Lok Sabha Question No. 672 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-01
Subject: Niryat Bandhu Scheme
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Heena Vijaykumar Gavit, Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhepatil, Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil, Sambhajirao Mane Dhairyasheel

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 672 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01 st  DECEMBER, 2021

## NIRYAT BANDHU SCHEME

672.   DR. HEENA GAVIT:

DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL:

DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE:

SHRI UNMESH BHAIYYASAHEB PATIL:

SHRI DHAIRYASHEEL SAMBHAJIRAO MANE:

Will  the  Minister  of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वािण᭔य  एवं  उ᳒ोग  मंᮢी ) be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  progress  has  been  made  so  far  in  achieving  the  objectives  under  Niryat Bandhu Scheme;
- (b) the details of funds allocated, sanctioned and disbursed during the past five years and the current year for the purpose, State/Union Territory wise, specially for Maharashtra;
- (c) the  details  of  the  entrepreneurs  benefitted  during  the  last  five  years,  State/Union Territory wise; and
- (d) the future action plan of the Government for further encouraging the entrepreneurs of India if so, the details thereof and if not, the reason therefor?

## ANSWER

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## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

(a): The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) is implementing the Niryat Bandhu Scheme for mentoring new and potential exporter on foreign trade through counseling, training and outreach programmes in partnership with various stakeholders. The Scheme has benefitted around 1.15 Lakh Entrepreneurs since its inception in 2013.

(b) & (c): Niryat Bandhu Scheme has been allocated Rs. 5.45 Crore in last 5 years (2016-17 to  2020-21).  An  amount  of  Rs.  4.04  Crore  has  been  utilized  during  this  period  and  65,184

entrepreneurs  have  benefitted  from  the  training  and  outreach  activities  undertaken  under  the Scheme. Fund allocation & utilisation for the last 5 years is as under.

| Financial Year   |   Allocation (Rupees in Lakhs) |   Expenditure (Rupees in Lakhs) |
|------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| 2016-2017        |                            100 |                           98.52 |
| 2017-2018        |                            100 |                           96.97 |
| 2018-2019        |                            200 |                           99    |
| 2019-2020        |                             95 |                           73.05 |
| 2020-2021        |                             50 |                           36.92 |
| TOTAL            |                            545 |                          404.46 |

For the current year 2021-22 Rs. 4.48 Crores have been allocated under the Scheme.

The details of fund allocation, utilization and entrepreneurs benefitted State/Union Territory wise under the Niryat Bandhu Scheme is at Annexure I.

- (d): Niryat Bandhu Scheme has been extended for period of five years from 2021-22 to 202526 with enhanced objectives and components.

## Statement referred to in reply of part (b) and (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred question no. 1276 for answer on 01 st  December 2021

The details of fund allocation, utilization and entrepreneurs benefitted State/Union Territory and Financial Year wise under the Niryat Bandhu Scheme are as follows:

## Table 1: For FY 2016-17

| Sr. No.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having jurisdiction of State(s)/UTs   | FY 2016-17                     | FY 2016-17             | FY 2016-17                          |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having jurisdiction of State(s)/UTs   | Fund Sanctioned to RA (In Rs.) | Fund Utilized (In Rs.) | Number of Entrepren eurs Benefitted |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Visakhapatnam                                                   | 86,000                         | 86,000                 | 458                                 |
| 2         | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur                                  | RA Guwahati                                                        | 40,000                         | 990                    | NA                                  |
| 3         | UT of Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP (Districts under CLA Jurisdiction) and Haryana(Gurugram and Faridabad) | RA Delhi                                                           | 2,56,000                       | 2,56,000               | 775                                 |
| 4         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Vadodara                                                        | 85,065                         | 85,065                 | 1,261                               |
| 5         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Ahmedabad                                                       | 1,86,000                       | 1,86,000               | NA                                  |
| 6         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Rajkot                                                          | 2,21,000                       | 2,21,000               | 1,350                               |
| 7         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Surat                                                           | 1,36,000                       | 1,36,000               | 1,945                               |
| 8         | Haryana                                                                                             | RA Panipat                                                         | 1,71,000                       | 1,71,000               | 240                                 |
| 9         | Karnataka                                                                                           | RA Bangalore                                                       | 1,86,000                       | 1,860,00               | 380                                 |
| 10        | Kerala and UT of Lakshadweep                                                                        | RA Kochi                                                           | 2,37,000                       | 2,37,000               | 378                                 |
| 11        | Madhya Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Bhopal/Indore                                                   | 1,86,000                       | 1,86,000               | 882                                 |
| 12        | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                    | RA Nagpur                                                          | 86,000                         | 86,000                 | 218                                 |
| 13        | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                    | RA Pune                                                            | 1,86,000                       | 93,000                 | 600                                 |
| 14        | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                    | RA Mumbai                                                          | 1,36,000                       | 1,36,000               | 420                                 |
| 15        | Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh                                                            | RA Ludhiana                                                        | 86,000                         | 86,000                 | 720                                 |

