Improving rural economy key to progress: Soren

Chief ministerHemant Sorenon Wednesday felicitated 400 members of self-help groups hailing from ultra poor household community for overcoming odds to learn livelihood earning skills.

The occasion was the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of 400 Women hailing from Lohardaga, Gumla and Latehar districts who were provided various livelihood skills through a three-year programme by the Bangalore-based The/Nudge Institute under its End Ultra POVERTY programme. It was supported by theJharkhandState Livelihood Mission and Union rural development ministry.

Officials of the institute on the occasion said that the End Ultra-Poverty aims to contribute to the governments efforts to target the ultra-poor at large scale. The programmes journey started in Jharkhand in 2018. KPMG, L&T Infotech and The Rockefeller Foundation are key partners of the programme enabling The/Nudge to create impactful change in the lives of the women in Jharkhand and across India.

Collectively in all the three district, this programme is supporting around 4,000 households since three years.

The/Nudge started this programme in Jharkhands three district in 2019 targeting 4,000 households in the first phase. The first batch of 400 rural women who graduated from the ultra-poverty programme have done so through their resilience despite the twin waves of Covid-19, said officials.