Artisans to get ₹15,000 as incentive under Vishwakarma scheme

The registration and benefits of the Vishwakarma scheme would also be restricted to one member of a family

- Rituraj Baruah

The Union government is set to launch the PM Vishwakarma scheme to support artisans and workers on 17 September.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the scheme at the India International Convention & Expo Centre, Dwarka in the national capital.

Under the scheme, beneficiaries will get ₹15,000 each as toolkit incentives through e-vouchers or eRUPI, apart from collateral-free enterprise development loans at concessional rate of interest. Further, the artisans would also get an incentive of ₹1 per transaction for maximum of 100 transactions per month, showed a presentation prepared by the MSME ministry.

The artisans would have to go through a skill verification phase followed by a five-day training session. They would provide with an advanced training session for 15 or more days and during the training period they would get a stipend of ₹500 per day, the presentation showed.

The scheme also has a corpus of ₹250 crore for quality certification, branding, advertising, publicity and other marketing activities.