ADVANCED CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

Ministry of Heavy Industries ADVANCED CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

Posted On: 10 MAR 2026 4:12PM by PIB Delhi Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II is a pan India demand driven Scheme under which proposals are submitted by Project Implementing Organizations

(PIOs) in association with Industry Partner(s) from any UT/ State of the country.

Details of Advanced Centres of Excellence under the Scheme, State-wise are as under:

S.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, Bangalore 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 Tamil Nadu

7. Augmentation of Existing Centre of Excellence by AMTDC, IIT Tamil Nadu Madras Details of Common Engineering Facility Centres, State-wise are as under:

S.No. Name of Project State

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

2. Augmentation of Common Engineering Main centre of the project is at Pune Facility Centre by C4i4 (Maharashtra) and one of the Experience centres is located at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh3. Setting up of CEFC at ARAI, Pune Maharashtra

4. Setting up of CEFC at BHEL Trichy Tamil Nadu Details of Testing and Certification Centres, State-wise are as under:

S.No. Name of Project State

1. Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at ARAI Maharashtra

2. Augmentation of existing testing and certification centre at CMTI, Karnataka Bangalore

3. Augmentation of existing testing and certification facilities at BHEL Madhya Pradesh/Telangana

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

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

6. Augmentation of testing and certification facility at Fluid Control Kerala Research Institute, Palakkad Details of Industry Accelerators, State-wise are as under:

S.No. Name of Project State

1. Setting up of Industry Accelerator (CAMRAS) by ARTPARK (IISc), Bangalore Karnataka

2. Setting up of Industry Accelerator (SAMRIDHI) by (FSID), (IISc), Bangaluru

3. Establishment Of Industry Accelerator by CMTI Karnataka 4 Setting up of Industry Accelerator at ARAI, Pune Maharastra

5. Setting up of Industry Accelerator by IIT Madras Tamil Nadu

6. Setting up of Industry Accelerator by SASTRA University, Thanjavur

7. Setting up of Industry Accelerator by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore8. Setting up of Industry Accelerator by Indian School of Business Telangana

9. Industry Accelerator at IIT Roorkee Uttarakhand Details of Qualification Packages sanctioned, State-wise are as under:

Sr.no Name of Project State

1. Development of 23 QPs by ASDC for automotive sector Delhi

2. Development of 23 Qualification Packs by (CGSC), Delhi

3. Creation of Qualification packages for skill levels 6 and above by Instrumentation, Automation, Surveillance and Communication Sector Skill Council (IASC SSC) Scheme for Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II has a total financial outlay of Rs. 1207 crores with budgetary support of Rs.975 crore. Total 29 projects with project cost of Rs. 891.37 crores and budgetary support of Rs. 714.64 crore have been sanctioned so far.

Statement of funds for projects approved under all the components of the Scheme is as under: (in Rs. crore) Financial Year Allocation ( RE) Funds released/ utilized 2021- 22 29.00 28.93 2022-23 199.60 199.24 2023-24 187.20 83.34 2024-25 184.00 171.63 2025-26 120.00 107.67 (as on 03.03.2026) This information was given by the Minister of State for Heavy Industries, Shri Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

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