SMALL INDUSTRIES SERVICE INSTITUTE

Small scale sector is one of the success stories of the modern India. Its success is writ large
over the face of the country and is equally visible all around. This is a sector that has emerged
victorious in the face of rising threats from large sector inside and from multi-nationals abroad.
The small Industries Service Institute (SISI) are the field offices of Small Industries
Development Organisation (SIDO), Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Govt. of India, set up for
the promotion and development of Small Scale Industries in the State in the early fifties. This
Institute provides support / services to the State Government as well as co-ordinates various
activities at the state level for promotion and development of small scale industries. This
Institute, alongwith SISI, Nagpur and Branch Institute at Aurangabad, look after the whole of
Maharashtra.

Small Industries Development Organisation, under the Ministry of Industry is the Apex body at
the national level, headed by Development Commissioner, Small Scale Industries to formulate
the policy governing the Small Scale Industrial Sector in the country to chalk out schemes and
programmes for development of the SSI sector. SIDO also monitors the implementation of
policies and activities of promotion and development of Small Scale Industries in the country,
with active involvement of State directorate of Industries through its network of 28 Small
Industries Service Institute (SISI)
in all the States.

Small Industries Service Institute, Mumbai provides various types of extension services and
assistance in setting up of units, promoting and developing product and Services by the Small
Scale Industries. The Institute has Technical Officers to provide guidance in all trades i.e.
Metallurgy, Mechanical, Chemical, Leather, Glass & Ceramics, Electrical, Electronics, Food
Industry, Management & Economic Investigation.

Details of Major Extension Services provided in the Institute are given below :
1) Technical Consultancy
2) Industrial Management Training
3) Economic Information
4) Entrepreneurial Development Programme
5) Scheme for Educated Unemployed Youth /
Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojana
6) Technology Resource Centre - is set up with
an
objective of creating database useful for
SMEs in
India. A large net work of useful sites and data
base is under creation for the help of SMEs.
7) Ancillary Developments / Sub-Contract
Exchange
8) Marketing Assistance
9) Export Promotion Marketing
10) Modernisation / Upgradation Technology
11) Assistance to Rehabilitation of sick units
12) Common Facility & Training
13) Assistance to District Industries Centre /
State Govt. / Various Developmental
Agencies in the State
14) Technical Assistance to various Central
Government Agencies like Director
General of Foreign Trade, National
Small
Industries Corporation, Central Excise,
Bureau of Indian Standards, CSIR etc.
15) Exhibition / Demonstration.
16) CAD / CAM Training : SISI, Mumbai has
set up a CAD / CAM Training Centre in
association with Indo German Tool
Room, Aurangabad. Training
Programmes on softwares like CATIA,
Master CAM, Unigraphics, Solid
Edge,MDT, Inventer etc. are conducted
in suitable batches.
17) CAD / CAM Training : SISI, Mumbai has
set up a CAD / CAM Training Centre in
association with Indo German Tool
Room, Aurangabad.Training
programmes
on softwares like CATIA, Master CAM,
Unigraphics, Solid Edge, MDT, Inventer
etc. are conducted in suitable batches.
18) Biotechnology Cell : Biotechnology cell