Lok Sabha Question No. 1362 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-06
Subject: NABARD Schemes
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Ajay Nishad

## 1362. SHRI AJAY NISHAD:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the National Bank Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has formulated or proposes to formulate any scheme to provide financial assistance to the rural artisans of the country;
- (6) if s0, the details thereof State/UT-wise including Bihar;
- (c) the details of the financial assistance provided by NABARD in this regard during the last three years and the current year; scheme-wise and State-wise; and
- d) the number of artisans benefitted through various schemes funded by NABARD during the said period, State/UT-wise?
- e the steps taken by the Government to provide more employment in PSUs to local people?

## Answer

## (DR. BHAGWAT KARAD)

(a) to (c): As apprised by NABARD, support developmental programmes in the off-farm sector in areas such as skill development, entrepreneurship development; promotion of Off-Farm Producers Organizations in the handloom and handicrafts sector; registration of Geographical Indication; etc , to enhance the skill sets and income of the rural people including unemployed youth, artisans, weavers, agri-labourers, etc they

The details are provided in Annexure.

(d): As apprised by NABARD, cumulatively, NABARD has supported training of 9.58 lakh rural youth;, through 35557 programmes, with grant assistance of <174.37 crore by gainfully engaging rural youth both in wage as well as self-employment   Similarly, 40 Off Farm Producer Organisations covering around 14043 artisans and weavers have been supported with grant assistance of <17.35 crore across 20 States. During 2021-22, 05 OFPOs with grant support of < 3.67 Crore have been sanctioned.

NABARD has so far supported Geographical Indication (GI) registration of 88 products, including Black Pottery (Nizamabad), Wall  hanging (Ghazipur), Soft Stone Jali work (Varanasi), Gulabi Minakari (Banaras) , Handmade Dari (Mirzapur), etc,, with grant assistance of <. 174.24 lakh: During 2021 22, < 32.32 lakh grant assistance was sanctioned for registration of 18 GI products During 2021 22, an amount of <.0.91 crore has been sanctioned for this purpose for registration of 15 products.

A project was also sanctioned for registration of 1000 artisans of 17 different GI crafts, skilling and training of 300 Artisans of 2 GI crafts i.e Varanasi Glass Beads & Mirzapur Handmade Darito in Uttar Pradesh 2021-22\_ during

(e): Employment in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) depends upon their requirement as per their expansion/investment plan: The action in respect of provision of jobs by public sector to local people, ifany, is to be taken by the Board of the concerned CPSE and the responsibility for the same vests with respective Board of CPSElits administrative Ministry/Department:

## Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Financial Services

## LOK SABHA

Unstarred Question No. 1362

Answered on Monday, December 6, 2021/Agrahayana 15,1943 (Saka)

## NABARD Schemes

## Details of financial assistance (State-wise/UT wise including Bihar) provided by NABARD to the rural artisans of the country during the last three years and the current year

