Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the public sector undertaking (PSU) banks to organise loan melas in all districts and disburse admissible loans to eligible persons under the different schemes of the government.
The chief minister also asked the banks to set district-wise and branch-wise targets for disbursing loan to the beneficiaries under different schemes.
Yogi Adityanath said under the Stand-up India scheme, each branch of the PSU bank should provide loans to at least one woman from Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and two women entrepreneurs. He said this would benefit 36,000 women entrepreneurs.
A government spokesman said here on Wednesday that since May 14 this year, the PSU banks had provided credit of Rs 18,330 crore to 6.24 lakh micro, small and medium units in the state.
He said under the Atmanirbhar package, the banks had provided loans of Rs 10,847 crore to 4.37 lakh MSME units already in operation. He added that so far banks had provided financial assistance of Rs 29,000 crore to MSME units in the state.
The spokesman said the Central government had communicated to the UP government that all the MSME units were eligible for loan under the emergency credit line guarantee scheme (ECLGS) provided they fulfilled the required minimum conditions.
He said as per the Centre’s guidelines 0f ECLGS and Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, all persons were eligible for obtaining loan, working capital for setting up MSME unit and employment creation.
Meanwhile, UP Chief Secretary RK Tiwari on Wednesday reviewed the progress of the Mission Rojgar being implemented by the state Labour department.
The chief secretary directed all the departments to draw employment plans and the district magistrates to also draw plan for their respective districts.
He asked the Training and Employment department to secure and update the data on employment and also develop a portal and an app to upload all relevant information about employment on them.
Tiwari said each department would nominate a nodal officer in each body like directorate, corporation and commission under their administrative control.
The nodal officer will upload departmental schemes on employment on the portal of Mission Rojgar.
Additional Chief Secretary (MSME) Navneet Sehgal informed the chief secretary that by the end of the current fiscal 2020-21, as many as 50 lakh persons were targeted to be provided employment through self-employment, skill development and other schemes of the government.
He said the data of employment provided by other departments of the government was being compiled