THE federal government,Monday,flagged off the commencement of N-Power Batch C across the country,with 510 enrollees participating in the stream 1 of the youth empowerment scheme.
Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,Sadiya Umar Farouq,who flagged off the event in Abuja, said another 490,000 enrollees would be engaged in the Batch C, stream 2 to be flagged off at a later date.
Benefits of Npower Beneficiary
The N-Power volunteer (graduates) were entitled to a monthly stipend of N30,000 for a period of one year.
Non-graduate beneficiaries were entitled to N10,000monthly stipends for a period of 9 months under the Batch C.
” All beneficiaries are granted an appropriate starter pack for their trade to enable them start their businesses in their chosen trades,”she added.
She spoke further:”The N-Power programme deployes an online application and selection strategy to ensures fairness, transparency and credibility in the recruitment process
Based on this approval, the portal was again opened in June 2020, and over 6 million new applications were received. 1,000,000 beneficiaries will be mined from this as the NPower Batch C.
The batch C is divided into 2 streams.
Stream C1 of 510,000 beneficiaries and
Stream C2 for 490,000 beneficiaries.
Under the Batch C1, a total of 450,000 have been selected to benefit under the graduate component, while 60,000 beneficiries will be non-graduate beneficiaries.”
Some innovations have been introduced into the N-Power selection and payment processes such as the creation of the National Social Investment Management Systems (NASIMS), partnership with key MDAs including the NYSC, the UBEC, the NPHCDA, the NOA to mention etc, with which the Ministry is leveraging to effectively implement its interventions.
New way to Check Npower Batch C List and PPA Deployment Letter 2021
To ensure that the challenges of communication is addressed, most particularly as it relates to limitations on information flow and internet access across the country and in a bid to provide accessibility to all target programme applicants and beneficiaries, the Ministry has concluded to provide access to information via a USSD code.
In line with the above, the USSD short code *45665# has been secured via integration to provide the required connectivity and technical support for the provision of information services to our beneficiaries,”she further said
