ENCLOSURE: PART I

Project (Other than Establishment of Common Facility Centres or Similar Hard Infrastructure)

1. Summary Details of the proposed cluster chosen for intervention (Format at Annex I ).

2. Selection Criteria used to select the above mentioned cluster in preference to any other contending cluster(s) (Possible guidelines at Annex II ).

3. Primary and Secondary Objectives of the Proposed Intervention: Sustainable employment generation, poverty alleviation, faster growth of value of production of existing enterprises, productivity improvements, improved environmental compliance; all/some of the foregoing and/or any other- specify explicitly .

4. Key Problem Areas and Suggested Corresponding Strategic Interventions:

(a). Key problems confronting the cluster in achieving the stated objectives and corresponding strategic areas of intervention, e.g., technological and process/product quality up-gradation, improved credit flow and other types of financial linkages, improved marketing including exports, institutional capacity building including but not limited to creation of new active associations/ networks, training of individual cluster units, better environmental compliance, etc., during each year of the project that will help the cluster in achieving all the primary and secondary objectives.

(b). Reasons for choice of each strategic intervention: how do you establish the suggested priority/sequencing of each intervention?

5. Expected Major Outputs: At the level of (i) individual firms, (ii) cluster, (iii) inter-cluster networks and (iv) policy on cluster development, in relation to the situation described above ( i llustrative output at Annex III).

6. Institutional Competencies : What proven competencies does your institution have in the strategic areas of intervention described at sr. no. 4 above? Please attach a summary sheet of the results achieved in any other cluster that you may have dealt with in the past (as per Annex III ). If there is already a development initiative underway in the cluster or likely to be taken up, state the scope for value addition/complementation by your institution.

7. Management Structure for Proposed Cluster Project Implementation: Draw the organisational structure for the proposed project, giving the name of each person likely to be deployed with his/her role and duration in person days across the project along with his/her CV.

8. Proposed Project Cost: Provide annual estimate of cost for the duration of the project and the likely sources of funds including the minimum contribution of the industry association at 10% (Format in Annex IV) .

9. Monitoring (regularly) and Evaluation (quarterly, half-yearly or yearly) M echanism : State clearly the proposed mechanism with emphasis on measures for involving the local beneficiaries as well as external institutions (the latter to be specified).

 

Note: Taking the proposed mechanism into account, reporting formats for evaluation will be provided separately upon sanction of the project proposal .

QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT OF SOFT PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES UNDER SMALL INDUSTRY CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME(SICDP)

PART-A

Name of the product & location of the cluster

Report for the quarter ending.......in the year.....

Name of implementing agency........

Status of implementation of activities

S.No

Activity/Area of Intervention

Activities scheduled to be

Performed during the quarter 		Activities actually performed during the quarter with dates when performed Deliverables/Achieved(in quantifiable results as far as possible Remarks  
1 2 3 4 5 6  

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

 

Diagnostic study

Market Development

Technology Upgradation

Skill Development

Capacity building of cluster actors

Others(Specify) 		 
 
 
 


QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT OF ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMON FACILITY CENTRE(CFC) UNDER SMALL INDUSTRY CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME(SICDP)

PART-B

 

Name of the products & location of the cluster.... Report for the quarter ending..in the year......

Name of implementing agency

Type of CFC being established

STATUS OF REPORT

S.No Activity Expected date of completion as per the project proposal Targeted milestone set for end of the quarter under review Progress as at the end of the quarter reported upon Remarks
1. 2. 3. 4 5 6
           

1

 

 Construction of building        
2 Selection of machinery and its specification and floating tenders        
3

Placement of purchase order

       
4 Supply of machinery & equipment        
5 Installation of machinery        
6 Commissioning of machinery        
       


QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT OF CLUSTERS UNDER SMALL INDUSTRY CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME(SICDP)- SOFT PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMON FACILITY CENTRES(CFCs)

PART-C

Name of the product & location of the cluster.... Report for the quarter ending...in the year....

Name of implementing agency...

Type of CFC being established

Details of fund utilization

 

S.No.

Name of the activity

Funds available as on date during the financial year

Activities actually performed during the quarter with dates when performed Funds utilized Cumulative funds utilized as on date during the year
Opening balance as on 31 st March GoI assistance sanctioned as on date during the financial year reported upon Total      

1

 2 3 4 5 6
1 Soft promotional activities        
2 Establishment of Common Facility centers( if a part of the project)        
  Total        

Note: All the entries must relate only to the funds released by Ministry of SSI for the project(Contribution of other partners in the project to be excluded.

