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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asked Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar and MSME Minister Kondapalli Srinivas to guarantee that each Self-Help Group (SHG) pistillate subordinate becomes an entrepreneur nether the State government’s ‘One family, 1 entrepreneur’ initiative.
Mr. Naidu was speaking aft inaugurating the SARAS Aajeevika Mela–2026, organised by the Sale of Articals of Rural Artisans Society, successful Guntur connected Thursday. The accumulation volition beryllium underway till January 18.
The exhibition, held for the archetypal clip extracurricular Delhi, showcased products made by SHG women from crossed the country.
On the occasion, Mr. Naidu handed implicit a cheque for ₹1,375 crore from Stree Nidhi Credit Cooperative Federation Limited to the SHGs and sanctioned different ₹2,171 crore successful loans done the SERP.
Mr. Naidu said the DWCRA and MEPMA SHG movements had created past astatine the nationalist level. He recalled that DWCRA groups were established with the sole purpose of ensuring economical self-reliance for women, and noted that accordant savings by women strengthened their fiscal stability.
Calling the SARAS Mela a “mini India,” helium said the aboriginal belonged to women and stressed the request for branding accepted handicrafts and section nutrient products.
Mr. Naidu said Andhra Pradesh had 80 lakh women successful DWCRA groups and 24 lakh successful MEPMA, who unneurotic mobilised astir ₹26,000 crore. He urged the SHGs to absorption connected selling and income to heighten profits, noting that 93,000 women had already go micro and MSME entrepreneurs.
He besides highlighted payment initiatives specified arsenic Talliki Vandanam, Deepam-2, escaped RTC question nether Stree Shakti, and integer services done Mana Mitra WhatsApp.
Mr. Naidu aboriginal visited respective stalls, interacted with artisans, tasted Madugula halwa, purchased a handloom saree for his woman Bhuvaneswari, and sanctioned ₹6 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to a pistillate potter whose hubby was unwell.
Mr. Chandra Sekhar described the accumulation arsenic a surviving grounds to the spot and enactment of agrarian women and credited Mr. Naidu for transforming the DWCRA question into a nationalist model.
Mr. Srinivas, section legislators, officials and SHG women from assorted States attended the programme.
