Swiggy has produced a separate space on the app exactly where buyers can locate their preferred street meals vendors.
Ease of Doing Business: Food delivery startup Swiggy has jumped in to carry forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unprecedented street vendors’ scheme PM SVANidhi, launched to help street vendors revive the small business hit by coronavirus. Swiggy has partnered with the government to bring more than 36,000 street meals vendors to its on-line platform. The enterprise mentioned that it will onboard street meals vendors from more than 125 cities in Phase 1.
Swiggy will list street vendors from Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities such as Indore, Varanasi, Gwalior, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Lucknow, and Bhilai that are popular for their street meals. Through a pilot project in the cities of Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Chennai, Delhi, and Indore, Swiggy has currently onboarded more than 300 street vendors on its platform.
The meals delivery giant has produced a separate space on the app exactly where buyers can locate their preferred street meals vendors. It has assured to facilitate meals security instruction and certification in partnership with FSSAI and their empanelled partners. “Street vendors are integral to the food culture in India and we thank the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for giving Swiggy the opportunity to do our bit to help them adapt to the ‘new normal’ and embrace and thrive in the digital economy,” mentioned Vivek Sunder, COO, Swiggy.
The SVANidhi Scheme has received about 1.47 lakh loan applications from street meals vendors so far, out of these, Swiggy will onboard 36,000 vendors to whom the loan has been disbursed in 125 cities. The enterprise claims that the drive will be the biggest of its sort globally.
The coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown had left the street vendors in despair. Recognising the need to have to help the street vendors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government had launched the PM SVANidhi scheme. It was for the 1st time that the government had launched a scheme for the street vendors. The scheme supplied an immediate loan of up to Rs 10,000 to street vendors, which was aimed at supporting them to resume their corporations as the economy opened.