Lok Sabha Question No. 1147 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-13
Subject: Annual Income of SHGs
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ramesh Chandra Majhi

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1147

ANSWERED ON 13/12/2022

## ANNUAL INCOME OF SHGS

## 1147.   SHRI. RAMESH CHANDRA MAJHI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the current rural development schemes in the country in which Self Help Groups (SHGs) are involved, State/UT and scheme-wise;
- (b) whether the Government is planning to enhance the annual income of SHGs which are backbone of rural economy and if so, the steps taken by the Government in this regard;
- (c) whether the rural products from SHGs have huge potential of acceptance among masses in the country and abroad; and
- (d) whether the Government has identified ecommerce as an effective tool to harness it and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) The Ministry of Rural Development, inter-alia, is implementing Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana -National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana  (PMGSY)  in  which  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs)  are  involved.  These  Schemes  are implemented through State Governments/UT Administrations. In addition, SHGs are being involved by other Departments/Ministries and State Government Departments dealing with rural development from time to time.

DAY-NRLM is being implemented across the country in a mission mode since 2011 with the aim to bring at least one woman member from each rural poor household, as per the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011 data and process of Participatory  Identification  of Poor (PIP), into the fold of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and to support them to take economic activities.  As  on  30 th November,  2022  about  8.71  crore  Women  households  have  been mobilized into 80.61 lakh Self Help Groups (SHGs). The State/UT wise details of the number of households mobilized into SHGs since 2011 under the Mission is attached at Annexure.

Under  MGNREGA,  SHG  members  are  involved  in  the  planning  of  works  through participation in Gram Sabha projects, play the role of Social Auditors and are also engaged as worksite  supervisors  (mates).  In  addition,  efforts  are  being  made  to  progressively  engage Federations  of  Women  Self-help  Groups  as  Project  Implementing  Agencies  (PIA)  at  the Gram Panchayat / Block / District level.

(b) Under DAY-NRLM, various sub-schemes like Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP), Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), National Rural Economic  Transformation  Project  (NRETP),  Deendayal  Upadhyay  Gramin  Kaushalya Yojana  (DDU-GKY),  Rural  Self  Employment  Training  Institutes  (RSETI)  are  being implemented within the mission for enhancing the income on sustainable basis of the rural poor. The mission seeks to achieve its objective through investing in four core components viz., (i) social mobilization and promotion of sustainable community institutions of the rural poor (Self Help Groups-SHGs, Village Organisations-VOs, Cluster Level Federations-CLFs); (ii)  financial  inclusion,  (iii)  sustainable  livelihoods;  and  (iv)  convergence  and  entitlements. Accordingly, within the ambit of the mission and with the converging schemes of the other Ministries, SHG members are being facilitated for promotion of sustainable livelihoods, so that  they  may  reach  an  aspirational  goal  of  having  minimum  of  one  lakh  rupee  as  annual income. For facilitating this initiative, a mobile application 'Lakphatididi' has been rolled out for surveying the income and activities of the SHG households. (c) & (d) The Ministry in collaboration with Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has created 'SARAS Collection' as a Store Front in GeM for marketing of SHG products. The States of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya  Pradesh,  Mizoram,  Odisha,  Punjab,  Rajasthan,  Tamil  Nadu,  Uttarakhand,  Uttar Pradesh  and  West  Bengal  have  supported  SHGs  in  registering  on  GeM  portal.  Also, Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) have been entered on 2 nd November, 2021 and 12 th May, 2022 between Ministry  and Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd. and Amazon respectively to  allow  the  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs)  producers  including  the  artisans,  weavers  and craftsmen to access national markets through the Flipkart Samarth programme and Amazon Saheli  initiative.  An  MoU  has  also  been  signed  by  the  Ministry  with  Patanjali  on  2 nd November,  2022 for  collaboration  in  various  fields  including  online  marketing  of  SHGs products.  An  e-Commerce  platform  has  also  been  launched  by  the  Ministry  for  online marketing  of  SHG  products.  Further,  some  States  have  also  developed  their  own  eCommerce platform to support marketing of products of SHGs.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO IN REPLY OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1147 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.12.2022 REGARDING 'ANNUAL INCOME OF SHGs'.

| Sl No   | State/UTs                             | SHGs Formed   | Households Mobilised   |
|---------|---------------------------------------|---------------|------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh                        | 820642        | 8310437                |
| 2       | Assam                                 | 324885        | 3593756                |
| 3       | Bihar                                 | 1023750       | 11851142               |
| 4       | Chhattisgarh                          | 242538        | 2593288                |
| 5       | Gujarat                               | 268360        | 2681245                |
| 6       | Jharkhand                             | 277850        | 3446912                |
| 7       | Karnataka                             | 245060        | 2948218                |
| 8       | Kerala                                | 254191        | 3644669                |
| 9       | Madhya Pradesh                        | 410521        | 4582687                |
| 10      | Maharashtra                           | 589323        | 5925551                |
| 11      | Odisha                                | 525964        | 5442834                |
| 12      | Rajasthan                             | 244553        | 2714272                |
| 13      | Tamil Nadu                            | 316218        | 3675989                |
| 14      | Telangana                             | 437819        | 4593482                |
| 15      | Uttar Pradesh                         | 662588        | 6962568                |
| 16      | West Bengal                           | 1028286       | 10664462               |
| 17      | Haryana                               | 53934         | 560806                 |
| 18      | Himachal Pradesh                      | 41775         | 338103                 |
| 19      | Jammu &Kashmir                        | 69842         | 572188                 |
| 20      | Punjab                                | 37461         | 377609                 |
| 21      | Uttarakhand                           | 51052         | 381842                 |
| 22      | Arunachal Pradesh                     | 5383          | 44623                  |
| 23      | Manipur                               | 5330          | 57481                  |
| 24      | Meghalaya                             | 42934         | 418254                 |
| 25      | Mizoram                               | 9000          | 73765                  |
| 26      | Nagaland                              | 13174         | 114336                 |
| 27      | Sikkim                                | 5407          | 50779                  |
| 28      | Tripura                               | 43706         | 393480                 |
| 29      | Andaman &Nicobar                      | 1087          | 10805                  |
| 30      | Goa                                   | 3562          | 45947                  |
| 31      | Ladakh                                | 519           | 4315                   |
| 32      | Lakshadweep                           | 325           | 3692                   |
| 33      | Puducherry                            | 4071          | 52144                  |
| 34      | Daman and Diu and Dadra& Nagar Haveli | 792           | 8469                   |
|         | Total:                                | 80,61,902     | 8,71,40,150            |

* As on 30 th November, 2022