<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh said there is the urgent need for setting up MSMEs in farming and non-farming sectors in the North East region. He said his Ministry will play the role of facilitator in order to provide Research and development, market access and better designs for MSME products.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The minister made this statement during a Udyam Samvad workshop organised by the Ministry of&nbsp; MSMEs in New Delhi yesterday. He said Micro industries will be given more support in this region and for this technology centres are being established in Imphal, Dimapur, Tinsukia and Agartala.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The workshop was held eleven sessions with different ministries and financial organizations like Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), SIDBI, ASSOCHAM, CII, FICCI, FISME, PHD Chamber of Commerce and MSME Foundation.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">&nbsp;On the occasion, various issues facing entrepreneurs and startups in northeast states like accessing credit, hand holding for setting up businesses, accessing markets in India and abroad and research and development for refinement of art based products manufactured in the northeast were discussed in the workshop.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>