Day long awareness camp on PMFME scheme held at Basht Chenani
UDHAMPUR : A day long awareness camp on Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME), was organised by Horticulture Planning and Marketing Department Udhampur, here at Panchayat Ghar Basht in block Chenani.
Prakash Chand Chairman BDC Chenani, Usha Devi DDC Member Chenani were the Chief Guests.
A number of local farmers, Self help group members, prominent citizens and PRIs representatives attended the awareness camp.
Apart from the Chairman BDC, DDC Member, Sarpanch of Basht Panchayat, Joint Director Horticulture Planning & Marketing Department, Area Marketing Officer Udhampur (District Nodal Officer for PMFME), Assistant Director Planning, District Agriculture Officer Udhampur, Branch Manager J&K Bank Chenani & Sudh Mahadev, Senior Scientist SKUAST Jammu addressed the gathering and made people aware about different aspects of the scheme.
On the occasion, the participants took an oath to contribute in making India Atma Nirbhar.
The Area Marketing Officer informed about the PMFME scheme. He added that the scheme has a number of benefits like 35% subsidy, complete hand holding for registration under Udhyam, FSSAI, GST alongwith full guidance about Packaging, Labelling, Branding and Marketing.
The Joint Director encouraged the people to take benefit of the PMFME scheme which not only opens a number of opportunities for them to export their products to different parts of the country outside J&K but also to different countries outside India.
The Member DDC appreciated efforts of the government for reaching out to people living in far flung areas at their doorsteps to educate them about different employment generation schemes of the government of India.
Chairman BDC exhorted people to avail benefits of the PMFME scheme and process local agricultural products to increase their shelf life as well as add considerable value to these products. The BDC Chairman informed that the government is going to open a chain of marketing kiosks all along national highway, in Udhampur district for facilitating SHG members and PMFME scheme beneficiaries.