PM Modi to launch employment programme for UP's 1.25 cr residents on June 26

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to inaugurate an employment programme on June 26 which is aimed to provide employment to about 1.25 crore people in Uttar Pradesh. programme is said to be largest employment generating scheme in country. After virtual inauguration, PM Modi would also address and talk to beneficiaries from six districts of state, while women beneficiaries will also be sharing experience during ir interaction with Prime Minister.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also asked authorities to do skill mapping of labourers who can n be provided work in accordance to ir skills. employment generation programme of UP is seemingly in line with  Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan which is a massive rural public works scheme aimed at empowering and providing livelihood opportunities to returnee migrant workers and rural citizens.

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Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan

With an aim to helping rural ecomy, Prime Minister Modi introduced Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan to provide employment to migrant workers who returned from cities to ir native places due to lockdown consequential to COVID-19 health crisis.  purpose of programme is to provide employment to  returning migrants amid health crisis. 

A total of 116 districts with more than 25,000 returnee migrant workers across six states, namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha have been chosen for campaign which includes 27 'Aspirational Districts'. se districts are estimated to cover about 2/3 of such migrant workers. Rs 50,000 crores worth of work will be carried out providing 125 days of employment to such migrant workers. It will be a coordinated effort between 12 different ministries.

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Here is a list of jobs anunced by Union government under Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan:

• Community sanitation complex 
• Gram Panchayat Bhawan 
• Works under Finance Commission Funds 
• National Highway Works 
• Water conservation and harvesting works 
• Construction of wells 
• Plantation 
• Horticulture 
• Anganwadi centres 
• Rural housing 
• Rural connectivity and border works 
• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee RURBAN Mission 
• PM KUSUM works 
• Laying of Fiber Optical Cable under Bharat Net 
• Works under Jal Jeevan Mission 
• Works under PM Ganga Urja project 
• Training through KVKs for livelihoods 
• Works through District Mineral Fund 
• Solid and liquid waste manment works 
• Farm ponds  
• Cattle sheds 
• Poultry sheds 
• Vermicomposting 

(With ANI inputs)