Stand Up India is the need of the hour to fulfill the ambitious ideas into reality



S.S.Dogra

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The ambitious campaign of “Make in India” by our Prime Minister Hon’ble Narender Modi ji started with very good perspective. Only the visionary leader can think about such idea and implement all his concepts & thoughts just for the all round development of India. Whether it is Digital India to adopt latest technological set up to Start Up Indian campaign, which is based on an action plan aimed at promoting bank financing for start-up ventures to boost entrepreneurship and encourage start ups with jobs creation.

Now, yet another campaign Stand Up India initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Stand Up India initiative will promote entrepreneurship among women, SC & ST communities. It is expected to benefit a large number of such entrepreneurs, as it is intended to facilitate at least two such projects per bank branch (Scheduled Commercial Bank) on an average one for each category of an entrepreneur. ‘Stand up India’ aims to empower every Indian and enable them to stand on their own feet.

PM Modi paid tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram, who served the nation for years. He even said that his vision for ‘Stand Up India’ is to give opportunities to Dalit and poor people to being reforms in India.According to P.M. Modi “Through ‘Stand Up India’ initiative, we intend to turn job seekers into job creators. Arun Jaitley said, “Through Stand Up India initiative, we intend to encourage entrepreneurship among woman and SC and STs.”

Modi recently launched the Stand-Up India Programme. The scheme proposes to leverage the institutional credit structure to reach out to SC/ ST under-served entrepreneur’s sectors of the population by facilitating bank loans. PM to come up with credit guarantee schemes for the SC/ST entrepreneurs and now they are getting a cover of Rs. 50 lakh to 15 crore. Mr. Milind Kamble-president of The Dalit Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (DICCI) also appreciated P.M. Modi. According to Mr. Kamble it is the biggest financial inclusion programme that the country ever came up with. Kamble further added that the scheme would be benefiting as many as 1.25 Lakh SC/ST entrepreneurs as well as the 1.25 Lakh women entrepreneurs of the country. Government has also made venture capital funds in which one can get the a assistance up to Rs 15 crore. The Industrial Financial Corporation of India (IFCI) is operating all these schemes. “We told the PM that we don’t have collateral free loans, and then he came up with Stand-Up India scheme where they give collateral free loans from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 1 crore,” said DICCI Chief. Number of SC/ST entrepreneurs has grown rapidly after the liberalisation; he said adding that 15 per cent of total SME entrepreneurs are SC/ST.

With all these new initiatives & implementation, India will certainly achieve what our country deserve. But to fulfill the dreams of positive Indians, it’s the duty to come forward and make these ambitious campaign into reality. India is lucky to have a visionary leader like P.M. Modi.

He himself set many example before getting this prestigious post. Indian have talent but its not exposed properly. Now, with the sincere efforts & initiatives, India is recognized at the global level. This is good sign for our nation. Stand Up India campaign is the need of the hour to fulfil the ambitious ideas into reality.