Grant to Small manufacturing enterprises for consultancy to develop and innovate new designs.

Operated by
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium - Development Commissioner, Central Govt.
Purpose 
To provide assistance to small manufacturing enterprises for design expertise in the form of consultancy and to develop new design strategies and/or design-related products and services through project interventions
Probable duration
2016

Eligibility

  •  The beneficiary unit(s) must typically be small enterprise as per the definition in MSMED Act 2006. 

  •  It must be new to using design and preferably should not have used internal or external design expertise before.

Benefit Description

Financial assistance in the form of grant to Small manufacturing enterprises for consultancy to develop and innovate new designs

Application process

  •  Please refer to page no.30 of the following link: http://www.dcmsme.gov.in/schemes/Final%20Guidelines-Design-revised%20approved%20MoF.pdf

    • Other Details

    Conditions if Any
    • The applicability of design project funding is to an individual MSME or a group of MSMEs. In other words, the scheme permits a group of MSMEs based in an industrial clusters to come together and seek project funding for design improvement consultancy. For the sake of convenience, hereinafter in these guidelines, the term MSME shall include a group of MSMEs also.
    • All applications for funding support for design projects under the scheme must be in collaboration between a MSME requiring assistance in design and a designer / design company / academic institution which will provide that assistance.
    • The applicant MSME (s) in the project is required to contribute at least 40% of the approved project cost as a matching fund.
    More Information
    Annexure Link: 
    # Please refer page no.13 point no. 10.9 of the following link: http://www.dcmsme.gov.in/schemes/Final%20Guidelines-Design-revised%20approved%20MoF.pdf

    Link: 
    http://www.dcmsme.gov.in/schemes/design_clinic.htm

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