"SUJNI" INNOVATIVE INCOME GENERATION PROGRAMME
PROBLEM:- UNEMPLOYMENT OF RURAL POOR WOMEN. AS A RESULT, EXPLOITED BY OUR SOCIAL SYSTEMS LIKE WIFE BEATING, DOWRY DEATHS, WIFE BURNING. BESIDES, THEY ARE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR IGNORANCY AND SUPERSTITIONS.
SOLUTION APPROACH THROUGH "SUJNI PROGRAMME":- WOMEN ARE ORGANIZED IN GROUPS THROUGH THIS PROGRAMME AND THEY ARE GETTING POWER FOR SELF- DECISION MAKING AND HAD EMPOWERED BY ECONOMIC SELF RELIANCE THROUGH THIS SELF- EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME. BENEFICIARIES HAD INCREASED THEIR INCOME AND THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE HAD COMBAT THE HARD REALITIES WHICH WERE EFFECTED THEM MUCH.
BENEFITS:- WOMEN- DIRECTLY, FAMILIES:- INDIRECTLY
ROLL OF KRDS:- ORGANIZATION IS ONLY RAW MATERIALS SUPPLY FACILITATOR WHERE THE BENEFICIARIES ARE ULTIMATE DECISION MAKER TO CHANGE THEIR OWN FATE THROUGH "SUJNI PROGRAMME" INTERVENTIONS.
MODE OF THE "SUJNI PROGRAMME":- OUT OF THREE SUJNIS BENEFICIARIES ARE TAKING TWO SUJNIS AND ONE IS SUPPORTING TO KRDS FOR PROGRAMME MAINTENANCE.
IMPACT OF THE SUJNI PROGRAMME:- SUJNI PROGRAMME IS ESTABLISHED AS A POTENTIAL INCOME GENERATING THROUGH PRODUCTION AND BY CREATING LOCAL MARKETING AS A NEED BASE PRODUCT THROUGH OUT THE YEAR. THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE THE BENEFICIARIES WERE FREE IN SHARING THEIR MISERIES WITH THEIR OWN SELVES ONLY. IT HAD BEEN SILENT MOBILIZATION WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE EFFECT AT INITIAL STAGES AND ONWARDS, IT HAD FORCE TO CHANGED LOTS OF MALE COUNTERPART AND THESE MALE, FEMALE ACTIVISTS HAD CAPABLE TO REMOVED THE OTHER BLACK STONE OF THEIR SOCIETIES HOLDED BY THE FUNDAMENTALIST AND SELFISH PERSONS. KRDS EVOLVED IN ADDRESSING THE RURAL ISSUE FOR THE WOMEN , BY THE WOMEN AND BUILT INSTITUTION OF THE POOR MASSES.
FUTURE PLAN REGARDING SUJNI PROGRAMME :- UNDER THE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP THE SUJNI PROGRAMME WILL BE CONTINUED AT FUTURE AND ALSO TO EXTEND THIS PROGRAMME KRDS WILL INVOLVE TO MORE WOMEN BY USING THE PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGY FOR THE BETTER INVOLVED OF THE TARGET BENEFICIARIES AT OTHER DISTRICTS UNDER WEST BENGAL STATE OF INDIA.