In a major step toward ensuring employment or self-employment opportunities to at least one person in each family in the next five years, the Uttar Pradesh government is mulling to make ‘family card’ for each family across the state.
The scheme envisions employment for a member of each family in the state and improvement in their living conditions. It also sets important social goals, such as empowering women and widening opportunities for marginalised demographic groups.
The state government is planning to initiate a slew of measures, which include handing out family cards. The family card will be aimed at keeping the economic, social and employment status of a family and help the government to identify and work towards providing employment or self-employment opportunities to members of those families whose economic status is low.
Since the process will take some time, the government has decided to consider the ration card of each family for the purpose. Based on the assessment, the government will connect one member of each family with employment generation schemes.
Uttar Pradesh has recorded the lowest unemployment rate of 2.9 per cent as per the latest survey released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The government is striving hard to bring it down to zero by providing employment to one member of each family in the state.
"Due to the ever-increasing industry and trade in Uttar Pradesh, the state has been able to generate employment. Even after COVID-19 pandemic, the state government left no stone unturned in providing employment to the youth," an official said.
Under 'Mission Rojgar', employment opportunities are being provided to people of the state through various departments, institutions and corporations. In the last five years, under various schemes of self-employment of the Yogi Adityanath government, work has been done to connect about three crore people with employment.