The document is the response from the Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha regarding unemployment due to the COVID pandemic. The key points are: 1) The government does not maintain district or state-wise data on job losses in the MSME sector due to its informal nature, but provides the number of persons employed in MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal by state and for Uttar Pradesh by district. 2) The government has various schemes to promote and develop MSMEs including employment generation such as credit guarantee schemes and lines of credit. 3) Under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat package,