It is not always enough to have in place various people centric government schemes and programmes for the benefit of common citizens. The long stringent procedures and lack of adequate information create unfavourable condition for the people to access the schemes. To enable people access adequate information, HWA has taken a new initiative establishing village level Information Centers where people can visit, receive information and take assistance to access the schemes and programmes meant for them.

Livelihood from BBS: Jeut Prasad

I am member of Suraj SHG, village Hajipur. I am traditional weaver and used to prepare saree through Grihastha. This time I was weaving Saree for the last six months through Grihastha of Niyar village Embab Ansari. In the month of April this year suddenly Grihastha informed me not to prepare any more Saree as Saree market has been declined and he stopped providing raw material and order any more....... Read More

Agent sold my son in Gujarat: Bhagawan Das.

My name is Bhagawan Das belong to scheduled caste community. I am member of the Dr Ambedkar self help group running in our village Rouna. I am engaged in weaving work and my wife is running a beetle shop at Dr Ambedkar Shiksha Niketan, Rouna (primary school). I have four sons and two daughters. ..... Read More

Achievement of Poonam Yadav

Poonam Yadav of Ajgara village comes from poor family. She was a student of Ajgara Junior High School. She was very sincere in her studies but due to the poor quality of education in school she faced lot of difficulties in understanding subjects like Math, English and Science. ..... Read More

Group helped outsider to start IGA

Jitendra, resident of harijan hamlet of villagee Jhajhupur belongs to SC community and he ties taani for the weavers. The decline in whole handloom sector affected his livelihood badly as the weavers don’t get proper work from Girastha. His livelihood was completely dependent on the weaving works. ..... Read More

Consensus for penalty in the group

During the saving meeting of Jagriti SHG (E3), village Rouna, a conflict raised for penalty charged by the group on late recovery of group loans. The group earlier consensually decided to charge Rs 10/- penalty per installment on late recovery of loans .... Read More

Group member running a grocery shop

Mohara Devi, treasurer of Mahila Jagram Self Help Group, village Gadsara owns a small grocery shop with in her house. She says ‘we are highly benefited with the group; earlier when we require money we had to go to money lenders and enforced to pay 10% monthly interest but our ..... Read More