Enhancing export potential of MSMEs for entering new markets & increased global value chain participation
Promote new product opportunities and business models for relevant & targeted MSMEs/entrepreneurs
Facilitating use of digital mediums, e-commerce for improved marketing and branding
Providing support on market intelligence, market research, pricing intelligence & profitability analysis, documentation, certifications, etc.
Formulation & implementation of Exports/Market development policies & schemes
Cluster Development Cell
Identification and development of new clusters, setting-up CFCs for holistic development of MSMEs
Enable MSMEs for scaling up their technology levels and fostering business innovation
Strengthen common industrial infrastructure in the State, including Quality Marking Centres (QMCs) and assisting MSMEs in product & process improvements
Facilitating Government-Industry-Academia linkages and providing advisory to MSMEs on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Trademarks registration, Copyrights, Patents, etc.
Initiate R3D (Research, Development, Demonstration & Dissemination) & technology transfer projects in collaboration with bilateral & multilateral agencies
Entrepreneurship Accelerator Cell
Providing end-to-end handholding & advisory services to budding new and existing entrepreneurs
Enabling backward and forward linkages across MSME sub-sectors for strengthening value chain
Engaging with OEMs & anchor units for requirement mapping & establishing tier-1 & tier-2 MSME suppliers network
Conducting sector-specific vendor development programs and B2B/B2G meets to promote ancillarisation
Creating & maintaining repository of new business opportunities at district level & Business Development Service (BDS) providers across various functional areas of an enterprise
Financial Services & Credit Facilitation Cell
Mentoring & advisory services on financial record management, accounting, book-keeping, corporate governance, taxation, various statutory obligations & adherence, risk identification and mitigation, etc.
Facilitating access to alternate financing instruments, such as Fintech driven lending solutions (Crowd Funding & Peer to Peer lending), listing on SME exchange, etc.
Assisting units in meeting credit requirements across business life cycle by facilitating linkages with banks/NBFCs/MFIs, by way of scheme incentives and credit facilitation, etc.
Providing advisory support on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBCs), and revival of sick units and designing institutional and policy measures to prevent industrial sickness
Credit-related grievance redressal of MSMEs by taking up their interests in SLBC and other relevant platforms
Facilitating inclusion of unregistered and unregulated enterprises into the mainstream; overseeing registrations on GoI’s UAM and GoH’s HUM
Preparing and updating a ready reckoner of regulatory approvals required for setting up an MSME
Undertaking regulatory reforms for facilitating Ease of Doing Business for state MSMEs
Providing support towards facilitating procurement from state MSMEs
Assisting in resolving MSME grievances, including obtaining delayed payments through MSME Facilitation Councils under MSME Development Act 2006
Wholesaler & Retail Trade
Policy advocacy to provide institutional support to Retail & Wholesale Traders
Preparing and updating a database of all traders and related BMOs of the state
Engaging with traders’ BMOs for their grievance redressal
Enabling timely and smooth issuance and renewal of business licenses
Providing handholding & facilitation support to traders in organized and unorganized sector to integrate them with state MSME ecosystem
Micro & Village Enterprises Development Cell
Strengthening the micro enterprise ecosystem, identification of entrepreneurship opportunities at block level
Supporting heritage industries like pottery, handicrafts etc. to improve their technology and product quality by undertaking cluster level interventions
Coordinating with Ministry of MSME and leading NGOs to initiate programs under the SFURTI scheme for regeneration of village industries
Supporting execution of all micro & village industries’ related developmental schemes including grant of National/State Awards to artisans,
Promotion of rural entrepreneurship by providing institutional and handholding support
Sectoral Cell
Engaging with sector experts & providing policy advocacy to govt. on sector specific programs & schemes, MSME entrepreneurship development program
Providing advisory to government on amplifying focus on traditional industries, such as plywood, scientific instruments, etc.
Planning and development of MSME thrust sectors & identified sunrise sectors focussed initiatives and programs
Publishing white papers on sub-sectoral trends, performance & analysis, developments, etc.
Planning and developing strategies for development of new sector-focussed large-scale parks, industrial hubs, etc, and/ revival of the existing parks & hubs
Intelligence & Knowledge Hub
Collection of MSME related data and its analysis (such as GSVA contribution), conducting MSME industrial surveys
Developing an MSME Competitiveness Index, by defining and gathering inputs on key parameters at various levels
Developing a monitoring mechanism to evaluate impact of various schemes and programs of the government through data synthesis
Preparation of annual plan and budget for the Directorate
Publishing MSME-focussed thought leadership, knowledge material, annual reports in coordination with MEANS Council