After holding the first-ever successful summit for the MSME sector here in August to promote the ‘One district one product’ (ODOP) scheme, UP government has decided to organise similar summits at the divisional level. The divisional summit will be organised at Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Moradabad, Agra, Kanpur and Saharanpur. The divisional summits will be held between November 29 and December 24.
The summits at the divisional level are being organised with the aim of benefiting entrepreneurs of the MSME sector where, besides the technical session, exhibitions and buyers’ and sellers’ meet will also be organised. The directions for the ODOP divisional summit were issued by Chief Secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey on Tuesday. He said the Chief Minister would be invited for the summit at Gorakhpur. He added that so far under various centrally- and state-sponsored schemes like Mudra Yojna, Prime Minister’s job creation scheme, Chief Minister Yuva Swarojgar Yojana, Stand-up Yojna, 14,800 jobs had been created benefiting 4,937 beneficiaries. He said so far 74 ODOP camps and 69 ODOP exhibitions were organised in the state where over 20,000 persons participated. Pandey said during the ODOP summit in August a credit of Rs 1,006 crore was disbursed among 4,095 entrepreneurs.
