Industrial Sewing Machine Set Up – Palamu

Basic question to be solved:

The basic questions that would be solved through the initiative

a) Sustainable Livelihood creation for around 200 SHG members as a model that can be replicated across Palamu and other districts as well.
To address sustainable livelihood opportunities for people of Palamu at a place where they belong and observe its positives on social development indicators, one of our model experiments is : Industrial Sewing Machine Set up at Chainpur Block of Palamu district.

b) School dress demand fulfilment and production to meet demand for other apparels.
To provide 2.5 lac school dresses through a Producer Group of 200 SHG members in a Industrial Sewing Machines Set up at Chainpur,Palamu every year

Project Stages

Day 1 to Day 14

  • Conception and Ideation
  • Physical and Financial Feasibility of the idea
  • Community Interaction to mobilise SHG members to operate in a Producer Group(PG)
  • Project Proposal prepared

Day 15- Proposal passed in District Level Committee (DLC) for Special Central Assistance (SCA)

Day 20 – Request for Proposal (RFP) for Capital Equipments and Pre-fabricated Structure to house the Industrial Sewing Machine Set-up and manage Inventory

Day 21 to Project Execution period- Capability building and Handholding of SHG members under Producer Group through Training Service Providers in Sewing, Cutting etc.

Day 41 – Proposals opened and Evaluated (Technical, Products Demonstration and Commercial)

Day 42 – Contract Awarded

Day 45 – On ground work begun

Day 90 – Production will start at the newly constructed facility through trained SHG members

Perspective/Context

Palamu is an LWE affected Aspirational district set mostly in a rural set (88% population in rural household).The government is focusing on various development indicators around Health & Nutrition, Education, Agriculture & Irrigation through the Transforming Aspirational Districts Program through better Central and State Schemes monitoring and evaluation, convergence of schemes reaching a beneficiary through the institutional framework with strong support from development partners.

While working on improving such Indicators, we found a strong correlation of these indicators with the economic status of people and to address the on- ground challenges of Left wing extremism, undernutrition/malnutrition, health and hygiene among others we engaged in piloting sustainable livelihood generation projects.

In this endeavor, we found that people usually migrate out of the district in search of jobs after getting trained under Central and State government Training Programs.

To address sustainable livelihood opportunities for people of Palamu at a place where they belong and observe its positives on social development indicators, one of our model experiments is : Industrial Sewing Machine Set up at Chainpur Block of Palamu district.

Stakeholders

Stage 1 – Ideation, Conception, Proposal till Project execution

    Primary Decision Makers

  • District Administration headed by Deputy Commissioner, Palamu
  • JSLPS – Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society and its members SHG members who formed the Producer Group

Stage 2 – Operations and Maintenance

    Primary Decision Makers

  • Producer Group of SHG members

Other Stakeholders

  • Community
  • Corporates- as a critical chain to establish market linkage for the produce

Identify primary decision makers as well as internal and externals that can provide support for the initiative

Criteria for Success

  • Project Timelines
  • Production
    • Quantity of Products
    • Quality of Products
    • Demand Orders (Size and Volume)
  • Human Development Index (HDI) of 200 SHG members and their families

Key Sources of Insight

  1. Primary Research on setting up Automated Sewing Machine lines at SIRD, Ranchi
  2. Secondary research on the equipment suitability based on production requirements
  3. Interviews with JSLPS members engaged in similar exercises in the state
  4. Interviews with Training Service Providers based in the Jharkhand to find out the nature of placements (Location and salary) candidates get after their training through PMKVY, SJKVY.
Proposed Automated Sewing Machines Set up
Proposed Pre-fabricated Structure to house Automated Industrial Sewing Machine Set up and Manage Inventory