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'UP exports shoot up by 35% due to ODOP'
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SME Times News Bureau | 16 Jul, 2021
The Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Uttar
Pradesh, Sidhartha Nath Singh, has said that the identity of the state
has transformed and it is emerging as the backbone of India's industrial
hub.
"It is because of the various proactive measures taken by
the state government towards transforming the state into a favourable
place for industries to grow, such as the ODOP (One District-One
Product) programme, because of which the exports of UP have skyrocketed
by 35 per cent," Singh said during a virtual interaction with the media.
He
said that for the first time in the history of the state, loans worth
Rs 2.5 lakh crore were disbursed to the MSMEs in four years, due to
which a thumping investment of about Rs 4 lakh crore has come into the
state and about 2.60 crore people have got direct and indirect
employment opportunities.
He said that the MSME sector of UP generates employment opportunities and has emerged as the backbone of industrialisation.
In
2017, when the BJP government took over the reins of the state, a
roadmap was prepared to fix the rural economy, under which the
innovative ODOP was rolled out in 2018.
Accordingly, Common Facility Centres (CFCs) have been set up in 40 out of the 75 districts of the state.
District-wise
strategies have been prepared keeping in mind every district to promote
traditional industries. Also, for the marketing and promotion of
products, MoUs have been signed with online platforms like Amazon,
Flipkart and eBay.
Furthermore, Singh stated that during the
first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, industries related to essential
commodities and export units continued to operate in the state and in
the second wave, a partial Corona curfew was imposed, in which
industries and businesses operated as usual.
The minister said
that work is being done on cluster development by connecting the CFCs.
Eminent fashion designers of the country have been associated with the
cluster. Along with this, the Quality Control of India has also been
added.
Singh said that now industrialisation is being promoted in
villages as well. It is being started in Prayagraj under a pilot
project.
In the units to which loans have been given, a survey
of three lakh units was conducted to know the status of employment,
which showed that about 2.6 crore people have got employment through the
MSMEs.
Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), MSME,
said, "ODOP is a big reason for the increase in the exports of UP. For
this, efforts were made at every level and an export policy was
formulated. An Export Development Centre has been set up at the district
level. The export of the state was Rs 88,967 crore in 2017-18, which
has increased by 35 per cent to Rs 1,21,139 crore in 2020-21."
He
also stated that over 40 lakh migrants had come to UP during the Covid
wave last year. Their skill mapping was done and employment was provided
to them at the local level. As a result, only four lakh migrant workers
came in the second wave.
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