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Pradeep Kumar

27/02/21 09:05 AM IST

Saras Aajeevika Mela 2021

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Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Food Processing Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated Saras Aajeevika Mela 2021

Highlights
  • Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Kailash Choudhary was also present on the occasion.
  • These SHGs played a vital role in increasing family income and improving quality of life.
  • People's participation is a must and SHGs can play a major role to achieve this goal.
  • He urged the empowered SHGs to come forward and help other SHGs to become Atmanirbhar.
Self Help Groups (SHGs)
  • Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are informal associations of people who choose to come together to find ways to improve their living conditions.
  • It can be defined as self governed, peer controlled information group of people with similar socio-economic background and having a desire to collectively perform common purpose.
  • Villages face numerous problems related to poverty, illiteracy, lack of skills, lack of formal credit etc. These problems cannot be tackled at an individual level and need collective efforts.
  • Thus SHG can become a vehicle of change for the poor and marginalized. SHG rely on the notion of “Self Help” to encourage self-employment and poverty alleviation.
Source: PIB

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