Govt. to start Akka Credit scheme for women’s upliftment, says Minister

The State authorities volition commencement Akka Credit Societies to springiness impetus to self-help groups, Sharanprakash Patil, Minister for Medical Education and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood development, said successful Belagavi connected Friday.

He was speaking astatine the inauguration of the Saras Mela-2025 held astatine the city’s Sardar precocious schoolhouse grounds.

He said that 32 lakh families person been organised nether the agrarian and municipality livelihood run and 3,90,000 lakh families nether the municipality campaign. So far, much than 1 crore has been invested successful self-help groups and a revolving money is besides being provided to caller self-help groups.

He urged women to go self-reliant by taking vantage of the schemes implemented by the State government.

He said that immoderate of the 5 warrant schemes were implemented with women successful mind. “We are assured that each rupee fixed to women is decently utilised for their household absorption and is conducive to their economical self-reliance,” helium said.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who inaugurated the exhibition, said that the State authorities would beforehand handicrafts and products of women’s self-help groups by regularly organising exhibitions and fairs. “We are besides regularly sending craftsmen and women artisans to exhibitions and fairs successful different States and nationalist levels,” helium said.

He said that women were fixed indispensable capableness accomplishment improvement training, branding, packing, worth addition, and selling systems for products.

The livelihood programmes volition not lone assistance the economical upliftment of these agrarian families, but besides assistance successful their societal emancipation and governmental empowerment.

The zilla panchayat has organised the lawsuit successful collaboration with the National Livelihood Campaign and the District Administration, and the metropolis corp of Belagavi.

MLA Asif (Raju) Sait said that the Saras Mela was proving to beryllium a occurrence each year. The Mela is simply a bully level for accumulation and merchantability of goods produced by self-help groups tally by women and should beryllium utilised, helium said.

Women and Child Development Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Deputy Mayor Vani Vilas Joshi, officials and others were present.