Capital Goods Scheme


 Description

Under the Capital Goods Scheme assistance is provided for following activities:

  1. Common engineering facility centre may be set up by the local industry and the industry association so that manufacturing services, hitherto, not available, will be accessible to capital goods sector in the catchment area
  2. Integrated industrial infrastructure facilities for machine tool industry provide an ecosystem for manufacturing of machine tools in industrial cluster mode in order to cut down the logistic cost substantially and therefore making the sector cost effective having enhanced export capability and favourable for attracting more investment.
  3. The Centre will become test and certification centre for statutory and regulatory requirements of earthmoving machinery. The facility will be implemented by the Government of India
  4. The fund will provide financial assistance to existing capital goods industrial units for acquiring / transferring and assimilating advanced technologies and also development of technologies through contract route, in-house route or through joint route of contract in order to achieve global standards and competitiveness

 Nature of assistance

  1. Central Assistance will be by way of one time grant-in-aid (not equity) not exceeding 80% of the project cost subject to maximum of Rs. 48.96 crore for two Common Engineering Facility Centres
  2. One time grant-in-aid (not equity) not exceeding 80% of the project cost subject to maximum of Rs. 125 crore.
  3. Central Assistance will be Rs. 100 crore from DHI, during the Pilot phase.
  4. Central Assistance will be by way of one time grant upto 25% of the cost of Technology Acquisition of each technology. Maximum amount given shall not exceed Rs. 10 crore. The funding support will be through a Government R & D institution.

 Who can apply

MSMEs, Local industries, Industry Associations, Financial Institutions, Central / Sate Government, R&D Institution, Central / State PSUs etc.

 How to apply

Application may be submitted for each technology development projects which facilitates global competitiveness. Applications and enclosures (including DPR) to be sent in duplicate. Soft copies of the application in prescribed format and DPR (one each in MS Word format and in pdf format) to be sent in Compact Disc.