Study of the Growth of Small Scale Industries: with Special Reference to Indore

Small Scale industries have an important role to play given their greater resource- use efficiency capacity for employment generation, technological innovation, promoting inter sectorial linkages ,raising exports and developing entrepreneurial skills. Their locational Flexibility is an important advantage in reducing regional imbalance. The future of Small Scale Industries is of major policy concern given their strategic importance in any discussion of reshaping the industrial sector. Promotion of the small scale sector in India has been an important issue of Industrial Policy since independence although the focus of concern changed with the priorities of each five year plans. As Indore is known as the Industrial Capital of M.P and it provides home to over a hundred large and medium scale industries and almost fifteen hundred small scale enterprises, an attempt has been made in this paper to study the growth and development trends of the small Scale Industries in Indore.