Aditi Tatkare Distributes School Uniforms, Empowers Women’s Self-Help Groups

Mumbai : To provide employment and financial benefits to women, it was decided that the sewing of school uniforms, provided by the School Education Department, would be done by self-help groups of the Women Economic Development Corporation (MVIM). In Kolhapur and Sangli districts, school uniforms sewn by Mavim self-help groups were distributed by Women and Child Development Minister Aditi Tatkare (online).

Today, in the presence of Minister Tatkare, school uniforms were distributed to children in some schools in a representative manner at the Ministry. Anup Kumar Yadav, Secretary of the Women and Child Development Department, and Maya Patole, Managing Director of Mavim (online from Sangli), along with some saving groups of Kolhapur district and student teachers of the school (online), were present on this occasion.

Minister Tatkare stated that under the Samagra Shiksha program of the central government, all girls studying from classes 1 to 8 in government and local government schools, children belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, and children of parents below the poverty line are given the benefit of the free uniform scheme.

This year, uniforms of the same color are being distributed across the state as per the ‘One State One Uniform’ scheme, ensuring uniformity.

Minister Aditi Tatkare thanked Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, and School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar for providing opportunities to women from self-help groups. She suggested that stickers with the name of the School Education Department and MAVIM’s Tejaswini can be applied while sewing the uniforms.

Before assigning the uniform sewing work to the women, a scope survey of the village was conducted to determine the number of women and set the daily number of uniforms to be sewn. Now that schools have started, the distribution of uniforms has also begun across the state. This decision is helping children receive their uniforms on time and has provided substantial employment to women, said Minister Tatkare.