Union MSME Minister Kalraj Mishra highlighted Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) during a press conference. He said 39 clusters under SFURTI would be approved with an approximate cost of Rs. 60 crores. It would be benefiting more than 10,000 artisans.
The Scheme is meant for the Artisans engaged in traditional Industries including Khadi.
SFURTI focuses on making traditional industries more competitive with more market-driven, productive, profitable and sustained employment for traditional industry artisans and rural entrepreneurs. In addition to strengthen the local governance systems of industry clusters, with the active participation of the local stakeholders, so that they are enabled to undertake development initiatives by themselves.
The target sectors of the scheme includes Artisans, workers, machinery makers, raw material providers, entrepreneurs, institutional and private Business Development Service (BDS) providers engaged in traditional industries and working in selected clusters of khadi, coir and village industries, including leather and pottery.
