Under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY NRLM), data pertaining to caste category is maintained only for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Caste. The groups having fifty percent or more members of a particular caste category are marked as a group of that particular category. So far, 10.05 crores of households have been mobilised into 90.87 lakh Self Help Groups. As per the report available on lokos.in, the category-wise details of groups as on 28.11.2024 is as under:

 

Under DAY- NRLM, all eligible rural poor households are identified and mobilized into Self Help Groups (SHGs). The eligible households include all households with one or more deprivation, automatically included households as per Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 and all eligible households identified through a ‘participatory identification of poor’ (PIP) process and validated by gram sabha constitute the NRLM target group. Once identified, all eligible households are mobilized into SHGs.

The Government has started socio economic profiling of urban poor.

DAY NRLM facilitates the beneficiaries to access various schemes of Government of India, the details of few of them are as under:

During 2024-25, 4.93 crore SHG members have been enrolled under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), 6.14 crore under Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and 7.92 crore beneficiaries have been covered under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM JAY)/State specific health insurance.

 

Prime Minister Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM FME) Scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing and Industries (MoFPI) is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Ministry of Rural Development through respective State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) for its seed capital component. An amount up-to the extent of Rs. 40,000/- is being provided by MoFPI to the Self Help Groups (SHGs)/ SHG members who are doing food processing activities. As on 31^st October 2024, 2,51,193 SHG entrepreneurs have been supported with seed capital of Rs. 831.27 crore.

DAY-NRLM is also converging with Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Pariyojana (PKVY) being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare with the aim to provide input support to Mahila kisans for preparation of land, supply of liquid bio-fertilizers, seed preparation, procurement of organic seeds, creation of azola pits, and support in disease and pest control; setting up of Custom Hiring Centres (CHC)/ tool banks; creation of cattle shed/ poultry shed/ pig sty; packing, labelling and branding of organic products; soil testing; organic certification; and exposure visits and training of women farmers and community resource persons.

 

Necessary facilitation is done for access of benefits of the schemes implemented by the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying and Fisheries which includes providing milch animals to poor landless farmers, widows and other vulnerable sections of the society, support the productivity enhancement of small ruminants and poultry, developing micro level infrastructure at the village and the household level, promotion of fisheries Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and skill training and entrepreneurship promotion.

 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Rural Development, Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

 

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