Government announces inclusion of Retail and Wholesale trades as MSMEs

New Delhi: Minister of MSME and Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari yesterday announced revised guidelines for MSMEs with inclusion of Retail and Wholesale trades as MSMEs.

In a tweet he said under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi Ji, we are committed to strengthening of MSME and make them engines for economic growth. Shri Gadkari said the revised guidelines will benefit 2.5 Crore Retail and Wholesale



Traders.

He said Retail and wholesale trade were left out of the ambit of MSME, now under the revised guidelines, retail and wholesale trade will also get benefit of priority sector lending under RBI guidelines.

With the revised guidelines the Retail and wholesale trades will be now be allowed to register on Udyam Registration Portal.