SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 Initiative

16.12.2024

SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 Initiative

Why in the news?   

Recently, the Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Steel provided information about the SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 initiative in the Rajya Sabha.

About SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 Initiative:

• It is an initiative of the Ministry of Heavy Industry & Public Enterprises, Government of India under its scheme on Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector.
• SAMARTH Udyog encompasses manufacturers, vendors and customers as the main stakeholders.
• The experiential and demonstration centres for Industry 4.0 have been proposed to spread awareness about I4.0 amongst the Indian manufacturing industries.
• Under this 4 Smart Advanced Manufacturing and Rapid Transformation Hub (SAMARTH) Centres have been set up namely:

○Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4) Lab, Pune;

○IITD-AIA Foundation for Smart Manufacturing, IIT Delhi;

○I-4.0 India @ IISc, Bengaluru; and

○Smart Manufacturing Demo & Development Cell, CMTI, Bengaluru.

• SAMARTH Centres have been providing assistance to industries including MSMEs to train the workforce and make them aware of Industry 4.0 technologies in the following ways:

○Organizing Awareness Seminars/ Workshops and knowledge-sharing events on Industry 4.0;

○Training industries to create awareness about Industry 4.0;

○Providing consultancy (in areas such as IOT Hardware, Software development, and data analytics) and incubation support to start-ups including MSMEs.

• No financial assistance is given to any industry including MSME for adopting Industry 4.0-enabled technologies under the SAMARTH centre initiative of the Scheme.

                                                                  Source: The Hindu

Consider the following statements regarding the SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0 initiative:

1. It is an initiative of the Union Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

2. It aims to provide assistance to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to train the workforce and make them aware about Industry 4.0 technologies.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A.1 only

B.2 only

C.Both 1 and 2

D.Neither 1 nor 2

Answer  C