SVEP

BACKGROUND

The Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Program (SVEP) is the sub-scheme under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission initiated by the Ministry of Rural Development with the objective of addressing the issue of poverty and unemployment by encouraging entrepreneurship initiatives among the rural youth in the country. SVEP aims to establish systems that work on knowledge dissemination, advisory and financial support to the entrepreneurs that can lead to, identification and assisting of rural start-up entrepreneurs and provide handholding support to set up the right enterprise and sustain the same in the long run. For this purpose, a pool of block-level community cadre will be trained in business management to support the rural poor to set up their enterprises and handhold them for at least six months of start-up. 

In the year 2016, Kudumbashree NRO was entrusted with the task of implementing SVEP in Kerala along with three other states- Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and Bihar by NRLM. The MEC model implemented by Kudumbashree in Kerala and in partner states was among the models that went into the design of SVEP. Kudumbashree NRO played a crucial role in the development of the concept of SVEP. 

PROFILE 

Kudumbashree NRO has been implementing SVEP in Kerala, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Bihar since 2016. It was entrusted to implement SVEP in 11 more states - Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Sikkim, Tripura, Telengana, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Punjab. At present, the project is being implemented in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Sikkim, Tripura, Telengana, Mizoram, Punjab, Bihar, Rajasthan. Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Kerala.