NGO to make Sangrur women self-reliant Sushil Goyal
Tribune News Service
Sangrur, March 22
A Delhi-based NGO, Bisnouli Sarvodaya Gramodyog Sewa Sanstha (BSGSS), has chosen Sangrur district to make its more than two lakh economically dependent women reliant by forming 5,000 self-help groups in the coming five years.
The NGO has selected the Lehragaga area for the pilot project and will provide training to women in stitching and handicrafts. The NGO will have 15 volunteers in the initial stage for this area. Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Deputy Chief Minister and MLA from the Lehragaga Assembly Constituency, had invited the BSGSS to help the women of this area.
Ms Nandita Bakshi, secretary of the BSGSS, said here today she along with some other officers resigned from the Indian Revenue Service as she felt that till 50 per cent women of the country were not empowered, the country could not become prosperous.
She said the NGO had chosen four areas — women empowerment, health and education. She said the BSGSS had been encouraging self-employment and was working to create markets. She said women whose monthly income was only about Rs 300, were now earning Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 a month in Delhi. The number of such women was around 6,000. In Varanasi, women were taught to weave silk neckties. Around 56,000 neckties had been sold by the NGO so far, she added.
The BSGSS would now train the Sangrur women after forming self-help groups.
The BSGSS has tied up with National Open School to impart education to poor women.