Benefits to Unemployed Youth under PMEGP

PMEGP was launched in the year 2008 by merging the then Prime Minister’s Rojgar Yojana (PMRY) and Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) schemes with a higher level of subsidy than PMRY and REGP. Under PMEGP, the beneficiary can directly approach Bank/Financial Institution along with his/her project proposal or it can be sponsored by KVIC/KVIBs/ DIC/Panchayat Karyalayas etc. The applications received directly by the Banks are referred to the Task Force Committee, constituted at district level under the chairmanship of District Magistrate/Deputy Commissioner/Collector to scrutinize the applications based on the experience, technical qualification, skill, viability of the project etc. and hold quarterly meeting with the Banks at district level to review the status of the project proposals.

          During the last three years, since the launch of Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), the estimated number of employment opportunities created is 10.98 lakh persons.

State/Union Territory (UT) – wise details of estimated employment opportunities created under PMEGP        

                                                                                        (No. of persons)

S. No.	States/UTs	Estimated employment opportunities created under PMEGP
		2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
1	Chandigarh	160	500	34
2	Delhi	10	348	140
3	Haryana	4840	4283	9748
4	Himachal Pradesh	3090	1963	4569
5	Jammu and Kashmir	6800	17820	15953
6	Punjab	2660	8764	7280
7	Rajasthan	5400	13299	25606
8	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	400	264	447
9	Bihar	58730	5112	7980
10	Jharkhand	4980	3250	15576
11	Orissa	16540	17812	6611
12	West Bengal	40020	69203	44440
13	Arunachal Pradesh	1140	1380	2510
14	Assam	12260	15280	28656
15	Manipur	0	1166	1626
16	Meghalaya	0	2167	1782
17	Mizoram	0	1705	3800
18	Nagaland	50	286	1924
19	Tripura	250	1710	1513
20	Sikkim	100	266	284
21	Andhra Pradesh	8650	73417	53515
22	Karnataka	12200	17198	13730
23	Kerala	3650	15970	16620
24	Lakshadweep	0	120	200
25	Puducherry	480	396	817
26	Tamil Nadu	11970	45511	31895
27	Goa	10	1409	1583
28	Gujarat	2680	7892	16905
29	Maharashtra	16920	21961	26745
30	Chhattishgarh	5840	7410	10178
31	Madhya Pradesh	4160	12294	19692
32	Uttarakhand	3840	8345	6746
33	Uttar Pradesh	27240	41536	44128