Central Institute of Hand Tools (MSME Tool Room, Jalandhar) is a premier organization responsible for the development of Hand Tool Industry in the country. Government of India has set up Central Institute of Hand Tools as a National Institute in Jalandhar (Punjab) as an autonomous organization with the assistance of U.N.D.P. and Govt. of Punjab in the year 1983, with a view to provide trained manpower and technology support services to engineering industry in general & the hand tools industries in particular.