Handmade with Passion, Inspired by Tradition
With intent to strengthen the Coir, Khadi and Village Industry in terms of quality, output, market, finance and infrastructure, Ministry of MSME, Government of India has revamped the existing SFURTI guidelines. The Ministry with the help of Nodal Agencies like KVIC, Coir Board and IEDO is in the process of selecting 800 clusters across the country. Fakirpur Paper mache cluster, Keonjhar cluster situated in Aandapur block of Keonjhar district in Odisha is one such potential VI Cluster considered to be developed under Cluster Mode. Project Steering Committee has already given in principle approval and made M/s Sahayam as Implementing Agency. Subsequently IEDO has appointed M/s Foundation for MSME Clusters (FMC) as Technical Agency and entrusted the task of conducting Preliminary survey in the cluster and submitting Preliminary Project Report (PPR) as the first phase. This report has approved in scheme steering committee. Now technical agency is preparing the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for final approval of the project. A systematic approach was followed in preparation of report. Desk research, design and development of study tools, kick-off workshop, sample selection, primary data collection and analysis, preparation of draft report, validation of major findings and finalization of the report are the major phases of the exercise, which were undertaken as per the guidelines of SFURTI Scheme.