Lok Sabha Question No. 2518 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-14
Subject: Self-Employment to Youths
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: LALLU SINGH, MANOJ RAJORIA, RAMCHARAN BOHARA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2518 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14 TH  DECEMBER, 2015

## SELF-EMPLOYMENT TO YOUTHS

2518.   SHRI LALLU SINGH: DR. MANOJ RAJORIA: SHRI RAM CHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- a) whether the Government has developed a self-employment cell or proposes to  formulate  any  action  plan  to  provide  support  to  the  youth  for  selfemployment;
- b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along with  the  details  of  employment/selfemployment provided through the said cell during the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise;
- c) whether the Government has fixed any target to provide financial assistance to States for successful implementation of the said scheme;
- d) If so, the details of financial assistance sanctioned and utilised, State/ UTwise during the said period;
- e) whether the youth is likely to be provided loan besides training under the said scheme; and
- f) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA)

(a) to (f): Ministry of Labour & Employment has no proposal to establish selfemployment cells. According to the Ministry of Rural Development a scheme for  supporting  the  Banks  for  setting  up  Rural  Self  Employment  Training Institute  [RSETI]  has  been  under  implementation.  So  far,  585  RSETIs  have been set up to train rural poor unemployed youths and support them to take up self- employment ventures by providing Bank credit. Since inception, the

RSETIs have trained 20,87,837 youth, out of which, 13,62,557 candidates have been settled so far, through bank/self finance. For the Financial year 2015-16 a total of Rs.40.00 crore has been allocated for the RSETIs. The Ministry of Housing  and  Urban  Poverty  Alleviation  has  been  implementing  a  Centrally Sponsored  Scheme  Swarna  Jayanti  Shahari  Rozgar  Yojana  (SJSRY)  since 1997.  The  Urban  Women  Self-help  Programme  (UWSP)  component  of  SJSRY focused on providing assistance by way of subsidy to urban poor women for setting  up  gainful  group  enterprises  with  Self  Help  Group  (SHG)-bank  loan. This  scheme  has  now  been  restructured  into  National  Urban  Livelihoods Mission  (NULM)  since  September,  2013.  The  Employment  through  Skill Training  &  Placement  (EST&P)  component  of  NULM  aims  at  providing  skill training  to  urban  poor  so  that  they  can  set  up  self-employment  ventures  or secure  salaried  employment  and  the  Self  Employment  Programme  (SEP) component  focuses  on  providing  bank  loan  on  reduced  rate  of  interest  to individuals/groups  of  urban  poor  for  setting  up  gainful  self-  employment ventures/micro-enterprises. Government has taken various steps for generating  employment  in  the  country  like  encouraging  private  sector  of economy, fast tracking various projects involving substantial investment and increasing public expenditure on schemes like Prime Minister's Employment Generation  Programme  (PMEGP)  run  by  Ministry  of  Micro,  Small  &  Medium Enterprises. State/ UT-wise details of the progress made is at Annex-I.

## Annex referred to in reply to parts (a) to (f) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2518 for answer on 14.12.2015

## State-wise number of estimated employment generated under Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)

| Sr. No   | State/UT                  | Estimated employment generated (No. of persons)   | Estimated employment generated (No. of persons)   | Estimated employment generated (No. of persons)   | Estimated employment generated (No. of persons)   | Estimated employment generated (No. of persons)   |
|----------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| .        |                           | 2011-12                                           | 2012-13                                           | 2013-14                                           | 2014-15                                           | 2015-16                                           |
| 1        | Jammu& Kashmir            | 15360                                             | 17452                                             | 11818                                             | 11025                                             | 1209                                              |
| 2        | Himachal Pradesh          | 4248                                              | 4508                                              | 5307                                              | 6352                                              | 214                                               |
| 3        | Punjab                    | 4622                                              | 5109                                              | 7536                                              | 6438                                              | 937                                               |
| 4        | UT Chandigarh             | 144                                               | 239                                               | 385                                               | 160                                               | 63                                                |
| 5        | Uttarakhand               | 6942                                              | 8367                                              | 7335                                              | 7889                                              | 869                                               |
| 6        | Haryana                   | 7418                                              | 7416                                              | 6352                                              | 7024                                              | 1042                                              |
| 7        | Delhi                     | 906                                               | 1288                                              | 1136                                              | 1584                                              | 152                                               |
| 8        | Rajasthan                 | 14955                                             | 19127                                             | 13280                                             | 15002                                             | 2661                                              |
| 9        | Uttar Pradesh             | 59901                                             | 45678                                             | 43449                                             | 48604                                             | 6930                                              |
| 10       | Bihar                     | 35193                                             | 19106                                             | 20043                                             | 9240                                              | 0                                                 |
| 11       | Sikkim                    | 253                                               | 256                                               | 255                                               | 54                                                | 0                                                 |
| 12       | Arunachal Pradesh         | 1516                                              | 2660                                              | 6570                                              | 2871                                              | 0                                                 |
| 13       | Nagaland                  | 6545                                              | 5601                                              | 4365                                              | 2407                                              | 579                                               |
| 14       | Manipur                   | 3142                                              | 3541                                              | 5277                                              | 829                                               | 0                                                 |
| 15       | Mizoram                   | 3404                                              | 4128                                              | 5050                                              | 6736                                              | 0                                                 |
| 16       | Tripura                   | 16079                                             | 12172                                             | 9175                                              | 6333                                              | 0                                                 |
| 17       | Meghalaya                 | 3273                                              | 1936                                              | 1037                                              | 3680                                              | 0                                                 |
| 18       | Assam                     | 44205                                             | 26161                                             | 24555                                             | 15535                                             | 0                                                 |
| 19       | West Bengal               | 61092                                             | 52624                                             | 24189                                             | 24646                                             | 2674                                              |
| 20       | Jharkhand                 | 7116                                              | 11485                                             | 13060                                             | 8495                                              | 2624                                              |
| 21       | Odisha                    | 20905                                             | 37390                                             | 20482                                             | 10211                                             | 2481                                              |
| 22       | Chhattisgarh              | 10345                                             | 13734                                             | 4435                                              | 5821                                              | 416                                               |
| 23       | Madhya Pradesh            | 16256                                             | 26605                                             | 19449                                             | 21896                                             | 1325                                              |
| 24       | Gujarat*                  | 18662                                             | 11095                                             | 13420                                             | 18107                                             | 2912                                              |
| 25       | Maharashtra **            | 24661                                             | 18112                                             | 14869                                             | 28311                                             | 3336                                              |
| 26       | Andhra Pradesh            | 37336                                             | 17982                                             | 18170                                             | 12220                                             | 1280                                              |
| 27       | Telangana                 |                                                   |                                                   |                                                   | 6604                                              | 606                                               |
| 28       | Karnataka                 | 14971                                             | 7797                                              | 25261                                             | 21825                                             | 3173                                              |
| 29       | Goa                       | 2467                                              | 300                                               | 214                                               | 406                                               | 0                                                 |
| 30       | Lakshadweep               | 25                                                | 0                                                 | 0                                                 | 93                                                | 0                                                 |
| 31       | Kerala                    | 9195                                              | 12396                                             | 11507                                             | 9738                                              | 2261                                              |
| 32       | Tamilnadu                 | 43473                                             | 32723                                             | 29496                                             | 36190                                             | 3014                                              |
| 33       | Puducherry                | 361                                               | 294                                               | 181                                               | 386                                               | 0                                                 |
| 34       | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 552                                               | 939                                               | 887                                               | 790                                               | 157                                               |
|          | Total                     | 495523                                            | 428221                                            | 368545                                            | 357502                                            | 40915                                             |