PM Modi launches job scheme for migrants in UP: Highlights of his speech
About 12.5 million migrant workers are expected to benefit from the programme
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyaan
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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.
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About 12.5 million migrant workers are expected to benefit from the programme.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First Published: Jun 26 2020 | 6:20 PM IST
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