Small Scale Industries in Assam

Submitted by pbhagawati on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 12:30

 

 

The Small Scale Industries  have vital contribution in the process of industrialization, employment generation and in fulfilment of socio economic objection in Assam. Presently the small-scale industries have been sub-divided into Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Act 2006. The categories of enterprises is made based on their investment in plant and machineries in case of manufacturing sector or in equipments in case of service sector. For speedy growth of this sector, the Government of Assam has already brought some simplification in its procedures in respect of registration as well as declare incentives in its Industrial Policy - 2008

 

There are 32984 SSI/MSME units in Assam and provided employment to 167216 persons till the end of 2009-10.

 

Growth of SSI/MSME units, Employment, Investment and Production in Assam:

 

Year

No. of SSI units

No. of Employment

Average no of Employment per unit

Investment on Plants & Machinery (Rs. in lakh)

Average investment per Unit (Rs. in lakh)

Production value (Rs. in lakh)

Average per unit Production (Rs. in lakh)

Up to 31-03-2001

14453

64623

4.5

22009.00

1.52

115303.00

7.98

2001-2002

2528

11538

4.6

4888.95

1.93

16013.81

6.33

2002-2003

2246

11115

4.9

4868.94

2.17

16379.60

7.29

2003-2004

2364

11795

5.0

7198.82

3.05

18976.90

8.03

2004-2005

2067

9396

4.5

7120.18

3.44

19698.20

9.53

2005-2006

2082

10780

5.2

23776.88

11.42

22940.86

11.02

2006-2007

2172

11852

5.5

9282.72

4.27

25514.67

11.75

2007-2008

1692

10471

6.2

26637.42

15.74

44720.97

26.43

2008-2009

1711

12914

7.5

16348.26

15.40

49635.10

29.00
2009-10 (P) 1667 12732 7.6 30049.26 18.0 58429.86 35.05

Source: Economic Survey Assam 2010-11

 

Number of New Established by the Type of Industries:

 

Item

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

 2009(P)

1. Agro Based

327

317

311

279

268

 275

2. Forest Based

144

89

102

83

96

 50

3. Textile Based

626

671

827

440

378

 415

4. Chemical Based

44

64

54

51

50

 40

5. Engineering Based

536

529

686

483

445

 488

6. Electronic Based

59

63

45

51

58

 83

7. Mineral Based

111

111

140

112

125

 135

8. Leather

14

15

7

5

15

 10

9. Rubber/Plastic

16

18

19

27

25

 38
10. Paper Product - - - - 79 79

11. Miscellaneous

184

256

18

187

213

 146

Total

2061

2137

2350

1719

1752

 1759

Source: Economic Survey Assam 2010-11