Budget 2025: The MSME sector remains the foundation stone of India’s economy, which plays a significant role in employment production, exports and innovation. However, permanent challenges such as limited credit access, infrastructure gap, regulatory burden, and their growth in adoption of slow technology are obstructed. For this year’s budget, industry leaders support strategic interference to empower MSME, expand their competitiveness, and keep India as a global manufacturing center.

From financial support and expertise development measures to digital change concessions and easy compliance, stakeholders expect policy measures that can advance sustainable development and unlock the full potential of the MSME sector. –

As MSME faces A Credit Gap to a great extentBy limiting their chances of development and innovation, Goodrej Capital’s MD and CEO, Manish Shah expect an introduction to a dedicated liquidity facility for MSME in the budget, from which working capital and long Easy access to periodic financing.

“Such a move will give MSME the option to invest in technology, increase their operations and increase competition,” he said.

McCol Goyal, co -founder of Street Fix Consulting, said there is a The urgent need of working capital Support guarantee to tackle liquidity challenges, especially for MSMEs that manage daily operations. In addition, expanding the essential e -invoicing doorsteps, and harmonizing input tax credit will help MSME better manage the cash flow, while reviewing GST slab for necessary raw materials. Input costs will further reduce and improve the margin.

Further, strengthening the credit guarantee scheme to provide access to affordable funds without interruption will help MSME reduce their dependence on expensive informal sources.

“Excessively, Investing in the MSME sector Guinka added that these businesses will invest more, and will enable their development.

Since the adoption of digital tools and advanced technologies has become a challenge because of high costs and limited digital literacy, Shah demanded target subsidy or tax encouragement to invest in digital infrastructure to remove these barriers. What

Gwonka also advised Increasing the rule of tax tax To add service providers, freelancers, and small -tech business under Section 44AD, make compliance easier and facilitate operational loads.

On the other hand, Goyal said the government should launch a Digital Exception Fund, which will provide interest -free loans or grants to adopt AI, IOT, and clouds. In addition, measures such as skill 2.0 move and skill credit can eliminate the growing skill gap by encouraging MSME to invest in emerging technologies in emerging technologies, he added.

In addition, the Shah said, adding that the productivity of the optical workforce is important. Trained training programs in collaboration with the government MSME will equip the employees with the needs of the relevant expertise and strengthening industry as per the needs of employees.

Since the ambitions of becoming India’s factory depend on empowering its MSME sector, the costs of MSME programs, Grant Thornton India partner, Ped Manand V, said, which is less than Rs 10,000 crore. , The amount allocated for agriculture, are inappropriately lower than that.

Expenditures need to be increased under programs such as the Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Program (MSE-CDP) (MSE-CDP) and increasing and accelerating the MSME Performance Program (RAMP) program. Additionally, Strategic investment in infrastructure and policies requires Which can bring MSME to the ‘world’s office’ to the ‘world factory’. This change could give India a position as a viable alternative to China in global manufacturing.

Resonance measures to adopt technology between MSME, Abhishek Anand, Partner (Comprehensive Banking and Enterprise Development (IB & Aid) Domain Asia, Microsco Consulting (MSC) said the budget should be Pay attention to the encouragement of adoption of technologyAS, such as AI, blockchain, and robotics – are strengthening the business to enhance productivity and innovation.

“Additionally, through the mechanisms such as financing, promoting innovation, crowded funding and supply chain financing, will open new ways for development. Industry to ensure compliance, market access and sustainable development. Cooperation between players, government and financial institutions is very important.