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Exclusive | MSME relief on cards: Former Cab Secy led panel to suggest overhaul of Quality Control Orders

September 18, 2025 8:31 am

According to sources, two important changes proposed by the committee are: bring down the number of the technical conformity assessment schemes formulated by BIS from ten to two and shift the focus of inspections from the factory to the market.

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Govt plans MSME outreach on concerns over certification

September 17, 2025 2:11 am

QCOs are legal orders issued by departments or ministries under the BIS Act, which make it mandatory for domestic and imported products to conform with certain quality standards.

As MSMEs push back, govt data shows BIS issued nearly half of all quality control orders in just 3 years

September 16, 2025 8:53 am

QCOs are legal orders issued by departments or ministries under the BIS Act, which make it mandatory for domestic and imported products, to conform with certain quality standards

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Govt pushes for e-commerce exports amid US tariff hit; MSMEs ask govt to allow FDI in inventory-led model

August 28, 2025 5:20 am

The source said that various methods to boost e-commerce exports are being explored, but there is a major difference of opinion among stakeholders regarding the inventory-based model of e-commerce.

Public sector banks' MSME bad loans falling, Finance Ministry tells Rajya Sabha

July 29, 2025 11:15 pm

Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said the gross bad loan ratio of public sector banks’ MSME loans had fallen to 6.18% as at the end of March 2025

Over 37 lakh new MSMEs registered in Gujarat in last 5 years: Union Minister in Rajya Sabha

July 21, 2025 11:07 pm

In the same period, 8,779 MSMEs have closed down in the state, Union Minister of State for MSMEs, Shobha Karandlaje, said in reply to a question raised by MP Parimal Nathwani

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Decline in NPAs has meant that credit is more readily available for industry

July 19, 2025 7:10 am

MSMEs could thus benefit from a plethora of overlapping factors, capacity expansion in a benign regime when public policies are getting increasingly reoriented for their welfare

Previous UP govts were only busy fuelling caste conflicts: Adityanath

June 28, 2025 4:16 am

Inaugurates ‘Youth Adda’ platform, launches CM Yuva mobile app, unveiled ODOP Common Facility Centre projects

UP govt plans ‘flat-like’ factory in Greater Noida for MSMEs

June 09, 2025 5:18 am

As per the project plan, along with the main multi-storied building, the government will also develop a complex for any future needs

P Chidambaram writes: Why no jobs for most youth?

May 25, 2025 10:04 am

...The regrettable but inescapable conclusions are, firstly, that the applicants for jobs do not have the education or the skills to fill the jobs. And, secondly, that the jobs on offer are not attractive because of the structure of the enterprise or the emoluments