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Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development (TREAD) Scheme for Women
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Women/Gender,Others
1. Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development (TREAD) Scheme for Women Women have been among the most disadvantaged and oppressed section of our country with regard to access to and control over resources. Problems faced by them continue to be grave particularly for illiterate & semi literate women of rural and urban areas In order to alleviate their problems, Govt. of India launched a scheme entitled " Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development" (TREAD) during the 9th plan period which has slightly been modified and is now put in operation. The scheme envisages economic empowerment of such women through trade related training, information and counseling extension activities related to trades, products, services etc. 2. OBJECTIVES Experience has revealed that apart from counseling and training, delivery of credit poses the most serious problem for the poor women. There is also dearth of information with regard to existing status of women and their common needs for providing necessary support. Since such women are not able to have an easy access to credit, it has been envisaged that the credit will be made available to women applicants through NGOs who would be capable of handling funds in an appropriate manner. These NGOs will not only handle the disbursement of such loans needed by women but would also provide them adequate counseling, training and Assistance in developing markets.
A. Credit Credit to Projects - Government Grant up to 30% of the total project cost as appraised by lending institutions which would finance the remaining 70% as loan Assistance to applicant women, who have no easy access to credit from banks due to their cumbersome procedures and the inability of poor & usually illiterate/semi-literate women to provide adequate security demanded by banks in the form of collaterals. GOI Grant and the loan portion from the lending agencies to assist such women shall be routed through eligible NGOs engaged in assisting poor women through any kind of income generating activities in non farm sector. For example if an NGO submits project(s) for a number of individual or group(s) women say for Rs. 50,000 each for a group of 50 women, then the loan amount required by 50 women would be Rs. 25 lakhs. To it would be added the expenditure that the NGO will make in training / counseling of staff, part expenses on operationalising a management and monitoring system, vehicles, charges for legal documentation, training of loaners, auditors fees charged. Say duly approved by lending institutes, it works out to be Rs. 15 lakhs. Then the total project cost would be Rs. 25 + 15 = 40 lakhs. The GOI grant would be maximum up to Rs. 12 lakhs (30% of Rs. 40 lakhs). B. Training & Counseling Training organizations viz. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Entrepreneurship Development Institutes (EDIs), NISIET and the NGOs conducting training programmes for empowerment of women beneficiaries identified under the scheme would be provided a grant upto maximum limit of Rs. 1.00 lakh per programme provided such institutions also bring their share to the extent of minimum 25%(10% in case of NER) of the Government grant. The batch size for such a training activity will be at least 20 participants. Duration of the training programme will be minimum one month. For example if a mention institution or eligible NGO wants to conduct a pre or post project training programme for a group of women then the maximum GOI grant can be Rs.1.0 lakh provided the NGO also raises 25% of the requested grant i.e. the total expenditure of the training expenditure can be up to Rs. 1.25 lakhs for availing full assistance of GOI grant. C. Eliciting Information on Related Needs Institutions such as Entrepreneurship Development Institutes (EDIs), NIMSME, NIESBUD, IIE, MSME-DIs EDIs sponsored by State Govt. and any other suitable institution of repute will be provided need based Government grant primarily for undertaking activities aiming at empowerment of women such as field surveys, research studies, evaluation studies, designing of training modules, etc. etc. covered under the scheme. The grant shall be limited up to Rs. 5 lakhs per project. Component B&C for GOI grant is to be approved by AS&DC(MSME) in consultation with AS&FA Ministry of MSME. Interested institutions will apply for such assistance directly to the MSME-DIs concerned and copy to the Office of DC(MSME) giving all the relevant details in the prescribed format. Download Office Memorandum in Pdf Download Application Form in Pdf For more info visit http://www.dcmsme.gov.in/schemes/treadwomen.htm Tags MSME GoI TREAD Women Tags: MSME TREAD Scheme for Women Govt of India - GoI Funds for Indian NGOs Recent Posts A research study to understand stigma associated with survivors of trafficking Call+for Expression of Interest from FPOs to Avail ProCIF Incubation Facility RFP for Multi-Hazard Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Aajeevika Young Leaders Fellowship Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and DevelopmentTREAD Scheme for Women Ravi+Sankaran+Fellowship+Program NATIONAL+INNOVATION+FOUNDATION++Biennial+Competition Saving Lives at Birth A Grand Challenge for Development Young Connectors of the Future Programme YCF Fellowship Program Open Society Reaching the Moveable Middle Funds for NGOs Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases Grant Innovation in Conflict Transformation
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