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Modi unveils UP job scheme to benefit 12.5 million workers

Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / June 26, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a mass employment scheme, which is touted to benefit 12.5 million migrant and other workers in Uttar Pradesh.

Modi unveiled the programme virtually from New Delhi in the presence, over video link, of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

‘Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan’ is a bottom of pyramid programme to help those who lost their regular jobs following covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. More than 3.5 million migrant workers have since returned to UP, especially from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Delhi etc.

The Abhiyan aims at providing jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and firming partnerships with industry chambers for creating job opportunities. A total of 25 categories of works have been identified under the flagship scheme.

It will cover 31 districts and function under the Centre’s Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan that Modi had unveiled on June 20 for 116 districts spanning 6 states.

Currently, the state is conducting the skills mapping of the migrant workers. Recently, the government had signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) with 4 industry bodies viz. Indian Industries Association (IIA), FICCI, Laghu Udyog Bharati (LUB) and National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), to provide jobs to 1.1 million workers.

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