On the Gandhi Jayanti, Aditya Birla Group Company Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) along with the Rayagada district administration launched a unique programme “Suryodya”, a nursery project focusing on a women’s group as the business partner to enable them to become agri-prenuers.
The women’s group would start the social enterprise project and share the profit among them. The UAIL would buy their saplings and support them while giving them a buyback guarantee apart from assisting them in setting up the nursery. Kashipur BDO Bedabara Pradhan urged the group to manage the project well setting an example for others. Company HR VP TM Prakash said, “The objective of this programme is to start a social enterprise to create various saplings, forestry and non-forestry ones.”
The objective is to make women agri-preneurs. Local villagers Gunanidhi Bagh and Sankri Naik of Paikakupakhal thanked the company for starting such a venture for livelihood of women.