MSMEs down shutters in Coimbatore
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Several Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) here shut down operations voluntarily since Monday.
Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (Codissia) president MV Ramesh Babu said almost 90 % of its members had stopped production. Only those who were catering to healthcare sector continued to run the units.
A few organisations, including Codissia, had urged its members to stop production in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19.
At the SIDCO Industrial Estate at Kurichi, 20 % of the units continued to operate. They had export orders or were vendors to exporting units or were supplying to the healthcare sector.