Lucknow, Aug 31 (KNN) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state government has arranged for a corpus fund of Rs 1000 crore for the Start-up project.

Addressing the Start-up Yatra 2017 in the state capital on Wednesday, the CM said in the coming days a MoU for this would be signed with the SIDBI in this regard. The Start Up Yatra has been started in 15 districts.

He assured that to encourage the programme, a call centre and a policy implementation app would also be launched.

Stressing upon the need of the hour, he said, it is important to make education pragmatic, people self-reliant and stop the brain drain through Start Up programme.

Yogi Adityanath also pointed out that the state has 16,500 bank branches and each branch will now adopt a woman, a person of SC as well as ST and provide them with loan on easy instalments, the amount of which would be between Rs 10 lakh to Rs One crore.

He cited the example of the hair tonsuring ritual at Tirupati Balaji temple, which had become a garbage problem but has now become a money earning venture for the temple management.

The Chief Minister said that to double the income of the farmers, they will have to be connected to technology for which the Start Up programme can be an important link.

He also informed that work was underway to link 27,000 villages with optical fibre and that the State Government was committed to give the 75 districts of the State separate identity with 75 products.

On this occasion, the Chief Minister gave away 'Young Entrepreneur Award' to Himanshu Bindal and Mohit Agarwal. The programme was organized under the aegis of the Youth Integrated Development Society. Also present on the occasion were many entrepreneurs and other dignitaries. (KNN Bureau)