KHADI COMMISSION TO IMPART SPECIAL TRAINING TO HELP DROUGHT AFFECTED FARMERS OF MAHARASHTRA
by Shrutee K/DNS
Following up on the recent call given by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to farmers to take up allied jobs alongwith agriculture
activities, Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Commission
(KVIC) took the initiative to hold special training for farmers from the
drought prone areas of Maharashtra. The training will be imparted through
KVIC’s Departmental Training Centres at Nasik and Dahanu from 15th
April 2016. The skill development training programmes already
available at Nasik and Dahanu centres will be linked up for the special
training package to the farmers and their family members.
The main objective of the training is to equip farmers
to take recourse to alternate sources of income and reduce their dependency on
agriculture activities, considering natural calamities, imbalances and drought
situation. The skill development programme would enable the farmers to start
Micro Small Unit locally based on local resources.
The farmers will be identified with the help of
block development offices and the district administration. Advertisement will
also be placed in local newspapers to give wide publicity about the scheme. The farmers will have the liberty to select from a
menu of training programmes. Experienced and well-qualified technical faculty
of KVIC will conduct the programme. There
will be lodging and boarding facilities for the farmers. There will be a nominal fee @ Rs.10/- per day
charged as caution money. The farmers will get back the money,on successful
completion of the training programme. The programmes will run for 15-30 days.
The emphasis will be on practical aspects.
The KVIC will provide
following training programme to the farmers and their families:
1.
Food & Vegetable
processing.
2.
Bakery training
3.
Spices processing
4.
Agarbatti making
5.
Candle making
6.
Edible Oil Extraction
7.
Paper Conversion courses
8.
Wielding, carpentry and
black smithy training
9.
Palm Leaf Cup/Plate making
10.
Fibre Article making
11.
Lac production and value
added products.
During the training programme, Psychiatrics and
Counsellors will hold motivation and counselling sessions of one-day, so that
if the farmers are suffering from depression, they may come out of it.
Bankers will participate on
the last day of the training programme. With the assistance of State Directors
concerned,financial support from MUDRA Bank and PMEGP Scheme of KVIC will be worked
out for each farmer. Nasik Training Centre is located at Nasik-Trymbakeshwar Road is
having full-fledged infrastructure of Skill Development Activity.Farmers from
Osmanabad, Nasik and Dhule will be trained here. The other departmental training centre at Dahanu
will cover farmers from Thane and Palghar.
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