Lok Sabha Question No. 507 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-04
Subject: Online Dashboard for PM SVANidhi
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shobha Karandlaje

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 507

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 04, 2021

## ONLINE DASHBOARD FOR PM SVANIDHI

NO. 507. KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:-

- a) whether  the  Government  has  launched  online  dashboard  of  PM  Street Vendor's Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) recently and if so, the details thereof;
- b) the  objectives  and  salient  features  of  PM  SVANidhi  and  the  number  of
3. street vendors likely to be benefitted;
4. the number of applications received and sanctioned so far, State-wise;
- d) whether  Small  Industries  Development  Bank  of  India  (SIDBI)  is  the implementing partner for the scheme and if so, the details thereof; and
- e) whether the Government is in the process of preparing a plan to capture socio  economic  profile  of  all  PM  SVANidhi  beneficiaries  and  if  so,  the details thereof including the tenure of the scheme?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

- (a) The dashboard of PM SVANidhi scheme launched on August 28, 2020 provides a snapshot of various aspects of the Scheme.

These include ranking of the Lending institutions, States and cities, categorization of applications by gender and vending activity,number of applications received, sanctioned & disbursed, amount disbursed, digital  payments  undertaken  by  the  beneficiaries,  cash  back  paid, interest subsidy paid, Letter of Recommendation  (LoR) issued, average number of days taken to sanction a loan, average age of the applicants, etc.

- (b) The  Prime  Minister  Street  Vendor's  AtmaNirbhar  Nidhi  Scheme  (PM SVANidhi)  aims  at  facilitating  collateral  free  working  capital  loans upto ₹10,000 of 1 year tenure to about 50 lakh street vendors across the country. It provides for incentives in the form of interest subsidy @ 7% per annum on regular repayment of loan and cash-back upto₹1,200 per annum on undertaking prescribed digital transactions.

In order to cover the Street vendors left out of the Survey or who are from rural / peri-urban areas but vend in the urban areas, 'Letter of Recommendation' (LoR) has been introduced to make them eligible to avail benefits of the Scheme.

The scheme provides for Socio-economic profiling of beneficiaries and their families to determine their eligibility for various Central government welfare schemes and link them to these schemes. It  also  aims  to  facilitate  beneficiary  Street  Food  Vendors  to  ecommerce platforms to serve customers in the post COVID times.

- (c) A  statement  giving  State  /  Union  Territory  wise  details  of  the  loan applications received and sanctionedis at Annexure-I.
- (d) Yes,  Sir.  A  Memorandum  of  Understanding  was  entered  into  with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) on June 19, 2020
- (e) Ministry has launched the program of socio-economic profiling of PM SVANidhi  beneficiaries  and  their  families  in  125  cities,  selected  for saturation in the first phase, on January 4, 2021. The program aims to assess  the  potential  eligibility  for  various  Central  welfare  schemes and to further facilitate the access to these schemes.

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## ANNEXURE-I REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 507TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 4, 2021.

## STATE / UT-WISE DETAILS OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AND SANCTIONED

## UNDER PM SVANidhi SCHEME (AS ON 31-01-2021)

| S.No                | State                       | Total Applications Received   | Total Applications Sanctioned   |
|---------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| 1                   | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 419                           | 291                             |
| 2                   | Andhra Pradesh              | 2,04,407                      | 1,16,658                        |
| 3                   | Arunachal Pradesh           | 2311                          | 711                             |
| 4                   | Assam                       | 28,180                        | 9,831                           |
| 5                   | Bihar                       | 76,684                        | 22,358                          |
| 6 Chandigarh        |                             | 2,339                         | 1,444                           |
| 7                   | Chhattisgarh                | 70,106                        | 33,141                          |
| 8 D&NH and          | DD                          | 2,072                         | 1,191                           |
| 9 Delhi             |                             | 49,435                        | 26,739                          |
| 10                  | Goa                         | 1,201                         | 857                             |
| 11                  | Gujarat                     | 1,98,247                      | 1,24,816                        |
| 12                  | Haryana                     | 34,973                        | 16,489                          |
| 13 Himachal Pradesh | 3,169                       |                               | 1,901                           |
| 14 Jammu and        | Kashmir                     | 10,819                        | 8,137                           |
| 15                  | Jharkhand                   | 31,621                        | 16,076                          |
| 16                  | Karnataka                   | 2,01,420                      | 97,077                          |
| 17                  | Kerala                      | 10,725                        | 7,348                           |
| 18                  | Ladakh                      | 256                           | 208                             |
| 19 Madhya           | Pradesh                     | 3,91,955                      | 2,73,003                        |
| 20                  | Maharashtra                 | 3,57,737                      | 1,52,825                        |
| 21                  | Manipur                     | 11,917                        | 5,176                           |
| 22                  | Meghalaya                   | 104                           | 23                              |
| 23                  | Mizoram                     | 585                           | 394                             |
| 24                  | Nagaland                    | 1,745                         | 814                             |
| 25                  | Odisha                      | 49,438                        | 24,102                          |
| 26                  | Puducherry                  | 1,655                         | 1,194                           |
| 27 Punjab           |                             | 63,649                        | 14,361                          |
| 28                  | Rajasthan                   | 1,17,187                      | 44,073                          |

| 29                    | Tamil Nadu             | 2,27,982 62,151   |
|-----------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
| 30                    | Telangana 4,42,366     | 3,33,268          |
| 31                    | Tripura 3,359          | 2,159             |
| 32                    | Uttar Pradesh 7,51,808 | 4,29,945          |
| 33                    | Uttarakhand 12,962     | 8,399             |
| 34                    | West Bengal 6,545      | 1,710             |
| Grand Total 33,69,378 | Grand Total 33,69,378  | 18,38,870         |