Ficci has suggested the following measures to boost the SME sector:
•Ensure greater credit flow through cluster-based financing to enable SMEs access sources of capital at lower rates,
•Similar kind of financial arrangements should be made with the help of cooperative banks and other local and regional financial institutions. Existing network of micro finance institutions and non-banking financial companies could be tapped for provision of loans
•The government should look at a scheme that offers productivity-linked benefits
•SMEs must be integrated with the large enterprises sector, which should act as providers of technology, markets, networks, raw materials to the SMEs
•There should be an increase in the flow of FDIs into SMEs