lucknownoida to provide employment to about 11 lakh people the up government on friday signed mous with indian industries association national real estate development council naredco ficci and laghu udyog bharti the industry bodies will work with the government to train people determine labour requirement of various industries and then link them with workers especially the lakhs who have returned to the state during the lockdownchief minister yogi adityanath has given directions to map the skill sets of all those who are returning to the state so that employment can be found for them the state has so far mapped the skill sets of about 18 lakh workers according to an assessment by industry associations of the 30 lakhodd migrant workers expected to return to the state by the end of the month about 6 lakh are likely to be skilled workers iia an organisation of msmes has agreed to find employment for 3 lakh workers while acknowledging that generation of employment in the postlockdown economic slowdown will be a huge challenge the industry body said availability of skilled labour will actually boost activity iias national president pankaj kumar said that manpower will be required in ancillary msme units for large projects that are expected to start operations in up including units under the defence corridords verma executive director of iia said it had proposed setting up a joint task force with the msme department directorate of industry the labour department and the employment and training departmentnaredco meanwhile has offered to place 25 lakh workers with several construction projects under way like expressways and real estate the association said it saw a big scope to employ people in this sector naredcos up president rk arora said members of the council would select workers living close to project sitesnoida greater noida and yamuna expressway would require around 125 lakh labourers to speed up construction work naredco will also launch a campaign across the state exhorting labourers to go to work presently they seem to be scared of the pandemic and think that it is not safe to go to work arora saidsandeep saxena a ficci member said many people who have returned to up might not have skill sets required for upspecific industries and ficci will train them so that they can be absorbed by existing units out of the 30 lakh who are coming back we can presume that half were employed out of those 1620 would be skilled or have worked as industrial labour the remaining would be daily wagers masons barbers etc saxena saidlaghu udyog bharti president janak kumar said that industries are facing a major labour crunch and the pool of workers who have returned to the state can help in restarting industrial work in up i have asked units under us to determine requirement for labour we will collate that with government data and ensure that all get jobs he said laghu udyog has signed an mou to find employment for 25 lakh workers a bulk