Lok Sabha Question No. 2325 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-03
Subject: Development of Heavy Industries
Ministry: HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Sunil Kumar Mondal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2325

ANSWERED ON 03.08.2021

## DEVELOPMENT OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES

## 2325. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL :

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  various  schemes  launched  for  the  development  of  Heavy  Industries  in various States of the country during the last six years, State/UT-wise, particularly in the State of West Bengal;
- (b) whether any new scheme is to be introduced in the coming future, if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (c) the details of the funds sanctioned for the development of Heavy Industries in the budgetary allocation  2020  and  the  percentage  of  funds  released/  expended  to  the  State  of  West  Bengal  till now?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c):  The scheme on 'Enhancement of competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector' was notified in November, 2014 to   encourage technology development and infrastructure creation.

Eight Centres of Excellence for Technology Development (CoE), nine  Common Engineering Facility Centres including four SAMARTH Udyog centres   for Industry 4.0 (attached in Annexure )  have  been  established  at  research  and  academic  institutes  of  eminence  across  the country.   Ministry has embarked on an innovative path to engender Research & Development in manufacturing  by  establishing  six  Technology  Platforms  which  shall  be  accelerators  for  making India  self-reliant  in  Capital  Goods  Sector  and  Auto  Sector  with  focus  on  developing  mother technologies.

The total Funds utilized, under the Scheme on 'Enhancement of   Competitiveness in Indian Capital Goods Sector' in the financial year 2020-21 is Rs.54.22 crore for the financial year 2020-21.

So far, Rs. 37.692 crore   has been released to Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), West Bengal regarding funding for setting up of 'Centre of Excellence (CoE) under the Scheme on Enhancement of competitiveness in the Indian Capital   Goods Sector.

Under  the  Auto  Sector,  Ministry  of  Heavy  Industries  has  two  schemes,  viz.,  (i)  Scheme named 'Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) Scheme' is being  implemented  for  promotion  of  electric  vehicles  in  India.  At  present,  Phase-II  of  FAME India Scheme  is  being  implemented  w.e.f.  01st April,  2019  for  a  period  of  5  years with  a  total budgetary support of Rs.10,000 crores. (ii) The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for manufacturing of Advance Chemistry Cell (ACC)  in the  country  approved  by  the  Government  on  12th May  2021 .  The  total  outlay  of  the scheme  is  Rs.  18,100  crore  for  5  years. The  scheme  envisages  to  establish  a  competitive  ACC battery  manufacturing set  up  in  the  country.  Under  the  Scheme,  a  mechanism  for  availing incentives on  manufacturing  ACCs  with  higher  specific  energy  density  and  cycles  is provided. These schemes are pan India.

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Annexure Centre for Excellence (COE) for technology Development

|   S.N. | Centre                                | State/ UT   |
|--------|---------------------------------------|-------------|
|      1 | CMTI, Bangalore                       | Karnataka   |
|      2 | IIT, Madras                           | Tamil Nadu  |
|      3 | PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu  |
|      4 | HEC, Ranchi                           | Jharkhand   |
|      5 | Si'tarc, Coimbatore                   | Tamil Nadu  |
|      6 | IISc, Bangalore                       | Karnataka   |
|      7 | IIT, Kharagpur                        | West Bengal |
|      8 | IIT, Delhi                            | Delhi       |

Common Engineering Facility centres

|   S.N. | Centre             | State       | If SAMARTH Centre   |
|--------|--------------------|-------------|---------------------|
|      1 | IISc, Bangalore    | Karnataka   | Yes                 |
|      2 | IIT, Delhi         | Delhi       | Yes                 |
|      3 | C4i4, Pune         | Maharashtra | Yes                 |
|      4 | CMTI, Bangalore    | Karnataka   | Yes                 |
|      5 | HMT, Bangalore     | Karnataka   | No                  |
|      6 | HEC, Ranchi        | Jharkhand   | No                  |
|      7 | Bardoli , Surat    | Gujarat     | No                  |
|      8 | CMTI, Bangalore    | Karnataka   | No                  |
|      9 | Korus, Bahadurgarh | Haryana     | No                  |

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