Lok Sabha Question No. 2092 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-15
Subject: Heavy Industrial Equipments and Plants
Ministry: HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Poonam (Mahajan) Vajendla Rao, Gowdar Mallikarjunappa Siddeshwara

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2092

ANSWERED ON 15.03.2022

## HEAVY INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENTS AND PLANTS

## 2092.  SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN: SHRI G.M. SIDDESHWAR:

Will the Minister of HEAVY INDUSTRIES भारी उद्योग मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of heavy industrial equipments and plants imported during the last five years, industry-wise;
- (b)  the  steps  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Government  to  develop  heavy  engineering industries in the country to substitute import of the heavy engineering equipments and plants;
- (c) the amount of foreign exchange the country can save by developing them domestically;
- (d) whether the Government has plans to develop the country into an export hub for heavy industrial equipments and plants; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof and the outcome of the plans till now?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES (SHRI KRISHAN PAL GURJAR)

- (a) to (e): The details of India's Global imports of heavy industrial equipment and plants - industry wise during last five years are tabulated below:

(In US $million)

| Category                               |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |
|----------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Automobiles and Auto Components parts  |    4122.6 |    5146.7 |    5279.5 |    4685.5 |    4100.3 |
| Dies, Moulds and Press Tools           |     745.3 |     860.1 |    1007.4 |    1099.6 |     890.8 |
| Earthmoving and construction machinery |    3443.1 |    3932.9 |    4492.3 |    3814.6 |    3421.1 |
| Food Processing Machinery              |    1583.7 |    1647.4 |    2294.7 |    2292.7 |    2011.2 |
| Machine Tools                          |    2263.3 |    2548.6 |    3534.1 |    3138.9 |    2213.2 |
| Plastic Machinery                      |    1065.7 |    1235.7 |    1349   |    1421.1 |    1026.2 |
| Printing Machinery                     |     190.7 |     218.4 |     245.2 |     191   |     139.5 |
| Textile machinery                      |    2002.2 |    2355.5 |    2113.5 |    1818.4 |    1328.3 |
| Grand Total                            |   15416.6 |   17945.3 |   20315.7 |   18461.8 |   15130.6 |

(Source: Ministry of Commerce, Government of India)

Further, as per the inputs provided by Industry Associations, the details of imports in Heavy Electrical Equipment Sector during last five years is as under:

| (In Rs. Crore)   | (In Rs. Crore)   | (In Rs. Crore)   | (In Rs. Crore)   | (In Rs. Crore)   |
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
| 2016-17          | 2017-18          | 2018-19          | 2019-20          | 2020-21          |
| 55,291           | 55,608           | 71,570           | 67,967           | 58,336           |

(Source: DGCIS, IEEMA)

In order to encourage the technology development and to augment the manufacturing infrastructure in the Capital Goods sector for domestic as well as export purposes, Ministry of Heavy  Industries  launched  a  Scheme  for  'Enhancement  of  Competitiveness  in  the  Indian Capital  Goods  Sector'  in  the  year  2014.    Under  this  Scheme,  33  projects  with  budgetary support of Rs. 583.312 crores were sanctioned.  These aimed at addressing technology gaps, infrastructural requirements and some developmental needs of the sector.

-  Fifteen  Common  Engineering  Facility  Centres  (CEFCs)  including  four  Industry  4.0 SAMARTH centres and 6 technology innovation platforms have been established to provide  infrastructural  and  technical  support  to  Industrial  clusters  including  testing, training,  certification,  common  manufacturing,  tool  room,  calibration  to  MSMEs. Further,  regular  awareness  events  for  Industry  4.0  have  been  organized  under  the scheme.
-  Eight Centres of  Excellence  (COEs)  for  Technology  Development  have  been established  where Technologies  have  been  developed  in  sectors  like  machine  tools, textile machinery, earth moving machinery, metallurgical machinery, welding, submersible pumps etc.
-  To enhance investment in the Machine Tools sector in India, a 530 acres world class Machine Tool Park has been established in Tumakuru, Karnataka in partnership with the Government of Karnataka.
-  Five  foreign  manufacturing  technologies  have  been  acquired  under  the  Technology Acquisition Fund component of the Scheme.

The progress made under the Scheme has been very encouraging.  During this period 25 new indigenous technologies have been successfully developed in the fields of machine tools,  textile  machinery,  earth  moving  machinery,  nano  and  sensor  technologies,  through Industry-Academia cooperation.  Phase II of the scheme has been notified in January, 2022 to take up more such projects.

Under  the  'Atmanirbhar  Bharat'  initiative  to  provide  purchase  preference  domestic manufacturers, Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order on Industrial Steam Generators /Boilers has been issued.

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