Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the national portal for credit linked government schemes - Jan Samarth Portal - a one-stop digital portal linking all credit related government schemes on a single platform. This portal will help students, farmers, businessmen, MSME entrepreneurs to avail the right type of government benefits and will help them in realising their dreams, says PM, while speaking at the inauguration of the 'Iconic Week Celebrations' of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
Jan Samarth portal provides a single window facility for thirteen government credit schemes on a single platform. The portal will help beneficiaries check eligibility, give in principle sanction and send the application to the selected bank. It will keep the beneficiaries updated at each stage of the application and that too without multiple visits to bank branches.
“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," says the PM. He said 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 rigamarole of doing rounds of different ministries and websites. "Launch of National Portal for Credit Linked Government schemes - Jan Samarth Portal is a major step in this direction,” says Modi.
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. The Prime Minister 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 thousand compliances, abolishing more than 1500 laws, and decriminalizing several provisions of the Companies Act, we have ensured that Indian companies not only move ahead but also achieve new heights,” he adds.
The Prime Minister said the government is focused on simplification of reforms. “GST has now replaced the web of many 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 one lakh crore rupees every month,” he says.
The PM further states the Government e-Market (GeM) portal has brought in new ease for procurement in government and made selling to the government very easy. The purchase figure for the portal has crossed 1 lakh crore, he informed. He also 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," the Prime Minister points out.
“Today when we move with the power of reform, simplification and ease, we attain a new level of convenience … We have shown in the last 8 years that if India collectively decides to do something then India becomes a new hope for the world. Today the world is looking at us not just as a big consumer market but looking at us with hope and confidence as a capable, game changing, creative, innovative ecosystem,” the Prime Minister says.
The Prime Minister says a large part of the world expects India to solve problems. This is possible because in the last 8 years we have trusted the wisdom of the common Indian. “We encouraged the public as intelligent participants in Growth. We have always found that whatever technology is deployed for good governance is not only adopted by people but also appreciated by them,” the Prime Minister says, referring to the achievement of UPI.
The Prime Minister noted that India has also worked on different dimensions in the last eight years. The public participation that increased in the country during this period has given impetus to the development of the country and empowered the poorest of the country's citizens. The Prime Minister remarked that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan gave an opportunity to the poor to live with dignity. Facilities like pucca houses, electricity, gas, water and free treatment increased the dignity of the poor and improved facilities. The scheme of free rations during the Corona period freed more than 80 crore countrymen from the fear of hunger. “We are witnessing a new confidence among the citizens to come out of the mentality of deprivation and dream big,” he adds.
This week is being celebrated by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs as part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ (AKAM) from 6th to 12th June 2022. Inaugurating the event, the PM also released a special series of ₹1, ₹2, ₹5, ₹10, and ₹20 coins, which will have the theme of the logo of AKAM and will also be easily identifiable to visually impaired persons.
