After revising the guidelines for the Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) to enable small scale units to avail the benefit of the scheme for upto 189 items of plants and machinery required for upgradation to Schedule M standards, the Centre has now prepared a comprehensive strategy for implementing the same and making sure that maximum companies get the assistance.

The three-pronged strategy titled 'implementation of scheme for Schedule M compliance for SSI pharma units to be implemented by dove-tailing with CLCSS of MSME' will have awareness building workshops, dissemination of scheme brochures and related material, and media support, sources said. It is expected that more than 3000 pharma SSI units will benefit from the scheme and efforts are being made to reach this target, sources added.

Workshops will be held at eight SSI cluster locations -Ahmedabad, Baddi, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore and Mumbai-to spread awareness and deepen understanding of pharma SSIs about the expanded list, according to the strategy note. NIPER, KAPL (Bangalore), IDMA, SPIC and S SMPIC (Small, Medium Industry Centre) will assist for holding the workshops, to be led by senior officials.

"A detailed scheme brochure will be made to enable the potential beneficiaries to understand the various facets of the scheme and its implementation methodology. Lack of awareness is a major reason and to tackle, this, advertisements will be placed in the media through DAVP," it said.

It also said still there could be bottlenecks in the implementation. Existence of multiple stakeholders such as certification agencies (CDSCO, SRA), commitment of financial institutions like SIDBI and organizational capacity of Department of Pharma are among them.

A scheme oversight committee will be set up under the chairmanship of pharmaceuticals secretary with DC (MSME), JS (DC), DDG, senior officer of National Productivity Council, concerned GM of SIDBI, and heads of IDMA, SPIC, FOPE as members. The panel will provide periodic guidance for successful implementation of the scheme including policy issues and would meet every two months.

There will also be another scheme implementation committee to be guided by Joint Secretary (chemicals) and will have members from SIDBI, NPC and selected industry nominees. The committee would lay down monitoring and evaluation formats. It will meet every month to review and monitor and present a monitoring and evaluation report to the scheme oversight committee, the strategy paper said.