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Labour Minister and territory in-charge Santosh Lad has said that Akka Cafe which volition beryllium operated wholly by women from self-help groups volition beryllium a boon for their economical empowerment.
He was inaugurating an Akka Cafe acceptable up adjacent Dharwad Zilla Panchayat by the Kamadhenu women self-help radical of Kabbenur colony connected Saturday.
The Minister said that nether the National Livelihood Mission, the Department of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood is implementing assorted programmes for the simplification of poorness successful municipality and agrarian areas and Akka Cafe is 1 specified inaugural to empower women economically.
“In bid to promote women to instrumentality up livelihood activities, the State authorities has announced the Akka Cafe strategy successful the 2024-25 budget. The authorities has fixed support for mounting up 50 Cafe Sanjivini (Akka Cafe) crossed the State which volition beryllium tally wholly by women. Accordingly, successful Dharwad territory specified cafes are being acceptable up,” helium said.
Navalgund MLA N.H. Konaraddi, president of the District Guarantee Scheme Implementation Authoirty S.R. Patil, Chief Executive Officer of Dharwad Zilla Panchayat Bhuvanesh Patil, Superintendent of Police Gunjan Arya, president of Kamadhenu self-help radical Rajashree Pawadi and others were present.
After inaugurating the cafe, the Minister and others inspected nutrient mentation facilities. Subsequently, they savoured the nutrient prepared successful the cafe.
Under the Akka Cafe scheme, proposals for mounting up 2 specified cafes successful Dharwad territory were submitted to the government. And, aft identifying suitable land, support has been fixed and grants released.
A seven-member committee headed by the Joint Director of Food and Civil Supplies has been constituted for the implementation of the scheme.
