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The Ministry of Heavy Industries under the Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector has set up 4 Smart Advanced Manufacturing and Rapid Transformation Hub (SAMARTH) Centres to promote Industry 4.0. These SAMARTH centres have benefitted over 2700 Industries in terms of onsite demonstration and awareness activities with approximately 33000 professionals trained through more than 300 training programmes.

State-wise distribution of projects sanctioned under the “Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II” is as under:

Centres of Excellence:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

1.

Setting up of CoE by IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

2.

Augmentation of CoE at IIT Delhi

Delhi

3.

Augmentation of Centre of Excellence by IISc, Bengaluru

Karnataka

4.

Setting up of CoE at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

5.

Setting up of Centre of Excellence (CoE) by IIT BHU, Varanasi

Uttar Pradesh

6.

Augmentation of CoE at Si’Tarc, Coimbatore

Tamilnadu

7.

Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by AMTDC, IIT Madras

-2-

Common Engineering Facility Centres:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

-

Augmentation of CEFC at Smart Factory, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

Karnataka

-

Augmentation of Common Engineering Facility Centre by C4i4, Pune

Maharashtra

-

Setting up of CEFC at ARAI, Pune

-

Setting up of CEFC at BHEL, Trichy

Tamilnadu

Testing and Certification Centres:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

-

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

-

Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at CMTI, Bengaluru

Karnataka

-

Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at BHEL

Madhya Pradesh/Telangana

-

Augmentation of existing Testing and Certification Facility at (IAHT), Ludhiana

Punjab

-

Augmentation of testing and certification facility at Institute of Machine Tools Technology (IMTT), Batala

-

Augmentation of testing and certification facility at Fluid Control Research Institute, Palakkad

Kerala

Industry Accelerators:

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator (CAMRAS) by ARTPARK (IISc), Bengaluru

Karnataka

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator (SAMRIDHI) by (FSID), (IISc), Bengaluru

-

Establishment Of Industry Accelerator by CMTI, Bengaluru

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator at ARAI, Pune

Maharashtra

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by IIT Madras

Tamilnadu

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by SASTRA University, Thanjavur

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

-

Setting up of Industry Accelerator by Indian School of Business

Telangana

-

Industry Accelerator at IIT Roorkee

Uttarakhand

Qualification Packages (QPs):

Sr.no

Name of Project

State

-

Development of 23 QPs by ASDC for automotive sector

Delhi

-

Development of 23 QPs by CGSSC

-

Creation of QPs for skill levels 6 and above by IASC SSC

-3-

Details of funds allocated, released and utilized for projects approved under all the components of the Scheme in last three financial years is as under:

(in Rs. crore)

Financial Year

Allocation (Revised Estimates)

Funds released/utilized

2023-24

187.20

83.34

2024-25

184.00

171.63

2025-26

120.00

116.09

The Ministry of Heavy Industries under the Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector has set up 4 Smart Advanced Manufacturing and Rapid Transformation Hub (SAMARTH) Centres. These centres are aimed at creating skill development programs in the field of Industry 4.0, Digital Manufacturing, Robotics & Autonomous system and Additive Manufacturing. Further, Industry 4.0 Experience Centre and Industry 4.0-enabled Model Factory has also been set up for demonstration of Smart Manufacturing technologies, enabling industries to experience Industry 4.0 use cases and digital manufacturing solutions. MHI has also sanctioned setting up of 10 cluster Industry 4.0 Experience Centres nationwide through Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4), Pune.

TPJ

Official source

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Source attribution: Press Information Bureau, Government of India.