Food Delivery Platform Swiggy has tied up with the Government of India to help street food vendors. They will onboard street vendors to their platform and distribute their food for customers. This will help street vendors to bring back business again after the Covid-19 setback. With this scheme, Swiggy will promote vendors received PM Svanidhi Scheme. Swiggy has already signed an agreement with the Government of India in this regard.
First-round will include 125 city’s from Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns
Swiggy has tied up with the government to bring over 36,000 street food vendors to its platform. In phase one they will target 125 cities of India and bring their street vendors on their platform for food delivery. Let me tell you that street vendors were not allowed to sell their food on these platform before Covid-19 era. Their business was most affected after Covid-19.
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The food delivery startup will list street vendors from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in phase one. This will include cities like Indore, Banaras, Gwalior, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Lucknow and Bhilai, famous for street food. The company has already onboarded around 300 street vendors from Ahmedabad, Banaras, Chennai, Delhi and Indore on its platform for their pilot project.
Separate space created for street vendors on Food Delivery Platform Swiggy
The Food Delivery Platform Swiggy has created a separate space on its app for street vendors. In this section, customers can find their favourite street food. They can order their favourite street food from this section. The Swiggy has assured food safety training and certification for these vendors. They have partnered with FSSAI for the program for street vendors.
The Swiggy COO Vivek Sundar shared details about this agreement with government. He said
“Street vendors are an inexhaustible part of the country’s food and drink culture. Swiggy will help them adapt to the new situation and move forward by adopting the digital economy.”
Let me tell you that millions of street vendors lost their business due to Covid-19. Many forced to shut their shot and go back to their respective home. Now they are facing challenge to restart their business again. The GOI and Swiggy initiative many hep them to restart their business again. This initiative will certainly help vendors to restart their business again.
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1.47 lakh loan applications received from GOI under PM Svanidhi Scheme
Under the PM Svanidhi Scheme, 1.47 street vendors has applied for the loan. The government of India has announced a scheme for street vendors in relief package in early corona phase. Swiggy will target such vendors from food category and onboard them to sell their food online. Swiggy targeting to bringing 36000 vendors from 125 cities getting loan in this scheme.
PM Svanidhi Scheme is the first of its kind from government of India to help street vendors. In this scheme, street vendors were given a loan of Rs 10,000 immediately to restart their business. Both GOI and Swiggy believe that this scheme will help the street vendors to bring back their business on track.
