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Launch of MSME beneficiary

schemes in UP by Hon’ble Chief
Minister

o promote national self-reliance and to become vocal about
local, Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Yogi Aditya Nath has launched
T the online version of 4 more schemes viz. ODOP (Marketing
Development Scheme), ODOP (toolkit & training) for SC/ ST & OBC
persons and Hastshilpi Skill development scheme for the citizens of the
state on 7th August 2020 at Lucknow. The schemes will be available at
the existing online portal of the MSME Directorate.
Shri Siddarth Nath Singh, Cabinet Minister MSME & Export Promotion, Launch of 4 new schemes under MSME e-Services Portal
Government of UP, who was present during the launch, appreciated the
efforts of NIC UP to bring revolution and digital transformation in the significant step in the direction of Digital India from the perspective of
MSME Sector by enhancing the platform with more services in a very the MSME sector in the state.
short period. Shri Chaudhary Udaybhan Singh, Hon’ble State Minister, MSME &
Shri Navneet Sahgal, Additional Chief Secretary MSME & Export Export Promotion, Government of UP with the senior officials of State
Promotion, GoUP informed the guests that the department has already Government including Chief Secretary, IIDC, APC, Additional Chief
provided the benefit of the schemes to 98,473 MSME units by the use of Secretary, MSME & Export Promotion, UP, and Commissioner, Directorate
technology in a short span of 3 months. He mentioned that this could of Industries graced the occasion. All the District Magistrates & district
be achieved only due to the effective and transparent use of an online level departmental officers also participated in the launch through
eServices portal that was launched by the Hon’ble Chief Minister on 14th Video Conferencing.
May 2020. With the addition of these 4 new services now the portal has Shri Shailesh Srivastava, STD & project head and Shri Ashish Rastogi,
8 schemes in its basket of services for the citizens. Few more schemes Scientist‘D’ participated in the launch function held at Chief Minister’s
are in the pipeline and will be launched soon. residence, Lucknow.
This online platform, developed by the NIC UP State Centre team
led by Shri Anshu Rohatgi, STD & ASIO under the able direction and
guidance of Shri Pratik Kr. Srivastava, DDG & SIO UP has proved a - Anshu Rohatgi, Uttar Pradesh

Online Conference held to
commemorate five years of

Digital India programme
o commemorate five years of the Digital India Programme, an
online conference “Digital Bharat Aatmanirbhar Bharat” has been
T organised on 1st July 2020 by the Ministry of Electronics & IT. The
conference highlighted Digital India’s 5-year journey so far and new
initiatives and focus areas were discussed by stalwarts of the Digital Hon’ble Union Minister launching the online conference
India programme. accelerate the implementation of National Public Digital Platforms in
Hon’ble Minister of Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics sectors like Health, Education, Agriculture, Criminal Justice and Logistics.
& Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in his inaugural Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC explained the importance
address emphasized the need for the development of good mobile apps of Cloud-enabled eGov Applications while speaking at Conference
across various sectors making Aatmanirbhar Bharat. and elaborated the Cloud infrastructure managed by NIC across its
The conference witnessed sessions by stalwarts of Digital India Data Centres. Dr. Verma stressed the need of enabling more and
Programme including Shri J Satyanarayana, Former IAS, Chief Advisor, more applications on Cloud technology. Migration of existing eGov
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in India(WEF), Dr. R S Sharma, applications to Cloud may require re-development in certain cases to
Former IAS & Chairman, TRAI, Shri Nandan Nilekani, Non-Executive enable them to leverage upon the scaling benefits whenever required.
Chairman, Infosys, Shri Rajeev Chawla, Additional Chief Secretary, In the first half of the conference, the Digital platform revolution
e-Governance, Karnataka, Smt. S Radha Chauhan, Additional Chief that has driven the digital transformation across the country under
Secretary, Technical Education, Uttar Pradesh, Shri Prakash Kumar the Digital India Programme was the focus area of the discussion and
Former IAS & CEO, GSTN, Shri Gulshan Rai, Former National Cyber Security presentations. The second half of the conference focussed on building
Coordinator, PMO, Shri Santosh Mishra, CEO-TNeGA & Commissioner of AatmaNirbhar Digital Systems and discussed the possible approaches
e-Governance, Tamil Nadu, Smt. Praveena Rai, COO, NPCI, Smt. Debjani to achieve the objectives of 5 focus areas of AatmaNirbhar Bharat i.e.,
Ghosh, President, NASSCOM, Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, Businesses, Poverty, Agriculture, New Growth Horizons and Government
MeitY, Shri Saurabh Gaur IAS, Joint Secretary, MeitY, Shri Abhishek Singh, Reforms and enablers.
President & CEO, NeGD, Dr. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad.
Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY elaborated on the need to - Shashi Kant Pandey, New Delhi

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