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Small scale industries boost rural employment in Kashmir

Poonch, July 07 (ANI): Establishment of small-scale industries, promoted by the central government's employment scheme, provides jobs to a number of unemployed rural youth in Jammu and Kashmir. Scores of unemployed youngsters in the rural sector of Poonch district are earning a living by way of industrial units established by locals under the scheme, Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). Under this scheme, individuals are provided bank loans to start their own businesses. Bakshi encouraged other unemployed youngsters to take loans under the scheme and to start their own industrial unit. An official at the district industries centre in Poonch said that people in rural areas of the district have significantly benefited by the implementation of the scheme. He added that in the last three to four years, rural sector in the district has developed by around 80 percent as a result of the establishment of more than 100 small industrial units which are all running successfully.

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