Jan Samarth Portal To Improve Lives Of Students, Farmers And Entrepreneurs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a National Portal for Credit Linked Government Schemes - Jan Samarth - on Monday in order to free people from rigmarole of doing rounds of government ministries and websites and help in improving the lives of students, farmers, businessmen and MSME entrepreneurs.

‘Jan Samarth’ provides single window facility for 13 government schemes application submission and over 125 MLIs, including all Public Sector Banks to choose from.

Real time checks with Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Goods and Services Tax(GST), UDYAM, National E-Governance Services Limited (NeSL), Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited (CIBIL)ensure faster loan processing.

The portal will facilitate credit under government schemes under agriculture, livelihood, and education categories.

At least 13 government schemes are already available on Jan Samarth portal and more will be onboarded shortly. Itwill check eligibility, give in-principle sanction and send applications to the selected banks. It will also keep the beneficiaries updated at each stage of the journey.

Launching the portal during the inauguration of the Iconic Week celebrations of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Prime Minister said the country has borne the brunt of government-centric governance in the past. But today 21st century India is moving ahead with the approach of people-centric governance.

“Earlier it was the responsibility of the people to go to the government for availing benefit of the schemes. Now emphasis is on taking governance to people and free them from the rigmarole of doing rounds of various ministries and websites. Launch of National Portal for Credit Linked Government schemes - Jan Samarth Portal is a major step in this direction,”he added.

The Prime Minister said that any reform, if its objectives and goals are clear and there is seriousness in its implementation then good results are assured. He emphasised that the youth of our country have been kept at the heart of the reforms the country has undertaken in the last eight years. This will help them to show their potential.

“Our youth can easily open the company they want, they can start their enterprises easily, and they can run them easily. Therefore by reducing more than 30,000 compliances, abolishing more than 1500 laws, and decriminalising several provisions of the Companies Act, we have ensured that Indian companies not only move ahead but also achieve new heights”, he added.

He said the GST has now replaced the web of taxes at the centre and the state. The country is also seeing the result of this simplification. Now it has become normal for GST collection to cross Rs. one lakh crore every month.

He said that the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal has brought in new ease for procurement in government and made selling to the government very easy. Purchase figure for the portal has crossed 1 lakh crore, the Prime Minister informed.

He also talked of portals that are bringing ease of doing business. He talked about Invest India Portal for information regarding investment opportunities, single window clearance portal for business formalities.

“In this series this Jan Samarth Portal is going to help the nation’s youth and startup ecosystem,”he pointed out.

Meanwhile, addressing the gathering, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “The emphasis is to have people-to-people contact, build awareness on what the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs have done in these 75 years and not particularly what they have done in last 8 year under the leadership of our Prime Minister….”

She stated, “There have been several well-designed pro common people programmes which the Prime Minister has himself supervised in the last 8 years. Jan Samarth is part of the Prime Minister’s Seva of the common people for enabling and facilitating the common citizen.”

The Finance Minister underlined that such targeted approach in the last two years has given us good results. Common citizens have been attended to in every such way whether it is requirement for food security, and requirement for some money to be able to face the extraordinary circumstances which the Indian economy had to face.