Income GenerationIn order to help tribals address their
basic needs in a self-reliant and sustainable way, Tata Steel has long been
involved with increasing the agricultural productivity for them in the rural areas through
assured irrigation.
Tata Steel, holding the belief that the tribals know best for themselves, has assisted in
the formation of many Self Help Groups (SHGs).
These SHGs enable the tribals to arrange for credit and engage in micro-enterprises like
making Dokra items, carpet weaving, terracotta, paper bag making, mat making, food
processing, poultry, mushroom farming, piggery, pisciculture and floriculture. Tata Steel
provides these groups with training, networking and assistance in marketing.
For making a long term impact on the prospects of the tribals, the Company has given them
vocational training in areas like basic computer operation, software management,
shorthand, typing, motor driving and handling pregnancies as birth attendants. |
"There was will and that was what saw us through..."
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Opportunity
from TCS came like a ray of hope. Not knowing what to expect from the workshop, I still
dragged myself to participate in it. Simple techniques on packaging the candles we made,
helped improve the presentation of the product... Deepawali, Christmas and Gram Shree Mela
provided us with huge business prospects, which we were able to encash upon. Next we
received an order from Tata Steel to supply 5000 candles in a week's time. But there was
will and that was what saw us through. My future plans are to improve our business
extensively and also to enter the metropolitan market. And with TCS behind us, we will
make it. If I have found meaning in my life, it is because of TCS. Without them, my desire
to do something substantial would have remained intangible forever.”
Usha Kudada, Baridih, participant in
the SIDBI sponsored wax candle-making workshop at TCC |
A farmer with his harvest
Encouraging poultry farming
Candle making at a workshop
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FOOTPRINTS |
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| Sustenance of
26 Pani Panchayats, providing assured irrigation to 550 acres in 2004-05 |
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| 72 new water
harvesting structures constructed, 97 repaired. Cash crop worth Rs. 9.94 lakhs harvested
in 2004 – 2005 |
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| Presently 340
SHGs encompassing over 3,500 tribal women received assistance to enagage in micro-banking |
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Over 3,500
trainees received vocational
training till date |
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Fifty tribal
women
trained as birth attendants
at an annual cost
of Rs. 6,00,000,
2004 – 2005 |
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