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Rs.20.00 lakhs, to all eligible new industrial units. During the Year 1999-2000, an
amount of Rs.3700.00 lakhs has been disbursed to 935 industrial units both for District
Level Committee Cases (DLC) and State Level Committee Cases (SLC).
6.7 The exports of Industrial goods require quality maintenance of International standards for
easy acceptance of goods by foreign consumers. The quality conscious buyers prefer the
pre-certification of the goods by the International Standard Organisation. The ISO 9000
is the quality marking of International Standard. The fulfilment of the terms and
conditions of ISO –9000 Certification is an ordeous task requiring lot of investment for
which the SSI Units are not affording to get this certification. So far 31 units have been
given incentive to a tune a Rs.7.57 Lakhs under ISO –9000 Certification. (Since
April,1997).
6.8 CSIR Laboratories, Tool Room, Prototype Project Development Centres, etc are being
involved for development of prototype designs drawings, dissemination of the
information through Seminars, Workshops and Technology transfer between Large and
Small Scale Industries particularly for ancillarisation and vendor development. An
Amount of Rs.108.00 lakhs was released during 1999-2000. Out of Rs.108.00 lakhs an
amount of Rs.100.00 lakhs has been exclusively given to Confederation of Indian
Technology upgradation and modernisation in the Small Scale Industrial Sector to
compete with other sectors in producing goods as per the market demands with the
involvement of non – Government Organisations and Industrial Associations.
6.9 There is a need to extend Technical and Scientific support to the SSI Sector by arranging
Need Based Research through the Research Institute within Country. Department of
Electronics, NSIC Research Institutes pertaining to CSIR and other organisations are
expected to undertake Research work especially to cater the needs of SSI Sector to help
those SSI units which cannot afford to undertake this job on account of meagre financial
resources available at its disposable for such activity. The aim of industry Institute
Interface Meetings is to arrange for the transfer of Technology from Research Institutes
to the SSI Sector and also to induce the Research Institutes to take up Research, Design
and Development of the items which can easily be manufactured and marketed not only
in National but also in the International markets.
6.10 In order to provide congenial atmosphere to Women Entrepreneurs to undertake
manufacturing activity suitable to their nature under Tiny and SSI Sector, it is proposed
to establish an Industrial Estate for Women Entrepreneurs in RR District.20-acres of land
situated in Qutubullapur Mandal, RR District was allotted in favour of Association of
Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh (ALEAP) for establishment of Industrial Estate.
The Government have constituted a committee for allotting the plots to the Lady
Entrepreneurs and for planning the systematic development of the Industrial Estate for
Lady Entrepreneurs.
6.11 Government of India have sanctioned an amount of Rs.1.40 crores as financial assistance
to this Industrial Estate under the scheme of Integrated Infrastructure Development (IID)
for Small Scale Industries.