Usha Silai School – A Booster to Women Empowerment!!

08 December 2022, Jharkhand-Bihar: Usha Silai School Program by NBJK with support of Usha International Limited, New Delhi is playing an important role to improve socio-economic condition of rural, tribal and needy women through extensive training upon skills of tailoring, sewing machine maintenance and customer relation as well as by providing them new sewing machine, guidebook, signboard with course completion certificate to initiate Usha Silai Schools.

During 2021-22, 10 events of 85 days residential training to 258 women (tribal-180) from Nawada, Khagariya, Munger, Hazaribagh, Gumla, Simdega, West Singhbhum, Khunti, Latehar, Lohardaga, Giridih districts of Bihar-Jharkhand under Classical & Adopt segments and 08 days residential training to 100 women trainees (tribal-60) from Hazaribagh, Gumla, Khunti & West Singhbhum districts under the category of Usha Silai Satellite School including 10 days residential training to 12 Master Trainers from Hazaribagh, Patna, Gaya & Bhagalpur districts show the magnitude of this program.

All trained women have started Usha Silai Schools at their places, offer tailoring training & service to village women-girls. The program team’s members make follow up visits of Usha Silai Schools to monitor their performance.

The program could promote total 717 Usha Silai Schools and 257 Satellite Schools across 47 districts of Bihar-Jharkhand till this year. It facilitated total 974 rural women towards economic self-reliance with skill development and all required means to earn Rs. 5,000-10,000 monthly with dignity.