KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF BENEFICIARIES AND NON- BENEFICIARIES TOWARDS MUKHYAMANTRI KRUSI UDYOG YOJNA OF KHORDA DISTRICT OF ODISHA

Abstract

The present scenario of India shows a growing rate of unemployment among the youths especially the rural
ones and there is a need to create employment for the youth or the future of India. So in order to create employment the
need of the hour is to bring up small scale enterprises. Small scale industries are important because it helps in
increasing employment and economic development of India. It improves the growth of the country by increasing urban and
rural growth. To encourage this, the state government of Odisha has started a program named Mukhyamantri Krushi
Udyog Yojna in order to create employment through small enterprises. Hence the present study was undertaken to find
out the relation of knowledge on MKUY with respect to socio-economic status of beneficiaries of Khurdha district of
Odisha. The study revealed that Majority of beneficiaries (70.00%) had medium level of Knowledge followed by high
(20%) to low level (10.00%) of knowledge while majority of non- beneficiaries (60.00%) had low level of Knowledge level
followed by medium (28.33%) to high level (11.67%).