Director General of national Productivity Council (NPC) Kalpana Awasthi said efforts are on to increase awareness about the scheme among the MSME sector.
Under the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme, the government works on enhancing the entire value chain of the MSME sector through components including the Lean Manufacturing Competitiveness Scheme (LMCS).
Lean manufacturing techniques help enhance productivity and competitiveness of MSMEs by reduction of wastages in manufacturing processes, inventory management, space management and energy consumption.
In the pilot phase of the scheme, which was launched in July 2009, 900 SMEs participated which helped them in saving Rs 60 crore annually.
She said the scheme will be continued and the NPC will get additional 250 clusters to implement this. NPC, which is under the commerce and industry ministry, is an apex body for enhancing productivity of units.
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