On the occasion of ‘National Small Industries Day’, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Shri Narayan Rane took to Twitter to announce that 16 lakh youth have been trained subsequently benefiting over 3 lakh MSME units in the last 9 years, through 18 tool rooms and technology centres run by the Ministry of MSME across the country.
Shri Rane said that the Tool Rooms and Technology Centres working under the Ministry of MSME are making a significant contribution in realizing Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s dream of a self-reliant India. These tool rooms and technology centres are also providing step by step support in manufacturing state of the art products.
Shri Rane said these tool rooms design and manufacture medium and small-size equipment as per international standards which are being used in industries related to sports goods, plastic, automobile, footwear, glass, perfume, foundry and forging, electronics and space sector. In the recently launched Chandrayaan-3 mission, Bhubaneswar Tool Room manufactured around 54,000 aero-space components of 437 types. Tool rooms have also played an important role in fulfilling the domestic needs of PPE kits, sanitizer machines, oxygen concentrators as well as in their exports to foreign countries in the difficult times of the Corona pandemic.
MSME Minister informed through his tweet that 15 more technology centres are being set up to further strengthen the MSME units of the country.
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