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Chapter Outline=
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Sickness among Small Scale Industries (SSIs)
11.3 Factors Responsible for Sickness of Small Scale Industries
(SSIs)
11.4 Governmental Efforts to Deal with Industrial Sickness
11.5 Conclusion
"The God which all the countries worship is the God of industrialisation,
the God of machines, the God of high production and utilisation of
natural power and resources for greater advantage"
Jawahar Lal Nehru
11.1 INTRODUCTION
medium sized industrial units). At the end of March 1994, there was total
of 2,58,352 sick units out of which share
of SSI
sick units was 99
percent,
as number of SSI sick unit was 2,56,452. These SSI sick units had a locked
up bank credit of T 3,680 crore (26.9 percent) out of the total locked up
bank credit of 7 13,695 crore in all the sick and weak units. The number
of non-SSI sick units increased from 1,401 in 1980 to 2,500 in 1994
(an increase of 78 percent) and that of SSI sick units increased from
23,149 in 1980 to 2,56,452 in 1994 (an increase of more than 1l times).
By the end of March 2002, the number of sick industrial units had become
1,80,597 units and the amount of outstanding bank credit against them
stood at 26,065 crores. Nimber of sick public sector enterprises has
also increased over the years. At the end of Tenth E.Y.P.
(2006-07) there
were 250 sick PSEs.
Industrial Sickness 11.3
to 311.52 lakh units in 2011 (3.47 times). The percentage of sick units among
the MSMEs was 2.46 percent (approximately 2.74 lakh units) in 1998, which
declined to a level ot 0.29 percent (approximately 9,300 units) in 2011.
The total investment in MSMEs units was reported at 1,33,242 crore in 1998
of which investment incurred on sick units has been worked out to 2.89 pecent.
This percentage has been revolving in the range of3.52 percent to 2.48 percent
during the next 13 years.
11.5 CONCULSION