By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: While replying to BJP’s Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Union Food Processing Industries Minister Rameswar Teli said that As part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Initiative, MoFPI is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme-PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFME) for providing financial, technical and business support for setting up/upgradation of 2 lakh micro food processing enterprises through credit linked subsidy during five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25 with an outlay of Rs.10,000 cr. Out of this, a total of 4709 units have been allocated to Odisha with outlay of Rs 215.58 Crores for next five years.
He said, the Ministry of Food Processing industries (MoFPI) does not setup any food processing industries/ units/projects on its own. However, it is implementing a Central Sector umbrella scheme- Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY) for overall growth and development of food processing sector with an outlay of Rs. 6000 Crore for the period 2016-17 to 2019-20. The period has since been extended to FY 2020-21. Under component schemes of PMKSY, MoFPI provides mostly credit linked financial assistance (capital subsidy) in the form of grants-in-aid to entrepreneurs for setting up of food processing / preservation industries. PMKSY is not any region or state specific but demand driven and is implemented across the country including in the state of Odisha.
The former Union Minister Jual Oram has sought to know whether the Government has any proposal to set up food processing industries in every District of Odisha if so, the districts in Odisha where food processing zone have already been set up , the steps taken to set up food processing zone in the remaining districts of Odisha; and the financial assistance provided to the private entrepreneurs to set up such units?
