Indira Mahila Kosh

l    Traditionally, women in Chhattisgarh have a comparatively higher status with in families and in the society

l    Compared to the national gender ratio of 933 women to 1000 men, for Chhattisgarh the ratio is 990. Third after Kerala and Pondicherry.

l    Women constitute 36.5% of the working population among main workers

l    We have conceived Indira Mahila Kosh as a small yet significant gesture in order to trigger the latent potential among our women to contribute to the building of a new Chhattisgarh

l   The KOSH has been created with an initial corpus of Rs. 1 crore

l   The Governing body is headed by Minister for Women and Child Development

l   Broad Objective :

    –   Promoting activities that could empower women and enhance their role through access to finance and other  resources, and to assist them in acquiring competencies for self reliance.

l   Activities supported by the KOSH

–   Provide financial assistance for sustaining current occupation and employment

–   Creating an ambience for encouraging investments and creating income generating opportunities

–   Creating productive Assets

–   Capital Formation

–   Meeting Contingent Credit requirements

 

Self Help Groups in Chhattisgarh

l   Strategies…

–    Initiatives in organizing Self Help Groups among women beneficiaries

–  Equipping women from the economically weaker sections through innovative schemes

–   Sensitizing administrative systems and delivery mechanisms towards cooption of women and their   participation in the development process

–   Commissioning research projects on socio-economic issues pertaining to women

–  Networking women groups, NGOs and other resources

–   Entrepreneurship development

–  Accessing and catalyzing other financial institutions, Central and State Govt.

–  Mobilizing resources from other quarters

–  Assistance in project design and formulation

–   Providing opportunities and forum for exchange of ideas and information      relevant to the empower of women.