With a slogan of ‘Berozgar se Swa-Rozgar (from unemployed to self- employed),Union minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Kalraj Mishra announced that his ministry was preparing the ground work for a new policy to rationalize the process and to introduce a single window system for the Micro, Small and medium entrepreneurs of the country.
“The BJP government was concerned over the growing numbers of unemployed youths in the country and hence will evolve the micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to focus in the backward areas of the country,” he said. Talking to media persons here on Saturday morning, Mishra, told reporters here that the ministry was ignored in the past but now efforts were on to delink it with the heavy industry by going for a new policy. “We want to promote new micro, small and medium entrepreneurs by simplifying the procedures and going for single window system, so that the woes of the investors ends. The ministry has already started the ground work for the new policy,” he added.
The Union minister said that he has ordered for surveys in all the backward regions of the country so that self employment schemes are introduced in a big way in these places while youths are given skill development training. When the Union minister was asked what the Centre was doing to make the micro, small and medium industrial units of the country viable, he said that the new policy would address all the problems of the entrepreneurs including start of their units, raw
materials and the marketing of their finished goods.
However, Mishra could not give any specific time for bringing the policy in the Parliament.” let the survey completes and the ministry discusses the matter,” he stated.