In many developed and developing country, a facility called Common Facility Centre has been introduced, which can offer all sort of support within the same area where a group of industries are located by providing the most commonly needed facility such as marketing centers, testing laboratory centers, quality measuring centers, motivates the members and new entrants to come forward to develop their business with help of the Common Facility Centre, it can help them to reduce their operational costs and investment along with time management to complete the entrepreneurial commitment honestly.

Scope

• The scheme would provide assistance for setting up of new Common Facility Centre (CFC) and up-gradation of existing CFCs for Gem &Jewellery sector in remote area / villages / town to meet the requirement of SMEs of their region to have latest and modern technology which they can't afford at their own.
• The scheme may also address the need of training centers / R & D centers / data centers / MSME Help Desk etc. as part of CFC facility as per the requirement of local trade / cluster.
• The scheme will provide assistance to only those clusters / regions where support from local trade is made available.
• Active participation from local trade association is essence of the scheme.

Main objective for setting up of CFC at different locations

• There is a requirement of skilled manpower in the Industry.
• It is essential to upgrade technological skill level of the artisans.
• Provide such infrastructure / facility/ latest technology to small unit holders which they cannot afford at their own.
• To manufacture quality goods with better yield and timely delivery by providing more productive machines in their nearby vicinity.
• New artisans would be trained by offering various training programs.
• Providing access to common pool of high end &capital intensive state-of-the-art machinery/equipment.
• To assist, motivate & provide SMEs an opportunity to take benefit of the costly state-of-the-art equipment to improve upon the quality, productivity and yield of the finished product.
• To provide services to small & medium manufacturers at justified rates.
• To provide common platform for technology transfer & Re-Skilling of the existing artisans by providing them training to up-grade the skill & also organizing seminars by industry leaders.
• It will increase the productivity and decrease the processing time used for innovation, further helping the cluster members to experiment on a higher knowledge-intensive level,and will enhance their technical expertise.
• This will help the cluster members increase their market potential as well.
• It will reduce the number of iterations in the development and testing process due to non-availability of schedule from MNCs and PSUs.