Employment Day and ‘One District-One Product’ program will be held in Pithampur on November 4 with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the chief guest. In the program, Chief Minister Shri Chouhan will lay the foundation stone of Jetpura Dhar, a new industrial area to be built in 21 hectares at a cost of Rs 18 crore 50 lakh and 4 MSME units of Pithampur industrial area will be inaugurated. The Chief Minister will also dedicate 51 works of various departments costing Rs 345 crore 30 lakh and perform bhoomi-pujan of 151 works worth Rs 1026 crore 20 lakh.
Total Rs 25 crore 41 lakh will be distributed in 4321 cases approved under various self-employment schemes of the central and state government in the employment fair.
In these programs, an exhibition of products selected under ‘One District One Product’ (ODOP) scheme of districts of Indore & Ujjain divisions and 2 start-up entrepreneurs of Dhar district will also be organized.
Bagh print in Dhar district has been selected in ODOP. Also a help desk has been set up to improve the quality of ODOP products, increase exports in business and to register ODOP producers on GeM, Flipkart, eBay and IEC.