What is the Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rozgar Abhiyan:
The employment scheme by Yogi government seeks to promote local entrepreneurship and create partnership with industrial associations to provide employment opportunities.
The scheme seeks to dovetail central and state government's programmes, while also creating partnerships with industry and other organisations as the COVID-19 pandemic affected workforce in general and migrant workers in particular.
Key features:
- Over 1.25 crore migrant workers who lost their jobs due to coronavirus pandemic are likely to benefit from this unique initiative, setting a new record of sorts.
- Uttar Pradesh will become the first state in the country to give employment to one crore people in one go. Migrant workers who have returned to the state during lockdown will be major beneficiaries.
- The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a major contributor to employment since nearly 50 per cent of total jobs being created in Uttar Pradesh are under this scheme.
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- Skill mapping of migrant workers returning to Uttar Pradesh is to be done so that they can then be provided work according to their skills.
- Besides restoration of rivers, construction of rural roads, digging of ponds and pits for plantation drives and other such work is being carried out under the rural job scheme to provide work to people.
- The National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) state unit will give employment to one lakh labourers belonging to the state at various real estate projects.
(inputs from agencies)