Lok Sabha Question No. 4895 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-23
Subject: Rashtriya Aajeevika Mission
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ganesh Singh

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4895

TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2019

## RASHTRIYA AAJEEVIKA MISSION

## 4895.  SHRI GANESH SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether self-employment opportunities are being made available to rural women through 'Deen Dayal Upadhyay Rashtriya Aajeevika Mission';
- (b) if so, the details in respect of Satna district along with the outcome as on date; and
- (c) the loan amount disbursed in rural areas under the Mission?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a): The  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  implementing  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) across the country in a mission mode with the  objective  of  organizing  the  rural  poor  women  into  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs),  and continuously nurturing and  supporting them  to take economic  activities till they attain appreciable increase in income over a period of time to improve their quality of life and come out of abject poverty.

Under DAY - NRLM programme, Revolving Funds (RF) at the rate of Rs.10,000-15,000 per SHG and Community Investment Fund (CIF) to the extent of Rs.2,50,000 per SHG is provided to  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs)  and  their  federations  to  take  up  self-employment  for  income generation  and  livelihoods  activities.  Apart  from  this  DAY-NRLM  also  facilitates  credit mobilisation for SHGs in the form of bank loans. In order to reduce the effective cost of bank credit  to  women SHGs, DAY-NRLM is providing interest subvention to SHGs on loans from banks from FinancialYear 2013-14. In addition, capacity building and technological support is also provided to the target households for taking up income generating activities both in farm and non-farm sectors.

DAY-NRLM has following sub-schemes focussing on self-employment of the rural poor:

- (i) Rural  Self  Employment  Training  Institutes  (RSETIs),  enabling  a  trainee  to  take  bank credit  and  start  his/her  own  Micro-enterprise.  Under  RSETIs,  opportunities  are  being  made

available to rural women  by  way  of  skill  training  with  Entrepreneurship  Development Programme  (EDP)  inputs  to  start  self-employment  ventures.  The  number  of  total  candidates trained/settled, women candidates trained/settled during 2018-19 and 2019-20 (upto June, 2019) is given below:-

|   Sl. No. | Financial Year            |   Total Trained |   Total Settled / Placed |   Total Women Candidates Trained |   Total Women Candidates Settled / Placed |
|-----------|---------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|         1 | 2018-19                   |          403672 |                   296307 |                           273800 |                                    198693 |
|         2 | 2019-20 (up to June 2019) |           74144 |                    33922 |                            52886 |                                     22236 |

(ii) Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) for facilitating the rural poor for setting up of micro Enterprises. Under SVEP 53,084 entrepreneurships have been set up upto 31 st May, 2019. Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY) to facilitate transport facilities in the rural areas  which  also  provides  self  employment  opportunities  to  the  rural  poor.  Under  AGEY  730

(iii) Vehicles are operational as on 31 st May, 2019.

(b): Under DAY - NRLM programme, Revolving Funds (RF) of Rs.38.9 lakh has been given to  325  SHGs  in  Satna  District.  The  details  of  candidates  trained/settled,  women  candidates trained/settledthrough RSETI in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh during 2018-19 and 2019-20 (upto June, 2019)  is given below:-

|   Sl. No. | Financial Year            |   Total Trained |   Total Settled / Placed |   Total Women Candidates Trained |   Total Women Candidates Settled / Placed |
|-----------|---------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|         1 | 2018-19                   |            5788 |                     4126 |                             3590 |                                      2388 |
|         2 | 2019-20 (up to June 2019) |             122 |                       61 |                              122 |                                        39 |

(c): During the financial year 2018-19 a total loan amount of Rs.60,923.38 Crore has been disbursed to women SHGs in rural areas across the country under the mission. In Satna District an amount of Rs.116.86 lakh has been given to women SHGs as bank loan.

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