## FINANCIAL YEAR 2018-2019

| State                     | Capacity Building (including skill dev)   | Exhibition/ Melas   | Off Farm Producer Organisations   | Others   | Rural Haat   | Rural Mart   | Grand Total   |
|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR         | 10.5                                      | 0.0                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 10.0         | 0.0          | 20.5          |
| ANDHRA PRADESH            | 69.6                                      | 49.5                | 51.8                              | 0.0      | 40.0         | 19.7         | 230.5         |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH         | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 10.0         | 5.2          | 15.2          |
| ASSAM                     | 6.6                                       | 16.1                | 24.7                              | 0.0      | 60.0         | 0.0          | 107.3         |
| BIHAR                     | 32.4                                      | 22.8                | 0.0                               | 1.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 56.2          |
| CHHA TTISGARH             | 9.9                                       | 1.8                 | 0.0                               | 3.2      | 45.7         | 6.0          | 66.5          |
| GOA                       | 2.0                                       | 2.7                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 4.7           |
| GUJARAT                   | 42.7                                      | 9.3                 | 3.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 0.2          | 55.2          |
| HARYANA                   | 58.4                                      | 113.6               | 30.7                              | 0.0      | 0.0          | 9.2          | 211.9         |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH          | 6.7                                       | 22.6                | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 2.6          | 31.8          |
| JAMMU KASHMIR             | 10.7                                      | 0.0                 | 24.9                              | 0.0      | 0.0          | 9.3          | 44.9          |
| JHARKHAND                 | 46.8                                      | 6.0                 | 23                                | 0.0      | 6.8          | 1.0          | 62.9          |
| KARNATAKA                 | 23.8                                      | 19.4                | 0.0                               | 0.6      | 47.4         | 7.6          | 98.8          |
| KERALA                    | 50.7                                      | 20.7                | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 10.0         | 15.9         | 97.3          |
| MADHYA PRADESH            | 87.6                                      | 23.4                | 83.8                              | 0.0      | 38.9         | 10.0         | 243.6         |
| MAHARASHTRA               | 40.1                                      | 70.1                | 21.0                              | 10.5     | 20.0         | 2.6          | 164.2         |
| MANIPUR                   | 6.4                                       | 18.1                | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 20.0         | 9.           | 54.0          |
| MEGHALAYA                 | 0.0                                       | 0.6                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 4.0          | 4.6           |
| MIZORAM                   | 0.0                                       | 1.6                 | 1.2                               | 5.7      | 40.0         | 4.9          | 53.4          |
| NAGALAND                  | 7.6                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 20.0         | 0.0          | 27.6          |
| ODISHA                    | 41.6                                      |                     | 78.1                              | 12.1     | 27.0         | 13.9         | 199.3         |
| PAN INDIA                 | 325.5                                     | 75.5                | 0.0                               | 32.2     | 0.0          | 0.0          | 433.2         |
| PUDUCHERRY                | 0.0                                       | 1.9                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 1.9           |
| PUNJAB                    | 11.7                                      | 32.4                | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 10.7         | 54.8          |
| RAJASTHAN                 | 0.0                                       | 13.0                | 209.1                             | 0.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 222.0         |
| SIKKIM                    | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 3.           | 35            |
| TAMIL NADU                | 102.3                                     | 17.8                |                                   |          |              |              |               |
|                           |                                           |                     | 33.5                              | 5.0      | 22.3         | 15.8         | 196.7         |
| TELANGANA                 | 27.1                                      | 49.1                | 25.0                              | 3.2      | 30.0         | 11.0         | 145.4         |
| TRIPURA                   | 0.8                                       | 0.4                 | 0.0                               | 0.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 1.2           |
| UTTAR PRADESH UTTARAKHAND |                                           | 81.0 750.3          | 614.2                             | 0.0 73.4 | 497.0        | 21L.0        | 43.6 3324.9   |
|                           | 105.2 15.1                                | 15.7                | 0.0 0.0                           | 0.0      | 39.0 0.0     | 24.1 12.8    | 249.4         |
| WEST BENGAL Grand Total   | 37.3                                      | 38.5                | 25.3                              | 0.0      | 10.0         | 11.9         | 122.9         |

(Rs.In Lakh)

## FINANCIAL YEAR 2019-2020

(Rs. In Lakh)

