Guideline2020 09122020
Guideline2020 09122020
Guideline2020 09122020
P- 05/2/2020-KVI-11
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES ,
UDYOG BHAWAN,
NEW DELHI - 110 011
dated the 8th September, 2020
To,
The Chief Executive Officer,
Khadi and Village Industries,
Gramodaya, 3, Irla Road,
Vile Parle (West),
Mumbai- 400056.
2. As per the above mentioned guidelines, 'Migrant Workers' have been excluded
from the 'Special Category' list and hence, will contribute for machines etc. as a normal
beneficiary only.
Yours,~
'~
Encl.: As above
KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES COMMISSION
( Ministry of MSME )
1. INTRODUCTION:
b. Beekeeping is allow investment and skill Industry having the potential to offer
direct employment to lakhs of people especially hill dwellers, tribal and
unemployed youth and farmers. Sustainability of this industry is therefore vital
to the country's economic wellbeing and development.
c. Beekeeping has been carried out across many generations in India. It plays a
vital role in the livelihoods of the rural communities in four dynamic ways :-
~ India is among the major honey exporting countries. The major markets for
Indian honey are Germany, USA, UK, Japan, France, Italy, Spain etc.
~ India is at 8th position in the world for honey production.
~ Honey production is estimated as 35,000 MTs for 2005-06 which has now
increased to the estimated 95000 MTs in 2017-18.
3 HONEY MISSION:
Hon'ble Prime Minister had given a clarion call "SWEET KRANTI" after which
Honey Mission was launched by KVIC from May 2017 under Beekeeping
program, under 'Honey Mission' :
2
Keeping in view the importance of beekeeping in our country; Hon'ble Prime
Minister of India has announced in 2017 that ,,~ ~ ~ ~-~ ~ ~
<ft '4t ~ ~",
5. OBJECTIVES
• Utilization of available natural resources
• Creating sustainable employments
• Providing supplementary income for farmers
• Adopting scientific Bee Management practices
• Creating awareness about Honey and other Hive Products
• Creating awareness about the benefits of beekeeping in cross
pollination
• Developing linkages with like minded organizations.
3
~~
benefited the beekeepers for availing the services under common Facility
Center with the facilities for Honey Processing, Testing Lab, Packing,
Branding and Market promotion available.
No of No. of Bee
No. of Bee No of
Beneficiaries Boxes
Boxes Beneficiaries
Distributed
7. DEFINITIONS
i) Beekeeping:-
Beekeeping is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives
by a human.
ii) Beekeeper:-
Beekeepers are also called bee farmers , apiarist. The term beekeeper
refers to a person who keeps honey bees in bee hives (bee boxes) and
having knowledge in beekeeping or acquired skill in maintenance of bee
colonies and extracting hive products. Beekeeper may be land less and
can be a literate or illiterate person.
iii) Master Trainerl Mentor :-
A certified person who has a detailed knowledge of honey bee biology,
experts in the scientific practice of beekeeping i.e. maintenance of bee
colonies, colony multiplication and extraction of hive products, is called a
master trainer.
iv) Bee Hive (Bee boxes) :-
A bee hive is an a wooden box in which honey bees are kept for honey
production and bee hive products.
V) Bee colonies:-
Honey bees are social insects which live in colonies. Honey bee colonies
consist of a single queen, hundreds of male drones and 20000 to 80000
female worker bees. Each honey bee colony consists of brood- i.e.
developing eggs, larvae, pupae-honey in comb cells and pollen.
4
VI) Tool Kits:-
For the maintenance of bee colonies, the accessories like bee veil (face
covering net), Knife, smoker and hive tool are supplied as tool kits.
VII) Honey:-
Honey is biological substance produced by the bees, collected from
flowers or other plants secretions, and convert it into honey as their food.
The raw honey is to be processed/ pasteurized before its use. Raw honey
collected by extraction contains particles of wax, bee and plant bodies,
pollen grains, dirt and other foreign materials, which trigger granulation
and fermentation.
VIII) Apiary Honey:-
Honey produced by the Indian hive bees, Apis cerana Indica and the
Italian bees, Apis mellifera in apiaries and collected by the modern
extraction method is called apiary honey.
IX) Forest Honey:-
Honey produced by the rockbee Apis dorsata), and Apis
florea in forests and collected by the tribal, adopting crude
method of squeezing the comb, are called forest honeys.
Forest honey is turbed due to the presence of a lot of pollen,
wax, brood and other foreign materials.
