NIDAN and ANGANA at the Launch of National Mission on GeM, New Delhi

The National Mission on Government e Marketplace (GeM) was launched on September 5, 2018 to accelerate the adoption and use of GeM by major central ministries, state governments and their agencies extending for next six weeks. ANGANA through Nidan got an opportunity to be a part of the one day event held at New Delhi which was inaugurated by Industry and commerce Minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu .Other dignitaries of the event were Ram Mohan Mishra ,Alok Chaturvedi ,Anil Khaitan. 

Placed at stall no. 1 the program started with a very precise visit of Mr Suresh Prabhu along with GeM ‘s CEO Radha S Chauhan to Nidan’s and other connected stalls A short interaction about Nidan and ANGANA was shared with the duo. An elaborated address was given by Shri C.R Choudhary (MoS Commerce and Industry ) and followed by a launch session by Suresh Prabhu where he also emphasized on women startups and SHGs coming up as entrepreneurs on GeM online portal. We also had a brief interaction with Ram Mohan Mishra about Nidan’s role in Angana where he also suggested for creating a specific website for Angana products. A lot of visitors were attracted to our vibrant stall with curiousity for the Madhubani printing. 

Most highlighted and attention grabbing product amongst all was the our unique printed folder bags .The event was wrapped up with the media interaction where Suresh Prabhu also stressed upon women artisans also from all over India could easily be able to sell their products on GeM portal. ANGANA’s stall was highly appreciated by the visitors mainly the GeM officials. Nidan in association with GeM is looking forward for such more corridors of interaction.

NIDAN is working with low income communities in Delhi

Since April 2017, NIDAN is working with low income communities in Delhi, where potential self workers were identified and were given business development training according to their work and promote formal business and a sense of entrepreneurship among them to take their business to another level, which will help them increase their business profits through bank transaction , book keeping and latest techniques of social media marketing .

NIDAN celebrated such Self workers through a celebration event called ‘Celebrating Self Workers’ at Aiwan- E – Ghalib Auditorium in Delhi on 15th March, 2018. Many renowned graced occasion by showing their participation like K.K. Varshney, Finance Officer from Bharti Yuva Shakti Trust, Anubha Prasad, General Manager from SIDBI Bank, Arvind K Malik, CEO, from Udyogini , Chani Raj, Analyst from NSDC, Rajendra Tripathi, Senior Program Manager from ORACLE and Gaurav Joshi from UNDP.

The event gave a platform to our Self Workers to create a better market linkage during the experience sharing session and got benefitted by it.

NIDAN is presently following up with the self workers and helping them overcome their further challenges by proper hand holding with the project

Nidan Assures Sustainable Livelihood to Street Vendors of Bhopal

Nidan is assisting its members of Bhopal in getting the benefits of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), wherein a Street Vendor is entitled to get a loan of upto Rs. 2,00,000/-(2 lacs) for improving his/her livelihood through business expansion. Under this initiative, first of all Nidan spread awareness about the provision of the scheme among all our members. When members are informed and developed a business plan of expansion, loan forms are made available to them by Nidan from their respective wards. Then Nidan staff assists them in making the Project Proposals wherein it is mentioned, how the amount will be utilized to initiate a profit-making business and make and maintain a sustainable livelihood.  Nidan also help these members in getting the quotations for the vending items.

Later on, these forms are sent to the Circle Officers (C.Os) and from there, after being verified, go to the concerned Banks. Nidan is in regular contact with the concerned authorities and will do the regular follow-up with the Banks and will try to provide the best possible assistance to its members.  Uptill now project proposals of 2 members each from five wards i.e. 10 members, have been finalized and many more proposals are in process. Nidan is committed to its pledge that maximum number of street vendors is benefited from these NULM scheme.