Gutu Galaang Kalyaan Trust – A Micro Enterprise of PVTG Women of Littipara, Pakur, Jharkhand
It is providing sustainable income for women from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). This is a value added marketing platform.
Problem
- Increasing poverty in PVTG community
- Lack of support and livelihood opportunities
- No avenues of direct employment by the vulnerable community
- Lack of women empowerment
- Absence of skill development programmes and lack of entrepreneurship
- Many of PVTG community unable to cultivate Lobia due to unavailability of seed
- Some of PVTG farmers got loan from the local moneylenders to cultivate Lobia
- Farmers were unable to get proper rate of their produce
- Day to day price hike of raw material and transportation of produce became a challenge
Solution
- Establishment of rice bag manufacturing unit
- Value added marketing platform – sorting, grading, packaging & branding
- Establishment of seed bank – Lobia (black eyed pea)
- Establishment of processing unit of Lobia, Bajra (millet) and pulses
- Registered vendor under MGNREGS – Supply of various planting materials to the targeted community
- Promotion of traditional seed practice
- Seed Bank and processing of traditional grain Lobia and Bajra and marketing through Palash Brand
- MGNREGA Pakur District Administration to serve better MGNREGA services to the vulnerable community
- Establishment of organic food processing unit (Daal Mill and Aata Mill)
Outcomes
- Rejuvenation of traditional and indigenous agriculture practices (Lobia & Bajra)
- Supply of around 900,000 pieces of rice sacks every year under PVTG Dakiya Scheme
- Annual turnover of the trust is around Rs 120 Lakh – started with Rs 4.5 lakh support from government
- Net profit of the Trust is Rs 21.51 lakh in two years, Rs 20.7 lakh GST paid
- Around 50 PVTG women are earning directly on regular basis – Rs 4,500/month
- 5,000 PVTG women farmers are benefitted through Lobia and Bajra cultivation
- Supply of 37,779 saplings of timber plants through convergence under MGNREGA
- Interference of middlemen reduced drastically
- Community is selling its product at market prices
Project Details
Category: Employment
Project: Gutu Galaang Kalyaan Trust
Organisation: A Micro Enterprise of PVTG Women of Littipara, Pakur, Jharkhand
Start Date: 13-Dec-2019
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Problem
Pakur has 12,600 PVTG households, the most vulnerable tribes in the country. Living in acute poverty conditions they had limited livelihood opportunities. The communities involved in traditional agriculture practices like cultivation of Lobia and Bajra. Producing the grain at a mass level due to unavailability of organic seed and hand holding support was a big problem. Also, dependence on local moneylenders prevented the farmers to access the market and sold their produce at lower than market price. There was complete absence of supplychain and marketing. Day-to-day price hike of raw material and transportation of produce became a big challenge for the local growers.
Solution
Gutu Galaang Kalyaan Trust is first registered micro-enterprise as an autonomous body set up by the PVTG women and registered under Indian Trust Act 1861. The main motto of the trust is to combat the acute poverty condition of the PVTG families by ensuring self-sustained livelihoods. It works as Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) which promotes traditional agriculture practices and providing market linkages through ‘Palash Brand’. Trust provides a platform to speak about themselves in various administrative and community level programmes. Community is becoming self-reliant and breaking the social barriers towards their devolvement.
Rice Bag Stitching Unit was inaugurated in 2019 at Littipara Block campus of Pakur District, where 10 PVTG households engaged in rice bag production. They earn more than Rs 5,000 per month as labour wages. Charge. Before starting this unit Paharia women got training on electronic stitching at Adani Skill Development Centre, Godda. Now this unit registered under Indian Trust Act, 1882 and is named Gutu Galaang Kalyaan Trust.
The PVTG farmers can get seed from Gutu Galaang as 100% subsidy but a small norm is farmers have to back return that quantity of seed which they got from Gutu Galaang Trust. That amount of seed will be used as Seed Bank for next year. In the initial phase of the implementation of the project, Gutu galaang Kalyaan Trust catered rice bags to 40,000 PVTG households of Santhal Pargana (Pakur, Godda, Sahebganj, Dumka, Deoghar and Jamtara) Presently Gutu Galaang Cater 80,000 PVTG households across the state.
Lobia cultivation is promoted with 1,000 households in 2020, which during 2021vexpanded to cover 3,000 PVTG marginal farmers of Pakur District. The Trust sold around 1 lakh packets of Lobia all over India.
Outcomes
This socio-micro-enterprise involved in bag manufacturing traditionally started its work with a working capital of Rs 4,72,000/- is now having a total turnover is Rs 1.15 crore with a net profit of Rs 21,51,570/-. This profit is being used for upliftment of PVTG community of Pakur.
Processing-cum-packaging unit (sorting, grading and packaging) is done to promote their product through PALASH brand. District Administration has provided some other machineries costing Rs 27 lakhs for scaling up the business.
