They also sought solutions to problems specific to their region, on personal issues in dealing with self help groups and its ventures, sought personal training in matters of finance and shared their experiences through the medium. The programme intended to bring technology to rural areas and empower rural women by giving them equal opportunity through exposure and knowledge.
Sangeeta Dokhe and Sangeeta Joshi from Symbiosis guided the women on different aspects of marketing their products like ensuring quality, better packaging and marketing of goods, raw material management, utility of goods, loan processes and repayments, etc.
This was a part of an activity of the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai. The programme was inaugurated at the Annabhau Sathe Prashala, a divisional centre of the YCMOU, in Pune, in the presence of Supriya Sule, MP, who is also the convenor of Yashaswini Abhiyan, Pandit Palande, pro vice chancellor of YCMOU and Arun Mudbidri, director, Symbiosis.
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