Appreciating the skills of micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) entrepreneurs and handicraft artisans, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Thursday, said that they were getting global recognition which reflected the commitment of the Government towards this sector.
“With the Government’s encouragement, and the positive support from the bankers, the MSMEs have flourished and as a result of this, the Government has brought down the unemployment rate from 18 per cent to 2.9 per cent in the state,” Yogi asserted.
In a move towards transforming the lives of youths by making them self-reliant, the Yogi Adityanath Government dispensed Rs 16,000 crore as loan to as many as 1.90 lakh beneficiaries under the employment initiative of the state government at the MSME loan fair.
The beneficiaries of this loan fair were from various schemes including Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme, Chief Minister's Youth Self-Employment Scheme, and One District One Product (ODOP) Scheme.
On this occasion, the chief minister inaugurated Common Facilitation Centres (CFCs) in Agra, Ambedkar Nagar, Sitapur, Azamgarh and Siddharthnagar districts for branding, packaging and marketing of ODOP products. The chief minister interacted with the operators of the CFCs and discussed their functioning and future action plan.
Along with that, Yogi also launched an annual loan scheme of Rs 2.95 lakh crore for the year 2022-23 at the same event. He also inaugurated the Amazon Digital Centre in Kanpur Nagar district, a unit to help small businessmen in setting up their businesses in the digital world. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Uttar Pradesh government and e-commerce company Amazon.