Question : Development of Heavy Industries

(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?

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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