A) Contribution by beneficiaries for getting the bee boxes with live bee colonies:
5
B) Training Fee:
C) Role of KVIC :
Before distributing the bee boxes, artisan's contribution (as an IRG) may be
collected as mentioned at 8(A) above. Artisans living below poverty line
are exempted from own contribution
The training fee collected as per the circular dated 16.04.2018 will also be the
IRG.
6
Since the beneficiaries also consist of very poor I illiterate people for them the
state Director should collect the cash towards the own contributionl training
fees by issuing official receipt and the collected funds may be remitted by
field offices: by cheque or I RTGSI Online payment to the Directorate of
accounts, KVIC, Mumbai duly providing details of beneficiaries.
9. TARGET GROUP:
y Field offices also carryout local publicity for getting the applications of
beneficiaries from Government Departments/Directly aided Institutions
(DAI)/KVIB/NABARDI Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghatan (NYKS), SC/ST/Minority
Finance & Development Corporation, Ministry of Women & Child Development
(MWCD), Army Wives' Welfare Association (AWWA), Panchayat Raj
Institutions, State Women & Child Development Corporation, State Designated
Authorities of Agricultural and Horticultural Departments etc.
Sr.
Particulars of members Position
No.
1. Dy. CEO (RespectiveZone) Chairman
2. Respective State Director / Divisional Director / his Member
representativenot less than Asst. Director of respective
Statesin the zone I
Y Age limit not less than 18 years to 55 years; having Aadhar Card, in case of
non-availability of Aadhar cardNoters 10 with photographs and Ration Cards,
etc.
Y One person from one family will be eligible for 10 bee boxes, with bee colonies
& tools kit (Bee veil, smoker, Knife and hive tool.
y Persons already trained in beekeeping by KVICI KVIB INABARD/KVK(s)
IAgriculture - Horticulture Boardsl Eligible Beekeeping NGO(s), etc. eligible to
get the support of bee boxes with bee colonies and tool kit.
y Persons who have availed benefits from other Govt. Schemes for the
same/similar purpose will not be eligible; the beneficiary shall give declaration
to this effect.
A) Duration: 5 days
8
D) Financial Expenditure (Per batch of 25 candidates) :
i. Training with the involvement of Master Trainer Rs. 40,000 per batch for
NEZ and Rs. 35000/ per batch for NON NEZ.- This include the cost of
technical handholding support by the Master Trainer after the completion
of training by beneficiaries.
1. Organizing Pilot Project for SHGs and work for value added products to
increase income of artisans.
2. They will do the complete assessment for developing online training
modules.
9
3. Carry out R &0 for new products.
17. Development of Value added is key in increasing the earning of the artisans
involved in this area. Looking at the various medicinal benefits, there is huge
potential to develop new products in this sector. Accordingly, there is need to
have a tie-up with top class institutes working in area by setting up a Centre of
Excellence. For this purpose, a tie-up may be done with CSIR or similar Labs
of Government of India / State Government Labs or other institutes like IITs /
innovation development institutes, etc.
18. ACTION PLAN FOR 2020-21 FOR PILOT PROJECT UNDER 'HONEY
MISSION':
Target Achievement
Beneficiaries Distribution of bee boxes Beneficiaries Distribution of bee
(In Numbers) with bee colonies (In Numbers) boxes with bee
(In numbers) colonies
(In numbers)
11
2000 20000 2637 26148
Nos. of Funds
Nos. of
Sr. No. Activities Proposed bee proposed
beneficiaries
colonies (Rs. In Lakhs)
Part-A
1 Distribution of Bee boxes with 800 8000 443.02
Bee colonies to Migrant
Worker under ABA Districts.
2 Pilot Project for the Formation 1250 12500 653.42
of SHG's and distributing
Bee boxes with bee colonies
through SHG,s by KVIC field
offices
3 Pilot Project for conducting 50 SHG,s 50 SHG,s 20.00
advance training in Royal
Jelly collection, Pollen
collection & Queen rearing,
Honey testing and supply the
tool kits to SHGs by Center
of Excellence
(CBRTI, KVIC, PUNE)
4 Budget for SBEC,s 17 nos 70.31
12
approval of the Ministry
with details on the same.
