Following its launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday, the BJP said it will fan out across Delhi to identify potential beneficiaries of the PM Vishwakarma Scheme over the coming days.

From carpenters to barbers, cobblers, potters, and blacksmiths among other such professionals under 18 separate categories of work, the scheme seeks to provide financial assistance to artisans engaged in traditional arts and skills.

Party sources said the programme was a significant component of the BJP’s pro-SC/ST/OBC pitch in the city for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The outreach will be led by the Delhi BJP’s OBC Morcha and be taken up, especially at unauthorised colonies and slum clusters where members of such communities live in large numbers.