A sub-committee to be formed by the State Government will submit its report regarding slum settlement improvement, regularization, rehabilitation and resettlement concerning areas under the purview of all the urban local bodies of the State. This and other important decisions were taken in the meeting of the State Cabinet.
According to official information, the aforementioned sub-committee to be formed will have the State's Urban Development Minister and the Forest Minister along with finance and justice secretaries who will also be its members. The urban development department will appoint a consultant for this purpose. A corpus fund of Rs 400 crore will also be set up for the improvement works to be undertaken in this regard. A corpus fund of Rs 10 crore will also be established under startup fund of the Chief Minister youth entrepreneurs self-employment scheme for young entrepreneurs. The State Government had in the past made provision for providing unemployment allowance to the unemployed persons in the state. In place of this provision, the Cabinet has decided to motivate the youth towards self employment. In view of this, it was also decided that a startup fund will be established to facilitate self employment opportunities for the unemployed youth under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises department. As per the stated main aim of this scheme, the unemployed educated youth registered with the district and regional employment exchanges who have not been able to secure employment and want to initiate enterprise for self employment, will be provided 25 per cent (maximum Rs 50,000 per person) of fixed assistance/grant for setting up their enterprise through bank linkage.