Self Employment

Any self employment scheme that covers a vocational activity from end to end is likely to be more rewarding and may attract significant number of practitioners.

An illustrative example is dairy farming. Assume there is a group of six persons to be self employed. Provide them with loan to acquire six milch cattle, and half an acre of land fit for growing fodder. Teach them rain harvesting, cattle and milk raising skills, composting of dung and other organic waste as well as generating bio gas. With facility to sell the milk they produce to a dairy, they can be self employed and self contained. They can increase their income by growing common vegetables.

The thought is that the scheme should include generating the needed inputs and raw materials for a main product, marketing of the product with maximum possible value addition and engaging just the requisite number of man power. It should form part of a chain, not necessarily inter linked, spread over the whole region. There should be sharing of experiences.