Small Industries Service Institute

Small scale sector is one of the success stories of the modern India. Its success is writ large over the face of the country and is equally visible all around. This is a sector that has emerged victorious in the face of rising threats from large sector inside and from multi-nationals abroad. The small Industries Service Institute (SISI) are the field offices of Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO), Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Govt. of India, set up for the promotion and development of Small Scale Industries in the State in the early fifties. This Institute provides support / services to the State Government as well as co-ordinates various activities at the state level for promotion and development of small scale industries. This Institute, alongwith SISI, Nagpur and Branch Institute at Aurangabad, look after the whole of Maharashtra. Small Industries Development Organisation, under the Ministry of Industry is the Apex body at the national level, headed by Development Commissioner, Small Scale Industries to formulate the policy governing the Small Scale Industrial Sector in the country to chalk out schemes and programmes for development of the SSI sector. SIDO also monitors the implementation of policies and activities of promotion and development of Small Scale Industries in the country, with active involvement of State directorate of Industries through its network of 28 Small Industries Service Institute (SISI) in all the States. Small Industries Service Institute, Mumbai provides various types of extension services and assistance in setting up of units, promoting and developing product and Services by the Small Scale Industries. The Institute has Technical Officers to provide guidance in all trades i.e. Metallurgy, Mechanical, Chemical, Leather, Glass & Ceramics, Electrical, Electronics, Food Industry, Management & Economic Investigation. Details of Major Extension Services provided in the Institute are given below :

1) Technical Consultancy 2) Industrial Management Training 3) Economic Information 4) Entrepreneurial Development Programme, Scheme for Educated Unemployed Youth / Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojana 5) Ancillary Developments / Sub-Contract Exchange 6) Marketing Assistance 7) Export Promotion Marketing 8) Modernisation / Upgradation Technology

9) Assistance to Rehabilitation of sick units 10) Common Facility & Training 11) Assistance to District Industries Centre / State Govt. / Various Developmental Agencies in the State 12) Technical Assistance to various Central Government Agencies like Director General of Foreign Trade, National Small Industries Corporation, Central Excise, Bureau of Indian Standards, CSIR etc. 13) Exhibition / Demonstration.

The information on specific schemes of assistance and services offered in the Institute are listed below :
I TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES II MANAGERIAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Technical guidance Identification and preparation of Project

profiles / reports.

Conduct various Industrial Management Courses

e.g. Personnel, Finance, Marketing, Taxation, Export etc.

Selection of Equipment, Machinery & Raw

Materials

Improvement of Quality, Productivity of Labour

etc.

Technical Up-gradation / Quality Control Technical Seminar / Workshop / Clinic To prepare technical literature / papers etc.
III ECONOMICAL INVESTIGATION SERVICES

Techno-Economical and Managerial, Appraisal

reports to Banks / Financial Institutions.

Technical Training Courses on product

development etc.

Short-term / Tailor-made Technical courses.

IV ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME & PMRY

Industrial Potential Surveys / Market

Surveys

General One Month EDP Courses Product and Process EDP Programmes One Week EDP for Self Employed Youths EDP for Women entrepreneurs Product / Process Demonstration To implement the Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojana
in BMR and assistance to DIC in implementing PMRY for Educated unemployed youths

Feasibility reports / State Industrial Profile Sample Survey / Collection of statistics SSI Census Review Report / Production Index Assistance and Rehabilitation of sick units Advise / Guidance on Policy issues Guidance on facilities available with Banks,

Financial Institutions etc. V ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

To assist various institutions and Agencies for EDP VI MARKETING ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES

Identification of Ancillary items for large /

small scale Industries

Provide Market Information Assist to prepare Market feasibility report Indirect marketing support through Sub-Contract
Exchange

Interaction with public / private sector

undertakings

Preparation of Ancillary report Organising State Level Ancillary

Development Committee and participation in PLC meeting

Marketing assistance for Govt. / Semi-Govt.

purchase

Programme through Single Point NSIC

registration

Organising Buyers - Sellers Meet / Vendor

Development Programme - cum Exhibition

Marketing Buyer - Sellers Meet - cum - Exhibition

VII EXPORT PROMOTION SERVICES

Export Market information Export process and procedures information Export Management training Export Packaging training Seminar / Workshop on Export Related
Procedures

VIII MODERNISATION / TECHNOLOGY UP GRADATION SERVICES

Undertaking in-plant studies Conduct cluster studies Programmes on Technology up - gradation /

quality up - gradation & ISO-9000 / Energy conservation

Arrange and forward exhibits to foreign

trade fairs

Conducting Awareness Programmes / Seminar /

Workshop on Pollution Control & ODS Phase out

Preparation of Export directory and reports

Undertaking industry status studies Co - ordination of Modernisation Activities

IX COMMON FACILITY SERVICES

X LIBRARY FACILITY

Workshop facilities for undertaking jobs, jigs

& fixtures, process tools complicated jobs etc.

The Institute has a full fledged Library containing

all sorts of Technical books, Magazines, Journals and reports relating to Industries, including project profiles and various reference manuals etc.

Product Development Industrial Design On the job 6 months training to industrial

workers

Short term training courses

XI ASSISTANCE TO STATE GOVT. AGENCIES XII TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO VARIOUS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES LIKE Provide all sorts of technical and other assistance DGFT, NSIC, Excise, BIS, CSIR etc. to State agencies like DICs, State Directorate of Industries, Corporation and various other All sorts of assistance and support to various industrial NGOs developmental agencies in the state Associations and Institutions involved in the promotion and development of industries INCENTIVES FOR SMALL SCALE SECTOR A number of incentives are provided to SSI units to support the SSIs and promote Small Employment Ventures. Notable amongst these are :

Reservation of 812 products for exclusive

manufacture of SSIs

Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojana to facilitate

growth of Self Employment and small Employment Ventures

Fiscal incentives in the form of excise

exemption / concession for SSIs

Price and Purchase preference for products

manufacture by SSIs in Govt. Purchase Programme

Credit Policies for priority lending to SSIs Interest on Delayed Payment Act to tackle
the problem of settlement of SSI dues from Large Scale Units

Mechanism for dealing with the grievances

regarding bank loans and more transparent and simplified procedure

Integrated Infrastructure Development (IID)

Centre to provide basic infrastructure facilities

Financial Assistance to acquire ISO-9000

Certification

National Equity Fund Scheme and

Technology Development and Modernisation Fund Schemes

Credit Linked Subsidy scheme Market Development Assistance for SSI

Exporters