800 rural women to get livelihood opportunities

The Bangana Block Development Office will empower 800 rural women members to self-help groups (SHGs) by providing them with livelihood generation activities during the current financial year under the HP State Rural Livelihood Mission (HPSRLM). Bangana Block Development Officer (BDO) KL Verma said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed at his office on Thursday between the Gobind Sagar Block Level Federation of their department and the implementing agency, M3M Foundation, as part of the latter’s ‘Payal@40’ initiative.

He added that the proposed Rural Livelihood Centre at Bangana would become a hub of structured training, capacity-building and livelihood support fir women.

Verma said that the aim of the mission was to enable sustainable livelihood support, leading to enhancement of the income of the women. Foundation’s representative Dr Aishwarya Mahajan hoped the intervention would strengthen the grass-roots level institutions and skill-based training would benefit the women and bring about an inclusive development in the area.