Objectives & Functions of SIDCs

The State Industrial Development Corporations have been set up by the State Governments as companies wholly owned by them. At present, 22 such SIDCs are functioning in India. SIDCs are not merely financing agencies, but are intended to act as instruments for accelerating the pace of industrialization in the respective States.

Besides providing financial assistance to industrial concerns by way of loans, guarantees and underwriting of or direct subscriptions to shares and debentures, the SIDCs undertake various promotional activities such as conducting techno-economic surveys, project identification, preparation of feasibility studies, selection and training of entrepreneurs. They also promote joint sector projects in association with private promoters. In such projects SIDCs take 26% private co-promoter takes 25% of the equity, and the rest is offered to the investing public.

SIDCs also undertake the development of industrial areas, construction of sheds and provision of infrastructural facilities .and also the development of new growth centers. They also administer various State Government incentive schemes.

The main functions of SIDCs are as follows: