Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Oct 02, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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Leather Project to empower poor leather artisans V. Rishi Kumar
HYDERABAD, Oct. 1 THE Andhra Pradesh Government through the State Leather Industries Development Corporation (LIDCAP) is set to launch an innovative project — Malupu (a turning point) — which aims at capacity building and skill upgradation for the development of the leather industry in the State and empowering artisans through self-help groups. The Executive Director, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation and head of LIDCAP, Mr Tenneti Krishna Prasad, told Business Line that Malupu was designed to bring about an overall development of the leather sector while empowering poor employees expected to number about one million. LIDCAP, which is spearheading the development of the leather sector especially in the unorganised and economically backward classes, was now planning to empower the artisans who can benefit through value-additions, he said. The Malupu programme, which is to be launched by the Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, is aimed at capacity building, skill upgradation, infrastructure development, while ensuring project monitoring and implementation. This project was conceived as it was felt that even though most of the groundwork was done by artisans, they got poor remuneration. The programme will also benefit about 2 lakh women artisans.
Malupu envisages that the poor would be economically independent and be socially and politically motivated into organising self-help groups to manage their own micro enterprises, grow and develop in a sustainable manner. Almost all the beneficiaries of Malupu are below the poverty line and the development project, while bringing them into the mainstream will also help them move up the value chain and facilitate asset creation, he added.
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