The facility will be manned by trained personnel and will be open on Mondays and Wednesdays
The facility will be manned by trained personnel and will be open on Mondays and Wednesdays
The State Industries department will launch helpdesks across the State on June 27, which is being celebrated as World MSME Day.
Director of Industries and Commerce S. Harikishore said it would be a big moment and a historic beginning for industries and entrepreneurship in the State. The help desks, manned by trained personnel, in each of the local bodies would be open on Mondays and Wednesdays to help entrepreneurs.
The help desks would be opened with trained interns, who were appointed in all the local bodies. Mr. Kishore said a total of 1,153 interns had been trained and appointed. They would undergo continuous training to help the entrepreneurs. The personnel manning the help desks would be in the field during the rest of the working days to identify potential enterprises and entrepreneurs.
The UN General Assembly had declared June 27 as World MSME Day in April 2017, recognising the role of Micro, Small and Medium industrial units in creating employment.
The new initiative, along with the establishment of private industrial parks, is part of the efforts to achieve the goal of helping launch one lakh MSMEs in the State during the current financial year. Industries Minister P. Rajeeve had said earlier that the State was on its way to setting up one lakh MSME units after 13,137 new enterprises were registered in the first two-and-a-half months of the financial year.
Meanwhile, the Industries department has started receiving online applications from groups of entrepreneurs and various other entities for setting up private industrial parks. Mr. Kishore said the department had so far received more than 20 applications and they were expected to be processed within one to two months. The government was offering substantial subsidies—up to a limit of ₹3 crore—to the private estates to help develop various facilities, including infrastructure.
The Industries department official said that the private industrial estate initiative too was a big step towards encouraging new enterprises and would help new entrepreneurs and attract fresh investments in the State.
