Amended Technology Up-gradation fund Scheme (ATUFS)
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What is discussed under Amended Technology Up-gradation fund Scheme (ATUFS) ?

1. What is the Purpose ?
2. About (ATUFS)

Why in News ?

Union Minister of Textiles and Minister for State for Textiles reviewed the Amended Technology Up-gradation fund Scheme (ATUFS) with the different Ministries, Departments, Textiles Industry Associations and Banks etc at the 5th Inter Ministerial Steering Committee (IMSC) meeting organized by the Ministry of Textiles.

Key Facts

• Aim :
  • Reviewed the Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme to boost the Indian Textile Industry by enabling ease of doing business,

    

    bolstering exports & fuelling employment.

  • With Aim of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Zero Defect and Zero Effect’ in manufacturing, the government provides credit linked capital investment subsidy.
  • This scheme would facilitate augmenting of investment, productivity, quality, employment, exports and import subsitution in textile industry. It will also indirectly promote investment in textile machinery manufacturing.
• In addition to fixing the timeline for conduct of IMSC meeting quarterly to facilitate implementation , some of significant decisions to resolve pending issues and way forward include :
  1. Reduction of Compliance burden by accepting only single certificate from the concerned bank instead of multiple documents regarding evidence of payment for claimed machineries.
  2. Rationalisation of GR related to cases of consortium finance.
  3. Consideration of Standalone embroidery machines wef inception of the ATUFS.
  4. Facilitating Industry by providing Condonation of filing for UIDs to 1795 pending cases besides the cases in which cut off dates falls during 23rd March 2021 and 22 October 2021(COVID Second wave period) with time line of its submission to Office of Textile Commissioner/iTUFS within 90 days ( i.e., total period for unit & banks ).
  5. Condonation for the submission of JIT request to 814 units besides the unit in which cut off date for submission of JIT request in post COVID-19.
• Ministry of Textiles will simplify the procedure for Joint inspection using a calibrated approach to linking joint inspect to subsidy support size by reducing burden on bracket lower than Rs 50 lakh instead of present 100 %.

About Amended Technology Up-gradation fund Scheme (ATUFS)

• Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) in 1999 as a credit linked subsidy scheme intended for modernization and technology up-gradation of the Indian textile industry, promoting ease of doing business, generating employment and promoting exports. Since then, the scheme has been implemented in different versions.
• The ongoing ATUFS has been approved in 2016 and implemented through web based iTUFS platform. Capital Investment Subsidy is provided to benchmarked machinery installed by the industry after physical verification.
• The scheme is being administered with a two stage monitoring mechanism by
  • Technical Advisory-cum-Monitoring Committee (TAMC)
  • Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee (IMSC).
• ATUFS is implemented through web based platform, iTUFS.
• Modifications carried out in scheme guidelines in 2018 and further streamlining of procedures have simplified the process for availing the subsidy under the scheme.
• In 2019, IMSC decided to introduce physical verification of machinery and computation of subsidy before releasing committed liability under previous versions of scheme (MTUFS, RTUFS & RRTUFS).

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