Project Vikas is a holistic and scalable, five year action plan designed to enhance the competitiveness of India’s SME sector through a multi-pronged strategy, encompassing skill and capacity building, knowledge creation and dissemination, and enabling of linkages in the cluster ecosystem. The project signifies a long term commitment by Microsoft India to help the Indian SME sector address its ‘soft’ challenges and gear up to effectively face global competition.

To stimulate manufacturing competitiveness of SMEs across clusters in the country, demonstrating Microsoft’s commitment to IT innovation by facilitating a knowledge-based environment.

Project Vikas is bringing about change in the manufacturing segment across clusters in India through a series of programmes, events and workshops. These initiatives are making a huge positive impact on not just the businesses but also the workers involved. Project Vikas focuses on the following initiatives in each of the clusters it works in.