CTR HANDOVER 5000 FACE SHIELD TO DC FOR FRONT LINE WORKER

Ludhiana, 15 May (NEWS PUNJAB) Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Tool Room (CTR),
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Ludhiana has handed over 1 st
lot of total 5000 face shield component of PPEs to Sh. Pradeep Agrawal, IAS,
Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana. The PPEs will be distributed to front line
workers (medical staff, police personnel, sanitation and healthcare workers,
private security, etc.). These have been manufactured locally by CTR Ludhiana
with designing, prototyping and tooling development support from the
‘Programme for Modernisation and Innovation Promotion in MSMEs in India’
(MSME INNO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
GmbH. GIZ is implementing the project MSME INNO on behalf of the German
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and in
partnership with the Indian Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MoMSME).
The face shield – PPEs will meet the regional demand, mainstream the
product and capacitate industries to manufacture locally, thus reducing import
dependency in the present challenging times.
The Central Tool Room will soon distribute another batch of face shield
– PPEs to industry associations in Ludhiana. Anticipating the future
requirements, Mr. A.P. Sharma, General Manager, CTR Ludhiana, urges
concerned departments to contact CTR Ludhiana for the procurement of bulk
orders at ‘no profit-no loss’ basis and encourages industries to avail tooling-
related services from CTR to start manufacturing the product and make
Atamnirbhar Bharat envisaged by Govt. of India. For skilling, online courses
are offered to professionals, entrepreneurs and students at CTR.