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

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%).