While State Government is trying to attract more investment in Madhya Pradesh, the small and remote village Morkhedi under gram panchayat lasudia Sonda in Dewas Jila Panchayat has already begun to export the baskets and brooms to the neighboring State of Maharashtra and Gujarat. The poor of this remote village are engaged in making baskets and brooms from the bamboo and other plants and were selling to the nearby villages but when the people of this village came to know about the Swarna Jayanti Yojna of government they formed a Maa Bijasan Self Help Group consisting of nine families of BPl category and 2 family of APl category.
CEO Jila Panchayat Dewas Abhishek Singh told The Pioneer that before the formation of the self-help group these families were engaged as daily wagers and had to face difficult condition during the rainy season as they did not get any work and during the summers and winters the weak members of the family, especially the women used to fall sick. Now round the year the families are engaged in making the baskets and brooms as they stock the raw material for the rainy season which they get from Shajapur, Ashta and Sehore districts by the help of trucks.
Initially the members of these Maa Bijasaan Self Help Group used to provide the ready baskets and brooms to the factories of Dewas and locals of Indore city but now they are sending all the ready goods to the Maharastra and Gujarat as they get a good price in those States. Each family member has saving Rs100 per month in their self-help group and if any family needs the loan the self-help group also provides them the loan. CEO Jila Panchayat Dewas Abhishek Singh said that they are providing benefit of Mukhyamantri Majdoor Surkahsa Yojna to the members of Maa Bijasan Self-Help Group. The daughters of this village have been married under the Mukyamantri Kanya Dan Yojna and each and every house of has a toilet, constructed under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan and Clean India Green India concept. Other schemes like Mukhyamantri Sadak Yojna, Mukhayamantri Awas Yojna, MANREGA are also being implemented in this village area.