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Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises06-August, 2024 17:25 IST

PHASE-I AND II OF SCHEME FOR ENHANCEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS IN INDIAN CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR

Under Phase- I of the Scheme for “Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector”, 33 projects with budgetary support of Rs. 583.312 Cr were sanctioned. In Phase I of scheme, 30 niche indigenous technologies have been successfully developed, in the fields of machine tools, additive manufacturing. textile machinery, welding robots and alloys design, earth moving machinery, and sensor technologies.

On January 25, 2022, Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has notified the Scheme on Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II and Phase- I was merged with the scheme. This schemeprovides assistance to Common Technology Development, Skilling and Testing Services Infrastructure. Under the Scheme, a total of 33 projects with project cost of Rs 1366.94 crores (due to higher contribution by Industry) and Government contribution of Rs 963.19 crore have been sanctioned so far.

The Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector aims to bring together Industry and Academia to jointly work together to address the critical R&D and technology gaps. This is a demand driven scheme in which, Industry in partnership with eminent Academic/Research Institutes proposes projects seeking government funding. The idea is to foster long term relationships between Industry and Academic Universities to create an environment for the critical R&D.The details of the projects sanctioned along with Academic/Research Institutes under the Phase- II of the Scheme and quantum of funds sanctioned are placed at Annexure.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Steel, Shri Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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Annexure

The details of the projects sanctioned along with Academic/Research Institutes under the Phase- II of the Scheme and quantum of funds sanctioned are as under:-

(in Rs crores)

S.No	Project Name	Scheme Component	Total Project Cost	MHI contribution
1	Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence at IISc, Bangalore	Centre of Excellence	44.60	35.68
2	Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by AMTDC, IIT Madras	Centre of Excellence	25.6708	20.537
3	Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence for Design & Development of Submersible Slurry Pumps bySi’Tarc Coimbatore	Centre of Excellence	12.847	10.2776
4	Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence at IIT Delhi	Centre of Excellence	4.1746	3.3397
5	Setting up of Centre of Excellence at ARAI, Pune	Centre of Excellence	14.55	11.64
6	Setting up of Centre of Excellence by IIT BHU, Varanasi	Centre of Excellence	45	36
7	Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by IIT Kharagpur	Centre of Excellence	24.82	19.852
8	Setting up of Centre of Excellence by ICAT, Manesar	Centre of Excellence	8.61	6.888
9	Setting up of Centre of Excellence by BHEL, Varanasi	Centre of Excellence	285.655	174.7
10	Setting up of Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) by BHEL for skilling in advanced welding technologies	Common Engineering Facility Centre	87.06	69.648
11	Setting up of Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) at ARAI, Pune	Common Engineering Facility Centre	42	33.60
12	Augmentation of Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) by C4i4, Pune	Common Engineering Facility Centre	35	28
13	Augmentation of Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) at Smart Factory, IISc Bangalore	Common Engineering Facility Centre	37.97	30.376
14	Setting up of Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC)at TIDCO, TamilNadu	Common Engineering Facility Centre	155.04	46
15	Development of 23 Qualification Packs for automotive sector by Automotive Skill Development Council(ASDC)	Skilling	2.838	2.838
16	Development of 23 Qualification Packs for Capital Goods Sector by Capital Goods Skill Council (CGSC)	Skilling	2.99	2.99
17	Creation of 12 QPs of level 6 and above by Instrumentation, Automation, Surveillance and Communication (IASC)	Skilling	1.77	1.77
18	Augmentation of existing three testing and certification facilities at BHEL	Testing and Certification Centre	39.95	31.96
19	Augmentation of existing Testing and Certification Facility for Bicycle at R&D Centre for Bicycle, Ludhiana	Testing and Certification Centre	10.08	8.06
20	Augmentation of existing Testing and Certification Facility at Institute for Autoparts& Hand tools Technology (IAHT), Ludhiana	Testing and Certification Centre	10.15	8.12
21	Augmentation of existing Testing and Certification Facility at Institute for Machine Tools Technology (IMTT), Batala	Testing and Certification Centre	4.58	3.664
22	Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at CMTI, Bangalore	Testing and Certification Centre	45.68	36.544
23	Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at ARAI, Pune	Testing and Certification Centre	70.25	54.45
24	Augmentation of existing and certification facility at FCRI, Palakkad	Testing and Certification Centre	15.3	12.24
25	Establishment of Industry Accelerator by CMTI, Bangaluru	Industry Accelerator	28.6334	23.1207
26	Industry Accelerator for development of Indigenous Industrial Robots by AMTDC, IIT Madras	Industry Accelerator	15.9	12.72
27	Industry Accelerator by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore	Industry Accelerator	27.74	22.46
28	Setting up of Industry Accelerator by ARAI, Pune	Industry Accelerator	35.724	28.91
29	Setting up of Industry Accelerator by ISB, Mohali	Industry Accelerator	21.0315	17.0255
30	CAMRAS Industry Accelerator by ARTPARK, IISc Bangalore	Industry Accelerator	92.88	74.78
31	SAMRIDHI Industry Accelerator by IISc, Bangalore	Industry Accelerator	61.6160	48.9991
32	Industry Accelerator by SASTRA University, Thanjavur	Industry Accelerator	41.8032	33.0667
33	Setting up of Industry Accelerator at IIT Roorkee	Industry Accelerator	16.0545	12.9945

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