Spreading Awareness on Cleanliness | 16 Apr 2024
Why in News?
Women from a self-help group in Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh, are going door-to-door to raise awareness about cleanliness among the locals.
Key Points
- The municipal corporation has offered a special job to women in self-help groups to promote cleanliness in households in the region, paying them ₹100 for the task.
- Under this initiative, women associated with the Vaibhav Lakshmi Self-Help Group are going door-to-door in areas like Mahajanapeth and Shikarpura and spreading information related to cleanliness to the locals.
Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
- These are informal associations of people who choose to come together to find ways to improve their living conditions.
- It can be defined as a self governed, peer controlled information group of people with similar socio-economic background and having a desire to collectively perform common purpose.
- Villages face numerous problems related to poverty, illiteracy, lack of skills, lack of formal credit etc. These problems cannot be tackled at an individual level and need collective efforts.
- Thus SHG can become a vehicle of change for the poor and marginalized. SHG relies on the notion of “Self Help” to encourage self-employment and poverty alleviation.