RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 17: The simplification done by Chief Minister Hemant Soren in the Employment Generation Scheme is proving to be a boon for self-employed Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, backwards and minorities.
Now by adopting self-employment, they themselves are becoming helpful in providing employment to the owner and other people as well. Under the Chief Minister’s Employment Generation Scheme, in the last two financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23, the government has provided a loan of Rs 104.97 crore to 6272 youths across the state for self-employment. At the same time, in the financial year 2023-24, a target has been set to benefit about two lakh youth from this scheme.
Most of the beneficiaries of the scheme are from East Singhbhum. As many as 940 youths here got the benefit of the scheme and an amount of 6.26 crores was released to them for self-employment. As many as 657 youths of Dumka got the benefit of the scheme and they were given a loan of Rs 11.66 crore for self-employment. In Hazaribagh, an amount of Rs 7.31 crore was issued as a loan to 567 youths.
