The Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Kashmir is the premier organization which deals with all aspects of planning and development of small scale and tiny industrial units in the Division. It acts through 10 District Centres (DICs), one in each district. Apart from creating infrastructural facilities for industrial development in the shape of establishing industrial estates, export promotion parks and growth centres where fully-developed land, power, water roads et al, are available and where prospective entrepreneurs are encouraged to establish their ventures, the Directorate provides facilities of according various registrations, imparting training to entrepreneurs, coordinating with various sister agencies, granting different State/Central Government incentives to various industrial units.