Port Blair, Dec 14: PMSVANidhi aims to provide an affordable working capital loan to street vendors in order to restart their livelihoods that had come to a pause, due to coronavirus lockdown.The street vendors are in all praise for the timely enactment of PMSVANidhi by the Administration, one such indebted vendor is Mohammed Misbauddin Lascar,a PaniPuri vendor at Delanipur, who supports a family of 4 members ,with a wife and two school going sons.He was able to provide a decent living for his family untilthe pandemic hit hard upon him. Being the sole bread winner for the family he struggled hard to make ends meet.
His grieving wife states that we, as parents could tolerate our hunger but with two young children it is very difficult as a mother to see them starve for food on a daily basis with tears rolling down their eyes.She also states they managed by getting some minimal required ration for survival,from a nearby grocery store by borrowing money from friends.
Mohammed Misbauddin states that PMSVANidhi came as a blessing from God when he came to hear about it from his fellow vendor, he applied for the micro-credit loan of Rs 10,000 at PBMC office with the help of the staffs.On receiving the Loan,he first bought some ration for the family,then bought potatoes to restart his Pani Puri business, returned the borrowed money and now expresses his deep gratitude for the administration for providing micro credit facility of Rs 10000 at a subsidized rate of interest.He is gradually improving his business and financially in a much better condition than before.
