PM-SURAJ Portal
Source: PIB
GS II: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections
Overview
- News in Brief
- PM-SURAJ Portal (Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan and Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan)
- Major scheme for disadvantaged section
Why in the News?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan and Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan (PM-SURAJ) national portal and sanctioned credit support to one lakh entrepreneurs of disadvantaged sections.
News in Brief
- Prime Minister will interact with beneficiaries of various government schemes from disadvantaged groups, including Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, and sanitation workers.
- also distribute Ayushman Health Cards and PPE kits to Safai Mitras (Sewer and Septic tank workers) under the National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE).
- This is a step towards safeguarding the health and safety of frontline workers who serve in challenging conditions.
PM-SURAJ Portal (Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan and Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan)
- This scheme is a credit support to disadvantaged sections.
- People from disadvantaged sections like SCs, STs and OBCs are the biggest beneficiaries of this welfare scheme.
- The national portal aims to provide credit support to eligible individuals across the country, including Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, and sanitation workers.
- This initiative is set to facilitate financial empowerment and enable entrepreneurship opportunities for the most disadvantaged sections of society.
- The credit support will be provided to eligible persons across the country, facilitated through banks, NBFC-MFIs, and other organisations.
Major scheme for disadvantaged section
Who are the disadvantaged sections?
- Disabled People, both physically and mentally, are unable to do tasks as other people can
- Socially backward, such as women, migrants, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and nomadic tribes.
- Financially or economically disadvantaged individuals such as residents of slums, temporary labourers, and those living in poverty.
- Elderly People are those who are being neglected by their families and society.
- Linguistic minority also falls in this group.
- Educationally backward people.
- Religious Minority groups and Subcaste
Major Schemes and programs are:
- Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY)
- National Fellowship for OBC Students (NF-OBC)
- Educational Loans provided by NBCFDC
- National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students
- Entrepreneurial Schemes of NBCFDC
- Credit Enhancement Guarantee Scheme for the Scheduled Castes (SCs)
- National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE)
- Scheme for Economic Empowerment of DNTs (SEED)
- Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojna (PM-AJAY)
- Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE)
- Scheme For Residential Education For Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA)
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