Tag Archive: economic empowerment

Bamboo craft makes women in Jammu Kashmir village self-reliant

Mangloor Village (Kathua) J-K, Nov.25 (ANI): A number of rural women in a Jammu and Kashmir village in Kathua district have gained economic empowerment after learning the art of making bamboo articles.

The difference could be made in the lives of household women here after the government opened a bamboo craft centre, which today enables [...]

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First state level fair for tribal people in Manipur

Imphal, Nov 17(ANI): In order to promote the products of the hill regions of Manipur, the State recently held its first State level Mega Tribal Fair, 2009.

With the theme “Promoting Economic Empowerment through micro credit and Agriculture sustainable through Organic Farming”, the four-day [...]

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Rural job scheme turning wage seekers into entrepreneurs

Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 20 (IANS) What is common between a small farmer whose son is studying medicine, a smuggler of valuable wood who gave up the illegal activity and an agricultural labourer who raised a loan to buy a buffalo?

All of them are the beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee [...]

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Social empowerment of women more important than Reservation Bill for them: Agatha Sangama

New Delhi, Aug 8(ANI): Union Minister of State for Rural Development Agatha Sangama on Saturday said that social and economic empowerment of women is more essential than the Women’s Reservation Bill.

However, Agatha did not disapprove the Bill [...]

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