UP WITNESSES UNPRECEDENTED RISE IN EXPORTS IN CURRENT FY

Uttar Pradesh has reported exports increase by 152.67 per cent compared to 2020. Overseas Trade Promotion and Facilitation Centres will be set up in every district to boost exports further

Thanks to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s efforts to boost the industrial sector in the state and to push the ‘Make in India’ initiative of PM Narendra Modi during the last four and a half years, there has been an unprecedented rise in exports from Uttar Pradesh in the current financial year. Today, there is huge demand for a wide range of products of Uttar Pradesh abroad. There are niche markets for certain products of the state in different countries. According to the data released by the Central Government on exports from various states, UP exported goods worth Rs 21,500.85 crore in April and May this year, up by 152.67 per cent compared to the previous year. During the corresponding period last year, goods worth Rs 8,511.34 crore were exported from the state.

Even the Covid period could not stop exports from the state, leather, textile and glassware products were exported to different parts of the world. To promote exports further, the State Government has decided to set up Overseas Trade Promotion and Facilitation Centres in all the 75 districts of the state. The MSME Department plans to set up a centralised facilitation centre also for better coordination among centres. The government believes that the centres will help to increase exports by at least Rs 400 crore subsequently generating employment opportunities to about 4,000 people.

Presently Uttar Pradesh ranks sixth among the major exporting states of the country. This year, goods like carpets, rugs, textile fabric, woven fabric, man-made staple fabric, footwear, glassware, iron, steel, aluminium, rice, sugar, milk, flour, plastic products, silk and artificial flowers have been exported to different parts of the world. Nepal, Bangladesh and countries of South East Asia imported a large number of ODOP products from UP during the pandemic.

Some of the products have shown promise like footwear and toys exports shot up from Rs 147.04 crore and Rs 26.19 crore in April-may last year to Rs 742.47 crore and Rs 120.83 crore respectively this year. Similarly, glassware exports increased from Rs 39.99 crore during the same period last year to Rs 310.77 crore this year. Furthermore, carpets and textile fabrics worth Rs 744.15 crore were exported this year as against Rs 247.63 crore last year. The export of leather products also saw massive increase from Rs 79.21 crore last year to Rs 493.80 crore this year.

The proposed Overseas Trade Promotion and Facilitation Centres are expected to increase value of exports from 25 districts known as export centres of the state by Rs 250 crore, providing employment to 2,500 people. Besides, there will be an additional export of goods worth Rs 125 crore from 25 other districts. These centres will provide employment to 1,250 people.