In a move to prepare a profile data, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Friday launched a programme for socio-economic profiling of beneficiaries of PM Street Vendors’ Aatmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme to extend benefits of other government plans to them.
According to the ministry, a pilot programme will be run in Gaya, Indore, Kakching, Nizamabad, Rajkot, and Varanasi. The Quality Council of India (QCI) has been appointed as implementing partner for the programme. The programme was launched by Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary of the ministry of housing and urban affairs on Friday.
A complete profile of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their family members will be prepared and based on the data, benefits of the various central schemes would be extended to them. In the first phase, 125 cities have been selected for the programme. The profile will identify potential eligibility of beneficiaries and their family members for select Central Government schemes and facilitate linkages.
"Based on the profiled data, benefits of the various eligible central schemes would be extended to them for their holistic socio-economic upliftment," the ministry said.
PM SVANidhi Scheme provides micro loans to street vendors, was launched in June 2020 with an objective to provide affordable working capital loan up to Rs 10,000 to Street Vendors for facilitating resumption of their livelihoods adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.