152 SAKSHAM Centres launched in a week as part of Amrit Mahotsav
152 SAKSHAM Centres across 13 states were launched under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana
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New Delhi, October 22: As a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, a total of 152 Centres for Financial Literacy & Service Delivery / SAKSHAM Centres, across 77 districts of 13 states, launched under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission / DAY-NRLM of the Ministry of Rural Development during 4-8th October, 2021.
Centre for Financial Literacy & Service Delivery would act as a 1 stop solution / single window system for basic financial needs of Self-Help Group or SHG households in the rural areas.
The main objective of the centre is to provide financial literacy, facilitate delivery of financial services (savings, credit, insurance, pensions etc) to SHG members and rural poor. These Centres will be managed by SHG network at the level of the Cluster Level Federations (CLFs), with the help of trained Community Resource Persons (CRPs).
The CRPs are provided 6 days residential training at Rural Self Employment Training Institutes established by Lead Bank of the district. These people also provided a training tool kit in the vernacular languages.
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Ministry of Rural Development or MoRD has also developed a mobile and web-based application named ‘SAKSHAM’, which will be used by community resource person of the Centre to know the penetration of financial services for each SHG and village, recognise major gaps, and accordingly provide training and deliver required financial services.
13 State Rural Livelihoods Missions have done block / district level programmes. Here, women SHG members, financial literacy resource persons, Bankers, officials of district administration, public representatives participated in launch event. These include Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura and UP.