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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the 'Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rozgar Abhiyan' which seeks to promote local entrepreneurship and create partnership with industrial associations to provide employment opportunities.
About 12.5 million migrant workers are expected to benefit from the programme.
Be it UP's doctors, paramedical staff, sweepers, policemen, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers, bank and post office colleagues, transport department partners, labor colleagues, everyone contributed with full devotion, I have full belief that like Uttar Pradesh, other states will also bring this type of schemes: PM said.
The scheme would take in its ambit three types of beneficiaries, including those employed through ‘atmanirbhar abhiyan’ (self-reliant scheme), labourers engaged in industrial houses in the micro, small, medium enterprise (MSME) sector and those provided loans through banks and financial institutions for self-employment.
PM Modi said a loan of about Rs 10,000 cr has been allocated to thousands of entrepreneurs under the Mudra Yojana for self-employment.