UP Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Program benefited 11,454 women in the state

By: WE Staff | Thursday, 26 August 2021

Over the last four and a half years, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's efforts to empower rural women and make them self-reliant have begun to bear fruit, with an increasing number of rural females resorting to entrepreneurship.

According to official figures, the Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Program (SVEP) has benefited 11,454 women in the state so far.

Women from Akbarpur block of Ambedkar Nagar, Bankati block of Basti, Pipraich block of Gorakhpur, and Sewapuri block of Varanasi were among the program's beneficiaries in the fiscal year 2020-21. Women from various blocks across nine districts had already benefited.

The SVEP was established to enhance women's groups in Uttar Pradesh while also expediting village economic development and eradicating poverty and unemployment.

Women are improving the rural economy by opening grocery stores, power loom units, and wheat and porridge mills in remote areas of the state. Villagers are becoming financially stronger as a result of these initiatives.

In addition, the National Rural Livelihood Mission has been instrumental in encouraging rural women in Uttar Pradesh to launch small businesses.

Since 2017, the government has aided many groups of women in 19 blocks across 19 districts in establishing small businesses and industries.

Women are offered loans ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh to start a single business, while women's groups are granted loans ranging from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to start a community industry. In these industries, women outnumber males 60 to 40 percent of the time.

The government also makes certain that the males who work in the units are linked to the women in the unit. A significant percentage of women work in the manufacturing, trading, and service industries.