QUALITY CERTIFICATIONS FOR SMALL BUSINESS MANUFACTURING

Quality certification has become extremely important in competitive markets and especially in gaining the foothold in exports. To avail the certification of ISO-9000, a unit has to undertake significant costs; the small scale industries have been found wanting mainly on account of resource crunch to implement quality systems to obtain this certification. There is a scheme to give financial incentive to those SSI units who acquire ISO-9000 certification, by reimbursing 75% of their costs of obtaining certification, subject to a maximum of Rs. 0.75 lacs per unit.