Project Vikas launched for SMEs: Microsoft

Chennai: Software major Microsoft India has launched 'Project Vikas', an initiative to bring software solutions to small and medium enterprises in association with National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council.

Project Vikas will help SMEs, by bringing tailor made software solutions and make operations more efficient, leading to increased revenues and creating relationships with customers and partners.

With an objective of covering 25 industrial clusters, the company has so far covered 10 clusters in the country.

For training the SMEs, the software major has tied up with 30-40 institutions. In Chennai, it has associated with several partners to develop solutions for various critical issues in leather manufacturing.

The initial areas which were targeted (to offer the training programme) were Pune and Jamshedpur for auto-industry; Ludhiana and Tirupur for textile industry; Hyderabad and Ahmedabad for pharma and Chennai and Agra for the leather sector.

Also, Project Vikas will help the SMEs and connect them with the national and global market.