Bracing to fight the economic slowdown caused by coronavirus-induced lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to hire consultants and partner with Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow for bolstering self-employment opportunities for the educated youth.
The premier institute will be roped in as a ‘knowledge partner’ of the state government for analytical studies and for offering knowledge-based inputs on bankable projects, feasibility studies and for creating prototype models of self-employment projects.
These job-oriented studies and projects will be undertaken under the government’s flagship Chief Minister Yuva Entrepreneurship Development Programme (CM Yuva).
Presiding over a meeting in Lucknow, Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari directed officials to bring IIM-Lucknow on board as a knowledge partner on ‘CM Yuva’. Last year, the IIM-Lucknow had conducted special training sessions for senior UP ministers and top bureaucrats in methodologies of government project implementation, financial management, disposal of files and budgetary skills. The function was also attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the IIM-L campus.
The chief secretary directed officials to take urgent steps to integrate the state’s youth with CM Yuva programme by providing them all possible financial and institutional support and take their feedback.
The state will adopt the principles of ‘business process re-engineering’ for implementing ongoing projects and subjecting them to predetermined parameters. The government will also fortify single window system for speeding up the setting up of new enterprises.
To provide a single window system for applying, disposal and real-time monitoring of schemes under CM Yuva, a web portal developed by the NIC, was earlier launched by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) department. Under the scheme, a maximum loan for industrial and services sectors is Rs 25 lakh and Rs 10 lakh respectively.
Following the influx of more than 35 lakh migrant labourers and workers from other states during lockdown, the Yogi Adityanath government has been propelling employment and self-employment schemes in industrial and services sectors. Further, the state conducted skill mapping of these migrants and so far more than 35 lakh workers have been mapped. The process is expected to help them get jobs within and outside the state.