Sources from New Delhi has stated that Tamil Nadu has taken the lead in skill training of urban poor in the past two years, followed by Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal and this southern state has also left others far behind in providing financial assistance for setting up individual and group enterprises besides forming maximum number of self help groups.


Nearly 4.54 lakh urban poor have been imparted skill training during the past two years out of which about one lakh either got jobs or were self-employed and the ministry aims at scaling up placement or self-employment to at least 70%, it is roping in all the ministries concerned.


Meanwhile the ministry has proposed to appoint a central Nodal Agency for speeding up disbursal of bank loans to urban poor besides involving non-banking finance institutions and micro-credit agencies.


The Ministry has stated that based on the experience of its implementation, the government is keen to remove hurdles to enable more credit flow for self-employment and scale up skill training.


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