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01/11/22 13:13 PM IST

Saras Food Festival-2022

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  • Recently, Saras Food Festival, 2022 has been organized in New Delhi to promote ethnic and home-made handicrafts, paintings, toys, etc., prepared by women of Self-Help Groups (SHGs).
About Festival 
  • It is an initiative of the Union Ministry of Rural Development as an effort to empower women on a large scale.
  • Women from self-help groups, formed under the flagship program ‘National Rural Livelihoods Mission’ of the Union Ministry of Rural Development are participating in this festival.
  • This event will give women SHGs an opportunity to showcase their skills in the field of food making and introduce people to the food culture of our country.
  • These SHG women are proficient in making rural products and preparing traditional dishes of their states.
  • The Ministry also launched the e-commerce portal for better and more effective marketing of Saras products prepared by women of self-help groups.
  • There are about 8 crore 62 lakh women who are members of SHGs and they have presence in 97% of Blocks, while 85 % of them are directly connected with the network of the Ministry.
About SHG 
  • SHGs are informal associations of people who choose to come together to find ways to improve their living conditions.
  • It can be defined as a self-governed, peer-controlled information group of people with similar socio-economic backgrounds and having a desire to collectively perform a common purpose.
  • SHG relies on the notion of “Self Help” to encourage self-employment and poverty alleviation.
Source- Live Mint 

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