| State                   |   Capacity Building (including skill dev) | Exhibition/ Melas   | Off Farm Producer Organisations   |   Others |   Rural Haat |   Rural Mart |   Grand Total |
|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR       |                                      13.4 | 0.5                 | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          2.6 |          16.5 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH          |                                      91.3 | 54.8                | 24.6                              |      0   |         40   |         12.9 |         223.6 |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH       |                                       2   | 4.2                 |                                   |      0   |         20   |          9   |          58.2 |
| ASSAM                   |                                      15.3 | 7.1                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         48.8 |         10.6 |          81.8 |
| BIHAR                   |                                     141.7 | 15.8                | 0.0                               |      0   |         24.8 |          5.9 |         188.2 |
| CHHATTISGARH            |                                       3.9 | 7.9                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         39   |          6.9 |          57.7 |
| DELHI                   |                                       0   | 0.1                 | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          0   |           0.1 |
| GOA                     |                                       0   | 3.0                 | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          0   |           3   |
| GUJARAT                 |                                      56.5 | 8.5                 | 95.7                              |      0   |          0   |          0   |         160.7 |
| HARYANA                 |                                     255.2 | 115.1               | 1.4                               |      0   |          0   |          8.5 |         380.2 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH        |                                       4.3 | 7.3                 | 0.0                               |     24.7 |         20   |          9   |          65.3 |
| JAMMU KASHMIR           |                                       3   | 20.2                | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          0   |          23.6 |
| JHARKHAND               |                                      58.5 |                     | 97.9                              |      0   |         30   |         19.2 |        2171   |
| KARNATAKA               |                                      25.7 | 63.1                |                                   |      0   |         69.9 |         32.7 |         362.8 |
| KERALA                  |                                      46.2 | 28.0                | 0.0                               |      0   |         30   |         20.4 |         124.7 |
| MADHYA PRADESH          |                                     216.9 | 23.0                | 26.4                              |     17.5 |         40   |         26.3 |         350.1 |
| MAHARASHTRA             |                                      16.2 | 28.2                | 1.6                               |      0   |         19.9 |         20   |          85.9 |
| MANIPUR                 |                                       3.4 | 23.7                | 0.0                               |     13.5 |         20.2 |          1.7 |          62.4 |
| MEGHALAYA               |                                       1.9 | 1.6                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         30   |          0   |         335   |
| MIZORAM                 |                                       0.1 | 4.6                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         39.9 |          2.4 |          47.1 |
| NAGALAND                |                                       3.7 | 0.0                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         20   |          8.2 |          31.9 |
| ODISHA                  |                                      43.1 | 26.4                | 26.9                              |      0   |         18.9 |         18.6 |         133.8 |
| PAN INDIA               |                                     664.8 |                     | 0.0                               |    507   |          0   |          0   |        1387.5 |
| PUDUCHERRY              |                                       9.1 |                     | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          0   |          10.6 |
| PUNJAB                  |                                      22.1 | 25.0                | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          8.4 |          55.6 |
| RAJASTHAN               |                                      16.4 | 19.6                | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          2.4 |          38.4 |
| SIKKIM                  |                                       4   | 0.0                 | 0.0                               |      0   |         10   |          6.9 |          20.9 |
| TAMIL NADU              |                                     112.4 | 40.6                | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |         22.2 |         175.2 |
| TELANGANA               |                                      32   | 71.4                | 2.0                               |      0   |         49.8 |         13.8 |         169.1 |
| TRIPURA                 |                                       0   | 1.4                 | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          1.9 |          33   |
| UTTAR PRADESH           |                                      96   | 83.7                | 15.2                              |      0   |         40   |         23.1 |         258   |
| UTTARAKHAND             |                                      22.2 | 11.2                | 0.0                               |      0   |          0   |          2.6 |          36   |
| WEST BENGAL Grand Total |                                      65.6 | 65.3                | 3.6                               |      2.4 |         30   |         16.3 |         183.1 |
|                         |                                    2047.7 | 989.7               | 489.1                             |    565   |        641.2 |        312.8 |        5045.6 |