| 16   | Rajasthan                                                                                          | RA Jaipur            | 1,71,000   | 1,71,000   | 1,207   |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|------------|------------|---------|
| 17   | Tamil Nadu &UT of Puducherry                                                                       | RA Coimbatore        | 1,36,000   | 1,28,017   | 456     |
| 18   | Tamil Nadu &UT of Puducherry                                                                       | RA Chennai           | 1,86,000   | 1,86,000   | 1,223   |
| 19   | Telangana                                                                                          | RA Hyderabad         | 1,36,000   | 77,395     | 390     |
| 20   | UT of Jammu &Kashmir and UT of Ladakh                                                              | RA Jammu&RA Srinagar | 71,000     | 70,323     | 252     |
| 21   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Kanpur            | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 569     |
| 22   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Varanasi          | 1,36,000   | 1,34,295   | 347     |
| 23   | Persons trained through online Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by DGFT in coordination with IIFT | DGFT Hqr             | 38,40,000  | 38,40,000  | 353     |
|      |                                                                                                    | TOTAL                | 70,96,065  | 67,09,085  | 14,071  |

## Table 2: For FY 2017-18

| Sr.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having jurisdiction of   | FY 2017-18                      | FY 2017-18             | FY 2017-18                           |
|-------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| No.   |                                                                                                     | State(s)/UTs                                          | Fund Sanctione d to RA (In Rs.) | Fund Utilized (In Rs.) | Number of Entrepre neurs Benefitte d |
| 1     | Andhra Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Visakhapatnam                                      | 96,000                          | 76,511                 | 387                                  |
| 2     | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur                                  | RA Guwahati                                           | 1,43,000                        | 1,43,000               | NA                                   |
| 3     | UT of Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP (Districts under CLA Jurisdiction) and Haryana(Gurugram and Faridabad) | RA Delhi                                              | 3,70,000                        | 3,70,000               | 491                                  |
| 4     | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Vadodara                                           | 1,90,980                        | 1,90,980               | 220                                  |

|   5 |                                                                                   | RA Ahmedabad         | 2,86,000   | 2,85,968   | NA    |
|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|------------|------------|-------|
|   6 |                                                                                   | RA Rajkot            | 2,86,000   | 2,80,904   | 2,300 |
|   7 |                                                                                   | RA Surat             | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 2,125 |
|   8 | Haryana                                                                           | RA Panipat           | 1,50,000   | 80,000     | 168   |
|   9 | Karnataka                                                                         | RA Bangalore         | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 510   |
|  10 | Kerala and UT of Lakshadweep                                                      | RA Kochi             | 2,33,000   | 2,33,000   | 314   |
|  11 | Madhya Pradesh                                                                    | RA Bhopal/Indore     | 1,86,000   | 1,73,279   | 439   |
|  12 | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu  | RA Nagpur            | 2,86,000   | 2,86,000   | 351   |
|  13 |                                                                                   | RA Pune              | 2,86,000   | 2,86,000   | 670   |
|  14 |                                                                                   | RA Mumbai            | 2,38,000   | 2,38,000   | 746   |
|  15 | Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh                                          | RA Ludhiana          | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 546   |
|  16 | Rajasthan                                                                         | RA Jaipur            | 1,68,000   | 1,68,000   | 1,270 |
|  17 | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                       | RA Coimbatore        | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 495   |
|  18 |                                                                                   | RA Chennai           | 1,90,000   | 1,90,000   | 885   |
|  19 | Telangana                                                                         | RA Hyderabad         | 83,000     | 83,000     | 500   |
|  20 | UT of Jammu &Kashmir and UT of Ladakh                                             | RA Jammu&RA Srinagar | 15,000     | 14,952     | 87    |
|  21 | Uttar Pradesh                                                                     | RA Kanpur            | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 611   |
|  22 |                                                                                   | RA Varanasi          | 1,36,000   | 1,24,053   | 313   |
|  23 | West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand, UT of Andaman and Nicobar | RA Kolkata           | 1,80,104   | 1,80,104   | 566   |
|  24 | Persons trained through online Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by               | DGFT Hqr             | 46,74,000  | 46,74,000  | 388   |

| DGFT in coordination with IIFT   |       |           |           |        |
|----------------------------------|-------|-----------|-----------|--------|
|                                  | TOTAL | 88,77,084 | 87,57,751 | 13,994 |

