This story is from June 22, 2020

Use PM Modi’s scheme for jobs to migrants: Yogi Adityanath tells additional chief secretary

day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Scheme to boost employment in rural India, chief minister Yogi Adityanath sought to examine the possibility of using the scheme to create maximum opportunities in districts which received high number of migrants during lockdown.
Use PM Modi’s scheme for jobs to migrants: Yogi Adityanath tells additional chief secretary
Yogi Adityanath
LUCKNOW: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Scheme to boost employment in rural India, chief minister Yogi Adityanath sought to examine the possibility of using the scheme to create maximum opportunities in districts which received high number of migrants during lockdown.
The CM took the decision on Sunday during a high-level meeting to review steps to combat coronavirus pandemic.

Yogi directed additional chief secretary (panchayati raj) Manoj Singh to hammer out a blueprint for job creation under the scheme in districts which received high number of migrants, especially women.
Chief secretary, home, Awanish Awasthi said the state government would soon establish a two-way communication with migrants for better implementation of the scheme.
The move comes two days after the Centre selected 31 districts, including the CM’s home turf Gorakhpur, from UP for the implementation of the scheme launched by the Prime Minister from Bihar on Saturday.
The scheme focuses on 25 selected activities which could potentially be channelized for generation of employment opportunities to revive the economy hit by coronavirus pandemic.
Highest influx of migrants has been reported in east UP region with 7.11 lakh in Maharajganj followed by Kushinagar and Gorakhpur with 50,293 and 44,047 migrants, respectively.

The PM Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Scheme includes east UP districts of Siddharthnagar, Prayagraj, Gonda, Maharajganj, Bahraich, Balrampur, Jaunpur, Hardoi, Azamgarh, Basti, Gorakhpur, Sultanpur, Kushinagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Banda, Ambedkarnagar, Sitapur, Varanasi, Ghazipur, Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Ayodhya, Deoria, Amethi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Unnao, Shravasti, Fatehpur, Mirzapur, Jalaun and Kaushambi.
The state government has been pushing forth the state rural livelihood mission (SRLM) which seeks to set up self-help groups (SHGs) for various activities.
This is apart from the state government lending a push to Centre’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) while creating nearly 60 lakh man hours of jobs till date.
The government is also making efforts to create opportunities in industrial sector, mainly MSMEs.
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