ankitgokani
Ankit Gokani
In an attempt to reduce rural poverty through self employment, Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a group based scheme, has the greatest advantage of pooling resources from individual members thereby strengthening the collective enterprises with need based linkages. The enterprises those are taken up by the SHGs are either resource based (e.g. Agri/MFP etc.) or skill based (e.g. handloom, handicrafts etc.) But besides these there are quite a large number of vibrant SHGs (about 30% to 40%) having neither of the above two but they need to be strengthened. There are few success models emerged in the mean time. One of them is the
Project Shakti Gaon – A corporate initiative with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Initially the project has been started in Ganjam District as an enterprising district. The Dealership of the gas has been offered to District Supply & Marketing Society (DSMS), the district unit of ORMAS. Selected SHGs are taken as Extension Counters in the block level. These SHGs were covered under SGSY and linked to banks and B’MASSs for credit facility.
Project Shakti Gaon – A corporate initiative with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Initially the project has been started in Ganjam District as an enterprising district. The Dealership of the gas has been offered to District Supply & Marketing Society (DSMS), the district unit of ORMAS. Selected SHGs are taken as Extension Counters in the block level. These SHGs were covered under SGSY and linked to banks and B’MASSs for credit facility.