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Mr Dinesh Rai

Our Bureau

Hyderabad, July 14 The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) is looking at imparting training to at least five lakh entrepreneurs every year from 2010.

“Last year we have trained about 1.8 lakh people through the various institutes under the Ministry as against 1.2 lakh in the previous year. The institutions have been asked to step it up and the plan is to reach five lakh mark by 2010,” Mr Dinesh Rai, Secretary, Union Ministry of MSME, said.

Mr Rai was interacting with mediapersons on the sidelines of an event organised by the National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Nimsme) to announce the launch of two national programmes.

He also said the Skill Development Corporation, which was announced by the Finance Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, in this year’s Budget, is in the final stages of its formation. “All the necessary clearances have been obtained and will be in existence soon,” Mr Rai added.

The Union Government through the Corporation and with the help of the private sector is looking at imparting skill development which would help in creation of more jobs.

Mr Rai said that a new scheme aimed at creating mini-tool rooms across the country was recently launched and through this scheme 40 per cent subsidy with a cap of Rs 9 crore would be provided to set up each centre.

“The mini-tool rooms would be set up on a public-private-partnership (PPP) mode and we are looking at least 10 mini-tool rooms to be set up during the year. The scheme will help who are not able to afford costly machines,” he said.

The MSME Ministry, he said, for lean manufacturing is looking at having 100 clusters across the country. “This to improve the quality and process and we can give up to 80 per cent of the consultancy fees to the cluster so that they can identify the problems they face and some solutions can be reached,” Mr Rai said.

Mr Rai also said the Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana and Rural Employment Generation Programme schemes are being merged and launched as one new scheme called the Prime Minister Employment Guarantee Programme.

“This will be launched soon with revised and improved parameters with respect with subsidy, more skill development and training so that the entrepreneur is guided at every stage,” he added.

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