Question : Revival of Closed Industries

(a) the number of private and public sector industries lying closed in the State of Chhattisgarh;

(b) the number of industries in MSME sector running in losses for last one year including the reasons therefor;

(c) whether the Government proposes to formulate a scheme to revive these industries lying closed or make them profitable;

(d) if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the plan of the Government to set up industry again at the vacant land of BNC mills lying closed in Rajnandgaon district of the State of Chhattisgarh?

MINISTER OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
(SHRI NITIN GADKARI)

(a) to (d): The statistics of closed units of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is not centrally maintained.

The Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines on ‘Framework for Revival and Rehabilitation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ to Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks) in March 2016. Under this Framework, banks have been advised to identify incipient stress in the MSME accounts and refer it to the Committees formed under the Framework for suitable Corrective Action Plan viz. rectification, restructuring and recovery. As per the information received from Reserve Bank of India, stressed accounts referred to the Corrective Action Plan Committee during the half year ended March 2019 is 1,42,275.

(e): Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises does not have any such plan.