SARAS Aajeevika Mela 2018

Question:  SARAS Aajeevika Mela 2018 was organized at which of the following places?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Ahmedabad
(c) Jaipur
(d) Gurujram
Answer: (a) 
Related Facts:

  • SARAS Aajeevika Mela 2018 was organized at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 23rd March, 2018 to 1st of April, 2018.
  • The Ministry of Rural Development organized it under the Public Program and Rural Technology Development Council (CAPRAT) under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Campaign (DAY-NRLM).
  • in this Mela SHG women from all states of the country will be participating for exhibition and sale of their products in over 350 stalls.
  • The stalls will display the skills, potential and hard work of our women from across India.
  • The products ranges from handlooms, handicrafts, artefacts and heritage products, tribal ornaments, decorative items, metallic products, earthen utensils, paintings, organic food items, spices, processed food products, soft toys, utility items, brass and wrought iron products.
  • During this fair, workshops were also organized to train women in fields like packaging and handling consumers along with cultural programs.
  • Deendayal Antyodaya Yojna – National Rural Livelihood Campaign launched for the eradication of poverty in Rural areas by the Rural Development Department, Government of India, in year 2011.
  • The programme aims to organize the rural poor women into their own institutions like Self Help Groups and their federations, Producers’ Collectives etc. and also ensure their financial inclusion and livelihoods support.
  • Since its launch in 2011, the Mission has spread to 4456 Blocks of 584 Districts, across 29 States and 5 Union Territories.
  • Women from 4.7 crore of the poorest and marginalized families have been mobilized into 39.9 lakh Self Help Groups, which have been federated into 2.20 lakh Village Organizations and 19,000 Cluster Level Federations. Women’s Self-Help Groups have now accessed Rs.151, 000 crores of funds from banks.
  • A major component under DAY-NRLM relates to skilling of rural poor youth for self-employment and wage employment.
  • Towards this end the Ministry is implementing the Deen Dayal Upadhyay –Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) under DAY-NRLM. DDU-GKY is a placement Linked Skill Development scheme which seeks to build the Skills of the poor rural youth and place them in relatively higher wage employment sectors of the economy.
  • As of Jan’18, 10.51 lakh youth have been trained and 6.5 lakh youth have been placed.
  • DAY-NRLM also provides support for establishing Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) in each district of the country in collaboration with the Banks and the State Governments to provide training to the rural youth from the poor households to take-up economic activities.
  • Currently 582 RSETIs are functioning in the country. Cumulatively, 26 lakh youth have been trained and 17.2 lakh have been settled as on January, 2018.

Reference:                        
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177993
http://capart.nic.in/SARAS_Aajeevika_Mela_2018.pdf