Micro enterprises caught in macro problems; stricter labour and pollution standards add to woes
In May 2020, finance minister Nirmala Sitharman raised the thresholds for the tags of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), acknowledging that the earlier definitions were creating an unintended incentive for units to remain ‘small’. She cited pan-India data of MSMEs scaling up, but for hundreds of units in South Delhi’s Okhla Industrial Area (OIA), …