Government has recently launched the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) under which 100 traditional industry clusters (of khadi, village industry and coir) would be taken up for comprehensive development over 5 year.  The KVIC and the Coir Board are the nodal agencies for the Scheme, which will be the first comprehensive initiative for regeneration of the khadi and village industries sector, based on the cluster development methodology.  The guidelines for the SFURTI  have been issued on 3.10.2005.  All State Governments/Union Territories have been asked to send their proposals for cluster development to this Ministry for consideration/approval.  A Core Group under the chairmanship of Secretary (SSI & ARI) has been constituted on 13.01.2006 with the following composition to assist the Scheme Screening Committee for examining the proposals received in the Ministry for cluster development:

1.	Secretary (SSI & ARI)	Chairman
2.	AS & DC (SSI)	Member
3.	AS & FA	Member
4.	Adviser (VSE), Planning Commission	Member
5.	CEO, KVIC	Member
6.	Secretary, Coir Board	Member
7.	Shri Mukesh Gulati, UNIDO	Member
8.	Shri R.C.M. Reddy, IL & FS	Member
9.	Shri Dinesh Awasthe, Director, EDI	Member
10.	Principal Secretary (College and SSI), West Bangal	Member
11.	Addl. Chief Secretary (Industries) Assam (representing NER)	Member
CLUSTERS APPROVED UNDER SFURTI SCHEME
TECHNICAL AGENCIES APPROVED UNDER SFURTI SCHEME