MSME tool room trained 16 lakh youth in nine years, says Narayan Rane

NEW DELHI: Union minister for micro, small and medium enterprises Narayan Rane on his Twitter account said 16 lakh youth have been trained in the last nine year through 18 tool rooms and technology centres-run by the MSME ministry.

He made the announcement on the occasion of the National Small Industries Day. He added that the training programme has benefitted over 3 lakh MSME units across the country.

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He added that the tool rooms and technology centres working under the MSME ministry are making a significant contribution in realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of a self-reliant India. These tool rooms and technology centres are also providing step by step support in manufacturing state of the art products.

MSME Minister informed through his tweet that 15 more technology centres are being set up to further strengthen the MSME units of the country.

Rane added the tool rooms design and manufacture medium and small-size equipment as per international standards. The equipment are used in industries such as sports goods, plastic, automobile, footwear, glass, perfume, foundry and forging, electronics and space sector. He added in the recently launched Chandrayaan 3 mission, Bhubaneswar tool room manufactured around 54,000 aero-space components of 437 types. “Tool rooms have also played an important role in fulfilling the domestic needs of PPE kits, sanitizer machines, oxygen concentrators as well as in their exports to foreign countries in the difficult times of the Corona pandemic,” he added.