The Urban Development Department has prepared a plan for Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DE-NULM) 2.0. Under this, a survey of street vendors of 44 municipal bodies of the State will be done.
A target has been set to give ID cards and certificates of vending to about 10,000 street vendors. Along with this, 3000 new self-help groups will also be formed to make urban women self-reliant by connecting them with self-employment. Where women will be given training to manufacture local products and their products will be made available in the market. Under this, 416 Area Level Federation will be formed. There will be 10 to 20 women in an area label federation. 42 City Label Federation will also be formed. This will also be a group of 10 to 20 women. Rs 50, 000 revolving fund will also be given to 1125 area level federations.
Till now 6417 beneficiaries have been trained under Day-NULM in Jharkhand. Presently 1967 beneficiaries are being trained. At the body level, 2709 applicants have applied for loans to start self-employment. Out of these, loans have been made available to 880 applicants. A total of 2279 self-help groups have been formed in the municipal bodies of the state in 2022-23. They have also been provided with a revolving fund of Rs 1.58 crores.
Total 13075 urban food street vendors of the state have been trained in collaboration with FSSAI. And 66135 street vendors were identified by survey out of these 46672 street vendors have been given Certificate of Vending. At the same time, 18 vending zones were approved under the 14th Finance Commission. Of these, 16 have been built. 39 vending zones were approved in the 15th Finance Commission, out of which construction of only 11 has been completed so far.