The District Industries Centre (DICS) program, initiated in 1978, aims to promote small and cottage industries by providing essential services and support for entrepreneurs at the district level. It focuses on employment generation, technological advancement, and industrialization, while also assisting with access to government schemes and financial support. Despite its successes in promoting entrepreneurship and reducing regional imbalances, challenges such as lack of information hinder its effectiveness.

1. 'District Industries Centre' (DICs)

2. INTRODUCTION
• The 'District Industries Centre' (DICs) programme was started by the
central government in 1978 with the objective of providing a focal
point for promoting small, tiny, cottage and village industries in a
particular area and to make available to them all necessary services
and facilities at one place.
• The District Industries Centre is the institution at the District level,
which provides all the services and support facilities to the
entrepreneur for setting up Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. This
included identification of suitable schemes, preparation of feasibility
reports, arrangements for credit facilities, machinery and equipments,
provision of raw materials and development of industrial clusters etc.

3. Objectives
• Encourage establishing new tiny and small scale industry particularly in
rural areas to achieve twin objective of employment generation and
utilization of local resources.
• Study of small scale industry sector , present status, problems and
prospects for further growth.
• Assist tiny, small and medium scale industries to upgrade the adopted
technologies and help them to face the increasing global competition.

4. • Accelerate the overall efforts for industrialisation of the district.
• Rural industrialisation and development of rural industries and
handicrafts.
• Attainment of economic equality in various regions of the
district.

5. • Providing the benefit of the government schemes to the new
entrepreneurs
• Centralisation of procedures required to start a new industrial
unit and minimisation- of the efforts and time required to obtain
various permissions, licenses, registrations, subsidies etc.

6. FUNCTIONS OF DICs
• Acts as the focal point of the industrialisation of the district.
• Prepares the industrial profile of the district with respect to :
• Statistics and information about existing industrial units in the district in
the large, Medium, small as well as co-operative sectors.
• Opportunity guidance to entrepreneurs.
• Compilation of information about local sources of raw materials and
their availability

7. • Manpower assessment with respect to skilled, semi-skilled workers.
• Assessment of availability of infrastructure facilities like quality testing,
research and development, transport, warehouse etc.
• Organises entrepreneurship development training programs.
• Provides information about various government schemes, subsidies,
grants and assistance available from the other corporations set up for
promotion of industries.
• Gives SSI registration.
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8. • Prepares techno-economic feasibility report.
• Advices the entrepreneurs on investments.
• Acts as a link between the entrepreneurs and the lead bank of the
district.
• Implements government sponsored schemes for educated unemployed
people like PMRY scheme, Jawahar Rojgar Yojana, etc.
• Helps entrepreneurs in obtaining licenses from the Electricity Board,
Water Supply Board, No Objection Certificates etc.
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9. • Assist the entrepreneur to procure imported machinery and raw
materials.
• Organises marketing outlets in liaison with other government
agencies.

10. FUNDING OF DICs
• The DICs are funded by the state concerned and the centre jointly.
• The government has provided substantial assistance to the DICs
which can be spent by DICs on construction of an office building,
expenditure on furniture, fixtures, equipment, vehicles and other
recurring expenses.

12. Events
• Training programme:
 For entrepreneurs and unemployed youths to take self employment in all Talukas of the district.
• Product demonstration on consumer product.
• Craft Mela for marketing of rural industries.
• Study tour for entrepreneurs to gain knowledge in recent technology advances.
• Identification of potential beneficiaries and Training them on Management of micro
enterprises by way of short duration EDPs.

13. • Survey of existing infrastructure with specific reference to industrial infrastructure.
• Organize state level exhibition to encourage artisans, self help groups, and tiny units
to advertise and market their product.
• Statistical quality control for industrial entrepreneurs.

14. Organizational Setup
General Manager
Manager
(KVIC &RAP)
Manager
(Marketing)
Manager
(Credit)
Manager
(Raw materials)
Manager
(Research, extension &
Training)
Manager
(Machinery &
Equipment)
Manager
(Economic
investigation)

15. DIC Schemes
1. Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY)
 Launched on October 2, 1993 by Govt. of India with a view to generate
gainful mass employment opportunities.
2. Seed Money Scheme (SMS)
 Was launched by Govt. of India in 1976-77 under the Employment
Promotion Programme.
3. DIC Loan Scheme
 Implementing authority: General Manager, DIC
 The scheme is to provide financial assistance in the form of margin/seed
money for the promotion of small & tiny scale industries.

16. Conclusion
• In India District Industrial Center’s playing vital role in entrepreneur
development. This initiative of government produced some good
results like, generating self employment, at the same time it is
reducing regional imbalance among developed and underdeveloped
region of country. In spite of many good results, there is some
bottleneck in this schemes which is stopping people to take benefits
of this scheme. Like :- lack of information.