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Towards Duty
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND
MARKETING OF TRIBAL PRODUCTS AND PRODUCE
n Under this scheme, TRIFED is
promoting e-commerce sales of
tribal products from its own portal,
www.tribesindia.com, as well as on
all major e-commerce portals like
Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, Paytm,
and GeM.
n There are 1,25,000 artisan families
connected on TRIFED's online portal.
More than 100,000 products are
present here.
Trifed has established a network
n
of 145 outlets located across the
country as of October 30, 2021,
which includes 97 own sales outlets,
33 outlets on consignment sale and
15 franchisee outlets.
VAN DHAN VIKAS YOJANA
Under the scheme "MSP for MFP",
n employment.
local forest product clusters
(VDVKCs) act as common facilitation
centres for procurement and value-
added procurement of locally
available minor forest products.
n For setting up Van Dhan Vikas Kendra
Cluster (VDVKC), a total of 254.64
crore has been released to TRIFED in
the last three years.
n Since its inception in 2019-20, so far,
3110 VDVKCs have been sanctioned,
benefiting 9.28 lakh MFP collectors of
more than 52,000 SHGs.
Duty
Towards
Path
Path
Years
Years
MINOR FOREST PRODUCE
The MSP for most of the minor forest products
(MFP) has been increased. 37 new items under
the MSP scheme for MFPs from 2020–21.
The number of MFPs under the MSP scheme
increased from 50 to 87 during 2020–21.
Procurement of MFPs worth Rs.317.89 crore
by the States from Government of India funds
since the implementation of the MSP scheme
for MFPs.
EQUITY SUPPORT FOR
NSTFDC/STFDC
n Through its implementing agencies,
the National Scheduled Tribes
Finance and Development Corporation
(NSTFDC) provides concessional
loans to eligible ST people for any
income-generating activities or self-
n NSTFDC has disbursed Rs 748.75
crore to 4.04 lakh tribal beneficiaries
under its five schemes in the last three
years (2019-20 to 30.11.2021).
n The NSTFDC and KVIC have agreed
to work together as an implementing
agency for the PMEGP initiative. The
goal of the MoU is to support tribal
entrepreneurs with low-interest loans
through banks and SCAs, with ST
beneficiaries receiving a back-end
subsidy of up to 35 percent of the unit
cost.
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