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GJEPC reveals six new Common Facility Centres for jewellery trade to be operational by December

Published
Jul 10, 2020

The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council announced that six new Common Facility Centres for micro, small, and medium enterprises will be operational by December, 2020.

The GJEPC is confident six upcoming CFCs will be ready by December - GJEPC India- Facebook

 
CFCs to be set up in Phase 2 of the CFC’s ongoing project will be in Coimbatore, Kolkata, Jaipur, Delhi, Rajkot, and Hyderabad, the GJEPC announced at the CFC Project Steering Committee meeting held on July 8, it reported on its website. 

The CFC Project Steering Committee meeting, which included members of the GJEPC and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, was chaired by the GJEPC’s recently elected chairman Colin Shah.

The GJEPC also reported at the meeting that the fit-out work for the CFCs in Coimbatore and Kolkata is likely to be completed by October, 2020. The centres in Jaipur, Delhi, Rajkot, and Hyderabad will then be completed by December this year.
 
The aim of the CFCs is to aid MSMEs in the gem and jewellery industry and enable them to have access to state-of-the-art technology at affordable rates so they can update their production process. This would also increase productivity, lead to better quality products, and an increase in export potential, according to the GJEPC.
 
The CFC Steering Committee also addressed the functioning of its four existing CFCs in Amreli, Palanpur, Visnagar, and Junagadh in Gujarat at the meeting.

The GJEPC reported that the centres are struggling to cover their operational expenses due to the effects of the pan-India lockdown and coronavirus crisis. The committee decided that the GJEPC will represent the matter to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to support the centres during this unprecedented time.

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