Lok Sabha Question No. 4408 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-22
Subject: DAY-NRLM
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: MEENAKASHI LEKHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4408

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.03.2018

## DAY-NRLM

## 4408.   SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the steps being taken under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) to extend financial services to farmers; and
- (b) the number of farmers benefitted under the said scheme, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a) & (b):  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana-  National  Rural  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAYNRLM) is a flagship programme of Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) which aims at organizing rural poor women, including women farmers, into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and their federations, to ensure their financial inclusion and also to provide livelihoods support. One of the key focus of DAY-NRLM is to build access to formal banking services to enable women  SHG  members  to  borrow  from  bank  to  meet  their  immediate  households  needs, acquire productive assets and make investment in enterprises. The mandate of DAY-NRLM is to facilitate access to credit of at least Rs 1 lakh per households over 4-5 years. During the period  Apr  2013  to  Dec  2017,  women  SHGs  under  the  mission  were  able  to  leverage cumulative credit of over 1.5 lakh crores. The loan outstanding with women SHGs as on Feb 2018 is Rs 63486 crores.

The  Ministry  is  also  implementing  Mahila  Kisan  Sahshaktikaran  Pariyojana  (MKSP),  as  a sub scheme under DAY-NRLM with an aim of promoting agriculture based livelihoods of rural  women  by  strengthening  community  institutions  of  poor  women  farmers  to  promote sustainable agriculture.  MKSP  focuses  on  agriculture,  non-timber  forest  produce  and livestock interventions. It provides three kind of services to the farmers, namely

-  Extension services
-  Training capacity building and handholding services
-  Facilitation for convergence with other line department to access the benefit from other schemes/ programmes.

So far this Ministry has approved 80 projects under MKSP covering about 33 lakhs mahila kisans in 21 states and one union territory with central allocation of about Rs. 822 crores.The State/UT-wise details are given below :-

| Sl.No.   | State             | No. of Mahila Kisan                            |
|----------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 1301107                                        |
| 2        | Bihar             | 135012                                         |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh      | 26725                                          |
| 4        | Gujarat           | 24587                                          |
| 5        | Haryana           | 3382                                           |
| 6        | Jharkhand         | 66614                                          |
| 7        | Karnataka         | 19000                                          |
| 8        | Kerala            | 339288                                         |
| 9        | Maharashtra       | 108815                                         |
| 10       | Madhya Pradesh    | 37166                                          |
| 11       | Odisha            | 38620                                          |
| 12       | Rajasthan         | 59824                                          |
| 13       | Tamil Nadu        | 14800                                          |
| 14       | Telangana         | 1022291                                        |
| 15       | Uttar Pradesh     | 31273                                          |
| 16       | West Bengal       | 60790                                          |
| 17       | Assam             | 14549                                          |
| 18       | Himachal Pradesh  | 2510                                           |
| 19       | Mizoram           | Project just approved. Intervention yet Start. |
| 20       | Jammu and Kashmir | to                                             |
| 21       | Puducherry        |                                                |
| 22       | Meghalaya         |                                                |
|          | Total             | 3306353                                        |

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