Laljit Singh Bhullar opinions functioning of the meals processing division
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Meals Processing Minister S. Laljit Singh Bhullar, on Friday, reviewed the functioning of the newly assigned Meals Processing Division. Throughout a maiden assembly, the Cupboard Minister instructed the officers to speed up the division’s operations to create most employment alternatives for the youth.
Presiding over the assembly in his workplace on the Secretariat with Further Chief Secretary Mrs. Ravneet Kaur, Director Mr. Manjit Singh Brar and Common Supervisor Mr. Rajnish Tuli, Cupboard Minister S. Laljit Singh Bhullar mentioned that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led authorities was giving a giant increase to the meals processing sector within the state, which is able to create employment alternatives and provides profit to the farmers to a big extent.
Apprising the Cupboard Minister in regards to the numerous schemes of the division, Further Chief Secretary Ms. Ravneet Kaur knowledgeable that about 66,000 micro and small meals processing items are functioning in Punjab, of which two-thirds items are situated within the villages, the place jaggery, flour, rice, mustard oil, biscuits, honey, pickles, marmalade and animal feed and so forth. are being ready. She mentioned that for the enlargement of those micro class items, the entrepreneurs need to face numerous challenges similar to lack of contemporary expertise, issue in getting loans, lack of product consciousness, branding and advertising and so forth.
She mentioned that the division supplies every kind of assist to the entrepreneurs of such items, which incorporates offering financial institution loans at low cost charges, connecting them with provide chain corporations for advertising the merchandise, offering free technical and enterprise coaching, serving to in getting registration of FSSAI, GST and “Udhyam”. Aside from this, monetary help can be offered in organising widespread processing/storage/packing infrastructure, she added.
Discussing numerous schemes of the division similar to “One District-One Product”, “Monetary Help and Coaching for Small Entrepreneurs” and so forth., the Cupboard Minister emphasised that the advantage of every scheme must be reached on the grass-root stage and good thing about the scheme to the eligible beneficiaries must be ensured.
Laljit Singh Bhullar directed the officers to organize new schemes associated to meals processing in order that the financial system of the state might be boosted.