Efforts on to supply web delivery platform to street food vendors: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said efforts are being made to supply a web delivery platform to street food vendors on the lines of massive restaurants.

After a virtual interaction with beneficiaries of the PM Street Vendors’ Aatmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme from Madhya Pradesh, Modi praised the government for ensuring the scheme’s benefits to over lakh people and providing identity cards to over 4.5 lakh people (scheme beneficiaries) in only two months.

The Union government had launched the PM SVANidhi scheme on June 1 to assist poor street vendors impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic resume livelihood activities.

“I congratulate those that are moving ahead with the SVANidhi Yojna. it’s an enormous thing to supply benefits of the scheme to over one lakh street vendors and providing identity cards to over 4.5 lakh such people. Other states must take inspiration from Madhya Pradesh,” Modi said.

After his interaction with the road vendors, Modi during a televised address said, “A scheme has been prepared to supply a web platform to street food vendors by using technology. this suggests , the road food vendors are going to be ready to make online delivery like big restaurants. Efforts are being made to supply this type of facility.”
He told the road vendors that if they are available forward, the govt will take this effort further.

The prime minister also urged the road vendors to adopt the digital payment system on an outsized scale.

“The use of digital payment has increased during the past three-four years. Its importance was realised during the corona (COVID-19 outbreak) period. Now customers avoid making payment in cash and pay directly through mobile ,” he said.
Appealing street vendors to return forward to adopt the digital system, Modi said, “A new beginning has been made by the banks and digital payment system providers.”

Modi told the road vendors that representatives of banks and such organisations will reach bent them, provide the QR code and inform them about its use.

“I appeal to them (street vendors) to use digital payment more and present an example before the planet ,”he said.

He said the govt will make efforts to make sure that street vendors altogether big cities of the state get advantage of the PM SVANidhi scheme.

“Whenever there’s an epidemic , it hits the poor brothers and sisters hard. They always suffer whether it’s excessive heat, rainfall or cold and these create problems for his or her employment and food, Modi said.

“They (the poor) faced it the foremost during the pandemic and were even were forced to return to their native places.

The government has realised this and tried to assist them the maximum amount as possible by providing them ration and creating employment opportunities,” he said.

The government launched the PM SVANidhi scheme with easy rules in order that they will get obviate paying interest on loans which they wont to take from private lenders.

“You are becoming a rebate of seven per cent in interest in these loans (under the scheme). If you repay to the bank on time, you’ll get more facilities. If you create digital transaction, you’ll get rewarded for it and you get more loan next time, he said.

Referring to attempts made earlier to get rid of poverty, Modi said, “In our country, tons has been talked about the poor. But within the last six years, everything has been wiped out a planned manner. Steps are taken, which weren’t taken earlier, just like the Jan Dhan Yojna under which 40 crore bank accounts of poor people were opened.”

These people are becoming loans and are liberated from the clutches of cash lenders. Farmers are becoming assistance directly, he mentioned.

He also said that soon villages also will be related to online marketing platforms.

“On Assumption , we took a vow to attach all villages with the optical fiber network in next 1,000 days. People also will get digital health identity cards for getting health facilities in rural areas also,” he said.

Earlier, he interacted with some beneficiaries of the PM SVANidhi scheme, including street vendor Chaganlal and his wife from Sanver in Indore district, Gwalior’s Archana Sharma and vegetable vendor Dalchand in Raisen district.

Modi advised Chaganlal the way to enhance his business by asking customers to return the pipe utilized in making broomsticks to scale back the value of creating a broomstick.