In a remarkable achievement for the Uttar Pradesh Government, the state has secured the top position nationwide in effectively implementing eight welfare schemes for the underprivileged and the needy. This achievement also highlights Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s sensitivity towards common people.
The eight schemes include Prime Minister SVANidhi Yojana among others, which seeks to uplift street vendors by providing them interest free loans for running their businesses.
Uttar Pradesh tops in the country by providing the benefits of the scheme to maximum number of street vendors. Madhya Pradesh ranks second and Telangana third in taking the welfare scheme to the people.
An official spokesman of the government said that the chief minister’s regular monitoring and reviewing of implementation of a variety of central government’s schemes in the state had put Uttar Pradesh at the forefront in delivering its benefits to people.
State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) director Anil Kumar said that Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi’s aim was to provide benefits of state and central schemes to every section of the society in the state irrespective of caste or creed. He had given clear instructions to all the departments to take the benefits of the schemes to the people without any kind of discrimination.
On the basis of applications received so far in the state, the first installment of loan under PM SVANidhi Yojana was distributed to 9,57,771 street vendors, the second to 2,29,014 and the third to 7,391 beneficiaries in the state. Loans amounting to Rs 1,452.74 crore were distributed to 11,94,176 beneficiaries in the state. Madhya Pradesh has disbursed loans to 7,05,300 beneficiaries and Telangana to 5,09,590.
Anil Kumar further said that along with PM SVANidhi, the street vendors and their families were also availing benefits of PM Jeevan Jyoti, PM Suraksha Bima, Jan Dhan Account, One Nation One Ration Card, Janani Suraksha Yojana, PM Matritva Vandana Yojana, PM Shramyogi Maandhan and Registration under BOCW. The benefit of this scheme was being given in the state under the Swanidhi se Samriddhi program, in which 17,37,641 people were given the benefit of the scheme in the first phase, 3,19,260 in the second and 17,549 in the third.
So far, the benefit of eight central schemes has been given to 20,74,450 beneficiaries in the state. At the same time, Uttar Pradesh is also on top in the country in terms of digital transactions done by vendors. At present there are 4,90,240 digitally active vendors in the state, who have carried out digital transactions of Rs 63,78,24,790 so far. Maximum digital vendors are active in Varanasi, Firozabad, Prayagraj, Jhansi and Lucknow.
In a review meeting regarding PM SVANidhi, CM Yogi directed officials to prioritise promotion of digital transactions by making digitally inactive vendors with zero transactions under PM SVANidhi active. Along with this, instructions were given to run a campaign to update the UPIID and mobile numbers of vendors using IDs other than the UPIID received from the bank on the portal. The campaign will seek to motivate vendors for digital activity in weekly camps every month under “Main Bhi Digital Abhiyan” and “SVANidhi Se Samriddhi.”
