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What began arsenic a tiny imagination astatine Kulichar colony has present turned into a exemplary occurrence communicative for government-supported entrepreneurship successful the delta region. With fiscal assistance nether the Prime Minister’s Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM-FME) Scheme, P. Ponnusamy, proprietor of SKP Foods and Masala, has built a thriving spices manufacturing portion that present employs 14 radical — 8 of them women.
Operating from the SIDCO Industrial Estate astatine Mannambandal adjacent Vadakarai, Mr. Ponnusamy’s portion produces up to 400 kg of chilli pulverization and different spice mixes each day. His products, helium says, are made “just similar however we hole astatine location — without colouring oregon preservatives,” and are sold some successful retail and small-scale wholesale crossed the district.
Mr. Ponnusamy received a slope indebtedness of ₹40 lakh with a authorities subsidy of ₹3.5 lakh nether the PM-FME scheme, which is implemented done the District Industries Centre (DIC). He invested successful further machinery worthy ₹12 lakh to grow production. “This strategy gave maine the courageousness and enactment to commencement connected my own. It not lone created employment but besides strengthened my family’s livelihood,” helium said and thanked the territory medication for the initiative.
Thirumurugan K, Joint Director, District Industries Centre, said: “The authorities is actively supporting galore specified MSMEs done the PM-FME and different entrepreneurship schemes.”
The Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) property successful Kulichar, dispersed implicit 12.56 acres, houses 61 concern plots, each allotted and operational. Sectors scope from tyre retreading and cement artifact accumulation to nutrient and spice processing, aluminium fabrication, and wide engineering.
Under the PM-FME strategy alone, 1,393 beneficiaries successful the territory had received ₹3.24 crore successful fiscal assistance, including a ₹2.57 crore authorities subsidy, to formalise and grow nutrient processing units.
