Minister of MSME asks KVIC to be more Vigilant to Ensure Purity of Khadi

A review meeting of Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC) was chaired by Shri Virbhadra Singh, Union Minister for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises here today.The Minister in his address, said that Khadi and Village Industries (KVI) is a very important programme for the rural economy of our country and is interwoven with its ethos. He stressed that transparency and working ethics should be encouraged and institutions producing spurious Khadi should be identified and weeded out to maintain quality and genuineness of Khadi.

Clusters Development – a Tool for Sustainable Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises

Clusters are regional agglomerations of Micro and Small Enterprises including other stakeholders, having common challenges, common bottlenecks, common opportunities, common developmental agenda, in a specific area of business activity, related to each other through knowledge & other economic linkages. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), has adopted the cluster development approach as a key strategy for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) and their collectives in the country. The cluster development initiatives have evolved over a period of time and are now being implemented under “Micro and Small Enterprises – Cluster Development Programme” (MSE-CDP) scheme.