Total (Part-A) - - 1300.00
Part- B
7 Additional Funds 10 Clusters - 5000.00
requirement for setting up @Rs.5.00 Cr. (Funds will be
beekeeping Honey Clusters per cluster provided from
under SFURTI Program SFURTI
(2020-21) scheme)
Total (Part-B) 5000.00
(iii) KVIC had already undertaken various activities under 'Honey Mission' and
based on the earlier experience, the 'Action Plan' for "Honey Mission" was
issued on 19.12.2019 wherein 10-15 Honey clusters on pilot basis were to be
set up during 2019-20. These were to be set up in 2019-20 as part of the
'Action plan' for that year. Since no progress could happen in this area, KVIC
will now develop these clusters in 2020-21 under SFURTI Scheme.
? While the 'Honey Mission' will primarily be governed by the Action Plan as
above, however, to propagate & demonstrate the benefits across the
country including in remote areas,
? KVIC has been allowed to set up pilot projects as detailed above ( each
with an upper limit of Rs. 20.00 lakh investment including all the activities in
the said pilot project), across the country as per 'Gramodyog Vikas Yojana
(GVY)'s guidelines for the year 2020-21., i.e. the proposed Projects will be
in the range of Rs. 2.00 lakhs to 20.00 Lakhs on an average per project.
? These pilot projects will be set up, in addition to the Honey clusters to be
developed under 'Honey Mission.
13
beneficiary & Rs.45000 for Apis mellifera
bees.
3 one set of Tool kit (containing oneKnife, RS.750.00
Smoker, hive tool and bee veil)- for each
beneficiary
4 CF Sheet for 10 bee colonies ( 01 kg per RS.5000/-
bee colony@Rs. 500/kg) for each
beneficiary
5 SS made honey Extractor for one group Rs. 12000/-
comprising of 05 beneficiaries.
6 Monitoring by field offices.(per beneficiary). Rs. 1500/-
v) As part of the Action Plan, KVIC may add more activities as per field learning &
to take forward the R. & D. activities, tie-up with Centre of Excelience(CoE),
marketing linkages like opening of outlets etc., support of various expert
institutions, developing infrastructure, arranging Buyers/Sellers' meet and
developing incubation Centres etc.
~\~ 14
10. Conducting awareness program/workshop/beekeepers meets in potential
Districts.
11. Furnishing monthly, quarterly and annual reports; to Dte. of FBI, KVIC.
12. Uploading of photos with appropriate captions and reports on the various
events like training, field demonstrations, distribution of beehives, bee
colonies and equipment, places, where the hives are located and name of
the person responsible for the hives and handholding, collection and sale of
honey, etc. under the State jurisdiction and upload on the portal.
13. Create marketing linkages for the beneficiaries.
14. Maintain a detailed record of the number of boxes and colonies distributed.
A unique id number for each of the bee hive, which is tamper proof should
also be placed in the beehive, so that these beehives can be verified and
located whenever required and upload on the portal.
15. Co-ordinate and converge with local beekeeping NGOs, Master Trainers
and Beekeepers.
16. Work to motivate people to further progress by taking benefits in schemes
like MUDRA and PMEGP.
As per the communication of budget estimate (BE) received from the Ministry
of MSME; the C.O., KVIC prepares the physical & Financial target action plan
for all KVIC Field Offices and after approval by Commission and SFC, after
which the target allocation details are communicated to field offices and
accordingly funds are also released to respective field offices. The Bee Boxes
with Bee Colonies, Tool Kits and other accessories are being procured by
field offices (duly adhering to all financial procedures) since the species of
Honey Bees vary from State to State, Zone to Zone, which has its effect on
the type/specification of bee boxes/tool kits/other accessories to be procured.
a) Beekeepers/Societies/SHGs
(maintains bee colonies and extracts hive products, mainly Raw Honey)
15
c) Sales Outlets (KVIC Sales Outlet, Directly Aided Institutional Sales
Outlet, Board Aided Sales Outlets and the Sales Outlets of other
firms)
There are a lot of institutions in KVI Sector, which can play important role in
the following areas.
16
25. WORKSHOPI SEMINARS:
Workshop and seminar will be organised by the field offices which will enable
to gather the valuable technical suggestions / recommendations so as to
build the strategy for better implementation of bee keeping activity. The
workshop and seminar are conducted by involving Beekeeping Scientist,
Technical Expert, leading beekeepers, farmers leading beekeeping NGO,
Honey Exporters, Bee equipment manufacturers, Bee colony suppliers, Honey
traders, other beekeeping stakeholders in the country and scientist from
FSSAI, AGMARK & BIS etc. The roadmap could be framed for the overall
development beekeeping activities. Considering the pandemic situation it may
also be explored to conduct workshop through webinar online.
*****
17