Ref : E&R/Press/‘04/Ruralwomen.7/sam-dG

Training programme for rural women starts in CERS

The Rural Development Department of Gujarat State, Village Women and Children’s Development Programme of Sabarkantha district, Gramodyog Federation of Himmatnagar and Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS), Ahmedabad are jointly organising a three day training for self-employed village women in ‘Suraksha Sankool’ in CERS. The training programme started on 19 February 2004 and will continue till 21 February 2004.

Eighteen women are participating in the training. The women from Sabarkantha district are already engaged in the manufacture of Sabar brand masala. The training programme — the first of its kind for these village women will focus on quality — teaching the women how to maintain quality in their product and retaining customers who can completely rely on the quality of the product. Techniques of packaging, weighing and measuring, mixing the ingredients will be thoroughly taught. The requirements for obtaining Agmark will also be taught to them.

Besides shaping their skills, the programme will train these 18 women in such a way so that they will be able to train about 400 women in their federation spread in villages in Sabarkantha district. A demonstration explaining how to detect adulteration in masala will also be held by the laboratory staff. These 18 women were selected from villages belonging to Himmatnagar, Modasa, Khedbrahma, Meghraj, Prantij, Idar, Dhansura, Bhiloda, Thalod, Bayad and Malpur and Vijaynagar talukas of Sabarkantha district.

The food research laboratory in CERS is giving intensive training to these participants. The final products of ‘sabar masala’ sent from Sabarkantha is also being tested in the testing laboratory in CERS.

Officials of the village development board and officers of Sabarkantha District Coop Bank will be present in the training to educate the women how they can get loan from banks for their manufacturing activities.

Date : 19/02/04
Place : Ahmedabad

Pritee Shah
Editor
INSIGHT —The Consumer Magazine

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