"SVANidhi se Samriddhi"

PM SVANidhi Beneficiaries and their Families

Background

COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted the livelihoods of street vendors. Keeping this in view, the PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) - a Central Sector Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, on June 1, 2020 to facilitate special micro-credit for working capital to street vendors, through Lending Institutions, for facilitating resumption of their livelihoods.

As envisioned by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, PM SVANidhi scheme should not to be seen from the perspective of extending only loans to street vendors, but should also be seen as an instrument for outreach to street vendors and their families’ for their holistic development and socio-economic upliftment. Therefore, it is felt appropriate to link PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families, as per their respective eligibilities, to the existing welfare schemes of the Government of India, designed as safety nets to protect the poor from the socioeconomic risks and insecurities of life and livelihoods. This exercise is being undertaken under the overall ambit of PM SVANidhi Scheme2.

Objective

The programme would map the socioeconomic profile of the PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families, assess their potential eligibility for various Central welfare schemes and facilitate the linkages to these schemes. The socio-economic profiling will also help States, if they deem fit, to extend their State-specific welfare schemes & benefits, to the eligible PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families.

Key features

Socio-economic profiling programme:

1. The profiling of all the beneficiaries of PM SVANidhi will be profiled along with their families.
2. Socio-Economic upliftment of street vendors and their holistic development along with their families.
3. The profiling exercise would assess their potential eligibility for various Central Welfare Schemes.

Coverage

The programme will cover the beneficiaries and their family members in 3 cities in Jharkhand i.e., Ranchi , Dhanbad and Jamshedpur for saturation in first phase up to the duration of PM SVANidhi scheme i.e. March 2022.

Areas of Socio-economic profiling Socio Economic profiling of the PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families will focus on collecting information/ data in respect of:

1. Housing and other assets,
2. Health coverage and disability status,
3. Education, Skills and Employment,
4. Women and Child Welfare,

Areas of Socio-economic profiling Socio Economic profiling of the PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families will focus on collecting information/ data in respect of:

1. Housing and other assets
2. Health coverage and disability status,
3. Education, Skills and Employment,
4. Women and Child Welfare,
5. Banking and Insurance,
6. Migration status,
7. Occupational Category of family members,
8. Aspirational Mapping, and
9. Any other relevant area.

The key purposes of the socio-economic profiling are –

1. Access mapping w.r.t eligibility for Central Schemes (List of selected Schemes for the program:



2. Creation of baseline data for PM SVANidhi beneficiaries.
3. Eligible data collected will be converge with the set programmes.

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Swiggy

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is implementing the drive SVANidhi scheme for providing affordable collateral free loan to Street Vendors whose businesses have been affected due to the ongoing pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic has placed many restrictions on people living in the cities and they are increasingly opting for home delivery of services including food. It has not only affected the businesses of Street Food Vendors but also offered new opportunities for doing their business in a different manner.

ln this context, MoHUA has signed an MoU with Swiggy, on 5th October 2020, to provide street Food Vendors a digital platform, for receiving orders and logistic at support for delivery of food items. ln this regard, a pilot. was conducted successfully in 3 cities in Jharkhand transacting through swiggy.

Street vendors would have do the following for on boarding on Swiggy App:

S.No.	Item/Activity Description	Cost in Rs.
1.	Basic onboarding/orientation & KYC (including service charges for online processing of PAN & fssai)	300
2.	Menu digitization & Cataloguing	100
3.	Training of the Vendor on partner app usage	100
4.	PAN Registration Fee	107
5.	fssai Registration Fee	100
	Total	707

On successful onboarding of Me street vendor on Swiggy, MoHUA will pay Rs 607 (exclusive of applicable taxes) per vendor to Swiggy and Rs 100 shall be collected by the for Agency from the Vendor towards fssai registration.