Migrants

UP maps skills of 3.4 million migrant workers

Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / June 22, 2020

In the backdrop of the influx of over 3.5 million migrants following covid-19 lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government has completed the skills mapping of almost 3.4 million workers.

This corresponds to nearly 95 per cent of the registered migrant workers, who have returned to UP after the lockdown was imposed in March 2020.

According to UP additional chief secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi, the skills mapping had covered about 2.75 million male and 287,000 women workers. It also included 346,000 migrants aged less than 18 years, he informed.

The skills mapping exercise had been undertaken to create a composite database of these people, so that they could be provided with jobs according to their professional skills, apart from social security benefits, such as insurance.

Last month, the Yogi Adityanath government had signed pacts with 4 industry chambers representing different sectors viz. real estate and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), to facilitate employment generation for these workers, who have mainly returned from industrialised states viz. Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Delhi etc.

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