Jan samarth portal

Jan samarth portal

Subject: Governance

Section: Schemes

Portal was launched during the ‘Iconic Week Celebrations’ of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The week, starting from June 6 to June 11, is being celebrated as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

What is Jan Samarth Portal?

Jan Samarth Portal is a one-stop digital portal that links the government credit schemes. It is the first of its kind platform, connecting beneficiaries directly to the lenders.

This portal has been launched in a bid to encourage inclusive growth and development of several sectors by guiding and providing them the right government benefits by means of simple and easy digital processes. It ensures end-to-end coverage of all the linked schemes.

How many schemes will be linked to a single platform?

Jan Samarth Portal is a unique digital portal that will link 13 Credit Linked Government schemes on a single platform.

Significance of the Portal:

This portal will help in improving the lives of students, businessmen, farmers, MSME entrepreneurs as well as help them in realizing their dreams. The Portal has an open architecture, which will help state governments and other organisations to add their plans on it, in future.

It will check eligibility, give in principle sanction and send the application to the selected Bank. It will also keep the beneficiaries updated at each stage of the journey. Multiple visits to Bank branches not required.