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The DICs came into existence in the year 1978. The realization of the need to make the district as a focal point of industrial planning and development crystallized in the establishment of DICs. The DICs are considered as an institutional innovation to assist small scale industrial units at three important stages viz., pre-investment, investment and post-investment stages. They are also considered as a single window of clearance for industrial units.

Announcing the Industrial Policy Statement of l977, Mr. George Fernandez, the then Union Minister of Industries made the following statement in the Parliament. "In each district there will be one agency to deal with all the requirements of small and village industries. Under the single roof of DIC, all the services and support required by small and village entrepreneurs will be provided. These will include economic investigation of the district raw materials and other resources, supply of machinery and equipment, provision of raw materials, arrangement for credit facilities, an effective step for marketing and a cell for quality control, research and extension."

The DIC therefore is expected to provide all the services and facilities to entrepreneurs under a single roof for setting up small and village industries. There are three important functions, which the DICs could discharge profitably.

The DICs to act as a data bank, an information bank and a dissemination centre, for giving prompt up-to-date and reliable information to anybody trying to set up a small scale unit and the information would not only be with regard to licensing procedures but also about what is in the realm of feasibility and what is not.

Another area is monitoring of registration of Industrial Units under Udyog Adhar Memorandum.

The third aspect in which the DICs can play an effective role is with regard to interlinkages with different institutions such as electricity department, department of water works, municipality/ panchayat, town planning, commercial banks, etc.

The DICs are functioning in a close coordination with all agencies related to industrial development at the district level.

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