Parliament Question: Strengthening MSME support and market access

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1077 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.02.2026 STRENGTHENING MSME SUPPORT AND MARKET ACCESS 1077. SHRI MASTHAN RAO YADAV BEEDHA: Will the Minister of MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES be pleased to state: (a) whether Government, through National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC), is implementing schemes to support MSMEs in raw material assistance, marketing, credit facilitation and technology upgradation; (b) the year-wise and State/UT-wise number of MSMEs benefited under NSIC schemes during the last five years, along with funds allocated and utilised; (c) whether any impact assessment has been conducted on NSIC interventions in terms of MSME growth and employment; and (d) whether steps are proposed to further strengthen NSIC support for start-ups, women, SC/ST and rural entrepreneurs and the details thereof? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE) (a) and (b): Yes Sir. The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC), a Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) provides integrated support to MSMEs through its various programmes which inter-alia include Raw Material Distribution; Credit Support under raw material assistance, bill discounting and bank Tie-up; Single Point Registration Scheme and training provided through NSIC technical service centres. Year-wise and State/UT wise number of MSMEs benefited under these programmes are enclosed at Annexure-I. (c): Yes sir. NSIC conducts impact assessment/ review on some of its interventions for the MSMEs growth and employment. (d): The Ministry has taken several steps to strengthen NSIC from time to time which include equity infusion of Rs. 300 crore from 2011-12 to 2013-14; financial assistance for upgradation of technical centres, etc. The Ministry is implementing Self Reliant India fund to infuse equity of Rs. 50,000 crore in MSMEs having potential and viability to grow larger though NSIC Venture Capital Fund Ltd. Further, to boost up entrepreneurship among SC/ST, NSIC is the Central Nodal Agency for implementation of National SC-ST Hub Scheme. In addition, under the MSME TEAM (Trade Enablement and Marketing) Initiative of the Ministry, NSIC entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ONDC to digitize MSME Operation and empower MSMEs in e- commerce. *****Annexure-I Annexure-I referred to parts (a) and (b) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1077 for answer on 09.02.2026 Year-wise and State/UT wise number of MSMEs benefited under the programmes of NSIC during last five years I. Raw Materials Distribution (Number of units) S. No. State 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 1 Uttar Pradesh 233 306 250 297 335 2 Gujarat 3 13 14 130 93 3 Tamil Nadu 428 901 763 837 517 4 Maharashtra 10 29 26 63 72 5 Telangana 86 57 45 96 58 6 Karnataka 181 2814 261 227 113 7 Madhya Pradesh 3 8 15 29 74 8 Odisha 128 151 183 200 203 9 Punjab 407 294 287 1041 436 10 Kerala 1 1 6 26 20 11 Uttarakhand 5 2 8 31 9 12 Delhi 7 33 81 112 233 13 Haryana 18 45 96 60 14 Assam 17 11 29 28 34 15 Rajasthan 142 86 47 912 820 16 West Bengal 33 118 112 133 137 17 Bihar 2 7 7 11 10 18 Chhattisgarh 3 0 1 36 17 19 Jharkhand 29 38 80 148 202 20 Andhra Pradesh 45 19 11 19 16 Total 1781 4933 2226 4472 3459II. Credit Support (Raw Material Assistance, Bill Discounting & Bank Tie-up) (Rs. crore) Sr. Name of State 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 