1) Trained 2, 01,350 people in Soap Making 2) Trained 15,278 people in Food Processing 3) Trained 5358 people in Jack Fruit Products Making 4) Trained 5196 people in Umbrella Making 5) Trained 5184 people in Candle and Agarbathi Making 6) Trained 2353 people in Consumer Products Making 7) Trained 10,462 people in Paper Bag Making 8) Trained 10,127 people in Artificial Ornaments Making 9) Trained 712 people in Water Conservation Activities 10) Trained 40 persons in Ferro Cement Tank Construction 11) Trained 309 persons in Direct Marketing 12) Trained 203 persons in Glass Painting and Fabric Painting 13) Trained 277 persons in Zero Budget Farming 14) Trained 375 persons in Cake Making 15) Trained 80 persons in Curry Powder Making Wide Range of Products More than 300 products are developed so far starting from soap items to special tonic and medicinal items.The products include all soap items,liquid soap items, all squash items,jam items, jelly items, halwa and cake items, varatty and peda items,all pickle items, all powder items,all masala and spicy items,all snacks and chips items,all umbrella items,almost all consumer items,ayurvedic powders and medicinal tonic items,all jackfruit products,all nutmeg products, all the bilimbi products and the like.The focus is not to duplicate the products available in the market but to concentrate on indigenous items.Special attention is given to develop value added products from the locally available resources.None of the products are manufactured by the Gandhi Centre and the Centre’s role is coordination and supervision.It concentrates on giving professional training,providing raw material support,packing support,labeling support,product pricing,quality checking and marketing support. It helps to eliminate exploitation in the three stages of production, ie. manufacturing stage in the form of wages, marketing stage in the form of sales commission and capital investment stage in the form of profit margin. |