## FINANCIAL YEAR 2020-2021

| State                   | Capacity Building (including skill dev)   | Exhibition/ Melas   |   Off Farm Producer Organisations_ |   Others |   Rural Haat | Rural Mart   |   Grand Total |
|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|------------------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR       | 10.6                                      | 0.0                 |                                0   |      0   |          0   | 0.0          |          10.6 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH          | 70.3                                      | 27.8                |                               10   |      0   |         14.9 | 60.2         |         183.2 |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH       | 75                                        | 0.0                 |                                5   |      0   |          9.9 | 12.6         |          35   |
| ASSAM                   | 58.6                                      | 12.6                |                                0   |      0.8 |         19.6 | 15.4         |         107   |
| BIHAR                   | 98.6                                      | 15                  |                                0   |      0   |          0   | 0.0          |         100.1 |
| CHHATTISGARH            | 9.5                                       | 1.2                 |                                0   |      0   |         45.6 | 6.7          |          62.9 |
| GOA                     | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 |                                0   |      9.9 |          0   | 14.5         |          24.4 |
| GUJARAT                 | 92.0                                      | 13.6                |                               95   |      0   |         15.5 | 10.7         |         226.7 |
| HARYANA                 | 34.4                                      | 7.7                 |                                7   |      0   |          0   | 32           |          52.3 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH        | 54.8                                      | 21.6                |                                0.7 |      0   |          0   | 20.4         |          97.4 |
| JAMMU KASHMIR           | 12.7                                      | 22.3                |                                5   |      0   |          0   | 10.5         |          50.5 |
| JHARKHAND               | 20.7                                      | 12.4                |                                0   |      0   |         40   | 9.9          |          83.1 |
| KARNATAKA               | 125.6                                     | 36.4                |                              105   |      0   |         74   | 56.8         |         397.9 |
| KERALA                  | 58.1                                      | 10.6                |                                5   |     15.3 |          0   | 19.6         |         108.5 |
| MADHYA PRADESH          | 89.1                                      | 60.5                |                               31   |      0   |         71.9 | 64.2         |         317.1 |
| MAHARASHTRA             | 26.9                                      | 13.4                |                               10   |      0   |         15.5 | 19.4         |          85.2 |
| MANIPUR                 | 0.0                                       | 30.8                |                                0   |      0   |         24.9 | 0.0          |          55.7 |
| MEGHALAYA               | 10.9                                      | 0.0                 |                                0   |      5.3 |         15   | 9.2          |          40.3 |
| MIZORAM                 | 0.0                                       | 45.1                |                                0   |      0   |         22.9 | 4.8          |          72.7 |
| NAGALAND                | 7.6                                       | 0.0                 |                                1.4 |      0   |         20   | 2.6          |          31.5 |
| ODISHA                  | 683                                       | 0.                  |                               20   |      0   |         16.3 | 17.8         |         122.9 |
| PAN INDIA               | 879.4                                     | 24.5                |                                0   |    228   |          0   | 0.0          |        1131.8 |
| PUDUCHERRY              | 5.7                                       | 0.0                 |                                0   |      0   |          0   | 0.0          |           5.7 |
| PUNJAB                  | 36.7                                      | 0.0                 |                                5   |      0   |          0   | 2.4          |          44.2 |
| RAJASTHAN               |                                           | 12.5                |                               10   |      0   |         15   | 24.2         |          97.1 |
| SIKKIM                  | 8.5                                       | 0.1                 |                                3   |      0   |          0   | 5.0          |          16.6 |
| TAMIL NADU              | 115.8                                     | 37.4                |                                5   |      0   |         10   |              |         175.9 |
| TELANGANA               | 59.3                                      | 25.5                |                               74.2 |      0   |          0   | 32.6         |         191.6 |
| TRIPURA                 | 0.0                                       | 0.5                 |                                0   |      0   |          0   | 0.0          |           5   |
| UTTAR PRADESH           | 23.4                                      | 62.2                |                                0   |      0   |         82.7 | 27.9         |         196.1 |
| UTTARAKHAND             | 14.5                                      |                     |                                0   |      0   |         14.7 | 14.7         |          45.4 |
| WEST BENGAL Grand Total | 87.9                                      | 22.0 503.9          |                               18   |      0   |         28.9 | 6.3          |         163.1 |
|                         | 2122.2                                    |                     |                              410.8 |    259.3 |        557.7 | 479.2        |        6149.8 |

(Rs. In Lakh)

