UP to amend textile, tourism policies to reboot industry, create jobs

The state signs MOUs with four leading industrial bodies to create employment for 1.1 mn returning migrants

Amid the influx of three million migrant workers from other states following covid-19 lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to amend the policies of several labour-intensive industries for rebooting industrial activities and creating mass employment.

These industries include food processing, textile, dairy, tourism, handloom, and pharmaceutical.

UP chief minister Adityanath has asked officials to fine-tune the existing policy framework to make it more “dynamic and competitive” so that lockdown-hit industrial activity is reenergised for job creation.

Presiding over a review meeting at his official residence in Lucknow yesterday, Adityanath asserted that appropriate amendments to the existing policies be made to suit the