set up at block levels, will help disseminate information to
micro and small enterprises and detect issues faced by them.
    The ministry is working on improving the capacity of
enterprises that exist at the lower rung of supply chain, so
that they can organically join the chain and supply their
material by improving quality and becoming price competitive,
he said.
    "We are trying to integrate big and small enterprises
to facilitate the value chain," Mishra said.
    "Services are available in market but others don't
know...we are working on developing enterprise facilitation
centres at block level for information dissemination and
diagnosis of troubles. The main focus is clustering," he said.
    Mishra was here to address a workshop on social
entrepreneurship organised by the MSME Development Institute
and Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India.
    "The government is more focused on facilitation,
because markets move at their own pace. We facilitate in such
a way so as to reduce the cost and upgrade quality, so that
the products get accepted in the market," he said.
    The government's effort was to make the entire eco-
system symmetrical so that the overall cost goes down, quality
improves, and help the MSMEs integrate to the supply chain, he
said.
    He said the ministry was trying to help small
enterprises fine-tune seven aspects - human capacity
development, knowledge services, access to finance,
technology, infrastructure, market access, and ease of doing
business.
    This will help reduce risk factor for the enterprise,
which will in-turn help them get funding from banks, he added.
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