Mohd Ashraf Ganie
Kulgam June 29【KNZ】: Jammu and Kashmir Khadi and Village Industries Bohub ard, Srinagar today organized district level awareness camp regarding National Schedule Cast/ Schedule Tribe hub (NSSH) scheme at Townhall Kulgam.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer KVIB Muzaffar Alaqaband was chief guest on the occasion, others present on the occasion included, Bee Keeping Officer Abid Alam Shah, Lead District Manager Gh Rasool Mir, District Officer SC-ST Kulgam- Noor Ah Bhatti, AAO employment Mohd Yousuf, District Coordinator SBI-Muzzafar Hussain, District Coordinator JKEDI- Shabir Ahmad, DIC block investigator- Nasrullah Mubarak, Director RSETI- Bashir Ahmad, District officer handicraft, district officer KVIb and other functionaries from line departments.
Giving details about the scheme, Deputy CEO KVIB said that NSSH is an initiative of the Government of India to develop a supportive ecosystem to focus on the growth of SC-ST Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
He said “GoI has formulated Public Procurement Policy for MSMEs in 2012, which states that 20 % of total procurement of goods and services by central ministries, departments and public sector undertakings shall be made from MSMEs and 4 percent of such procurement shall be made from MSME owned by SC-ST entrepreneurs,” he said and added that at present, government procurement from SC-ST enterprises is less than 1 % and this scheme will improve their contribution percentage.
Alaqaband said that for the implementation of this scheme in Jammu and Kashmir, Khadi and Village Industries Board is organizing workshops, awareness programmes, skill development programmes and other mass mobilization programs.
He exhorted upon the unemployed youth of SC-ST community to become job providers instead of hankering for government jobs and stressed that the community members must come forward and avail the benefits of various schemes under J&K KVIB for their economical upliftment.
Bee Keeping Officer Abid Alam shah called Sangri Chak as an ideal place for bee keeping and laid thrust on imparting training about bee keeping and honey production.
He said that a cluster programme at HMT for production, packing and marketing of the honey is also coming up shortly and raw material will also be provided at these Cluster centers.
Shah added that there is a problem of lack of quality hive and KVIB will establish a manufacturing unit for quality hive besides a quality control unit will also be set up for the quality analysis of the honey produced by bee keep
Speaking on the occasion, district coordinator SBI Kulgam appreciated the initiative of J&K KVIB and assured full support to potential entrepreneurs of SC ST community.
JK bank financial literacy centre coordinator Kulgam encouraged youth to take maximum benefits of the schem e under J&K KVIB.
” You should set up micro units and become entrepreneurs and once you become entrepreneur you will eventually become job provider,” said Mohd Yousuf, adding that this industry will be job provider for coming generations.【KNZ】
