7.

7Prime Ministers Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)

Objectives
i. Togenerate employment opportunities in rural as well as urban a
of the country through setting up of new self-employment ventu
projects/micro enterprises.
ii. Tobring together widely dispersed traditional artisans/ rural and ur
unemployed youth and give them self-employment opportunitic
the extent possible, at their place.
ii. To providecontinuous and
of traditionaland sustainable employment to alarge segr
youth in the country,prospective artisans and rural and urban
urban areas. so as to help unempL
arrest migration of rural
iv. To yo
increase the wage
increase in the earning capacity of