Empowerment Activities

Self Help Groups SHG is group of rural poor who have volunteered to organise themselves into a group for eradication of poverty of the members. They agree to save regularly and convert their savings into a Common Fund known as the Group corpus. The members of the group agree to use this common fund and such other funds that they may receive as a group through a common management. The group formation will keep in view the following broad guidelines : Generally a self-help group may consist of 10 to 20 persons. However, in difficult areas like deserts, hills and areas with scattered and sparse population and in case of minor irrigation and disabled persons, this number may be from 5-20. The difficult areas have to be identified by the State Level SGSY Committee and the above relaxation in membership will be permitted only in such areas. Generally all members of the group should belong to families below the poverty line. However, if necessary, a maximum of 20% and in exceptional cases , where essentially required, upto a maximum of 30% of the members in a group may be taken from families marginally above the poverty line living contiguously with BPL families and if they are acceptable to the BPL members of the group. This will help the families of occupational groups like agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and artisans marginally above the poverty line, or who may have been excluded from the BPL list to become members of the Self Help Group. However,the APL members will not be eligible for the subsidy under the scheme. The group shall not consist of more than one member from the same family. A person should not be a member of more than one group. The BPL families must actively participate in the management and decision making, which should not ordinarily be entirely in the hands of APL families. Further, APL members of the Self Help Group shall not become office bearers( Group Leader, Assistant Group Leader or

Treasurer )of the Group. The group should devise a code of conduct (Group management norms) to bind itself. This should be in the form of regular meetings (weekly or fortnightly), functioning in a democratic manner, allowing free exchange of views, participation by the members in the decision making process. The group should be able to draw up an agenda for each meeting and take up discussions as per the agenda. The members should build their corpus through regular savings. The group should be able to collect the minimum voluntary saving amount from all the members regularly in the group meetings. The savings so collected will be the group corpus fund. The group corpus fund should be used to advance loans to the members. The group should develop financial management norms covering the loan sanction procedure, repayment schedule and interest rates. The members in the group meetings should take all the loaning decisions through aparticipatory decision making process. The group should be able to prioritise the loan applications, fix repayment schedules, fix appropriate rate of interest for the loans advanced and closely monitor the repayment of the loan instalments from the loanee. The group should operate a group account preferably in their service area bank branch, so as to deposit the balance amounts left with the groups after disbursing loans to its members. The group should maintain simple basic records such as Minutes book, Attendance register, Loan ledger, General ledger, Cash book, Bank passbook and individual passbooks. The sample proforma for maintenace of above records by the group is in the Annexure II for

guidance. These could be used with necessary changes/ modifications wherever required. 50% of the groups formed in each block should be exclusively for the women. In the case of disabled persons, the groups formed should ideally be disability-specific wherever possible, however, in case sufficient number of people for formation of disability-specific groups are not available, a group may comprise of persons with diverse disabilities or a group may comprise of both disabled and non-disabled persons below the poverty line.

Sl. No.

No. of New No. of New % of Groups to Groups Achievement be formed formed 1 KANCHEEPURAM 600 1297 216% 2 THIRUVALLUR 325 804 247% 3 VELLORE 550 384 70% 4 THIRUVANNAMALAI 250 260 104% 5 DHARMAPURI 250 341 136% 6 KRISHNAGIRI 175 174 99% 7 SALEM 825 889 108% 8 NAMAKKAL 475 585 123% 9 ERODE 1325 2032 153% 10 COIMBATORE 1300 1599 123% 11 THE NILGIRIS 275 536 195% 12 CUDDALORE 400 605 151% 13 VILLUPURAM 375 704 188% 14 THANJAVUR 550 966 176% 15 NAGAPATTINAM 200 522 261% 16 THIRUVARUR 175 409 234% 17 THIRUCHIRAPALLI 425 418 98% 18 PERAMBALUR 150 180 120% 19 PUDUKKOTTAI 200 175 88% 20 DINDUGAL 600 1318 220% 21 KARUR 275 364 132% 22 MADURAI 300 172 57% 23 THENI 550 316 57% 24 RAMANATHAPURAM 175 92 53% 25 VIRUDHUNAGAR 225 257 114% 26 SIVAGANGA 300 136 45% 27 TIRUNELVELI 900 1340 149% 28 TUTICORIN 475 1230 259% 29 KANYAKUMARI 1400 3349 239% 14025 21454 153% Total

