Jeevika

Functional literacy visit of SHG members to different line departments like banks, Panchayat, post office, block office etc by Jeevika Ujjain.

Purpose of the class: To give a platform to SHG members of four targeted centers with various government non government institutions those working for the village women’s, SHGs, village development etc like Zila panchyat, post office, bank, employment units etc. For this exposure programme we have invite selected SHG members from each village

Zila panchyat: At first our team went to Zila panchyat where one session was taken by NRLM district programme Mrs. Rupali Shared about the Zila panchyat its way of working and various department in the zillapanchayt.

Canra Bank: From Zilla Panchayat team went to Canra bank. Bank manager welcomed all the members and narrated about the functioning style of bank and how linkage is possible in the bank. Manger also explained the team about new schemes of central government “Jan Dhan yojna” where the bank able to open an individual account on zero balance and provides a debit card and an individual accidental insurance worth Rs. 100000/-. After the v discussion and sharing some of the SHG members showed the interest to open self account. Manager and bank staff helped the members to open account at the same time as a result 32 members successfully opened bank account under new schemes.

Paper cup making units: Third visit was done to the income generation units run by the self help group in Ujjain city. All the members were taken to those units where women are involved in paper cup making. At Bapu Nagar near about 50 women are engaged in paper cup making and each them are earning around Rs. 200 to 250. The main intension was to give chance to targeted women to interact with the women who are engaged in paper cup making and motivate the target women to start the IGP units so that they will be able to earn additional income in their life. Fifty women participants took part the exposure and they have expressed that they have received valuable information about various government institution those working for their welfare.