<p>MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday suggested officials to digitalise the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) as it would help in its faster implementation.</p>.<p>The ministry is implementing the scheme to organise traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and increase their income.</p>.<p>The scheme provides support for creating infrastructure through Common Facility Centres, procurement of new machineries, creating raw material banks and improved packaging.</p>.<p>"My suggestion to the secretary (MSME) and others is to digitalise the scheme," he said here while inaugurating a two-day workshop on implementation of clusters under SFURTI</p>.<p>"We need to make the system transparent, time-bound, result-oriented and corruption-free," he added.</p>.<p>The minister said there is a need to step up the pace of formation of such clusters as only 93 of the 394 announced so far are actually functional, and a target of 5,000 clusters is achievable if the process is fastened. </p>
<p>MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday suggested officials to digitalise the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) as it would help in its faster implementation.</p>.<p>The ministry is implementing the scheme to organise traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and increase their income.</p>.<p>The scheme provides support for creating infrastructure through Common Facility Centres, procurement of new machineries, creating raw material banks and improved packaging.</p>.<p>"My suggestion to the secretary (MSME) and others is to digitalise the scheme," he said here while inaugurating a two-day workshop on implementation of clusters under SFURTI</p>.<p>"We need to make the system transparent, time-bound, result-oriented and corruption-free," he added.</p>.<p>The minister said there is a need to step up the pace of formation of such clusters as only 93 of the 394 announced so far are actually functional, and a target of 5,000 clusters is achievable if the process is fastened. </p>