Preventing student from drugs use, health awareness camps, legal literacy training for Shanti Sainiks. Self Help Groups: We started organizing women in to self help group from December, 1998 with a bread objective to empowering women socially and economically so as to make them capable of ensuring direct access and control over resources. Our first target was the most backward poor working women who could not save any amount from their income because of non linkages with banks. Since the year we have created 450 SHGs under Baksa and Dhemaji district. So far total 13 villages under Bardoloni development block have been covered in Dhemaji district. District wise no. of SHGs- Demaji: 24 groups Baksa: 450 groups As per rules set for SHG, only one woman can be a member from each family in the same group, weekly saving, Rs. 5/- by each member. The group will comprise total 10 to 15 members, of them, 1 president, 1 vice president, 1 secretary, 1 assistant secretary, 1 treasure and the others general member. The group is a mini bank for its members. They can take loan at low interest as per need and return them after used. Many poor women members availed the benefit in family’s emergencies. We have been trying to make the entire groups active and self reliant. But, we also face many challenges in the journey- Loan offers and various subsidies easily attract the group members. They readily accept to return bank Rs. 1,50,000/- to get a benefit of Rs. 2,50,000/-. Government officials also find our groups suitable to accept for achieving their overnight target of group formation. Many groups bribed bank linkmen up to Rs. 30,000/- Rs. 50,000/- to get loan benefits without our knowledge, some got the benefit and some did not. Groups whichever did not get is very upset now. We have to fight a battle again to rejuvenate the groups for their help. Since beginning of NRLM the groups are improving slowly. We started vocational trainings for the members of SHGs on following topics - Soft toy making Candle making Tailoring Agriculture Pig rearing Goatery Poultry farm Visitors from other organizations also come to see our activities, we arrange their visit. Government listed Chief functionary Biju Borbaruah as district resource person for NRLM.
Preventing student from drugs use, health awareness camps, legal literacy training for Shanti Sainiks. Self Help Groups: We started organizing women in to self help group from December, 1998 with a bread objective to empowering women socially and economically so as to make them capable of ensuring direct access and control over resources. Our first target was the most backward poor working women who could not save any amount from their income because of non linkages with banks. Since the year we have created 450 SHGs under Baksa and Dhemaji district. So far total 13 villages under Bardoloni development block have been covered in Dhemaji district. District wise no. of SHGs- Demaji: 24 groups Baksa: 450 groups As per rules set for SHG, only one woman can be a member from each family in the same group, weekly saving, Rs. 5/- by each member. The group will comprise total 10 to 15 members, of them, 1 president, 1 vice president, 1 secretary, 1 assistant secretary, 1 treasure and the others general member. The group is a mini bank for its members. They can take loan at low interest as per need and return them after used. Many poor women members availed the benefit in family’s emergencies. We have been trying to make the entire groups active and self reliant. But, we also face many challenges in the journey- Loan offers and various subsidies easily attract the group members. They readily accept to return bank Rs. 1,50,000/- to get a benefit of Rs. 2,50,000/-. Government officials also find our groups suitable to accept for achieving their overnight target of group formation. Many groups bribed bank linkmen up to Rs. 30,000/- Rs. 50,000/- to get loan benefits without our knowledge, some got the benefit and some did not. Groups whichever did not get is very upset now. We have to fight a battle again to rejuvenate the groups for their help. Since beginning of NRLM the groups are improving slowly. We started vocational trainings for the members of SHGs on following topics - Soft toy making Candle making Tailoring Agriculture Pig rearing Goatery Poultry farm Visitors from other organizations also come to see our activities, we arrange their visit. Government listed Chief functionary Biju Borbaruah as district resource person for NRLM.
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