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The Government proposed a Rs 10,000-crore Container Manufacturing Assistance Scheme (CMAS) to build domestic production of shipping containers.
The outlay is spread over five years, with the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways as the nodal ministry.
It targets annual domestic capacity of up to 7.5 lakh Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs).
That target is around ten times existing container production capacity.
It provides capital assistance for greenfield units, support for brownfield expansion, operational support, and funding for testing infrastructure and skilling.
A TEU is the standard unit for measuring container volume, equal to one twenty-foot shipping container. It exists because containers come in different lengths — a forty-foot container counts as two TEUs — and port throughput, ship capacity and manufacturing output all need a common yardstick. Standardisation is in fact the entire point of containerisation: because every container has agreed dimensions and fittings, the same box can move from ship to rail to truck without its contents being unpacked, which is what made modern global logistics economically possible.
Simple Analogy: A common brick size, so any wall can be built by any mason with the same tools.
GS Paper III > Indian Economy > Infrastructure, Logistics and Manufacturing
General Awareness > Government Schemes and Economy
General Awareness > Schemes
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Answer: 1 and 2 only
Which of the following is NOT an example of an industrial district in India?
Answer: Darjeeling-Jalpaiguri region
Identify the group of districts that are NOT an example of industrial districts of India.
Answer: Darjeeling-Jalpaiguri region
Which of the following statements about light industries is correct?
Answer: Use light materials to make consumer goods
Which of the following correctly highlights a unique feature of India's textile industry?
Answer: It is self-reliant across the full value chain
Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit — the standard measure of container volume; a forty-foot container equals two TEUs.
A facility built from scratch on a new site, as against expansion of an existing one.
Expansion or upgrading of an existing manufacturing facility.
The Government programme for port-led development, which CMAS is designed to complement.