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Cover Story Aajeevika Mission-Nation's Mission
What Progress from Financial Progress from FY Achievement until
Year 2012-13 to 2013-14 2014-15 to Sep'22 September 2022

Number of SHG-
affiliated families (in 236.30 622.96 861.5
lakhs)

Number of NRLM 21.31
Self-Help Groups (in 57.84 79.15
lakhs)

Amount of bank
loans disbursed in 22944.16 531936.15 554959.04
2021-22 (in crores)

Amount of Aid to
Self-Help Groups (in 1501.58 17947.63 19449.21
Crores)

kitchens served millions of people with food.
THE NPAs ON SHGs Producer enterprises purchased over 25,502
AS OF 31 MARCH 2014 metric tonnes of fruits and other agricultural and

WERE 9.58 dairy products.

Target to reach every rural household
The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural
campaign to provide piped water to every household. Livelihood Mission aims to help 10 crore rural poor
The management of tap water projects is also in the families improve their livelihoods and incomes. It
hands of these self-help groups in many of these is being implemented across the country in 6,861
places. Whether it is women's participation in water blocks. From 2011 to 2014, five lakh self-help
committees formed for the water supply scheme, groups were formed, but only 50-52 lakh families
pipeline maintenance, or water testing, the women were connected to the self-help groups. However,
associated with the group perform their role better it underwent a radical transformation after 2014.
as a national help group than as a self-help group. Over the last eight years, the Central Government
Even when a global pandemic like COVID threatened has assisted in every way possible in empowering
to bring the world to a halt, the women's power Self-Help Groups. More than 8.5 crore women
associated with India's self-help groups stood by have now signed up for this campaign across the
the country in this fight. About 4 lakh Community country. That is, in some ways, eight and a half
Resource Persons (CRPs) trained 5.6 crore self-help crore families are involved in this work.
group members on COVID behaviour. While 3 lakh Prime Minister Modi's vision and goal for this
SHG members produced over 16 crore face masks, scheme is for every rural family to have at least
over 5 lakh litres of sanitizer and over 1 lakh litres of one woman, a sister-daughter or mother, involved
hand wash were produced. Over one lakh community in this campaign. Under the Deendayal Antyodaya

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