Ladies’s self-help teams (SHGs) in Rajasthan are being strengthened with worth addition to their merchandise and evolving market linkages in accordance with the demand. Financial institution loans value ₹2,400 crore have been organized for them with the emphasis on their capability enhancement. As many as 2.30 lakh SHGs are functioning throughout the State.
The Rajasthan Grameen Aajeevika Vikas Parishad (RGAVP), which is underneath the aegis of the Division of Rural Improvement and manages the SHGs’ affairs, organised a ‘Samooh Sambal’ (group sources) dialogue right here lately to discover the scope for growth of labor. SHG members highlighted challenges within the area whereas narrating their expertise of working in several sectors.
Livelihood initiatives
The RGAVP has been formulating poverty alleviation schemes and implementing livelihood-related programmes within the State whereas supporting SHGs of their earnings era actions. The RGAVP is implementing 4 mega livelihood initiatives supported by the Union Ministry of Rural Improvement, World Financial institution and the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Improvement.
Principal Rural Improvement Secretary Aparna Arora mentioned an in depth motion plan can be formulated shortly, masking all facets of branding, high quality management, packaging and advertising and marketing of ladies’s merchandise. The cluster-level teams can be strengthened so as to equip them to produce the merchandise to fulfill the demand available in the market, she mentioned.
In accordance with the RGAVP’s estimate, about 27.18 lakh rural ladies are related to the SHGs. Linking the SHGs with one another has additionally led the institution of group funding funds and ensured monetary inclusion of underprivileged sections.
The RGAVP declared Ruma Devi, a Barmer-based conventional handicraft artisan and a recipient of the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2018, as its model ambassador. Rural Improvement Minister Ramesh Chand Meena mentioned that Ms. Devi had supplied steerage for girls’s upliftment and recognising her would assist strengthen the agricultural financial system.
