Rs 296 Cr Income Generated For Odisha Women SHGs Under Mission Shakti In Last Fiscal

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday called for redesigning government interventions under Mission Shakti for economic empowerment of women.

“Government sees engagement of Mission Shakti groups as a part of its commitment towards economic empowerment of women of Odisha. Let all our interventions be designed keeping this in mind. Let every service provided by the government be seen from this angle and remuneration paid to the groups be reworked from this prospective,” the chief minister said.

He was speaking at a review meeting on the progress of 20 departments in provisioning government business to Mission Shakti SHGs.

It was revealed at the meeting that Mission Shakti has provided business worth Rs 1,198 crore to 1,04,712 SHGs generating income of Rs 296 crore during 2020-21 in convergence with different government departments.

The Cabinet in its meeting in May 2019 had approved the proposal for providing government services and procurements worth Rs 5,000 crore in 5 years through Mission Shakti SHGs.

Secretaries of departments such as F&ARD, Energy, H&UD, Finance, FS&CW, A&FE, W&CD, PR &DW presented the progress made so far and action plan for next three years.

Bank correspondents in every unbanked panchayats, running of Aahaar centres by SHGs, paddy procurement, THR production, pisciculture, formation of agriculture producer groups were some of the important SHG partnerships that were discussed.