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The Impact Of Small Scale Industries On The Development Of An Economy

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Small Scale Industrial Sector
Industries play a vital role in the development of an economy. Unfortunately, Jammu and Kashmir has not been able to attract investments in this sector and remained industrially backward state due to its unique economic disadvantages arising out of remoteness and poor connectivity, hilly and often inhospitable terrain, weak resource base, poor infrastructure, sparse population density, shallow markets etc. Nevertheless, many small and medium scale industries have come up basically in the traditional sectors along with some new areas like food processing, agro-based units and metallic and non-metallic products.
In the state there is just one large scale industry namely Chinar Textiles (Kathua) and few other medium scale units in the private sector. The development of large scale industries in the state is ruled out except in few selected lines on account of some unfavourable factors like extreme location, deficiency of natural resources, lack of sufficient capital and entrepreneur class, infrastructural bottlenecks, etc. In view of these and other facts, the govt. focused more on the development of small scale industries in the state. Most of the industrial activity in the state thus has been taken place in the small scale sector. The small scale sector in the state consists of small scale industrial units, handicrafts, handlooms and Khadi and village industries. The major thrust of different policy initiatives and incentive packages formulated

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