Tag: Self-Help Groups

Maharashtra’s Kalpana Turns Role Model, With Help From Adani Foundation

June 21, 2024 admin

Ms Chaudhari said that her life has undergone a sea change. New Delhi: Kalpana Chaudhari, an erstwhile common resident of Maharashtra’s Gondia district, is a popular name today. Her fledgling business of lac bangles is making waves in her village as well as neighbouring ones and also motivating fellow women villagers to follow in her…

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Women business correspondents help cut NPAs of self-help groups

February 21, 2024 admin

A file photo of Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh | Photo Credit: PTI At a time when the gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of the public sector banks is at 5%, the corresponding figure for the loans taken by women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) is 1.6%, coming down from 9.58% in 2014. This significant cut in NPAs…

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Centre to provide 15,000 women self help groups with drones that can be rented out for agricultural purposes

November 29, 2023 admin

The drones can be rented out to farmers for nano fertilizer and pesticide applications. Special arrangement photo for representation. The Union Government will provide 15,000 progressive women self-help groups (SHG) with drones to be rented out to farmers for agricultural purposes. The drone services are envisaged to be used by the farmers for Nano fertilizer…

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