Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises explained

Agency Name:Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Seal:Government of India logo.svg
Jurisdiction:Government of India
Headquarters:Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Udyog Bhawan
Rafi Marg
New Delhi, 110011
Region Code:IN
Minister1 Name:Jitan Ram Manjhi
Minister1 Pfo:Cabinet Minister
Minister2 Name:Shobha Karandlaje
Minister2 Pfo:Minister of State
Budget: (2023–24 est.)[1]

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is the ministry in the Government of India. It is the apex executive body for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws relating to micro, small and medium enterprises in India. The Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is Jitan Ram Manjhi.

The statistics provided by the annual reports of Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) shows a rise in the plan amount spent on the khadi sector from ₹1942.7 million to ₹14540 million, and non-plan amounts from ₹437 million to ₹2291 million, in the period from 1994–95 to 2014–15. The interest subsidies to khadi institutions increased from ₹96.3 million to ₹314.5 million in this period.

History

The Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries was created in October 1999. In September 2001, the ministry was split into the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries. The President of India amended the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961, under the notification dated 9 May 2007. Pursuant to this amendment, they were merged into a single ministry.

The ministry was tasked with the promotion of micro and small enterprises. The Small Industries Development Organisation was under the control of the ministry, as was the National Small Industries Corporation Limited public sector undertaking).

The Small Industries Development Organisation was established in 1954. It has over 60 offices and 21 autonomous bodies under its management. These autonomous bodies include Tool Rooms, Training Institutions and Project-cum-Process Development Centres.

Services provided include:

It also provides economic information services and advises Government in policy formulation for the promotion and development of SSIs. The field offices also work as effective links between the Central and State Governments.

Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries

The now-defunct Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries had the objectives of facilitating coordinated and focused policy formulation and effective implementation of programmes, projects, schemes, etc., for improving supply chain management, enhancing skills, upgrading technology, expanding markets and capacity building of entrepreneurs/artisans and their groups/collectives.

The Ministry deals with the khadi, village and coir industries through the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and the Coir Board. It coordinates implementation of two countrywide employment generation programmes, namely, the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) and the Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) with the cooperation of State Governments, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other banks. The KVIC, established by an Act of Parliament, is a statutory organisation engaged in promotion and development of khadi and village industries for providing employment opportunities in the rural areas, thereby strengthening the rural economy. The coir industry is a labour-intensive and export-oriented industry. It uses a by-product of coconut, namely, coir husk. The Coir Board, a statutory body established under the Coir Industry Act 1953, looks after the promotion, growth and development of the coir industry, including export promotion and expansion of the domestic market.[2]

It was headed by the Minister of Agro & Rural Industries and was based at Udyog Bhavan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Shri Mahabir Prasad was the last incumbent.

Related organisations

Integrated Training Centre, Nilokheri

Integrated Training Centre, Nilokheri was an employment and training agency in Nilokheri in Karnal district in the state of Haryana owned and managed by the Government of India and responsible for upgrading technical skills of technicians.

It was built around the vocational training centre that was transferred from Kurukshetra, in July 1948 to the 1100 acres of swampy land on the Delhi-Ambala highway as one of several enterprises intended to provide employment and training for displaced persons following the partition of IndiaThis training centre was under Small Industries belonged to subhash mukherjee Development Organisation and used to provided training to extension officers (industries of State Governments as well as managers and technician entrepreneurs both in modern small scale and traditional village industries. During the Year 1986-87 the centre trained 200 technician, 85 women under core women training programme and 57 SIDO officers.[4]

Functions

It provides technical training to artisans and workers sponsored by the state government. It also organises training of Extension Officers engaged in various developmental organisation. It provides summer training programs for Degree/Diploma Engineers.

ITC as Central Tool Room Extension Centre, Nilokheri

Due to some conflict between the Principal and Vice-Principal of Integrated Training Centre was relinquished.Later in the year 2014 the center was taken over by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises which led to its development as Extension center for Central Tool Room, Ludhiana i.e. Central Tool Room Extension Center, Nilokheri. Currently running various technical short term courses.

