There are 4 MSME-TCs ( New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata & Chennai) & 7 MSME-TSs ( Jaipur, Hyderabad, Kolhapur, Pondicherry, Bhopal, Bangalore, Chenganacherry) are set up all over the Country. The main activities of these Centers/Stations are as follows:-
To provide testing facilities to enable small industries to produce stores conforming to IS Specifications
To provide testing facilities in accordance with the requirements of DGS&D and other purchasing departments of State and Central Governments.
To provide testing facilities under pre shipment inspection scheme to facilitate export of small industries products.
To provide facilities for testing under quality marking scheme introduced by State Govts.
To help the individual units to set up in house testing arrangements in a more feasible and practical way.
To coordinate with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and other technical testing / inspection organisations in matters relating to standardisation of products in small scale sector
To provide calibration services to the units including those covered under ISO-9000 to meet their mandatory requirement.
To provide training in testing and calibration, as a measure to strengthen availability of trained manpower in the industry.
To provide testing facilities to the export oriented units in order to build quality of the products manufactured by SSI sector and thereby improve the export performance from this sector for specified products.