Scheme Name: Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP)

State: Jammu and Kashmir

Description of the Scheme:

• Skill building support is provided to all the entrepreneurs supported under Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme through Community Resource Persons for Enterprise Promotion (CRP-EP).
• SVEP process mandates the preparation of a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for each block. The DPR provides estimates of the potential of enterprises in various sectors in the block. The entrepreneurs have the freedom to identify the sectors in which they want to start businesses based on assessment of market potential.

Target group :

Sector of the Scheme:

Eligibility Criteria: Any Rural poor who is willing to be entrepreneurial and self reliant is eligible to be part of this programme..

Nature & Mode of Assistance:

•  Create a Block Resource Centre ? Enterprise Promotion (BRC-EP); The BRC should act as a nodal centre to implement SVEP. Block Level Federation (BLF) to come up under NRLM could be one of institutional platforms for BRC.
• Cluster Level Federation (CLF) /VOs shallhold the entity till BLF comes into existence. BRC should follow a self-sustaining revenue model.
• BRC to be assisted by CRP-EP and the Bank Coordination System (Bank Mitra). BRC to provide resource and reference material including videos, manuals etc.
• Help enterprises get bank finance using tablet based software for making the business feasibility plan, doing credit appraisal and tracking business performance.
• Use the Community Investment Fund (CIF) to provide seed capital for starting the business till it reaches a size where bank finance is needed.

"Financial Information (Subsidy, low interest rate, etc.)":

"Other Assistance (Procurement of machinery, Technology /Marketing, International Cooperation, etc.)":

How to apply:

Whom to Contact:

Principal Secretary to Government 0191 - 2565020

finance-jk@nic.in