PREZ STRESSES ON BRANDING; CM PROMISES 25L JOBS
▪ The President said Uttar Pradesh has the potential of becoming a trillion dollar economy in the near future provided it not only gives a push to production but also does proper branding of its products. ▪ The chief minister said the One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme would help in generating 25 lakh jobs in the next five years. He also promised to change UP’s image across the country. ▪ The state government signed five memorandums of understanding, including one with e-commerce giant Amazon India, to promote products selected under the ODOP scheme.
LUCKNOW:Holding previous governments responsible for the slow pace of development in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme would help in generating 25 lakh jobs in the next five years.
Addressing the inaugural session of ODOP Summit at Indira Gandhi Prathisthan here, Yogi said, “When my team got down to implement the ODOP scheme, I came to know about the immense wealth of resources available in the state. Despite the resources, UP’s condition continued to worsen over the years.”
“We all know what the condition of UP was when we came to power in March last year. But there is no need to talk much about it now,” he said.
Promising to change UP’s image across the country, the CM said: “We will generate five lakh jobs in one year with the help of ODOP scheme. This means 25 lakh jobs in the state in next five years. This will help in checking migration of young people to other states for jobs.” Speaking about ODOP scheme, Yogi said he got the idea after his visits to Japan, Denmark and Bangkok.
“Work has begun in every village across the state under the scheme,” he said.
Common facility centres, testing labs and design studios will come up across the state to help artisans in improving their products.
Under ODOP, the government has also given Rs 1,006.94 crore loans to 4,095 artisans across the state.
The CM announced also his government’s next ambitious project ‘Vishwakarma Shram Samman’ for artisans and spoke about the investors’ summit organised in February this year in which the state government had signed MoUs worth Rs 4.68
lakh crore. “Out of this, projects of Rs 60,000 crore have been implemented,” Yogi said.
Attacking his opponents for not celebrating ‘UP Diwas’, he said: “From January 24, 1950, till date we never celebrated UP Diwas. It was on January 24 this year that we celebrated UP Diwas for the first time. ODOP scheme also came into existence the same day.”
Uttar Pradesh came into existence on January 24, 1950. Before this, the state was known as United Province.
Earlier, UP minister for MSME, khadi and village industries Satyadev Pachauri welcomed President Ram Nath Kovind, who was the chief guest on the occasion.
Pachauri said ODOP scheme was the CM’s brainchild.
Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was also present in the programme.
Chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey proposed the vote of thanks.