Cluster Profile
| 1 | Name Of Cluster | Chimakurthy Granite Processing |
| 2 | Place | Chimakurthy |
| 3 | District | Prakasham |
| 4 | State | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | No of firms (by type) | 43 Micro and 84 Small firms |
| 6 | No. of workers | Direct employment to 15,000 and indirect jobs to another 40,000 |
| 7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Rs.470.24 millions |
| 8 | Associations in cluster | The Granite SME Association , Ongole; 2. The Bodhawada Granite Factory Owners Association |
| 9 | Major products | Slabs, Tiles and blocks of various sizes |
| 10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
Indian Bureau of Mines Geological Survey of India National Mineral Development Corporation |
| 11 | Major markets | Within country AP, Maharashtra, Karnataka Export USA, China, Japan, and European market etc |
| 12 | Major problems/prospects | Non accessibility to raw material due to preference of quarry owners to sell the raw material to processing firms outside the country for better returns. Low Skilled manpower to operate high technology machines. Least access to better technological tools. Low infrastructure development within the cluster. lacks in proper data bank and hence Entrepreneurs are unable to identify products in accordance with market needs, their skills, availability of raw material etc |
| 13 | Data source and updated on | DSR by APITCO for DC-MSME (June 2010) |