Centre structure and functions

The centre comes under the Government of India and has a Principal and a Vice Principal. The Ministry regulates:

Initiatives

Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme

It was launched as a central sector scheme in 2008–09 to promote self employment in the country through setting up micro enterprises. It is a credit linked subsidy scheme in which loans up to 25 lakh for manufacturing sector and up to 1000 Lakh for service sector is forwarded to the eligible beneficiaries for which subsidy of up to 35% is provided to them.

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission is the implementing agency at the National level. The individuals who are above the age of 18 years and are at least 8th pass, self help groups, Societies registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860, Charitable trusts are all eligible to be beneficiary. Also, only new projects are considered for sanction under the scheme.[7]

Cabinet Ministers

PortraitMinister
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
Minister of Small Scale Industries, and Agro and Rural Industries
1Vasundhara Raje

(MoS, I/C)
13 October
1999
1 September
2001
Bharatiya Janata PartyVajpayee IIIAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of Small Scale Industries
(1)Vasundhara Raje

(MoS, I/C)
1 September
2001
29 January
2003
2C. P. Thakur
29 January
2003
22 May
2004
Minister of Agro and Rural Industries
3Kariya Munda
1 September
2001
29 January
2003
4Sangh Priya Gautam

(MoS, I/C)
29 January
2003
22 May
2004
Minister of Small Scale Industries, and Agro and Rural Industries
5Mahaveer Prasad
23 May
2004
9 May
2007
Indian National CongressManmohan IManmohan Singh
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(5)Mahaveer Prasad
9 May
2007
22 May
2009
Indian National CongressManmohan IManmohan Singh
6Dinsha Patel

(MoS, I/C)
28 May
2009
19 January
2011
Manmohan II
7 Virbhadra Singh
19 January
2011
26 June
2012
8Vilasrao Deshmukh
26 June
2012
10 August
2012
9Vayalar Ravi
10 August
2012
28 October
2012
10K. H. Muniyappa

(MoS, I/C)
28 October
2012
26 May
2014
11Kalraj Mishra
27 May
2014
3 September
2017
Bharatiya Janata PartyModi INarendra Modi
12Giriraj Singh

(MoS, I/C)
3 September
2017
30 May
2019
13Nitin Gadkari
31 May
2019
7 July
2021
Modi II
14Narayan Rane
7 July
2021
9 June
2024
15Jitan Ram Manjhi
10 June
2024
Incumbent Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)Modi III

Ministers of State

PortraitMinister
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
Minister of State for Small Scale IndustriesBharatiya Janata PartyVajpayee IIIAtal Bihari Vajpayee
1Tapan Sikdar
29 January
2003
22 May
2004
Minister of State for Agro and Rural Industries
2Nikhil Kumar Choudhary
1 July
2002
29 January
2003
Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
3Giriraj Singh
9 November
2014
3 September
2017
Bharatiya Janata PartyModi INarendra Modi
4Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary
5 July
2016
3 September
2017
5Pratap Chandra Sarangi
31 May
2019
7 July
2021
Bharatiya Janata PartyModi II
6Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
7 July
2021
9 June
2024
7Shobha Karandlaje
10 June
2024
Incumbent Modi III

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Budget data . 2019 . indiabudget.gov.in . 15 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180304170727/http://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/eb/sbe95.pdf . 4 March 2018 . dead .
  2. http://ari.nic.in/abt_us.htm "MINISTRY OF AGRO AND RURAL INDUSTRIES"
  3. Web site: Central Tool Room, Ludhiana, Ministry of MSME, Government of India. . www.ctrludhiana.com . 2018-08-14 . en.
  4. Book: Entrepreneurial Development in India. 1 January 1990. Mittal Publications. 9788170991908. 10 April 2018. Google Books.
  5. Web site: National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ni-msme) . 2024-03-06 . www.nimsme.org . en-US.
  6. http://msme.gov.in/msme_admin.htm Admin
  7. Web site: Prime Minister Employment Generation Program. Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 2020-09-01.