Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises is a government agency based in New Delhi, India. The agency has two Divisions called the Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) Division and the Agro & Rural Industry (ARI) Division. The SME Division is allocated the work, inter-alia, of administration, vigilance, and administrative supervision of the National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) Ltd., a public sector enterprise, and the three autonomous national-level entrepreneurship development/training originations. The ARI Division looks after the administration of two statutory bodies viz. the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Coir Board, and a newly created organization called Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI). It also supervises the implementation of the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). The assets of the agency are managed by the executive team.