Mayor distributes PAN cards & Certificates of Registration to Area Level Federations under DAY-NULM project
Chandigarh, November 17:- Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Mayor, Chandigarh today distributed PAN cards and certificates of registration to Area Level Federations under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM) project, here today in the presence of Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh and other councilors of MCC.
While addressing the office bearers of Self Help Groups, who have registered Area Level Federations in different parts of city, the Mayor said that taking a proactive approach, MCC has facilitated generation of Permanent Account Number (PAN) Cards for 19 Area Level Federations of Chandigarh out of which 13 PAN Cards have already been generated. Creation of this vital link will integrate the ALFs with the financial and business matrix of the country.
He said that the prime objective of linking all the Area Level Federations (ALFs) withPAN Card under Income Tax Department is to make them eligible and formally capablefor applying under contracts and bids (running canteens, maintenance and management of community based projects etc.) for getting project, development work with all the Government and Non-Government agencies at par with otherCivil Societies, commercial agencies and Non-government organizations.
The Mayor further said that the MCC has been undertaking various measures for addressing the issue of urban poverty under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM). Social Mobilization and Institutional Development (SM&ID) is one such component under DAY-NULM through which Self Help Groups and Area Level Federations are constituted for empowering women and creating conducive entrepreneurial environment.
He said that the ALFs are community based women organizations and federations of women based Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are engaged in Thrift & Credit among their local groups at local level and other entrepreneurial work eg.Packing, Boutique Work, Stationary, Handloom, Embroidery Work, management of community toilets etc.
The Mayor said that in future, the DAY NULM branch has planned to develop the capacities of such community based organizations i.e. ALFs by making them registered under various other sections of Income Tax Act, 1961 eg. Section 12 A and 80 G as well in addition to getting them registered under DARPAN Portal of Niti Aayog, so that such community based organizations got empowered to compete with other organizations in fetching works in various development domains.
