Context: Recently, the government has launched the ‘SARATHI’ App for Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
About SARATHI App:
- Developed by the Ministry of Rural Development in partnership with The/Nudge Institute.
- It can play a multi-faceted role in ensuring timely, effective, and efficient implementation of the Graduation program targeting the most vulnerable.
- It will increase the effectiveness of work at multiple levels, reduce cognitive and administrative load, and ensure transparency.
- It also mitigates the risk of leakage of consumption and livelihood support being provided to the target households.
About DAY-NRLM:
- Launched in 2011
- Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development
- Type of scheme: Centrally Sponsored scheme
- Aim: Reducing poverty by organizing impoverished rural households into Self-Help Groups (SHGs).
- Restructured version: Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY)
- Key features of the scheme:
- Social mobilisation and promotion and strengthening of self-managed and financially sustainable community institutions of the rural poor women, at least one woman member from each identified rural poor household, is to be brought under the Self Help Group (SHG) network in a time bound manner.
- It addresses financial inclusion from the supply and the demand sides, as the demand side, helps the underprivileged become more financially literate and gives the SHGs and their federations access to catalytic money and In terms of supply, promote the use of financial technologies based on information, communication, and technology (ICT).
- Beneficiaries identified by Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP) method instead of the BPL.
- Community Investment Funds (CIF) and Revolving Funds (RF) as resources in perpetuity to the institutions of the poor.
- Encourages public sector banks to set up Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) in all districts.
- Initiative under this scheme:
- Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY): To provide safe, affordable and community monitored rural transport services to connect remote rural villages.
- Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP): To promote agro-ecological practices that increase women farmers income and reduce their input costs and risks.
- Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP): To support entrepreneurs in rural areas to set up local enterprises.
- Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDUGKY): Enhancing the youth’s placement-related talents and placing them in economic sectors with comparatively better wages.
