Till February 2023, 8.93 Crore women from Rural Households have been mobilized into 82.61 lakh Self Help Groups (SHGs) under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM). These SHGs have been further federated into 4.82 Lakh Village Organisations (VOs) and 31,305 Cluster Level Federations (CLFs). To support the women producer/SHG members get better marketing access through aggregation and marketing, 401 farm women owned Producer Enterprise (PE)/Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) (including 201 women owned FPOs under the central sector scheme “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs”) have been promoted under DAY-NRLM. The State wise details of number of Self Help Groups (SHG), no. of Village Organisations (VOs), no. of Cluster Level Federations (CLFs) are attached at Annexure-I, and the State-wise details of no. Producer Enterprises/Farmer Producer Organisation are attached at Annexure –II.

The Ministry has already issued detailed guidelines for facilitation of the formation/functioning of PE/FPO.

The State-wise no. Self Help Groups (SHGs), Village Organisations (VOs), Cluster Level Federations (CLFs) under DAY-NRLM as on February, 2023

 

State wise no. of Producer Enterprises/ Farmer Producer Enterprises under DAY-NRLM as on February, 2023

Sr.	State Name	No. of Producer Enterprises/ Farmer Producer Organisations	Number of women Producer Members
1	Andhra Pradesh	21	34,063
2	Bihar	22	48,521
3	Chhattisgarh	8	12,481
4	Gujarat	2	6,000
5	Jharkhand	49	37,611
6	Karnataka	3	6,381
7	Madhya Pradesh	64	1,26,152
8	Maharashtra	39	11,068
9	Odisha	45	33,891
10	Mizoram	1	10
11	Rajasthan	39	25,935
12	Tamil Nadu	1	900
13	Telangana	63	66,029
14	Uttar Pradesh	29	25,600
15	West Bengal	9	9,890
16	Kerala	5	2,043
17	Assam	1	2,162
	Total	401	4,48,737

 

This information was given by the Union Minister of State for Rural Development, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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