The Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda in collaboration with Government departments conducted various training and capacity building programmes for women in the rural areas in October and November 2019.
More than 250 women members of the company’s flagship CSR project Subhalaxmi Cooperative, hailing from 35 villages underwent training on vegetable cultivation, advanced and innovative agriculture practices, animal husbandry, dairy, poultry and goat farming.
“As a company, we are focused on empowerment of women, both within the workplace and in our community. We have created multiple avenues to encourage, empower and enable women to emerge strong, take up leadership positions and script their own success stories. Our all-women Subhalaxmi Co-op stands testimony to those efforts,” said CEO CN Singh.
CSR head Sundar Raj said, “Through Subhalaxmi Co-op, we organise various initiatives aimed at helping women in rural folds of Jharsuguda take up sustainable, fulfilling and rewarding means of livelihood. We are especially focused on encouraging more and more women in the rural margins of Jharsuguda to take up entrepreneurial avenues for supplementing their family income and programs like contribute greatly towards bridging the skill gap.”
Subhalaxmi Co-op VP Monabati Bag expressed her gratitude and said, “Initiatives like these by Vedanta and Subhalaxmi provide good opportunity for ourwomen members to learn advanced techniques and implement them in daily lives to for better output in their trades.”
Till date, 17 programmes have already been conducted, covering more than 400 women from 120 SHGs. Currently, the co-op supports 1,779 women micro-entrepreneurs in farm and nonfarm trades and aims to add more than 600 new entrepreneurs into the fold.