Lucknow, Aug 8 (KNN) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has transferred loans to 98,743 new Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) units online worth Rs 2,447 crore.

As per the official statement, he also inaugurated skill development training organised by the MSME department for handicraft workers besides training scheme for members of the scheduled castes -tribes, other backward caste and One District-One Product (ODOP) marketing scheme.

The UP CM said that providing employment to the people for making then self-sufficient is the top priority of his government adding, ''the government was working with full dedication to explore all possibilities to realise 'self-reliant India.'' 

He also laid the foundation stone of 13 common facility centres under ODOP scheme and also inaugurated six facility centres for encouraging export under the export infrastructure scheme of the Government of India.

An MoU between state MSME department and Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) was also signed for transfer of knowledge in technology.