{"id":20671,"date":"2026-02-25T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=20671"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:02:50","slug":"5th-national-msme-council-reviews-progress-of-world-bank-supported-ramp-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=20671","title":{"rendered":"5th National MSME Council Reviews Progress of World Bank\u2013Supported RAMP Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5th National MSME Council Reviews Progress of World Bank\u2013Supported RAMP Programme<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n


\nUnion Minister Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi Launches Udyami Bharat Portal and MSME Technology Transfer Platform to Boost Competitiveness<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Posted On: 24 FEB 2026 10:19PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India organised the fifth meeting of the National MSME Council at NASC Complex, PUSA Road, New Delhi on 24th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2026. The National MSME Council has been set up by the Ministry to work as an administrative and functional body of the World Bank supported RAMP Programme to oversee inter-Central Ministerial\/Departmental co-ordination, Centre State synergies and advise \/ monitor progress on the reforms mandated in the MSME sector.\u00a0 RAMP Programme aims at improving access to market and credit, strengthening institutions and governance at the Centre and State, improving Centre-State linkages and partnerships, addressing issues of delayed payments and greening of MSMEs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The 5th<\/sup>\u00a0meeting of the National MSME Council was chaired by Hon\u2019ble Union Minister for MSME, Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi. Addressing the participants, Hon\u2019ble Minister exhorted all the States \/ UTs to work towards promotion and development of MSME Sector so that their efforts could result in increase in income and employment in the sector and contribute towards country\u2019s economic growth. He reiterated the need for supporting MSMEs in becoming globally competitive and emphasised need for developing synergies between the Central and state level initiatives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Honourable Union Minister launched the Udyami Bharat Portal (UBP) which is an integrated portal developed by the Ministry of MSME as a One Stop Shop for MSME services in line with the Digital India Mission. Udyami Bharat Portal integrates all MoMSME portals and services and Portals of other Central Ministries\/Departments and State Government. Hon\u2019ble Union Minister also launched the MSME Technology Transfer Platform (MTTP) which is a unified digital platform enabling MSMEs to access advanced technologies, testing facilities, skilling, and IP Commercialization support. \u00a0The Hon\u2019ble Minister emphasized the need to accelerate and deepen the support to MSMEs owned by women and marginalized sections, ensuring inclusive growth and self-sustainability.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian Eckardt, Regional Director for the World Bank, expressed pleasure in partnering with the Ministry of MSME Bank for the RAMP program which supports greening, gender inclusion, improved access to finance, and innovations such as online dispute resolution for MSMEs. He further expressed interest in deepening World Bank\u2019s efforts to enable and mobilize private capital, strengthen enterprise competitiveness, and support sustainable job creation across India.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Rajneesh, Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner, highlighted the growth of the MSME sector in the last 4 years. \u00a0He urged the representatives from the States\/ UTs to expedite the implementation of approved projects under RAMP in their respective States\/UTs, and take advantage of the initiatives of the Ministry of MSMEs to ensure the benefits of the schemes are availed by the MSMEs. This will contribute towards success of the RAMP programme and achieving the national MSME agenda of MSME development in the country.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The representatives from the UT of Jammu & Kashmir, States of Goa, Manipur, Nagaland and Odisha presented their success stories under the RAMP Programme. The Meeting was attended by the representatives from Central Ministries \/ Departments and Officers from States \/ UT governments, SIDBI, NSIC along with other dignitaries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5th National MSME Council Reviews Progress of World Bank\u2013Supported RAMP Programme Union Minister Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi Launches Udyami Bharat Portal and MSME Technology Transfer Platform to Boost Competitiveness Posted On: 24 FEB 2026 10:19PM by PIB Delhi The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India organised the fifth meeting of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20673,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions\/20673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}