## Table 3: For FY 2018-19

| Sr. No.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having   | FY 2018-19                      | FY 2018-19             | FY 2018-19                           |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|
|           |                                                                                                     | jurisdiction of State(s)/UTs          | Fund Sanctione d to RA (In Rs.) | Fund Utilized (In Rs.) | Number of Entrepre neurs Benefitte d |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Visakhapatnam                      | 1,52,000                        | 78,878                 | 798                                  |
| 2         | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur                                  | RA Guwahati                           | 1,88,000                        | 1,88,000               | NA                                   |
| 3         | UT of Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP (Districts under CLA Jurisdiction) and Haryana(Gurugram and Faridabad) | RA Delhi                              | 2,26,000                        | 2,26,000               | 760                                  |
| 4         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Vadodara                           | 1,10,000                        | 1,10,000               | 358                                  |
| 5         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Ahmedabad                          | 1,76,000                        | 1,76,000               | NA                                   |
| 6         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Rajkot                             | 2,26,000                        | 2,26,000               | 1,100                                |
| 7         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Surat                              | 1,26,000                        | 1,26,000               | 2,344                                |
| 8         | Haryana                                                                                             | RA Panipat                            | 1,16,000                        | 61,907                 | 124                                  |
| 9         | Karnataka                                                                                           | RA Bangalore                          | 9,26,000                        | 4,15,100               | 720                                  |

| 10   | Kerala and UT of Lakshadweep                                                                       | RA Kochi             | 2,00,000   | 2,00,000   | 305    |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|------------|------------|--------|
| 11   | Madhya Pradesh                                                                                     | RA Bhopal/Indore     | 1,76,000   | 1,76,000   | 598    |
| 12   | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                   | RA Nagpur            | 1,36,000   | 1,36,000   | 244    |
| 13   | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                   | RA Pune              | 1,76,000   | 1,76,000   | 710    |
| 14   | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                   | RA Mumbai            | 2,28,000   | 2,28,000   | 555    |
| 15   | Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh                                                           | RA Ludhiana          | 1,42,000   | 1,42,000   | 660    |
| 16   | Rajasthan                                                                                          | RA Jaipur            | 1,38,000   | 1,38,000   | 600    |
| 17   | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                        | RA Coimbatore        | 1,26,000   | 1,18,319   | 493    |
| 18   | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                        | RA Chennai           | 1,76,000   | 1,76,000   | 750    |
| 19   | Telangana                                                                                          | RA Hyderabad         | 1,16,000   | 1,00,856   | 600    |
| 20   | UT of Jammu &Kashmir and UT of Ladakh                                                              | RA Jammu&RA Srinagar | 56,920     | 56,920     | 81     |
| 21   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Kanpur            | 1,26,000   | 1,26,000   | 473    |
| 22   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Varanasi          | 1,26,000   | 99,011     | 155    |
| 23   | West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand, UT of Andaman and Nicobar                  | RA Kolkata           | 2,17,902   | 2,17,902   | 601    |
| 24   | Persons trained through online Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by DGFT in coordination with IIFT | DGFT Hqr             | 35,15,000  | 35,15,000  | 137    |
|      |                                                                                                    | TOTAL                | 79,01,822  | 72,13,893  | 13,029 |

## Table 4: For FY 2019-20

| Sr. No.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having jurisdiction of   | FY 2019-20                     | FY 2019-20             | FY 2019-20                           |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | States/UTs                                                                                          | State(s)/Uts                                          | Fund Sanctioned to RA (In Rs.) | Fund Utilized (In Rs.) | Number of Entrepre neurs Benefitte d |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Visakhapatnam                                      | 2,50,000                       | 67,954                 | 456                                  |
| 2         | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur                                  | RA Guwahati                                           | 3,60,000                       | 1,80,000               | 120                                  |
| 3         | UT of Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP (Districts under CLA Jurisdiction) and Haryana(Gurugram and Faridabad) | RA Delhi                                              | 7,78,000                       | 7,78,000               | 1,180                                |
| 4         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Vadodara                                           | 1,70,000                       | 1,70,000               | 403                                  |
| 5         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Ahmedabad                                          | 5,72,000                       | 5,21,639               | NA                                   |
| 6         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Rajkot                                             | 3,18,000                       | 2,98,000               | 640                                  |
| 7         | Gujarat                                                                                             | RA Surat                                              | 3,20,000                       | 3,19,975               | 1,352                                |
| 8         | Haryana                                                                                             | RA Panipat                                            | 3,02,000                       | 94,969                 | 136                                  |
| 9         | Karnataka                                                                                           | RA Bangalore                                          | 5,86,000                       | 3,16,107               | 1,200                                |
| 10        | Kerala and UT of Lakshadweep                                                                        | RA Kochi                                              | 2,22,500                       | 2,22,500               | 341                                  |
| 11        | Madhya Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Bhopal/Indore                                      | 3,68,000                       | 2,73,959               | 463                                  |
| 12        | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli                                      | RA Nagpur                                             | 3,20,000                       | 1,60,084               | 562                                  |
| 13        | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli                                      | RA Pune                                               | 3,70,000                       | 3,65,490               | 750                                  |
| 14        | and Daman and Diu                                                                                   | RA Mumbai                                             | 6,92,000                       | 6,34,700               | 791                                  |

