60 Rural Women Entrepreneurs Honoured In Odisha’s Keonjhar

Barbil: JSPL Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) awarded 60 rural women on Wednesday for becoming community role models for their entrepreneurship skills. Having received training in respective fields by JSPL Foundation, the awardees of Deojhar and Kandra gram panchayats in Keonjhar, have been able to bring a drastic socio-economic change in their villages.

While 50 women were honoured for pioneering mushroom cultivation and developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem in their respective localities, 10 were recognised for taking up tailoring as an alternative source of income and bringing financial independence among them.

Congratulating the women leaders, JSPL’s Barbil plant head, Brij Badhadra said, “The real women empowerment is when women come forward to take up entrepreneurship and share in family’s financial decision-making process. JSPL Foundation’s support in empowering the rural women and make them self-reliant will accelerate in coming days.”

Guest of Honour at the event, Damayanti Hansda, Asst. Horticulture Officer, Joda Block said, “JSPL Foundation’s approach to motivate women entrepreneurship through such programmes is really commendable.”

Child Development Project Officer of Joda Block Mrs Sukanti Patra also congratulated the women for their unwavering commitment against all odds and achievement.