Women empowerment and development can come through MSME and village industries

What is the most important and necessary way for a country to be self-sustaining? This question can be easily answered by two words: Self employment. Since India got independence, villages are constantly being emptied out with most of the workforce migrating to cities to search for better employment opportunities.

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But what has this resulted in? The answer comes in the form of a scary scenario. MSME and village industries have taken a hit due to the mass migration of the adult workforce to cities. When any villager comes to the city, he is generally not able to find employment of his expertise. For example, a tailor in a village might just end up sewing parts of clothing in a factory, but will never get an opportunity to compile and make the entire product. This results in him losing out on his expertise.

Organizations like JND Charitable Trust have taken the huge task of making villagers not just strengthen their primary skills, but also develop in such a manner that they are able to set up their own MSME and village industries. This will stop migration and end the constant pressure on cities and also give people a chance to be self employed and earn according to their talents, something which is lost when such people work in large factories.

JND Charitable Trust is also making efforts to set up village industries and MSME so that women, who otherwise sit idle or work in the fields thereby not contributing much to the nation’s economy, get empowerment. Women empowerment and development can come only when they are able to sustain their families with their own efforts. This will not just give them satisfaction, but also earn respect in the eyes of other people of their community.

MSME and village industries not just offer self employment but also job opportunities to thousands of others who can join in collectively and manufacture a product without leaving their hometowns and villages for foreign lands. The capital for such ventures can come in the form of donations and charities received by JND Charitable Trust.