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SUPPORT FOR COFFEE PROCESSING – By Coffee Board of India
SCHEME OF SUPPORT FOR COFFEE PROCESSING
Introduction:
In the world today, 40% of the coffee economy is in the producing countries while the remaining 60% has been captured by the consuming countries. Over the last few years they have improved the capabilities of processing, manufacturing and marketing [...]
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Microfinance India Summit concludes in New Delhi on 28th October 2009
Updates and summary of events can be found on their blog http://blog.microfinanceindia.org/
Microlending in India Continues Macro Growth
Microlenders recorded a 60% increase in clients in India, to 22.6 million in the year ended March 31, 2009, from 14.1 million the previous year, according [...]
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GRIEVANCES GALORE: Women self-help group leaders from various States addressing a press conference
The indiscriminate nature of lending and coercive tactics adopted during repayment by micro finance institutions (MFIs) undermined the self-help group (SHG) movement. This resulted in absence of any control over lending and led the SHGs back to moneylenders, alleged leaders of SHG [...]
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Here’s an unique example set by a self-help which could be worth emulating by thousands of self-help groups in Pune. Four months after the a self-owned industrial unit at Talawade was set up by the Swamini Mahila Bachat Gat Akhil Mahasangh, it has proved its mettle: by exporting 80,000 polythene bags to New York, thereby [...]
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Resource Guide, Reference Manual & Weekly Planners For Staff
Biswa is one of India’s leading NGO’s that operate in the Self Help Groups Sector
Given below is their resource guide and reference manual which is distributed to all their employees. Having glanced through it briefly , I can say it is a very well structured and researched [...]
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Given below are upcoming events of Self Help Groups in India .To register or know more about them click on the link below.
SHGs and Financial Inclusion: A Workshop -14-18th Sep @ Madurai Symposium 2009
National Summit of SHG Federations on Microfinance and MDGs – Sept 16-18, 2009 at Madurai
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To promote the concept of self-help groups (SHG), District Guardian Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday announced loans at zero per cent interest rate for SHGs who would want to avail loans up to Rs 2 lakh. He also announced sops for nearly 50,000 farmers who avail crop loans up to Rs 25,000.
Addressing the annual general [...]
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Note to readers : This committee headed by Prof Radhakrishnan was constituted in April 2008 and it submitted its report in early 2009.
Report of the Committee on CREDIT RELATED ISSUES UNDER SGSY
Preface
India had experimented with numerous self-employment programmes. These were modified, consolidated and integrated into Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) in April [...]
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Bihar has the potential to get about a million self-help groups (SHGs) engaged in real productive activities in the next few years, Bihar State Women Development Corporation (BSWDC) managing director N Vijaya Lakshmi said on Friday.
“The objective can be achieved if we go about it with a synergy between state-level working group and action plan,” she [...]
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For the first time in Orissa, seaweed cultivation has started on an experimental basis. Red algae, a seaweed and a potential source of the phycocolloid agar, has been cultivated in Langaleswar village near Khallikote, off Ganjam coast with the involvement of members of the women self help groups (SHG).
The cultivation of the red algae is [...]
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As India elects a new government, banker J S Parthiban tells how he has pioneered banking schemes to free people from the grip of exploitative money lenders in New Delhi and Salem, Tamil Nadu. In his experience, microfinance and microcredit can help the world’s poorest people and ensure banks are not purely profit-driven
An Indian man [...]
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KAKINADA: A Rs 439-crore scam has been unearthed in East Godavari district following the nexus between District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) and bankers coming out in the open.
In what could be seen as siphoning of funds, the bankers in cahoots with the DRDA officials have shown several self-help groups (SHGs) getting loans worth crores whereas [...]
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