The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, a branch of the Government of India, is

the apex body for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws relating to micro,
small and medium enterprises in India. The Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is Nitin
Gadkari and the Minister of State is Pratap Chandra Sarangi since 31 May 2019.
The statistics provided by the annual reports of Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
shows a rise in the plan amount spent on the khadi sector from ₹1942.7 million to ₹14540 million,
and non-plan amounts from ₹437 million to ₹2291 million, in the period from 1994–95 to 2014–2015.
The interest subsidies to khadi institutions increased from ₹96.3 million to ₹314.5 million in this
period.[2]

History[edit]
The Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries was created in October 1999.
In September 2001, the ministry was split into the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and the Ministry
of Agro and Rural Industries. The President of India amended the Government of India (Allocation of
Business) Rules, 1961, under the notification dated 9 May 2007. Pursuant to this amendment, they
were merged into a single ministry.
The ministry was tasked with the promotion of micro and small enterprises. The Small Industries
Development Organization was under the control of the ministry, as was the National Small
Industries Corporation Limited public sector undertaking).
The Small Industries Development Organisation was established in 1954 on the basis of the
recommendations of the Ford Foundation. It has over 60 offices and 21 autonomous bodies under
its management. These autonomous bodies include Tool Rooms, Training Institutions and Project-
cum-Process Development Centres.
Services provided include:

 Facilities for testing, toolmenting, training for entrepreneurship development

 Preparation of project and product profiles
 Technical and managerial consultancy
 Assistance for exports
 Pollution and energy audits
It also provides economic information services and advises Government in policy formulation for the
promotion and development of SSIs. The field offices also work as effective links between the
Central and State Governments.

Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries[edit]

The now-defunct Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries had the objectives of facilitating coordinated
and focused policy formulation and effective implementation of programmes, projects, schemes,
etc., for improving supply chain management, enhancing skills, upgrading technology, expanding
markets and capacity building of entrepreneurs/artisans and their groups/collectives.
The Ministry deals with the khadi, village and coir industries through the Khadi and Village Industries
Commission (KVIC) and the Coir Board. It coordinates implementation of two countrywide
employment generation programmes, namely, the Rural Employment Generation Programme
(REGP) and the Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) with the cooperation of State
Governments, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other banks. The KVIC, established by an Act of
Parliament, is a statutory organization engaged in promotion and development of khadi and village
industries for providing employment opportunities in the rural areas, thereby strengthening the rural
economy. The coir industry is a labour-intensive and export-oriented industry. It uses a by-product of
coconut, namely, coir husk. The Coir Board, a statutory body established under the Coir Industry Act
1953, looks after the promotion, growth and development of the coir industry, including export
promotion and expansion of the domestic market.[3]
It was headed by the Minister of Agro & Rural Industries and was based at Udyog Bhavan, Rafi
Marg, New Delhi. Shri Mahabir Prasad was the last incumbent.
Related organisations[edit]

 Coir Board
 Central Tool Room, Ludhiana[4]
 Central Tool Room Extension Centre, Nilokheri earlier functional as Integrated Training Centre,
Nilokheri
 Indo Danish Tool Room, Jamshedpur

Integrated Training Center, Nilokheri[edit]

Integrated Training Center, Nilokheri was an employment and training agency
in Nilokheri in Karnal district in the state of Haryana owned and managed by the Government of
India and responsible for upgrading technical skills of technicians.
It was built around the vocational training centre that was transferred from Kurukshetra, in July, 1948
to the 1100 acres of swampy land on the Delhi-Ambala highway as one of several enterprises
intended to provide employment and training for displaced persons following the partition of
India This training center was under Small Industries belonged to subhash mukherjee Development
Organisation and used to provided training to extension officers (industries of State Governments as
well as managers and technician entrepreneurs both in modern small scale and traditional village
industries. During the Year 1986-87 the center trained 200 technician, 85 women under core women
training programme and 57 SIDO officers.[5]

Functions[edit]
It provides technical training to artisans and workers sponsored by the state government. It also
organises training of Extension Officers engaged in various developmental organisation. It provides
summer training programs for Degree/Diploma Engineers.

ITC as Central Tool Room Extension Center, Nilokheri[edit]

Due to some conflict between the Principal and Vice-Principal of Integrated Training Centre was
relinquished.[clarification needed] Later in the year 2014 the center was taken over by Ministry of Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises which led to its development as Extension center for Central Tool Room,
Ludhiana i.e. Central Tool Room Extension Center, Nilokheri. Currently running various technical
short term courses.

Center structure and functions[edit]

The center comes under the Government of India and has a Principal and a Vice Principal. The
Ministry regulates:

 Khadi and Village Industries Commission

 National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector
 National Small Industries Corporation Ltd.
 National School of Leadership
 National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises[6]
 National Institute for Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development
 Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship [7]

Ministers[edit]
 Dinsha Patel: 28 May 2009 – 18 Jan 2011
 Virbhadra Singh: 19 Jan 2011 – 26 June 2012
 Vilasrao Deshmukh: 26 June 2012 – 14 August 2012
 Vayalar Ravi: 14 August 2012 – 28 October 2012
 K. H. Muniyappa: 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014
 Kalraj Mishra: 27 May 2014 – 31 August 2016
 Giriraj Singh: 9 November 2016 - 30 May 2019
 Nitin Gadkari: (31 May 2019 - Incumbent)

Ministers of State[edit]
 Pratap Chandra Sarangi: (31 May 2019 - Incumbent)