India Rashtriya Aajeevika Tender

The Ministry of Rural Development is implementing Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Rural Livelihoods Mission DAY-NRLM across the country 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 income over a period of time to improve their quality of life and come out of abject poverty.Under DAY - NRLM programme Revolving Funds RF at the rate of Rs.10000-15000 per SHG and Community Investment Fund CIF to the extent of Rs.250000 per SHG is provided to Self Help Groups SHGs and their federations to take up self-employment for income generation and livelihoods activities. Apart from this DAY-NRLM also facilitates credit mobilisation for SHGs in the form of bank loans. In order to reduce the effective cost of bank credit to women SHGs DAY-NRLM is providing interest subvention to SHGs on loans from banks from FinancialYear 2013-14. In addition capacity building and technological support is also provided to the target households for taking up income generating activities both in farm and non-farm sectors.DAY-NRLM has following sub-schemes focussing on self-employment of the rural poor Rural Self Employment Training Institutes RSETIs enabling a trainee to take bank credit and start hisher own Micro-enterprise. Under RSETIs opportunities are being made available to rural women by way of skill training with Entrepreneurship Development Programme EDP inputs to start self-employment ventures.Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme SVEP for facilitating the rural poor for setting up of micro Enterprises. Under SVEP 53084 entrepreneurships have been set up upto 31st May 2019. Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana AGEY to facilitate transport facilities in the rural areas which also provides self employment opportunities to the rural poor. Under AGEY 730 Vehicles are operational as on 31st May 2019.During the financial year 2018-19 a total loan amount of Rs.60923.38 Crore has been disbursed to women SHGs in rural areas across the country under the mission. In Satna District an amount of Rs.116.86 lakh has been given to women SHGs as bank loan.