 

FORMS

FORM GFR

19-A

{See Government of India's Decision(1) below Rule 150}

Form of Utilisation Certificate

Sl.No Letter No. & Date Amount Certified that out of Rs....of grants-in-aid sanctioned during the year ....in favour of....under this Ministry/ Department Letter No. given in the margin and Rs....on account of unspent balance of the previous year, a sum of Rs.....has been utilized for the purpose of....for which it was sanctioned and that the balance of Rs.....remaining unutilized at the end of the year has been surrendered to Government(vide No....dated....) will be adjusted towards the grants-in-aid payable during the next year...
       
       
       
       
    Total  

2. Certified that I have satisfied myself that the conditions on which the grants-in-aid was sanctioned have been duly fulfilled/are being fulfilled and that I have exercised the following checks to see that the money was actually utilized for the purpose for which it was sanctioned.

Kinds of checks exercised

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Signature........

Designation.......

Date..........

G.I, M.F., O.M.No.F.14(1)-E.II(A)/73, dated the 23 rd April,1975

Annex- I

Summary Details of the Proposed Cluster

1. Location : State, city/town/village:

2. Cluster Product: Traditional artisanal or traditional industrial or modern/high tech product:

3. Likely Age of the Cluster and whether naturally evolved or recently induced with external policy support:

4. Nature of the Cluster : Vertical (one or two large firm centric)/horizontal where several small enterprises are the key cluster firms/mixed:

5. M ajor Cluster Problems: As per your perception:

6. Key Strategic Intervention for Proposed Cluster Development : Technology / product / market / export / quality, etc.:

7. Extent of Competition : With large domestic firms or other similar clusters in India or abroad:

8. Proposed Project Duration :

9. Gross Project F und Requirements and Likely Sources of Funds : Institutional coordination and developmental expenditure separately:

10. Key Indicators to Reflect the Outcome of the Project: At the firm level and cluster level (attributable to the proposed project):

 

Annex II

Current Information Requirement for Cluster Selection

S. No. Parameters Answers
     

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Does the cluster have a minimum critical mass?

•  Number of firms, structure of firms (large/medium/small/micro across the value chain)

•  Presence of support firms and service providers

•  Estimated turnover of broad groups in cluster

•  Level of employment (number of men and women) and likely income levels

•  Contribution of cluster to exports

•  Importance of the product in terms of its linkages with other products/ sectors

•  Growth trends in the recent past (turnover, employment, investments, exports, etc.)

•  Special features of the cluster in terms of seasonal/mainstay activities/ dependence, if any

 

2

 

Location of cluster and its geographical contours

Within a city/village/linkage with nearby cities/villages (if executing agency has a specific rural/urban mandate) - Attach a geographical map, if available

 
 

Replicability potential

•  Size of the total industry at the national level, number of similar clusters with a few names

•  Linkage of the proposed cluster with other clusters or sectors, if any

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social and environmental conditions

•  Summary profile of typical owners/managers and workers and their economic status

•  Average yearly earnings (man/woman) of workers/unit owners

•  Drudgery in activity, if any

•  Pollution related issues in the cluster

•  Mandatory/legal issues related to product quality, if any

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viability

•  Prospects of upgrading production technology/investments/financial off-take/quality?

•  Does the product have a future in current national/global settings?

•  Main markets of the cluster products (geographical, consumer segments)

•  Major threats/challenges

•  Stage of product in the product life cycle, if known

•  Where do the cluster product(s) fit into the global value chain currently?

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Promotability

•  Have some firms undertaken product upgrading or diversification, explored new markets, made technological innovations, invested significantly in or updated equipment, etc., in the recent past?

•  Does the birth rate of new firms substantially exceed the closure rate of existing ones?

•  How sensitive are the firms to major issues that are bothering them?

•  Local institutional capacities for collective developmental action in the private and public sector

 

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Complementarity

•  Other development work either already under way or likely to start in the near future

•  Scope of the proposed project for value addition to other developmental work, as stated above

 

Annex III

Illustrative Likely Outputs

Firm/Enterprise Level

Number of direct beneficiary firms: Among the ( say , three hundred - see Note below ) firms in the cluster, around ( say , eighty) firms will be targeted directly by the project, resulting in substantive improvement of their working, as per verification indicators given below:

(a) Likely range of outputs: The assisted cluster actors will become more competitive in terms of growth (if there is a general upswing) or will overcome the negative trend more than the others (if there is an overall decline). The likely indicators for verification, to be identified in the framework of annual action plan of the cluster, will be increased total sales ( say , at least 30 firms), exports ( say , at least 10 firms), investments ( say , around 30 firms), profitability ( say , at least 40 firms), employment generation ( say , around 200 persons), ISO & other certifications ( say , around 25), usage of paid Business Development Services ( say , around 30 firms).

(b) Indirect beneficiary firms: More broadly, strengthening forward linkages and local institutions, provision of linkages with public & private support institutions, strengthening of local infrastructure through public-private partnerships should benefit at least half of the cluster firms ( say , 150 firms) indirectly in, say , 3 to 5 years.

