Union Minister Narayan Rane said on Wednesday that as many as 16 lakh youths have been trained through 18 tool rooms and technology centres run by the Ministry of MSME in the last nine years, benefiting more than 3 lakh MSME units. He further said that the tool rooms and technology centres are making a significant contribution to realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of a self-reliant India. Rane said these tool rooms design and manufacture medium- and small-size equipment as per international standards. In the recently launched Chandrayaan-3 mission, the Bhubaneswar Tool Room manufactured around 54,000 aero-space components of 437 varieties. Tool rooms have also played an important role in fulfilling the domestic needs of PPE kits, sanitizer machines, and oxygen concentrators, as well as in their exports during the pandemic. Also, he said, a total of 15 more technology centres are being set up to further strengthen the MSME units in the country.