Women Self Help groups get Rs 3,500 crore government business amid Covid pandemic
Chief Secretary Suresh Mahapatra advised the Mission Shakti department to explore new areas of partnership involving more number of groups.
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BHUBANESWAR: Even as a large number of informal workers lost their livelihoods due to the pandemic, the State government provided business worth Rs 3,583.34 crore to women self help groups (WSHGs) in the last two years.
Rising to the extraordinary challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, around nine lakh members of 83,000 SHGs did business with different departments of the State government. “The total government business through 20,449 WSHGs touched Rs 1,411.82 crore in 2019-20 thereby recording an achievement of around 141 per cent in the first year. In 2020-21, the business volume increased to Rs 2,172.02 crore and the achievement was 217 per cent. The number of WSHGs involved are 62,514,