(Rs. In Lakh)

| State                   | Capacity Building (including skill dev)   | Exhibition/ Melas   | OFPO      | Others    | Rural Haat   | Rural Mart   | Grand Total   |
|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|-----------|-----------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR       | 30.4                                      | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 4.8          | 35.2          |
| ANDHRA PRADESH          | 34.6                                      | 16.4                | 0.0       | 0.0       | 57.6         | 8.4          | 117.0         |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH       | 15.7                                      | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 44.7         | 4.8          | 65.2          |
| ASSAM                   | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 60.0         | 3.9          | 63.9          |
| BIHAR                   | 6.6                                       | 4.5                 | 1.0       | 0.0       | 15.0         | 5.0          | 32.1          |
| CHHATTISGARH            | 0.0                                       | 5.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 5.0           |
| GOA                     | 0.0                                       | 2.7                 | 0.0       | 0.7       | 0.0          | 4.7          | 8.1           |
| GUJARAT                 | 42.4                                      | 10.0                | 0.0       | 25.5      | 0.0          | 9.8          | 87.6          |
| HARYANA                 | 28.6                                      | 0.5                 | 0.0       | 0.5       | 0.0          | 4.7          | 34.4          |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH        | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 0.0           |
| JAMMU KASHMIR           | 13.8                                      | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 8.7          | 22.5          |
| JHARKHAND               | 16.9                                      | 4.0                 | 0.0       | 4.8       | 0.0          | 9.4          | 35.0          |
| KARNATAKA               | 19.6                                      | 7.8                 | 90.5      | 75.3      | 75.0         | 30.0         | 298.3         |
| KERALA                  | 32.0                                      | 4.6                 | 0.0       | 5.7       | 0.0          | 23.8         | 66.0          |
| MADHYA PRADESH          | 0.0                                       | 5.0                 | 0.0       | 24.0      | 9.0          | 0.0          | 38.0          |
| MAHARASHTRA             | 0.0                                       | 6.9                 | 10.0      | 15.4      | 15.0         | 0.0          | 47.3          |
| MANIPUR                 | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 0.0           |
| MEGHALAYA               | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 2.7       | 43.4         | 0.0          | 46.0          |
| MIZORAM                 | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 30.0         | 0.0          | 30.0          |
| NAGALAND                | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 1.4       | 15.0         | 0.0          | 16.4          |
| ODISHA                  | 17.9                                      | 0.3                 | 107.2     | 20.2      | 0.0          | 42.7         | 188.2         |
| PAN INDIA               | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 0.0           |
| PUDUCHERRY              | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 0.0           |
| PUNJAB                  | 33.3                                      | 0.8                 | 0.0       | 1.7       | 0.0          | 0.0          | 35.7          |
| RAJASTHAN               | 12.0                                      | 5.0                 | 0.0       | 29.8      | 26.7         | 14.9         | 88.5          |
| SIKKIM                  | 0.0                                       | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 15.0      | 0.0          | 0.0          | 15.0          |
|                         |                                           | 1.0                 | 5.0       | 23.3      |              |              |               |
| TAMIL NADU              | 25.7                                      |                     |           |           | 14.4         | 19.2         | 88.5          |
| TELANGANA               | 81.0                                      | 16.4                | 0.0       | 20.9      | 0.0          | 29.9         | 148.2         |
| TRIPURA                 | 15.0                                      | 0.0                 | 0.0       | 0.0       | 0.0          |              | 18.2          |
| UTTAR PRADESH           | 64.9                                      | 25.0                | 0.0       | 65.7      | 41.6         | 39.0         | 236.2         |
| UTTARAKHAND             | 18.9                                      | 0.0 0.0             | 0.0       | 2.1       | 0.0          | 12.4         | 33.3          |
| WEST BENGAL Grand Total | 5.6 514.6                                 | 115.7               | 0.0 213.7 | 0.6 335.1 | 0.0 447.3    | 4.2 283.3    | 10.4 1909.8   |

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