UP livelihood mission inks pact with WFP for take-home ration
LUCKNOW The Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission and United NationWorld Food Programme (UNWFP) on Tuesday signed an MoU digitally for technical support for manufacturing and supply of take-home ration through self-help groups (SHGs). Speaking on the occasion, Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said, “The State Rural Livelihood Mission is working for the empowerment and nutrition of the women. The district administration should make arrangements for the training of people associated with the mission.”
LUCKNOW: The UP State Rural Livelihood Mission and United Nation-World Food Programme (UNWFP) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) digitally for technical support for manufacturing and supply of take-home ration through self-help groups (SHGs).
Speaking in the programme, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said, “The State Rural Livelihood Mission is working for the empowerment and nutrition of the women. Creative work has been done by the Aajeevika Mission that is necessary for a healthy society. The district administration should make arrangements for the training of people associated with the mission.”
The CM further said through convergence with Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) by UP State Rural Liveliand
hood Mission, nutrition was being distributed in 204 development blocks of 18 districts through anganwadi centres. Soon all the blocks in the state will be connected to it, he added.
Yogi further said the nutritional production work will be done in Aligarh, Ambedkar Nagar, Auraiya, Baghpat, Banda, Chandauli, Etawah, Bijnor, Fatehpur, Gorakhpur, Kannauj, Lakhimpur Kheri, Lucknow, Mainpuri, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Sultanpur and Unnao districts.
Later it will be launched in the remaining districts soon, the CM added.
From each rural poor family, a woman will be included in the self-help groups to make them self-reliant through livelihood enhancement with increasing their capacity and providing financial resources.
On the occasion, the chief minister also talked to the presidents of ‘Take Home Ration Micro Enterprises’ based in Lucknow, Banda, Gorakhpur, Unnao
Fatehpur through videoconferencing.
Through livelihood mission, more than 3,000 groups of women will become entrepreneurs and permanent employment will be made available to them.
Each woman will get more than 240 days of employment in a year. Each woman working in the group will get a monthly income of about Rs 5,000 to 7,000. Anganwadi centres will also get a share in the benefits received on supplementary nutritious food distributed. The one-year turnover of the project will be Rs 1,200 crore, the CM said.
The objective of the scheme is to provide permanent livelihood to women of self-help groups through nutritional production unit and to meet the demand of ICDS through nutritional production unit and timely supply of nutritious food to the beneficiaries, Yogi said.