Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) – Backgrounder
PIB’s background note explains SVEP’s rural enterprise support model under DAY-NRLM, including 4.32 lakh enterprises supported and QCI-quoted outcome indicators up to 2026.
- SVEP supports rural non-farm micro-enterprises through training, finance, mentoring, and local community support.
- SVEP works through SHGs to identify entrepreneurs, provide business guidance, and use community institutions for handholding and loan processes.
- BRC-EPs coordinate SVEP activities at the block level and help run enterprise promotion work.
- CRP-EPs are selected locally and mentor up to about 50 enterprises each.
What SVEP did (enterprise-led rural transformation through community institutions)
The Government of India, via the PIB background note, outlines the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) as an intervention to support rural non-farm enterprises. SVEP aims to help rural entrepreneurs start and grow enterprises through business management training, financial support, mentoring, and community-led local institutional support. The programme is implemented in a way that emphasizes social inclusion and equitable access to entrepreneurship opportunities.
What happened on the ground (scale, inclusion, and programme delivery mechanism)
UPSC framing can treat SVEP as an implementation model that combines social inclusion targets (women, SC/ST, minorities, OBC) with enterprise delivery (training + mentoring + credit + market support), and then link results to measurable livelihood indicators from evaluation.
