Lok Sabha Question No. 2291 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-20
Subject: Objectives of DAY-NRLM
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Satyadev Pachauri, Riti Pathak, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Geeta Kora, Pradeep Kumar Singh

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2291 ANSWERED ON 20/12/2022

## OBJECTIVES OF DAY-NRLM

2291.   SHRI SATYADEV PACHAURI: SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK: SHRI JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA: SHRIMATI GEETA KORA: SHRI PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the objective of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAYNRLM) being run by the Government; and
- (b) the details and the number of awareness camps that have been organized and the business plans prepared so far on various schemes related to enterprise promotion and rural entrepreneurship across the country, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The  Government  is  implementing  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  -  National  Rural Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NRLM)  across  the  country(except  Delhi  &  Chandigarh)  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 incomes over a period of time to improve their quality of life and come out of abject poverty.
- (b) Under DAY-NRLM, the awareness of various interventions of the scheme including enterprise promotion  are being done in the regular  meetings  of  Community  Based Organisations  viz.  Cluster  Level  Federations  (CLFs),  Village  Organizations  (VOs)  and SHGs.

Further,  Start-up  Village  Entrepreneurship  Programme  (SVEP),  the  sub-scheme  under  the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) supports the members of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) or their family members to set-up small enterprises in the non-farm sector. The entrepreneurs are provided various types of training for running their business including skill training in identified sector, managerial training etc. The block is the unit of implementation of SVEP and it is a demand driven scheme. SVEP is approved in total 258 blocks across 29 States/UTs and Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of 188 blocks are approved. As on 30 th November, 2022 ,a total of 2,21,072 enterprises (with business plan) have  been  supported  under  SVEP.  The  number  of  SVEP  DPR  approved  blocks  and enterprises (with business plans) supported so far in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir is provided in the table below:

|   S.No. | State            |   No. of Districts |   Number of SVEP DPR approved blocks | No. of enterprises(with business plan) supported   |
|---------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Uttar Pradesh    |                 18 |                                   19 | 17,105                                             |
|       2 | Jharkhand        |                  9 |                                   16 | 37,628                                             |
|       3 | Bihar            |                 13 |                                   22 | 46,405                                             |
|       4 | Madhya Pradesh   |                 13 |                                   14 | 44,710                                             |
|       5 | Jammu & Kashmir* |                  9 |                                    8 | 4,682                                              |

*Due to small blocks, to make 1 SVEP block, 2 or more blocks are merged.

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