(a) the steps being taken under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) to extend financial services to farmers; and
(b) the number of farmers benefitted under the said scheme, State/UT-wise?
(a) the steps being taken under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) to extend financial services to farmers; and
(b) the number of farmers benefitted under the said scheme, State/UT-wise?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)
(a) & (b): Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is a flagship programme of Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) which aims at organizing rural poor women, including women farmers, into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and their federations, to ensure their financial inclusion and also to provide livelihoods support. One of the key focus of DAY-NRLM is to build access to formal banking services to enable women SHG members to borrow from bank to meet their immediate households needs, acquire productive assets and make investment in enterprises. The mandate of DAY-NRLM is to facilitate access to credit of at least Rs 1 lakh per households over 4-5 years. During the period Apr 2013 to Dec 2017, women SHGs under the mission were able to leverage cumulative credit of over 1.5 lakh crores. The loan outstanding with women SHGs as on Feb 2018 is Rs 63486 crores.
The Ministry is also implementing Mahila Kisan Sahshaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP), as a sub scheme under DAY-NRLM with an aim of promoting agriculture based livelihoods of rural women by strengthening community institutions of poor women farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. MKSP focuses on agriculture, non-timber forest produce and livestock interventions. It provides three kind of services to the farmers, namely
• Extension services
• Training capacity building and handholding services
• Facilitation for convergence with other line department to access the benefit from other schemes/ programmes.
So far this Ministry has approved 80 projects under MKSP covering about 33 lakhs mahila kisans in 21 states and one union territory with central allocation of about Rs. 822 crores.The State/UT-wise details are given below :-