Covid-19: Uttar Pradesh gives maximum employment post-lockdown

New Delhi: The Prime Minister Employment Generation Program (PMEGP) has provided work for 1.10 lakh persons during the Coronavirus outbreak in the country. Uttar Pradesh has generated the highest number of 14,616 jobs in the MSME sector from April to August.

Through this program, employment generation was done for more than 15 lakh people in the entire three-and-a-half years from the financial year 2017-18 till now.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has given the figures of employment generation in all the states across the country in its reply in the Lok Sabha.

According to this, a total of 1.10 lakh people have got work till August 31 in the current financial year i.e. 2020-21. At the same time, 5.33 lakh in the last financial year i.e. 2019-20, 5.87 lakh in the financial year 2018-19 and 3.87 lakh employment opportunities developed in the financial year 2017-18.

Lockdown was also witnessed across the country during the current financial year due to the outbreak of Corona epidemic. During the month of April to August, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of 14,616 jobs in the MSME sector this year. At the same time, Jammu and Kashmir has been second in terms of employment. Here 11,064 people were given jobs. 3,168 jobs were created under PMEGP in Bihar, 72 in Delhi, 3,008 in Haryana, 1,336 in Jharkhand and 2,344 in Uttarakhand.

At the same time, last year, 48,960 jobs were given in Uttar Pradesh, 42,840 in Jammu and Kashmir, 17,768 in Bihar, 744 in Delhi, 16,232 in Haryana, 1,2352 in Jharkhand and 1,4752 jobs in Uttarakhand. According to information provided by the government, under the PMEGP, 35 percent more subsidy is given on the cost of the project in rural areas for the promotion and establishment of micro enterprises in rural areas.

The government also announced a self-sufficient package for the development of small entrepreneurs during the Corona epidemic. Through this, arrangement of collateral free loan of Rs 3 lakh crore and additional loan of Rs 20 thousand crore has also been made. Government hopes that the MSME sector will play an important role in promoting domestic manufacturing in the country and to compete with China.