SHIMLA: Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) supported by the National Rural Employment Mission have revolutionised the rural economy in the Hill state of Himachal Pradesh with homemakers becoming entrepreneurs, an official said.
About 43,000 women SHGs with 4-lakh members, spread across the state are doing good business selling their products in Saras Fairs being organised in different places in the state and other states have facilitated the SHGs in selling their products and traditional food, handicrafts and handloom and organic products are in great demand, as per the official.
The women engaged in SHGs are earning about Rs 1-lakh annually and four women become “Lakhpati Didi” and these women who were earlier confined to homes and engaged in domestic chores, now exude remarkable confidence and freely converse with the customers and participate in fairs to sell their products.
Source: PTI News
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