District Industries Centers (DICs) were established in 1978 to promote cottage and small industries at the district level in India. DICs are the focal point for industrial development in each district and provide various services like entrepreneur training, feasibility studies, assistance obtaining loans and permits, raw material sourcing, and marketing support to entrepreneurs. There are currently over 422 DICs across India covering 431 districts. The DICs aim to generate local employment and economic growth through small business development.

1. DISTRICT INDUSTRY
CENTERS (DICs)
Submitted To:
Prof.Dr. Bijoy Mohanty.
Asst prof.Rajeev kumar Behera.
Submitted By:
Pratikhya Paramita Swain (1071)
Bhagyarabi Pani(1083)
Sourav Prakash Sahoo(1095)
Namrata Panda(1098)

2. The industrial Policy 1977 contained the concept of
District Industries Centres (DIC). DIC program was
initiated on 1st May 1978 as a centrally sponsored
scheme.
 It was a landmark measure in development of cottage
and small industries in smaller towns in India.
DIC’s were started with a view to provide integrated
administrative framework at the district level for
industrial promotion.
 It is aimed at providing all assistance and support to
entrepreneurs in various states.

3. These centres are responsible for effective
promotion of cottage and small scale industries at
district level.
These centres also to provide support facilities,
concessions and services to develop tiny, cottage and
district industries centres small scale units.
It is aimed at providing all assistance and support to
entrepreneurs in various states.

4.  The basic purpose of these DIC’s is to generate more
employment opportunities for rural people.
 Accelerate the overall efforts for industrialization of the
district.
 Rural industrialisation and development of rural
industries and handicrafts.
 Attainment of economic equality in various regions of the
district.
 Providing the benefit of the government schemes to the
new entrepreneurs.
 Centralization 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.

5. Acts as the focal point of the industrialisation of the
district.
Opportunity guidance to entrepreneurs.
 Compilation of information about local sources of
raw materials and their availability.
Manpower assessment with respect to skilled, semi-
skilled workers.
Organises entrepreneurship development training
programs.
Prepares techno-economic feasibility report.
Gives SSI registration.
Advices the entrepreneurs on investments.

6. Acts as a link between the entrepreneurs and the lead
bank of the district.
Assist the entrepreneur to procure imported
machinery and raw materials.
Organises marketing outlets in association with other
government agencies.
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.

7.  Till Now, 422 District Industries Centres (DICs) have been set up
covering 431 district of country leaving out the metropolitancities and
some new districts.
SL.NO. PARTICULARS NO.OF UNITS
1 New units established
a. Artisans.
B .Small scale industries.
3,16,169
1,06,0211
2 Credit provided by financial
institution
89,080
3 Additional employment
created
13,33,034

8. General Manager is the head of the District
Industris Centres.
The post of General Manager is of joint/Deputy
Commissioner level. The General Manager has
senior officer to assist him, such as :
Manager(Raw material), Manager(credit),
Manage(Economic investigation),
Manager (Marketing) Industrial promotion
officer (IPO)
Technical officer cum project manager(PM).

10. The DIC’s performs the following activities primarily:
 Economic Investigation.
 Plant and Machinery.
Research, education and training.
 Raw materials.
Credit facilities.
Marketing assistance.
Cottage industries.

11.  DIC provides the information on sources of machinery and
equipment.
 Promotes new industrial growth centers, electronic
industries etc.,
 Conducts multiple training programs to encourage the
entrepreneurs.
 Gives assistance to entrepreneurs under State Incentives
scheme and funding assistance through self-employment
schemes.
 It allots raw materials to the concerned industries at
district level.
 DIC gives the information about marketing and its
assistance on participating trade fairs/buyers-sellers
meet and so on.

12.  Guidance regarding Import and Exports of specific goods
and services.
 Improves the managerial capacity by organizing various
seminars, workshops etc.
 It clears the problems related to SSI Registration/Bank
loan/Marketing of production etc.
 Products standardization
 Promotion of products under Non-conventional Energy
Sources.
 Design and product development for handicrafts.

13. A)Prime minister’s employment generation
program (PMEGP).
The objective of this centrally sponsored scheme of
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, and
Government of India being implemented since
October, 2008 is to provide gainful self-employment
opportunities to educated unemployed one’s through
industrial activities, services and business.
B) Seed money scheme.
The scheme focuses to encourage an unemployed
person to take up self-employment ventures through
industry, service and business, by providing soft loans
to meet part of the margin money to avail institutional
finance.

14. C)DIC loan scheme.
 The aim of the scheme is to generate employment opportunities
including self-employment to small units located in towns and
rural areas with the population of less than 1 lakh and with the
investment on plant & machinery below 2 Lakhs. Such identified
micro units falling within the purview of the Small Scale
Industries Board and Village Industries, handicrafts,
handlooms, Silk & Coir Industries are covered for financial
assistance in the form of margin/seed money under the
Scheme.
D) Entrepreneurship development training program:
 The objective of training educated unemployed persons to take
up self-employment ventures or skilled wage employment.
Entrepreneurs are given guidance related
industry/service/businessactivities & skill up gradation.

15. E)District award schemes:
 To encourage entrepreneurs in establishing small scale
enterprises and also to extols them for their successand
achievements, the State Government has started honoring
such entrepreneurs with District Award Scheme at the district
level.
F) PMRY Scheme:
 PMRY(Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana) scheme was introduced
on the auspicious day of 2nd October, 1993,the birth
Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi all over the country.
 The main objective of the PMRY scheme was to provide easy
subsidized financial assistance to educated unemployed youth
for starting their own businessesin the fields like
manufacturing, business & service and trade sectors.

16. SL.NO. DISTRICTS
1 Angul
2 Balasore
3 Bargarh
4 Bhadrak
5 Bhubaneswar
6 Bolangir
7 Boudh
8 Cuttack
9 Deogarh
10 Dhenkanal
11 Gajapati
12 Ganjam
13 Jagatpur-RIC
14 Jagatsinghpur
15 Jharsuguda
SL.NO. DISTRICTS
16 Kalahandi
17 Kendrapara
18 Keonjhar
19 Koraput
20 Malkangiri
21 Mayurbhanj
22 Nawarangpur
23 Nayagarh
24 Nuapada
25 Phulbani
26 Puri
27 Raygada-RIC
28 Rourkela-RIC
29 Sambalpur-RIC
30 Sundargarh

17.  In India, District Industrial Center performs an
important role in Entrepreneur development.
DICs Provide complete assistance and support to
entrepreneurs to start and develop the industries.
This government program is yielding popularisation.

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