Lok Sabha Question No. 1203 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-11
Subject: Self-Help Groups
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Rajesh Naranbhai Chudasama

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1203 ANSWERED ON 11/02/2025

## SELF-HELP GROUPS

## 1203. SHRI RAJESH NARANBHAI CHUDASAMA:

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 Government is planning to enhance the annual income of  SHGs  which  are  the  backbone  of  rural  economy  and  if  so, the steps taken by the Government in this regard;
- (c) whether  rural  products  from  SHGs  have  huge  potential  of acceptance among masses in the country and abroad; and
- (d) if  so,  the  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  help these SHGs in selling their products?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. CHANDRA SEKHAR PEMMASANI)

(a): The  Ministry  of Rural Development  (MoRD),  inter-alia,  is implementing DeendayalAntyodayaYojana -National Rural Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NRLM)  and  Mahatma  Gandhi  National Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act  (MGNREGA)  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 up economic activities.

As on 31 st January, 2025 about 10.05 crore Women households have been  mobilized  into  90.90  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 I.

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,  the  Programme  progressively engages Federations of Women  Self-help Groups as Project Implementing  Agencies  (PIAs)  at  the  Gram  Panchayat  /  Block  / District level.

(b): Under DAY-NRLM, various sub-schemes like MahilaKisanSashaktikaranPariyojana (MKSP), Start-up Village Entrepreneurship  Programme  (SVEP),  National  Rural  Economic Transformation Project (NRETP), DeendayalUpadhyayGraminKaushalyaYojana (DDU-GKY), Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETI) are being implemented  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  has been rolled out for surveying the income and activities of the SHG households.

- (c)  &  (d):  Yes.  The  Ministry  in  collaboration  with  Government  eMarketplace  (GeM)  has  created  'SARAS  Collection'  as  a  Store Front in GeM for marketing of SHG products. 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.  AnMoU  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 (www.esaras.in) has also been launched by the Ministry for online marketing of SHG products. An MoU  has  been  signed  between  MoRD  and  Fashnear  Technologies Pvt.  Ltd.  (Meesho)  on February  16,  2023  and  Jio  Mart  (Reliance Retail  Ltd)  on  8 th   Dec,2023  for  onboarding  and  marketing  of  SHGs products.

Further,  some  States  have  also  developed  their  own  eCommerce platform to support marketing of products of SHGs.

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## ANNEXURE I

ANNEXURE I REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1203 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2025 REGARDING 'Self-Help Groups'.

State/UT  wise  details  of  the  number  of  households  mobilized  & SHGs Formed as on 31 st  January, 2025

| Sl No   | State                     |   SHGs formed |   Households Mobilized |
|---------|---------------------------|---------------|------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh            |        855600 |                9075289 |
| 2       | Assam                     |        361516 |                4111020 |
| 3       | Bihar                     |       1097100 |               12713428 |
| 4       | Chhattisgarh              |        276375 |                3068427 |
| 5       | Gujarat                   |        279758 |                2783006 |
| 6       | Jharkhand                 |        291601 |                3589607 |
| 7       | Karnataka                 |        360684 |                4207374 |
| 8       | Kerala                    |        271209 |                4002478 |
| 9       | Madhya Pradesh            |        487291 |                5829972 |
| 10      | Maharashtra               |        640719 |                6525549 |
| 11      | Odisha                    |        551141 |                5775035 |
| 12      | Rajasthan                 |        321875 |                3804161 |
| 13      | Tamil Nadu                |        336764 |                4023939 |
| 14      | Telangana                 |        442979 |                4820573 |
| 15      | Uttar Pradesh             |        842101 |                9509884 |
| 16      | West Bengal               |       1192980 |               12251533 |
| 17      | Haryana                   |         60301 |                 629094 |
| 18      | Himachal Pradesh          |         45295 |                 378542 |
| 19      | Jammu & Kashmir           |         91445 |                 797805 |
| 20      | Punjab                    |         52118 |                 543246 |
| 21      | Uttarakhand               |         65840 |                 497777 |
| 22      | Arunachal Pradesh         |         11730 |                  91964 |
| 23      | Manipur                   |         11538 |                 117457 |
| 24      | Meghalaya                 |         45312 |                 444264 |
| 25      | Mizoram                   |         10291 |                  85934 |
| 26      | Nagaland                  |         15419 |                 135261 |
| 27      | Sikkim                    |          5915 |                  56675 |
| 28      | Tripura                   |         51841 |                 494675 |
| 29      | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |          1294 |                  13194 |
| 30      | Goa                       |          3891 |                  50735 |
| 31      | Ladakh                    |          1745 |                  12230 |
| 32      | Lakshadweep               |           348 |                   4363 |
| 33      | Puducherry                |          4744 |                  59714 |
| 34      | Daman DIU and NH          |          1645 |                  16674 |
| Total   | Total                     |       9090405 |              100520879 |

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