SSI Sector Witnesses 8.87% Growth

New Delhi: The Union Minister for Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, Mr Mahabir Prasad, asked the States to take the benefit of the package for the SSI sector declared by the Centre recently. The Minister said that in the first four years of the Tenth Plan, the annual growth rate of this sector had been 8.87 per cent. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 will go a long way in developing this sector.