| 15   | Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh                                                           | RA Ludhiana           | 5,92,000    | 4,84,733   | 524    |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|-------------|------------|--------|
| 16   | Rajasthan                                                                                          | RA Jaipur             | 1,76,000    | 1,54,000   | 452    |
| 17   | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                        | RA Coimbatore         | 2,30,000    | 2,29,793   | 348    |
| 18   | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                        | RA Chennai            | 6,92,000    | 6,92,000   | 2,293  |
| 19   | Telangana                                                                                          | RA Hyderabad          | 4,92,000    | 4,14,257   | 800    |
| 20   | UT of Jammu &Kashmir and UT of Ladakh                                                              | RA Jammu& RA Srinagar | 98,000      | 98,000     | 160    |
| 21   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Kanpur             | 2,50,000    | 1,85,990   | 522    |
| 22   | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                      | RA Varanasi           | 2,50,000    | 2,12,105   | 237    |
| 23   | West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand, UT of Andaman and Nicobar                  | RA Kolkata            | 5,69,396    | 5,69,396   | 1,005  |
| 24   | Persons trained through online Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by DGFT in coordination with IIFT | DGFT Hqr              | 13,73,000   | 13,73,000  | 149    |
|      |                                                                                                    | TOTAL                 | 1,03,50,896 | 88,16,651  | 14,884 |

## Table 5: For FY 2020-21

| Sr. No.   | States/Uts                                                         | DGFT Regional Authority (RA) having jurisdiction State(s)/Uts   | FY 2020-21                      | FY 2020-21             | FY 2020-21                          |
|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|           |                                                                    | of                                                              | Fund Sanctione d to RA (In Rs.) | Fund Utilized (In Rs.) | Number of Entrepren eurs Benefitted |
| 1         | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur | RA Guwahati                                                     | 2,00,000                        | 2,00,000               | NA                                  |

| 2   | UT of Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP (Districts under CLA Jurisdiction) and Haryana(Gurugram and Faridabad)   | RA Delhi              | 1,07,000   | 1,07,000   | 975   |
|-----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|------------|------------|-------|
| 3   | Gujarat                                                                                               | RA Vadodara           | 70,000     | 69,170     | 180   |
| 4   | Gujarat                                                                                               | RA Surat              | 1,02,000   | 80,576     | 234   |
| 5   | Karnataka                                                                                             | RA Bangalore          | 50,000     | 50,000     | 860   |
| 6   | Kerala and UT of Lakshadweep                                                                          | RA Kochi              | 35,000     | 35,000     | 69    |
| 7   | Maharashtra, Goa, Chattisgarh and UT of                                                               | RA Pune               | Nil        | Nil        | 900   |
| 8   | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu                                                              | RA Mumbai             | 8,97,400   | Nil        | 60    |
| 9   | Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh                                                              | RA Ludhiana           | 2,90,000   | 2,61,376   | 300   |
| 10  | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                           | RA Coimbatore         | 15,000     | 15,000     | 64    |
| 11  | Tamil Nadu &UTof Puducherry                                                                           | RA Chennai            | 1,16,000   | 1,16,000   | 650   |
| 12  | Telangana                                                                                             | RA Hyderabad          | 1,50,000   | 1,03,373   | 200   |
| 13  | UT of Jammu &Kashmir and UT of Ladakh                                                                 | RA Jammu& RA Srinagar | Nil        | Nil        | 118   |
| 14  | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                         | RA Kanpur             | Nil        | Nil        | 225   |
| 15  | West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand, UT of Andaman and Nicobar                     | RA Kolkata            | 1,80,000   | 1,80,000   | 225   |
| 16  | Persons trained through online Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by DGFT in coordination with IIFT    | DGFT Hqr              | 22,74,600  | 22,74,600  | 332   |
|     |                                                                                                       | TOTAL                 | 44,87,000  | 34,92,095  | 5,392 |