District

TRAINING FOR SELF HELP GROUPS & INDIVIDUAL SWAROZGARIS SHGs trained No. of No. of persons Trained Nature of Training SHGs Total SC ST Women 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 Kancheepuram 15 169 99 7 136 Catering, Motor winding Tailoring,catering, fashion, Tiruvallur 20 268 148 0 203 driving Vellore 82 146 33 71 115 Computer,Electrician ,Fitter Tiruvannamalai 24 60 20 35 90 Computer,Tailoring, Driving Tailoring,Rexine leather, Paper Dharmapuri 52 115 115 174 plate Tailoring,Rexine leather, Paper Krishnagiri 41 90 90 170 plate Tailoring,Beautician,Rexine, Salem 120 359 0 359 359 Coir making Tailoring,Beautician, Rexine, Namakkal 62 135 0 135 135 Coir making Erode 75 225 82 174 62 Tailoring,Comput,Mat Tailoring,Man.of Coimbatore 84 170 65 170 129 Bags,tailoring,Baking,Beautician Nilgiris 56 127 70 62 65 Computer,Tailoring, Candle, appalam, seaweed /Crab culture, Book binding, Cuddalore 35 501 66 20 140 Horticulture, Coir making, Herbal Products, Palm products & Masonry Appalam, Jam, seaweed /Crab Villupuram 20 257 50 10 85 culture, Vermi culture Thanjavur 158 585 87 45 283 Computer,Tailoring, Nagapattinam 2 231 37 18 44 Leather products Tiruvarur 54 150 15 12 28 Computer,Tailoring, Terracotta,Greeting card, Ready Trichy 52 130 25 1 122 made,Home appliance Perambalur 47 101 31 1 36 Driving Screen Print,Home App,Note Pudukottai 34 87 43 0 82 making, Table mat making Dindigul 18 74 27 12 41 Tailoring Karur 11 37 21 8 21 Tailoring Madurai 14 59 4 0 30 Computer,Tailoring, Toys Theni 87 196 45 0 124 Computer,Tailoring, Toys Ramanad 19 49 5 10 39 Computer Virudhunagar 25 46 31 0 27 Computer Sivagangai 24 55 9 0 54 Tailoring Tirunelveli 132 314 9 27 259 Computer,Coir, Fisheries,Honey Computer,Coir, Seashore Tuticorin 114 148 4 0 141 sippies, Panai

Sl. Name of No. District 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 Kanniyakumari 112

248

Total 1589 5132 1026 1382

Service Kiosk, Leather products, Bakery, Napkin, wiring,seaweed /Crab culture, 169 Coir making, Herbal Products, Palm products & Masonry, Fishnet, Tailoring, Hollow Block, Tiles, Photography 3363

Catering

Embroidery

Handicrafts

Leather Works

Tailoring

Weaving

Others Mudworks Mosquito Coils

Fish Net

Motor Winding

Saree Blouse and Salwar Kameez Measurement Guide

1 - Cross-back (From outside end of shoulder to shoulder along the back) 2 - Bust (around fullest part of bust) 3 - Under Bust (around just under bust) 4 - Upper-arm (Girth of thickest part of upper-arm) 5 - Waist (around top of navel) 6 - Hips (around fullest part of hips) 7 - Height (in shoes of same height that you expect to wear with the outfit) 8 - Lower Waist (measure around where waistband of pants / skirt / bottom sits) 9 - Bottom Length (for exact length of churidar / salwar - measure from Lower Waist till ankle) (for exact length of skirt / lehenga / petticoat / pants measure from Lower Waist till desired length, while wearing shoes of correct heel height)

Standard Sizes for Salwar Kameez

Please note that these sizes are based on body measurements, so a dress listed as a size 6 will be best suited for a body measurement of 34-26-36, the dress itself will be larger for example 36-28-38.

