Lok Sabha Question No. 5324 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-04-03
Subject: MSME Champions Scheme
Ministry: MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
Asked by: Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato, Smt. Mahima Kumari Mewar, Ms Kangna Ranaut, Shri Lumbaram Choudhary, Shri Alok Sharma, Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram, Shri Gajendra  Singh Patel, Shri Manoj Tiwari, Shri Praveen Patel, Shri Anil Firojiya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5324 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.04.2025

## MSME CHAMPIONS SCHEME

## 5324.   SHRI MANOJ TIWARI:

SMT. MAHIMA KUMARI MEWAR:

SHRI GAJENDRA SINGH PATEL:

SHRI ALOK SHARMA:

SHRI LUMBA RAM CHAUDHARY:

SHRI VISHNU DAYAL RAM:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

MS KANGNA RANAUT:

SHRI ANIL FIROJIYA:

SHRI PRAVEEN PATEL:

Will the Minister of MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES be pleased to State:

- (a) whether the Government has assessed the impact of the MSME Champions Scheme on business growth and sustainability;
- (b) the number of MSMEs that have benefited from the scheme so far, State-wise including Bhopal district;
- (c) the  new  interventions  being  planned  under  MSME  Champions  to  further  support  digital transformation and market access; and
- (d) whether there is any plan to expand the scheme's reach to backward and underserved regions and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

(a) & (b): The  MSME  Champions  Scheme  consists  of  three  components:  MSME  Sustainable (ZED) Certification Scheme for sustainability, MSME Competitive (LEAN) Scheme for competitiveness,  and  MSME  Innovative  Scheme  for  innovation.  The  ZED  Certification  Scheme promotes Zero Defect Zero Effect (ZED) practices, encouraging MSMEs  to adopt quality manufacturing with minimal environmental impact. The LEAN Scheme enhances domestic and global competitiveness through efficiency improvement  and  waste  reduction.  The Innovative  Scheme integrates  incubation,  design  intervention,  and  Intellectual  Property  Rights  (IPR)  protection  to  foster innovation  and  facilitates  transforming  ideas  into  viable  businesses.  While  no  third-party  impact assessment has been conducted, internal evaluations indicates that the ZED Certification Scheme has been able to improve awareness on quality, environment, safety, cleanliness and hygiene. On the other hand, the Lean Scheme has led to sensitization of MSMEs on efficiency improvements, waste reduction, and better problem-solving; and the Innovative Scheme is facilitating the transformation of incubated ideas into viable business ventures. The component wise total beneficiaries under MSME Champions Scheme as on 31.03.2025 are tabulated below:

|   S. No. | Scheme Component                                                                  | No. of Beneficiaries                  |
|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|        1 | MSME Sustainable (ZED) Certification Scheme                                       | 2,84,178                              |
|        2 | MSME Competitive (LEAN) Scheme                                                    | 14,240                                |
|        3 | MSME Innovative {(Incubation, Design & Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)} Scheme | Incubation: 930 Design: 69 IPR: 2,271 |

The list of State-wise beneficiaries including Bhopal district may please be seen at Annexure I, for ZED, LEAN and Innovative Scheme respectively.

(c): The Ministry of MSME has launched ZED 2.0, which fortifies the ZED program by ways of i) 20%  reduction  in  certification  costs;  ii)  strengthened  certification  levels  with  additional  assessment parameters  for  Bronze  level  and  enhanced  surveillance  assessment,  and  iii)  financial  assistance  for multiple certifications. Alongside this, the MSME Support for Commercialization of IP(MSME- SCIP) Programme  under  the  MSME  Innovative  Scheme  aims  to  bridge  the  gap  between  IP  creation  and commercialization.  The  programme  aims  to  establish  a  national  network  of  Technology  Transfer Facilitation Centres (TTFCs), develop a digital matchmaking platform for stakeholder collaboration and technology discovery, and build a technical knowledge database for Indian MSMEs, thereby supporting digital transformation and improving market access under the MSME Champions initiative.

