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The government has been implementing the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP), a credit-linked subsidy programme, through the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), in the country, to provide self-employment opportunities to unemployed persons in rural areas, including women. Under the REGP, women entrepreneurs are entitled to a higher rate of margin money assistance as compared with general category entrepreneurs. The details of village industry units set up by women entrepreneurs, under the REPG, with margin money assistance from KVIC and loans from banks, during 2003-04 are as under:
Year
Total number of units set up
Number of units set up by women entrepreneurs
Percentage of units set up by women entrepreneurs
2003-04
24747
5726
23,14
Similarly, under the Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) implemented in both rural and urban areas, self-employment opportunities are made available to educated unemployed youth. This too is a credit-linked subsidy scheme and is implemented through the District Industries Centres of the States and Union Territories, with the loans being provided by banks. The details of cases of women entrepreneurs sanctioned under the PMRY during 2003-04 are as under:-
Year Number of cases sanctioned
Number of cases of women entrepreneurs sanctioned
Percentage of cases sanctioned to women entrepreneurs
2003-04
259811
35892
13.81
Approximately fifty per cent of these cases are estimated to be in rural areas.
This information was given by the Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, Shri Mahabir Prasad in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
MG: KKI
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