Saturday, 04 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will conduct a six-day Svanidhi Se Sammriddhi camp from Monday under the aegis of Prime Minister Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (Svanidhi) Scheme.
In this camp, the corporation will connect the beneficiaries of the Svanidhi scheme and their family members with the several welfare schemes run under different departments of the Central Government. The officials informed that the government has provided micro-loans to over 1,500 street vendors in the city so far under this scheme since last year.
Besides this, other departments concerned have also done socio-economic profiling of over 900 eligible beneficiaries and their family members so far in order to provide benefits to eligible beneficiaries under various government welfare schemes, stated the officials.
The officials also clarified that this six-day camp from Monday is only for those vendors who are already the beneficiaries of the Svanidhi scheme and their family members will be offered benefits under other welfare schemes. They also informed that the MCD is regularly getting applications from several vendors to get loans under this scheme but only those applications are being entertained in which the vendor is engaged in vending before March 2020 and it is his or her main source of employment.