No. 1 Andhra Pradesh 145.51 222.93 266.31 230.57 235.87 2 Assam 62.63 69.19 96.54 117.25 112.62 3 Bihar 24.94 24.68 34.89 41.89 32.37 4 Chandigarh 148.15 241.74 218.51 178.55 284.09 5 Chhatisgarh 68.52 97.1 141.8 144.87 137.95 6 Delhi 809.64 626.58 586.59 848.91 985.99 7 Gujarat 114.18 132.08 138.15 144.84 155.18 8 Haryana 169.16 150.02 185.37 210.54 185.12 9 Jharkhand 58.27 102.35 123.51 113 157.25 10 Karnataka 412.71 566.58 982.19 897.26 972.43 11 Kerala 75.77 85.31 89.28 127.26 146.93 12 Madhya Pradesh 98.18 136.02 191.07 193.64 223.53 13 Maharashtra 446.93 740.1 838.59 731.75 937.08 14 Odisha 280.17 216.62 209.73 239.6 229.11 15 Punjab 291.91 483.82 490.78 682.47 650.75 16 Rajasthan 389.36 902.15 986.14 1318.39 1403.91 17 Tamilnadu 218.68 342.01 418.72 423.29 680.03 18 Telangana 377.50 499.85 498.56 462.33 433.24 19 Uttar Pradesh 229.99 358.04 448.98 580.5 449.11 20 Uttrakhand 0.01 28.71 55.14 78.73 104.35 21 West Bengal 100.52 211.25 220.15 461.93 635.2 Total 4522.73 6237.13 7221.00 8227.57 9152.11III. Single Point Registration Scheme (Number of units) S. STATE 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 No. 1 Andaman and Nicobar 1 2 0 1 0 2 Andhra Pradesh 89 68 51 36 48 3 Arunachal Pradesh 1 0 1 0 1 4 Assam 18 16 12 4 3 5 Bihar 31 24 27 29 20 6 Chandigarh 7 2 7 1 7 7 Chhattisgarh 16 17 18 33 35 8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 0 4 2 2 0 9 Daman And Diu 3 1 0 1 0 10 Delhi 317 286 302 161 99 11 Goa 10 10 3 1 0 12 Gujarat 145 185 260 109 219 13 Haryana 161 167 164 91 71 14 Himachal Pradesh 12 22 10 6 4 15 Jammu And Kashmir 7 8 3 2 2 16 Jharkhand 96 61 48 43 42 17 Karnataka 312 285 291 220 235 18 Kerala 36 46 42 35 29 19 Lakshadweep 0 0 0 0 1 20 Laddakh 0 1 0 0 0 21 Madhya Pradesh 70 51 61 36 22 22 Maharashtra 417 474 451 281 208 23 Manipur 0 2 1 4 2 24 Meghalaya 1 0 0 1 0 25 Mizoram 0 0 0 1 0 26 Nagaland 0 0 0 2 0 27 Odisha 140 119 100 74 52 28 Pondicherry 8 1 3 2 7 29 Punjab 79 61 93 35 34 30 Rajasthan 122 105 95 57 52 31 Tamilnadu 235 152 208 125 128 32 Telangana 208 139 127 123 143 33 Tripura 2 0 1 1 1 34 Uttar Pradesh 328 241 277 164 126 35 Uttarakhand 38 30 37 32 19 36 West Bengal 162 130 115 127 116 Total 3072 2710 2810 1840 1726IV. NSIC Technical Service Centres 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 S. Districts No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. State /UT MSME No. Trainees MSME Trainees MSME Trainees MSME Trainees Trainees MSME Served Trained Served Trained Served Trained Served Trained Trained Served 1 Uttar Aligarh 322 1019 918 1166 2216 1662 3103 1849 3850 2611 Pradesh 2 Tamil Nadu Chennai 2130 1019 9206 1030 9322 1384 9415 1535 10612 2302 3 Uttar Deoria 553 - 654 - 660 - 571 - 750 - Pradesh 4 Assam Guwahati 852 14 835 17 1513 - 2466 - 864 - 5 West Bengal Howrah 1592 964 2533 912 3878 1204 4166 1454 4914 2105 6 Telangana Hyderaba 7451 11 9446 8 12181 4 12641 - 13380 15 d 7 Uttarakhand Kashipur 570 - 613 - 500 1 612 2 741 - 8 Karnataka Kolar 230 - - - - - - - - - 9 Uttar Naini 480 - 497 1 1407 1 994 10 1488 - Pradesh 10 Bihar Nawada 465 - 545 - 562 - 542 - 543 - 11 Haryana Neemka 3745 170 5061 157 6315 295 7017 491 8842 882 12 Delhi Okhla 7778 1636 8446 2473 11202 3227 12175 3611 16998 4354 13 Gujarat Rajkot 550 3923 663 4792 883 5880 923 6509 1830 7803 14 Punjab Rajpura 3069 150 3907 284 4800 376 5649 430 6764 568 15 Odisha Rourkela - - - - 133 - 249 - 281 - 16 Tamil Nadu Dindigul - - - - 15 - 185 - 298 - 17 Different TIC-PPP 3740 - 4858 - 5503 - 6057 - 7140 - States Total 33527 8906 48182 10840 61090 14034 66765 15891 79295 20640