Odiaha Govt. To Launch “Biju Atma Nijukti Yojana” For Self Employment

03 April, Bhubaneswar

Odisha government has decided to launch a self employment Scheme named after former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik, to provide loans and subsidy to the people of the state for self employment.

The proposed Biju Atma Nijukti Yojana, a scheme named after

“The draft of the proposed scheme – Biju Atma Nijukti Yojana has been prepared. It will be sent for the concurrence of finance department,” said Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Secretary Panchanan Dash.

Dash said the department aims to generate one lakh jobs in the 2015-16 financial year in the MSME sector.

He also said that the government would bring in a procurement policy making it mandatory for the state-level public sector undertakings and all the departments to procure at least 20 per cent of their product and service needs from small and medium enterprises (SMEs).