Cluster Level

1. Institutional capacity building: At least ( say ) one each among the local industry associations, universities/ technical institutions, financial institutions and/ or NGOs will undertake collaborative development initiatives for cluster development, including fund-raising. At least ( say ) one of the local industry associations and/ or NGOs and/or cooperative societies will have a strong professional secretariat of its own with demonstrated capacity to raise local funding and implement cluster activities by year 3.

2. Extent of public-private partnerships: More responsive dialogue between the public and the private sector leading to renewed instances of at least ( say ) 3 substantive public-private partnerships.

3. Participatory action plans: In the assisted cluster, annual (cluster) action plans will be prepared and validated by the cluster stakeholders.

4. Strategically significant long-term initiatives: By the end of the project, ( say ) at least one of the above local organisations will undertake strategic development initiatives (managing common facility services, setting up local common infrastructure, etc.,) either directly or in collaboration with public institutions.

5. Local funding stake as an indicator of effectiveness and sustenance: Local stakeholders will have contributed by the end of the project ( say ) at least 40 per cent of the financial resources directly spent on local developmental activities.

Policy/Inter-Cluster Level

Cluster will have established linkages for raw material and machinery supply with another cluster specify).

Note: The numbers/minima cited above are hypothetical and would obviously need to be altered as required for the cluster in question.

 

Annex IV

Proposed Budget for Project

1. Estimated Expenditure

(Rs. thousand)

Budget Line (BL) Item Year 1 Year2 Year 3
  A. Developmental Expenditure      
1 Diagnostic study, contained in the cluster development proposal      
2 Services of International Experts, if any (....person-days/weeks/months @ Rs..)      
3

Organising training programmes/seminars/workshops/

lectures/study tours to other clusters/demonstration of technology/equipment, including expert fees, travel, lodging/boarding, etc. (...programmes @ Rs..)

     
4 Association/SHG/NGO/Network capacity building (exposure visits, benchmarking, brochure preparation, web-site launching, initial recruitment cost, training of executives, hand-holding support on declining basis, etc.-specify numbers and rates here)      
5 Services of external consultants, if any (....person-days @ Rs...)      
6 Participation in foreign fairs (for entrepreneurs in the directly assisted clusters-specify number and rates here)      
7 Miscellaneous developmental costs (translation, publications-lump sum, year-wise)      
8 Technical equipment (in terms of demonstration machinery, tools for testing-lump sum, year-wise)      
  Sub-Total A      
  B. Coordination Expenditure of Implementing Agency (IA)      
9

In-house institutional Staff:

Cluster Development Executive (..months)/

Technical Adviser (...months)/

Support staff (...months), each @Rs......

     
10 Local travel in the cluster of the in-house staff (...days @Rs......)      
11 Telecommunications (lump sum, year-wise)      
12 Local purchases (computer, telephone, fax-lump sum, year-wise)      
13 Rental of space in the cluster (lump sum, year-wise)      
14 Miscellaneous/ Institutional Overhead Costs (lump sum, year-wise)      
  Sub-Total B      
  Year-wise Total (A+B)      

2. Proposed Means of Finance

(Rs. thousand)

Budget Line (BL) Item Ministry of SSI/DC (SSI) State Govt. &/or Other Public Sector Support Institu-tions Cluster Stake-holders (SPV) & Other Private Partners
  A. Developmental Expenditure      
  Diagnostic study, contained in the cluster development proposal      
  Services of International Experts, if any (person-days/weeks/months)      
 

Organising training programmes/seminars/workshops/

lectures/study tours to other clusters/demonstration of technology/equipment, including expert fees, travel, lodging/boarding, etc. (...programmes @ Rs..)

     
  Association/SHG/NGO/Network capacity building (exposure visits, benchmarking, brochure preparation, web-site launching, initial recruitment cost, training of executives, hand-holding support on declining basis, etc.-specify numbers and rates here)      
  Services of external consultants, if any (....person-days @ Rs...)      
  Participation in foreign fairs (for entrepreneurs in the directly assisted clusters-specify number and rates here)      
  Miscellaneous developmental costs (translation, publications-lump sum, year-wise)      
  Technical equipment (in terms of demonstration machinery, tools for testing-lump sum, year-wise)      
  Sub-Total A      
  B. Coordination Expenditure of Implementing Agency (IA)      
 

In-house institutional Staff:

Cluster Development Executive (..months)/

Technical Adviser (...months)/

Support staff (...months), each @Rs......

     
  Local travel in the cluster of the in-house staff (...days @Rs......)      
  Telecommunications (lump sum, year-wise)      
  Local purchases (computer, telephone, fax-lump sum, year-wise)      
  Rental of space in the cluster (lump sum, year-wise)      
  Miscellaneous/ Institutional Overhead Costs (lump sum, year-wise)      
  Sub-Total B