Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: For-profit social enterprise Haqdarshak, which offers entry to authorities welfare schemes to small companies and people, on Monday introduced Yojana card for small companies and casual staff. The first-of-its-kind bodily card will assist its customers uncover and entry authorities and personal welfare providers through assisted or self-service channels. The card goals to get 400 million casual staff and 50 million micro enterprises into the social welfare and monetary inclusion internet.
The card shops required details about the person and firm to be eligible for varied providers. While the self-service channel permits customers to entry schemes through a QR code, by way of the assisted-technology mannequin, the corporate is aiming to faucet function telephone and smartphone customers by way of its community of over 20,000 area brokers, predominantly ladies, who earn an earnings from the service supply.
The card will primarily goal low-income households, who earn lower than Rs 1,000 per day, particularly development staff, manufacturing unit staff, sanitation staff, gig economic system staff, and avenue distributors, aside from micro-businesses with an annual turnover of lower than Rs 10 lakh.
Haqdarshak’s MSME platform at the moment helps companies entry over 200 schemes associated to funding, subsidies, licensing, and registrations similar to Udyam registration, ECLGS, PM SVANidhi, CGTMSE, and extra. The firm stated the cardboard will create a singular identification code for the consumer to assist resolve points together with unintended exclusion, grievance redressal, and documentation gaps whereas making use of for schemes.
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“The Yojana Card is a single channel for welfare-schemes eligibility and will eventually be linked to a bank. It will be a game-changing product in solving access problems for social protection. With this launch, we aim to target the 500 million informal workers and micro-businesses under an active social protection net. The launch is also a new phase of growth for Haqdarshak after six years of proving the concept and reaching over 20 lakh families across 24 states in the country,” stated Aniket Doegar, CEO & Co-Founder, Haqdarshak.
The firm stated over the following two months, the cardboard shall be obtainable at Haqdarshak’s choose brick and mortar setups known as Yojana Kendras for walk-in providers. Haqdarshak stated it has impacted over 2.04 million Indians by unlocking welfare advantages value Rs 4,000 crore. The startup is backed by buyers together with chemical manufacturing firm Deepak Nitrite’s Chairman Deepak Mehta’s Family Office, 3i Partners, Beyond Capital Fund, Upaya Social Ventures, and Acumen.
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