Massive survey
In order to identify the entrepreneurs and look for the ways and means for handholding, Recently Chief Secretary said that his administration will embark on a prestigious project to identify 1.37 lakh entrepreneurs
He emphasized upon them to reach out to each household in every village/panchayat through their IEC activities in order to create necessary awareness among the people about the importance of this survey. He directed the Deputy Commissioners to extend full support to the teams on ground besides giving their feedback about the functioning of the online application so that, any technical glitch faced by the investigators is resolved instantly.
The Chief Secretary reviewed functioning of this survey app developed by BISAG-N in consultation with the department. He underscored the importance of control rooms in resolving the issues faced besides making the exercise smooth and seamless.
In a presentation, Secretary, L&E, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan, informed the meeting that this activity has two major components aiming survey of the existing enterprises for looking into their challenges they besides identifying the potential entrepreneurs. He added that the department has already accomplished the task of training the Master Trainers at divisional level and around 1000 supervisors and nearly 17,000 investigators at district level. It was added that a pilot survey is currently going on in which nearly 90,000 entries had been made across the districts.