Now that time has remained confined only to a haze of dust draped over the pages of history, when the women of the country used to be imprisoned in shackles. Moreover, his desire to stand on his own feet used to die on the doorstep of the house. With the turning of the thorns of time, now the importance of a woman has started getting the attention that she has been entitled to since ages.
The women of today’s India are breaking the chains and flying high in the sky showing that she is not less than anyone and there is no field in which she is unable to set an example.
Vanmala Pethe, who lived in Khand Mahkhede in Madhya Pardesh, who at one time used to work as a laborer to feed her family and in today’s time became a “soul dependent” of Madhya Pradesh and became a businessman of her own.
How Vanmala Pethe started her business
Vanmala started her clothing business by joining the Sharda Self-Help Group through India’s Livelihood Mission. Today the business of Vanmala is known throughout Madhya Pradesh through its clothes. With this business, where their livelihood has been strengthened, Vanmala has also been sanctioned loan by Madhya Pradesh Gramin Bank under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, due to which they have also got an opportunity to expand their business. In this way, Vanmala’s business got a full opportunity to move forward towards self-reliance.
Laborer Vanmala today has not only become a strong woman on her feet, but by joining many women’s groups of her city, she is not only taking her business forward, but is also providing them with help and opportunities in their business.
what is self help group
Self Help Groups are a group of poor people running similar micro-businesses and enterprises with mutual affinity, who make some savings conveniently from their income. Deposits keep this small savings included in the collective fund of the group, and then to be given to the members of the group according to their needs (productive and consumption needs) on the terms of the group and fixed interest, period. agree. That is, the members of the group deposit some part of their income in the group every month. Out of the deposited amount, loan was given to the needy member on the terms of the group.
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What is National Rural Livelihood Mission
National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), Ministry of Rural Development aims at connecting rural poor families with the mainstream of the country and alleviating their poverty through various programmes. Keeping this in mind, the Ministry had launched Aajeevika – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in June 2011. Aajeevika – The main objective of NRLM is to provide efficient and effective institutional platform to poor villagers to continuously enhance their livelihood, better and easier access to financial services and increase their family income. For this the ministry gets financial assistance from the World Bank.
How Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana is helping women
Most of the population of India lives in rural areas. In such a situation, all kinds of efforts are also made by the governments to improve the standard of living of these villagers. At the same time, in order to increase the tradition of self-employment among the youth, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana was started in the year 2015, under which loans up to Rs 10 lakh are given to non-corporate, non-farm/small enterprises in villages. There are two main objectives of Mudra Yojana: First, easy loan for self-employment. Second, to create employment through small enterprises. There are three types of loans given under the Mudra scheme, which include Shishu Loan, Kishore Loan and Tarun Loan.
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