Pillar: Economic Participation
Tirupathur Y-POWER Score: 46.2 / 100 — ranked 26 of 38 in Tamil Nadu.
A Common Facility Centre (CFC) is a shared production and support facility built for clusters of traditional industry artisans and workers. If a district has a concentration of people working in khadi, handloom, bamboo craft, pottery, coir, food processing, or similar traditional industries, a CFC provides them access to modern equipment, training, design support, and marketing assistance that individual artisans cannot afford. CFCs are built under the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) programme of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME). Not every district has one -- they exist only where traditional industry clusters have been identified…
If you are a traditional artisan or work in a local craft industry, a CFC in your area means access to better equipment, training, raw materials at lower cost, and help selling your products in bigger markets -- all without having to invest individually in expensive machinery.
- Common production/processing facility with modern equipment that individual artisans cannot afford - Raw Material Bank for bulk procurement at lower cost - Skill development and training: workshops for artisan upgradation, design, new technology - Design and product development: professional inputs, testing, quality improvement, packaging - Marketing and market linkage: common branding, exhibitions, online presence, connections to buyers - Business support: Udyam registration for artisans, credit linkage (Mudra, bank loans), certification (FSSAI, BIS) - IA obligations for every artisan at the CFC: bank account opening under PMJDY, enrolment under PMJJBY and PMSBY, Aadhaar-based identity…
Portal: sfurti.msme.gov.in. The functional-cluster list with Implementing Agency details is at sfurti.msme.gov.in/SFURTI/Reports/DPRFunctionalUpto.aspx. Also check kvic.gov.in for khadi and village industry clusters Also: Ask at the DIC or District Collectorate; ask local artisan communities directly -- weavers, potters, bamboo workers will know if a CFC exists
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