Tailoring Training for Rural Women under #Swavlamban @UshaIntl @sidbiofficial

17-23 October 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): 35 women from Katkamdag and Katkamsandi blocks went through one week residential training upon advance tailoring skills & maintenance of sewing machine under Swavlamban project with support of Usha International Ltd. and SIDBI.

Mr. Ritesh Lohani (Program Officer, Usha International Ltd.) briefed that Swavlamban aims for economic self-reliance of 20,000 women of Jharkhand, Bihar, U P, Rajasthan, Telangana and execution of the pilot project for 1000 women is going on currently.

During these 7 days, women have learnt intricacies of sewing machine and tailoring skill. This was second batch of the trainees and post-training performance of some first batch (27 Sep-02 Oct) women like Mrs. Pammi Devi (village-Mandai Khurd), Mrs. Nusrat Parveen (vill-Noora), Mrs. Gayatri Devi (vill-Amli), Mrs. Punam Devi (vill-Basobar) were assessed by Mr. Shivendra Maurya (Manager, SIDBI-Delhi), Mr. Alok Shikla (GM, Usha International Ltd.), Mr. Asif Hussain and Mr. Maninder Kumar (Usha International-Ranchi). The visitors expressed satisfaction over entrepreneurship of those beneficiaries.

During closing ceremony of the training, each trainee shared her learning experience and received certificate, hoarding for silai school and sewing machine from Mr. Shivendra Maurya (Manager, SIDBI-Delhi), Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Mr. Prabu Nath sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) and Mr. Ritesh Lohani (Program Officer, Usha International Ltd.).

On this occasion, Mr. Shivendra Maurya encouraged the trainees that they can enhance their income by making garments of daily use, cloth bags (as the Prime Minister announced to get rid of single use plastic) and providing tailoring training to neighborhood youths/women. Mr. Satish Girija expected for income generation by women after this training & orientation with new sewing machines. Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma had appreciation for Swavlamban and the project is in interest of rural women, he said.

The trainers’ team was comprised of Mrs. Sandhya Agrawal, Mrs. Sangita Jaiswal, Mrs. Savita Thakur, Mr. Kamaljeet and Mr. Balveer while Mr. Shailesh Kumar and Mr. Bhuneshwar Prasad (both from NBJK) looked after the management.