Could India please provide more details on the agenda of actions in order to provide relief and stability to MSMEs? Is there an assessment of the results achieved so far?
Reply: The Government of India's Task Force on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) finalized its report in January, 2010 and made 85 recommendations in major thematic areas of (1) credit, (2) marketing, (3) labour, (4) rehabilitation and exit policy, (5) infrastructure, technology and skill development, (6) taxation and (7) issues of MSMEs in North Eastern India and State of Jammu and Kashmir. The implementation of the recommendations is being monitored by a high level steering group to oversee the implementation and follow up action. Further details are available on website http://msme.gov.in/. Action has been completed on a substantial number of recommendations while other recommendations are at different stages of implementation.
