Details of the total number of women who have benefited from the Lakhpati Didi and Namo Didi initiatives, State-wise and category-wise
Details of the total number of women who have benefited from the Lakhpati Didi and Namo Didi initiatives, State-wise and category-wise
The Deendayal Antodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is a centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development. This is being implemented across the country (except Delhi & Chandigarh) with the objective to alleviate rural poverty inter-alia, through organizing the rural poor women into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and continuously nurturing and supporting them till they attain appreciable increase in income over a period of time, improve their quality of life and come out of abject poverty. Lakhpati Didi initiative is one of the outcomes of DAY-NRLM. A structured approach has been adopted to make the Self-Help Group (SHG) members Lakhpati, i.e. they earn minimum income of Rupees one lakh per year on a sustainable basis. The State/UT- wise number of Lakhpati Didis is placed at Annexure-I. The category-wise data is not being maintained in the Ministry.
The NAMO drone Didi Scheme of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare aims to provide drones to 15,000 SHG members under the DAY-NRLM from 2023-24 to 2025-26. During the year 2023-24, the fertilizer companies through their own resources have distributed 503 drones to SHG Members. State-wise details are placed at Annexure-II.
Under DAY-NRLM, 10.05 crore women have been mobilized into 90.87 lakh SHGs till October, 2024. The DAY NRLM is a process driven program where various benefits, e.g., Revolving Fund, Community Investment Fund, Bank Linkage etc. are extended to the SHGs as per their eligibility and their demands.
The Ministry has commissioned impact evaluation studies to understand the implication on financial independence of SHG women through the interventions under the DAY-NRLM. An impact evaluation study of DAY-NRLM was conducted during 2019-20 by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) with the support of the World Bank. The evaluation indicates following major findings:
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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Annexure – I
S. No
State
No. of Lakhpati Didis
1
Andaman & Nicobar islands
482
2
Andhra Pradesh
14,87,631
3
Arunachal Pradesh
5,057
4
Assam
5,18,359
5
Bihar
13,47,649
6
Chhattisgarh
3,37,097
7
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
2,021
8
Goa
866
9
Gujarat
5,38,760
10
Haryana
62,743
11
Himachal Pradesh
40,417
12
Jammu & Kashmir
43,050
13
Jharkhand
3,51,808
14
Karnataka
2,36,315
15
Kerala
2,84,616
16
Lakshadweep
60
17
Madhya Pradesh
10,51,069
18
Maharashtra
10,04,338
19
Manipur
15,559
20
Meghalaya
39,976
21
Mizoram
17,167
22
Nagaland
12,294
23
Odisha
5,37,350
24
Puducherry
7,546
25
Punjab
31,700
26
Rajasthan
2,70,405
27
Sikkim
7,794
28
Tamil Nadu
3,18,101
29
Telangana
7,58,693
30
Tripura
58,495
31
Ladakh
51,903
32
Uttar Pradesh
8,41,923
33
Uttarakhand
37,178
34
West Bengal
11,81,852
Total
1,15,00,274
Annexure – II
Drones provided to States under Namo Drone Didi Scheme
S.No
State
No. of Drones
1
Andhra Pradesh
97
2
Assam
9
3
Bihar
5
4
Chhattisgarh
12
5
Gujarat
18
6
Haryana
22
7
Himachal Pradesh
4
8
Jharkhand
1
9
Karnataka
84
10
Kerala
2
11
Madhya Pradesh
34
12
Maharashtra
30
13
Odisha
12
14
Punjab
23
15
Rajasthan
19
16
Tamil Nadu
17
17
Telangana
72
18
Uttar Pradesh
32
19
Uttarakhand
3
20
West Bengal
7
Total
- Increase in income by 19% over the base amount.
- Decline in share of informal loans by 20%
- Increase in savings by 28%
- Improved labour force participation – proportion of females reporting secondary occupation is higher (4%) in treatment areas.
- Improved access to other Schemes – Significant increase in number of social schemes availed by treatment households (6.5% higher over the base value of 2.8 schemes).