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10.8 Potential Development Impact
The lack of access to electricity is a major inhibitor to achieving equitable growth
and building resilience of poor and vulnerable communities. With a regular supply
of electricity in villages, the rural households will have immediate access to basic
comforts of lights, fans and charging point, increasing their standard of living. This
will gradually help them enhance livelihood opportunities even during nighttime to
increase income.
Through the project, TERI and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
(SDC) will instal this technology in four livelihood clusters run by women SHGs in
villages of Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. The two-stage gasifier of 20–40 kW will
support the electrical and thermal needs of the commercial activity and electricity
supply in villages around of project site. The livelihood activities being supported
and initiated with the help of the biomass gasifier will be operated and managed
by a women’s SHG federation. This will give the women employment, improve
productivity, reduce drudgery, improve health and give an identity outside of the
house. They will be the earning members of their families and have community
support to be independent.
10.9 Rayagada, Odisha
The nutrition mix (chhatua) making is run and owned by the women of an SHG
Federation—Maa Dharani Mahila Maha Sangh (MDMMS) in Bissamcuttack block
of Rayagada district in Odisha. A Self-Help Group (SHG) is made by women in a
village to come together to have regular meetings in which they made savings to open
a bank account to have the ability to take loans. These groups were made for women
empowerment, a forum where women could feel united to share their problems, find
solutions and make ideas for livelihood activities a reality. An SHG Federation is a
block level forum where all the SHGs from all the villages in a block come together.
The nutrition mix produced by MDMMS is provided to 75 Anganwadi centres,
which then provides this dry take-home ration to pregnant and lactating mothers,
infants and children under the Integrated Child Development Scheme of the government. Anganwadi is a government-sponsored child-care and mother-care programme
in India. It caters to children in the 0–6 age group. The word ‘Anganwadi’ means
‘courtyard shelter’ in Hindi. They were started by the Government of India in 1975
as part of the Integrated Child Development Scheme programme to combat child
hunger and malnutrition. The Anganwadi centres provide hot meal to the children
and a dry take-home ration. This dry ration is the nutrimix that MDMMS produces
for pregnant and lactating mothers, infants and children. The picture showing the
women involved in manual cleaning of grains and milling of cleaned grains is shown
in Fig. 10.6.
S. Dhingra et al.
10.8 Potential Development Impact
The lack of access to electricity is a major inhibitor to achieving equitable growth
and building resilience of poor and vulnerable communities. With a regular supply
of electricity in villages, the rural households will have immediate access to basic
comforts of lights, fans and charging point, increasing their standard of living. This
will gradually help them enhance livelihood opportunities even during nighttime to
increase income.
Through the project, TERI and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
(SDC) will instal this technology in four livelihood clusters run by women SHGs in
villages of Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. The two-stage gasifier of 20–40 kW will
support the electrical and thermal needs of the commercial activity and electricity
supply in villages around of project site. The livelihood activities being supported
and initiated with the help of the biomass gasifier will be operated and managed
by a women’s SHG federation. This will give the women employment, improve
productivity, reduce drudgery, improve health and give an identity outside of the
house. They will be the earning members of their families and have community
support to be independent.
10.9 Rayagada, Odisha
The nutrition mix (chhatua) making is run and owned by the women of an SHG
Federation—Maa Dharani Mahila Maha Sangh (MDMMS) in Bissamcuttack block
of Rayagada district in Odisha. A Self-Help Group (SHG) is made by women in a
village to come together to have regular meetings in which they made savings to open
a bank account to have the ability to take loans. These groups were made for women
empowerment, a forum where women could feel united to share their problems, find
solutions and make ideas for livelihood activities a reality. An SHG Federation is a
block level forum where all the SHGs from all the villages in a block come together.
The nutrition mix produced by MDMMS is provided to 75 Anganwadi centres,
which then provides this dry take-home ration to pregnant and lactating mothers,
infants and children under the Integrated Child Development Scheme of the government. Anganwadi is a government-sponsored child-care and mother-care programme
in India. It caters to children in the 0–6 age group. The word ‘Anganwadi’ means
‘courtyard shelter’ in Hindi. They were started by the Government of India in 1975
as part of the Integrated Child Development Scheme programme to combat child
hunger and malnutrition. The Anganwadi centres provide hot meal to the children
and a dry take-home ration. This dry ration is the nutrimix that MDMMS produces
for pregnant and lactating mothers, infants and children. The picture showing the
women involved in manual cleaning of grains and milling of cleaned grains is shown
in Fig. 10.6.