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Positive approach
Changing India
TALES FROM SELF-RELIANT INDIA
A YOUTH ICON OF LADAKH INCENSE BRINGS FRAGRANCE IN
Kunzes Angmo, a 29-year-old woman WOMEN’S LIVES
entrepreneur working in the handloom sector, Incense has an important role in the lives of
has become an epitome of Self-Reliant India every Indian but it has changed lives of women
programme by turning dreams of youth into in Ranchi. A self-help group of 30-40 women
reality. She stayed in Ladakh after completing have been making incense and have been
her education so that a new identity could selling to wholesale market. They occasionally
be brought in to the Ladakhi tradition. Prime put up stalls in the local fair. Women of this
Minister’s Employment Generation Programme self-help group say that they are able to earn
has played a pivotal role in turning her dream Rs 5,000 to 10,000 which has not only taken
into reality. Angmo says, “When I thought about care of their financial crisis but also helped
doing any such thing three years ago. I got to utilising their spare time in productive work.
know about PMEGP and got loan for this.”
SUCCESS THROUGH MAKING TOYS EARNING MILLION THROUGH
The story of Pankaj Kumar from Gawardu FISH FARMING
Panchayat of Hamirpur district in Himachal A farmer Vedram has set an example for Self-
Pradesh is inspiring and true to the dictum Reliant India programme in Balaghat district
where there is a will there is a way. Pankaj was of Madhya Pradesh. Vedram got a pond dug
forced to return to his village due to Corona on his agriculture land under MGNREGS and
lockdown but he did not waste his 28-days started fish farming. He earned a record Rs 10
in home quarantine. He started making toys lakh last year in fish production. He used to
of wood and paper under the Self-Reliant work in a private company but felt that there
Programme of Prime Minister. He did the was no future in it. He returned to his village.
marketing of his products on social media and He was assisted by the state government.
got encouraging response. It takes him two to Now, he has become a source of inspiration
three days to make a toy. for the entire district. n
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