Ludhiana: Good news for small garment factories, the common facilities center (CFC) of the ready-to-wear division is nearing completion. Once operational, member units will be able to run processes such as knitting, sewing, computer aided manufacturing from this CFC.
Give more information, Rajesh Guptacluster director, said: “Special purpose vehicle (VSP) for the ready-to-wear cluster has so far secured funding of Rs. 9 crore from the micro ministry, small and medium enterprises under the cluster development scheme and we have made the contribution of Rs. 2 crore from our side as per the guidelines. Now amount of Rs. 3.5 crores is pending from the government side which is also expected to be released soon and all members are eagerly awaiting the completion of the CFC now. This state-of-the-art CFC will be equipped with the latest machinery and once operational, the member units will benefit immensely as a large number of processes for which the units have huge sums of money and also face other problems will be over here without any problems.”
Gupta said, “We expect this CFC to be operational by September this year as only minor works like setting up a printing unit are pending, the rest has been done. At present, 35 garment manufacturing units belong to this cluster, and it is thanks to the same ideology of all factory owners that our cluster’s work is running smoothly and at such a fast pace.