Chhattisgarh's women self-help groups (SHG) have been rendered jobless by the Congress government after axing the manufacture of ready-to-eat food, and this has been done to benefit an industrialist, former Chief Minister Raman Singh said on Wednesday.
He said the women SHGs had invested a lot of money in procuring equipment for manufacture of ready-to-eat food. It will cause an additional burden on them, he told the media.
Only distribution work has been handed over to them. Instead of the promised Rs 15 per packet, now agreement had been made for Re 1 per packet, he said.
Ready-to-eat is given as a nutrition supplement to eradicate anemia and malnutrition among children, women, girls and pregnant women.
On large-scale shuffling of the bureaucracy, he said a district Collector should have a fixed tenure of minimum two years. It gives him time to work, which can be reviewed.
