{"id":19228,"date":"2024-01-12T02:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19228"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:36:49","slug":"zed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zed\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Effect, Zero Defect Scheme (ZED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Zero Effect, Zero Defect Scheme (ZED)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Launched in October 2016 and revamped in April 2022, the ZED scheme\u00a0offers certification for environmentally conscious manufacturing under three certification levels\u00a0(gold, silver, and bronze) classified\u00a0according to 20 performance-based parameters such as quality management, timely delivery, process control, waste management, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The major\u00a0objectives of the ZED Scheme are:\n<ul>\n<li>To\u00a0create proper awareness in MSMEs\u00a0about ZED manufacturing and motivate them for the assessment of their enterprise for a ZED rating.<\/li>\n<li>To drive manufacturing with the adoption of Zero Defect production processes without impacting the environment (Zero Effect).<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0encourage MSMEs to constantly upgrade their quality standards in products and processes.<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0support the \u201cMake in India\u201d campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The scheme\u00a0provides financial assistance of up to 75 percent of the total cost of certification,\u00a0with a maximum\u00a0subsidy ceiling of Rs 50,000,\u00a0along with up to Rs 2 lakh in support for\u00a0handholding\/consultancy to achieve the next certification level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For technology upgradation, the scheme offers assistance of up to Rs 3 lakhs for moving towards zero effect solutions\/pollution control measures\/cleaner technology.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>MSMEs are\u00a0charged Rs 10,000 for bronze certification, Rs 40,000 for silver certification, and Rs 90,000 for gold certification.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In December 2023, the MSME Ministry made the ZED scheme\u00a0free for women-led MSMEs.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the\u00a0government will now make guarantee payment of 100 percent financial support for the certification costs under the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>The ZED certification is\u00a0valid for three years, and the MSME units are required to re-apply for the certificate as per the validity of the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, the scheme is\u00a0applicable for manufacturing MSMEs only.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the \u201cMake in India\u201d campaign?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative was launched globally in September 2014 as a part of India&#8217;s renewed focus on Manufacturing. The objective of the Initiative is to promote India as the most preferred global manufacturing destination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/sme\/govts-zed-scheme-for-msmes-hits-1-lakh-certification-milestone-check-schemes-details\/3361926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt\u2019s ZED scheme for MSMEs hits 1 lakh certification milestone; check scheme\u2019s details<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero Effect, Zero Defect Scheme offers certification for environmentally conscious manufacturing under three certification levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}