A National MSME Expedition team is on a journey of about 3500 km across five states for making people aware of various Government schemes. The team has reached Lucknow after traveling by road from Delhi to Faridabad, Ballabhgarh, Palwal, Agra, Firozabad, Fatehpur, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Banaras in Uttar Pradesh, Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, Buxar, Arra, Patna, Chhapra, Champaran in Bihar. It also visited Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Sultanpur, Kannauj in UP.
Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan Rane had flagged off this expedition team from Delhi on November 27th. The members of the campaign team met senior officers in these States to publicize various schemes of MSMEs through several meetings.
This campaign organized as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, is organizing 50 MSME meetings in rural areas and 25 MSME meetings in urban areas. So far, this expedition team has traveled and participated in a number of meetings and has encouraged thousands of people for self-employment.