Cluster dev approach is the key strategy to enhance competitiveness and employment in MSME
Updated: Dec 16, 2014 12:58:30pm
New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) The employment generation is both a cause and consequence of economic growth and is impacted by demographic shifts and technological transformations, said the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha on December 15, Dattatreya said various reliable estimates of employment and unemployment, obtained through labour force surveys on employment and unemployment conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSS), the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, corroborate this by its findings.
Various employment generation initiatives by the Government provide opportunity for both rural and urban population. Under skill development initiatives, panchayats, municipalities and other local bodies are involved in employment generation at the local level in collaboration with self-help groups, cooperatives and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), the eligible workers can avail any employment opportunity available to them.
The minister said that the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India has adopted the cluster development approach as a key strategy for enhancing the productivity, competitiveness, as well as for boosting employment and capacity building of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in various sectors including manufacturing.
He further added the government has taken various steps like encouraging private sector, fast tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) run by Ministry of MSME, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) scheme run by Ministry of Rural Development and National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) run by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. These schemes give options to the unemployed persons to get employment near their native places. (KNN/TR)
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha on December 15, Dattatreya said various reliable estimates of employment and unemployment, obtained through labour force surveys on employment and unemployment conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSS), the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, corroborate this by its findings.
Various employment generation initiatives by the Government provide opportunity for both rural and urban population. Under skill development initiatives, panchayats, municipalities and other local bodies are involved in employment generation at the local level in collaboration with self-help groups, cooperatives and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), the eligible workers can avail any employment opportunity available to them.
The minister said that the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India has adopted the cluster development approach as a key strategy for enhancing the productivity, competitiveness, as well as for boosting employment and capacity building of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in various sectors including manufacturing.
He further added the government has taken various steps like encouraging private sector, fast tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) run by Ministry of MSME, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) scheme run by Ministry of Rural Development and National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) run by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. These schemes give options to the unemployed persons to get employment near their native places. (KNN/TR)
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