1 | Name Of Cluster | Bali Brass Metal |
2 | Place | Bali |
3 | District | Hooghly |
4 | State | West Bengal |
5 | No of firms (by type) | 130 |
6 | No. of workers | 600 |
7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Rs. 300 Million |
8 | Associations in cluster | Bally-Anchalik Ghora Silpa Samity Bally Anchalik Ghoti Silpa Samity Bally Anchalik Mahajan Samity |
9 | Major products | Different sizes of Pitchers |
10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
DIC, Hooghly. HIT, Chinsurah, Hooghly MSME-DI, Kolkata MSME-TC, Kolkata Jadavpur University Kolkata |
11 | Major markets | Domestic |
12 | Major problems/prospects | Brass in the form of scrap being used in the cluster is of poor in quality Artisans having no knowledge of making brass ingot from virgin metal.6 Market for the particular cluster product shrinking due to higher price, high weight, lower quality, outdated design. Most of the artisans having no knowledge of direct marketing. |
13 | Data source and updated on | DIC, Hooghly under Directorate of MSSE, Govt. of West Bengal. (February 2011) |