(d): The MSME  Champions  Scheme  is  a  central sector scheme applicable for pan India implementation  including  the  backward  and  underserved  regions.  Under  the  MSME  Competitive (LEAN)  Scheme  component  there  is  a  provision  for  additional  5%  Government  of  India  (GoI) contribution  as  Financial  Assistance  for  North  Eastern  Region  (NER)MSMEs.  Moreover,  the  ZED Scheme provides an extra 10% subsidy for Cost of ZED Certification for MSMEs owned by SC/ST entrepreneurs,  or  those  in  NER,  Himalayan,  Left  Wing  Extremist  (LWE),  Island  territories,  and aspirational districts, further strengthening support in these regions.

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## Annexure-I

List of State-wise beneficiaries including Bhopal district under ZED since launch of the Scheme i.e. 28 th April 2022:

|        |                                              | ZED                  | LEAN                 | Innovative   | Innovative   | Innovative   |
|--------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| S. No. | State/UT                                     | Total Certifications | Basic Certifications | Incubation   | IPR          | Design       |
| 1      | Andaman and Nicobar Islands                  | 2                    | 0                    | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh                               | 9996                 | 465                  | 82           | 156          | 0            |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh                            | 1                    | 0                    | 2            | 0            | 0            |
| 4      | Assam                                        | 2749                 | 167                  | 6            | 4            | 2            |
| 5      | Bihar                                        | 20809                | 1284                 | 10           | 9            | 1            |
| 6      | Chandigarh                                   | 704                  | 0                    | 7            | 0            | 0            |
| 7      | Chhattisgarh                                 | 2723                 | 128                  | 8            | 9            | 0            |
| 8      | Delhi                                        | 1356                 | 193                  | 9            | 41           | 0            |
| 9      | Goa                                          | 21                   | 4                    | 0            | 4            | 0            |
| 10     | Gujarat                                      | 56932                | 1131                 | 32           | 400          | 0            |
| 11     | Haryana                                      | 14829                | 1352                 | 8            | 138          | 4            |
| 12     | Himachal Pradesh                             | 1858                 | 58                   | 1            | 4            | 0            |
| 13     | Jammu and Kashmir                            | 2732                 | 274                  | 3            | 4            | 3            |
| 14     | Jharkhand                                    | 1893                 | 107                  | 8            | 6            | 3            |
| 15     | Karnataka                                    | 47285                | 980                  | 72           | 126          | 23           |
| 16     | Kerala                                       | 3466                 | 225                  | 21           | 137          | 1            |
| 17     | Ladakh                                       | 8                    | 0                    | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 18     | Madhya Pradesh                               | 11887                | 1155                 | 11           | 63           | 2            |
| 19     | Maharashtra                                  | 20187                | 1966                 | 46           | 311          | 7            |
| 20     | Manipur                                      | 4                    | 25                   | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 21     | Meghalaya                                    | 2                    | 6                    | 3            | 0            | 0            |
| 22     | Nagaland                                     | 33                   | 46                   | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 23     | Odisha                                       | 1095                 | 74                   | 25           | 48           | 1            |
| 24     | Puducherry                                   | 226                  | 10                   | 1            | 1            | 0            |
| 25     | Punjab                                       | 15717                | 529                  | 9            | 20           | 2            |
| 26     | Rajasthan                                    | 17044                | 871                  | 28           | 138          | 1            |
| 27     | Sikkim                                       | 1                    | 0                    | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 28     | Tamil Nadu                                   | 10896                | 806                  | 330          | 33           | 1            |
| 29     | Telangana                                    | 4956                 | 225                  | 116          | 467          | 2            |
| 30     | The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 199                  | 17                   | 0            | 0            | 0            |
| 31     | Tripura                                      | 266                  | 1                    | 1            | 0            | 0            |
| 32     | Uttar Pradesh                                | 28217                | 1531                 | 46           | 99           | 16           |
| 33     | Uttarakhand                                  | 825                  | 75                   | 8            | 20           | 0            |
| 34     | West Bengal                                  | 5259                 | 535                  | 37           | 33           | 0            |
|        | Grand Total                                  | 284178               | 14240                | 930          | 2271         | 69           |