Under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), 20.84 crore loan accounts totalling an amount of Rs 10.24 lac crore have been sanctioned upto 01.11.2019. As per the findings of the PMMY survey conducted by Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, around 5 crore persons (3.1 crore self-employed and 1.95 crore hired workers) were working in establishments for which MUDRA loans were availed between April, 2015 to March, 2018. The findings of the survey reveal that these loans enabled beneficiaries to sustain the economic activities they were engaged in.
This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
