Yuva Sahakar Scheme:
The Minister of Cooperation informed the Lok Sabha about Yuva Sahakar Scheme.
- Yuva Sahakar – Cooperative Enterprise Support and Innovation Scheme” aims to encourage newly formed cooperative societies with new and/or innovative ideas.
- The scheme encourages young entrepreneur Cooperative Societies which are in operation for a minimum of 3 months.
- The loan provided under the scheme is a long-term loan (up to 5 years) and as an incentive, NCDC provides 2% interest subvention on its applicable rate of interest on term loan for the project activities.
- Further, the loan component under the scheme can also be dovetailed with subsidy, as applicable and available from other Government of India schemes. NCDC funding is project based.
- It is being implemented by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) across the country.