Gutu Galang Kalyan Trust Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) Women-Led Community Enterprise in Jharkhand
Gutu Galang Kalyan Trust Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) Women-Led Community Enterprise in Jharkhand
Authors : Suraj Kumar, Bishnu Charan Parida, Suvakanta Nayak
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) are the most marginalized of any of
India’s indigenous communities. Living in the tough topography, movement limitations,
comparatively low income, by middlemen, inaccessibility to government entitlements, and
a lack of skills are some of the factors that contribute to the extreme backwardness of
PVTGs in Jharkhand.
In this situation, the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS), Department
of Rural Development, Government of Jharkhand’s initiative, i.e. Gutu Galang Kalyan
Trust (GGKT) for the PVTG community in Pakur district turned out to be a successful
community-based intervention for providing PVTGs with enhanced economic
opportunities.
Gutu Galang Kalyan Trust (GGKT) is a PVTG-led women’s enterprise. It was established
in 2019. It is owned and operated by members of PVTG’s Self-Help Group in the Littipara
block of Pakur. At GGKT, the women manage a variety of micro-enterprises, such as a
PP (polypropylene) woven sack manufacturing unit, a seed bank for the traditional lobia
(black-eyed peas), a value-added marketing platform for the traditional crops lobia, millet
and pulses, and a registered vendor under MGNREGA to supply various planting materials
to families all across the district.
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