Paving New Pathways in Paddy Plantation
Paving New Pathways in Paddy Plantation
Authors : R. Vimala
MAVIM stands for Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal – the State Women’s
Development Corporation of the Government of Maharashtra. The name
MAVIM is closely associated with the SHG movement in the state. Being
a state nodal agency for the implementation of SHG centered programs,
MAVIM, at present, works with women in 13000 villages in 278 blocks in all 34
rural districts of Maharashtra.
MAVIM has district level offices across the state that primarily functions as
support units to strengthen community level structures developed by MAVIM
with SHG members.
The three-tiered community structure has Self Help Group (SHG) as the
base tier, Village Level Committee (VLC), a collective forum of all SHGs
in a village, as the middle tier and Community Managed Resource Centers
(CMRC), the federation forms the top tier.
In MAVIM’s view, SHG is a vehicle for the social, economic and political
empowerment of women. SHG is a group of 15-20 women living in vicinity,
who regularly meet to save money and access loans from these savings. They
are fundamental and autonomous units that enable its members to realize
and nurture their strengths. Individual SHGs come together at village level as
VLC, to expand the scope of their activities and also for mutual learning and
effective negotiations with elected local governing bodies.
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