Assistance to Medical Device Clusters for Common Facilities (AMD-CF) Scheme

Two Components 

• Assistance for Common Facilities: For Creating Common Infrastructure Facilities. 
  • Incentive
    • Limit of support will be 70% of the approved project cost or Rs. 20 cr., whichever is less.
    • For Himalayan and North East Region States, grant-in-aid would be Rs. 20 Crore per Cluster or 90% of the project cost, whichever is less.
  • Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to be formed by the Medical Devices manufacturing units in a cluster to execute the project.
    • There shall be a minimum of 5 Medical Device manufacturing units as members of SPV.
    • State Government can also promote a cluster.
  • Individual manufacturing unit cannot hold more than 40% in the SPV. Medical Devices enterprises shall hold at least 51% equity of the SPV.
• Assistance for Testing Facilities: To strengthen availability of more Medical Device Testing Laboratories in order to boost manufacturing of quality medical devices.
  • Incentive
    • Limit of support will be 70% of the approved Testing Facilities project cost or Rs. 5 cr., whichever is less.
    • For Himalayan and North East Region States, grant-in-aid would be Rs. 5 Crore per Cluster or 90% of the project cost, whichever is less.
  • Any National or State level Government or Private institutions interested to establish or strengthen testing facilities for testing of Class A, B, C and D medical devices including in-vitro diagnostic medical devices under MDR, 2017 are eligible.
    • Such legal entity under the Indian law will open a separate account for the funds to be utilized for the projects assisted under the sub-scheme.