Size 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Bust 31-32 32-33 33-34 34-35 36-36 37-38 38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-48

Waist 22/23 24/25 25/26 26/27 27/28 28/29 30/32 32/34 34/36 36/38 38/40

Hips 33-34 34-35 35-36 36-37 37-38 38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-47 48-50

Standard (for heights from 5'3"-5' 7") xxs xs xs s s m m l l & xl xl xxl

1 - Neck Width (from inner edge of desired neckline on one side to other side along back of neck) OR 2 - Neck Width (can also be measured from your own blouse from inner edge of desired neckline on one side to other side along top of blouse)

3 - Crossback (from tip of shoulder to other tip along back) 4 - Sleeve Length (from tip of shoulder to desired length - along outer edge of arm) 5 - Arm-Hole (all around top of arm) 6 - Sleeve Edge (all around at point where sleeve will end) - for a loose fit add 1" 7 - Blouse Base (all around base of blouse - point where blouse bottom hem will sit) 8 - Blouse Length (from top of collarbone down to desired length) 9 - Bust Point (from top to midpoint of bust) 10 - Neck Depth (from point directly under ear, diagonally

across to middle of chest, to lowest point of neckline on front) 11 - Back Neck Depth (for Low / Fancy Backs include Neck Depth Measure for Back)

12 - Bust & Under Bust (see Measurement Guide abo

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPER CARE OF YOUR DRESS / FABRIC Make them last forever with beautiful look every day. This elegant Salwar Kameez dress needs to be taken proper care especially if it is a dress with heavy hand embroidered work. The first wash of the garment should always be dry-cleaned. Silk garments should always be dry cleaned. Always wash separately (Cottons tend to shed slight colours during wash, a peculiarity of cotton). Machine cold wash, tumble dry low. Do not bleach. Use warm iron. Wash inside-out. Do not dry in direct sunlight. Do not soak into strong detergent for long time. For Silk Salwar Suits, wash the embroidery separately in the beginning. Avoid the use of chemicals - these may damage your Silk and end up reducing its life considerably. In case of stains, use cold water immediately. For hard stains better go for dry

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Please send us your size details as per the measurement details given below so that your custom outfits can be made as per your size. Kindly email us the size for the salwar kameez outfit(s) as per the below mentioned details so that we can customize it according to your instructions. It is absolutely necessary that we receive accurate measurements to ensure that the outfit ordered fits you perfectly. Please provide us the following measurements in inches or cms

Your Height : Top/Kameez Measurements : 1 - Kameez Length 2 - Shoulder to Shoulder (Backside) 3 - Chest / Bust (Round) 4 - Waist (Round) 5 - Hips (Round) 6 - Armhole 7 - Biceps 8 - Sleeves Length (if applicable)

Sleeves Type (Long, Short, Sleeveless or as in picture) Pants/Salwar Measurements : 11 - Length of Salwar - Outside Leg 12 - Inseam/ Inside Leg 13 - Circumference at the bottom of pants / salwar 14- Thighs (Round) Also Type of Salwar - whether as shown in the picture or some different style. To ensure proper fit : a. Measure yourself just prior to placing the order b. If possible, have someone else measure you. c. Do NOT make extra allowances (We'll do it appropriately when we stitch the outfit). d. Do not pull tape too light Also indicate your selection of fabric and color as below : FABRIC : Please see the item description and let us know accordingly. You can also mention "as in pic" if you want the same fabric as pictured. COLORS : Please provide us the color code number from the chart link given here You can also mention "as in pic" if you want the same color as pictured. Remember, due to the difference in the colors shown on the web (because of different types of monitors and resolutions on the web etc.), there might be some slight difference in the chosen color. However, we'll do our best to provide you the best match for your chosen color. Do also mention special instructions (regarding styles or something specific) - If any Please feel free to let us know in case you need any clarification.