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Around 160 women, a mix of housewives from middle-class families and slum-dwellers, inaugurated a polythene bag unit called Swamini Mahila Bachat Gat Akhil Sangh Ltd
Until a few days back, they were a mix of housewives from middle-class families and slum-dwellers who worked as domestic-help. Now they own a company — Swamini Mahila Bachat Gat Akhil Sangh Ltd (SMBGAS) — that will manufacture polythene bags. At the heart of this turn-around are 160 women in Pimpri-Chinchwad, a city adjacent to Pune, who inaugurated their polythene bag unit in the industrial area of Talawade on May 28.
SMBGAS has an initial order — for 700 kg of bags per day for 250 days — from Sumedh Polymers, a Pune-based manufacturer of plastic and polythene products which will market the bags in Dubai and the United States. The development has brought about immense confidence in the women, who now plan to manufacture 700 kg of polythene bags daily.
Some of the women were earlier slum-dwellers who worked as domestic-help; others were housewives who never thought of taking up jobs or generating employment for others. With help from the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), which has subsidised this project, as well as Sumedh Polymers (which helped the women draw up a business plan, and will also train them, the women have organised themselves into a self-help group named Swamini. Commercial production is expected to begin in the second week of July.
Sulabha Ubale, a political activist and member of the group, told Business Standard, “From being poor and socially deprived, the women are now empowered human-beings. Many still find it difficult to believe that they own a small industrial unit, which will change their future.”
The investment in the project is Rs 1 crore, to start with. The women have jointly contributed Rs 20 lakh, while the PCMC has given SMBGAS a subsidy of Rs 30 lakh. The Bank of Baroda has advanced the unit a loan of Rs 50 lakh, which has to be repaid over a period of seven years.
“The most interesting aspect of this project is that we have signed a seven-year contract with Sumedh Polymers to supply polythene bags as per their requirements. This makes the business viable. We are recruiting 70-odd women at this unit and paying them a good salary,” said Ubale.
“The unit will supply plastic bags to Sumedh Polymers, which will export them to Dubai and the US. Hence, we need to manufacture bags to specific standards. Over the next one month, we will undergo extensive training and then begin commercial production,” said Swati Mujumdar, an activist.
She added, “We are not focusing on profits, as this unit has been set up to bring about social change. Once the women are employed, they will deliver better results and the business will grow automatically.” Mujumdar said, “Some 11 self-help groups were formed in Pimpri-Chinchwad around 15 months back. These groups had their own savings, which were added to the financial assistance by PCMC.”
SMBGAS has the capacity to manufacture 700 kg of polythene bags daily and it will sell them to Sumedh Polymers at Rs 18 per kg. This is expected to generate annual revenues of about Rs 36 crore for the unit. After paying various taxes, salaries, the loan installments and other expenses, SMBGAS expects to earn a profit of Rs 4 lakh in the first year of operations. Six months after the start of operations, it will begin making polythene sheets, tarpaulin sheets and a few other products as well.
Chanda Bhande, a vegetable vendor and chief of a self-help group, said, “I only knew how to sell vegetables and run my house. Things have now changed for me. I am making money and also helping others to earn money.” Damayanti Gaekwad, another member, added, “This has worked as a confidence building exercise for us. We want to expand the business beyond this single unit.”
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If the online Gujarati lexicon has proved a boon for translators or writers, this bunch of five 20-something girls ought to take the
credit. Their love for their mother tongue is phenomenal and so is their passion for language. Hence, with the help of technology they have made words available at your fingertips.
Sumaiya Vohra, Padma Jadav, Maitri Shah, Shruti Amin and Deval Vyas run an IT firm which handles jobs of researching and compiling Gujarati words. After digitizing ‘Bhagwadgomandal’ – a major dictionary of Gujarati language – their recent achievement was to put ‘lokkosh’, a Gujarati lexicon, online. It has been accessible to netizens from Tuesday.
“Before this company, we were working at difference places. We share the same wavelength and passion for Gujarati language. Presently, there are various projects in our kitty, including a major one for creating a good spell-check software for Gujarati language,” says Deval Vyas, who handles business development.
“In Gujarat there is a lot of work to be done. If we failed to make Gujarati language online or in digital medium, it would have been a disaster. The diaspora needs it and there is immense business opportunity in this field,” adds Vyas.
This website translates words from Gujarati to English through the thesaurus facility. “The commitment of these girls towards Gujarati language is tremendous, so our firm has a full confidence in this team,” said Ashok Kaneria of Gujarati Lexicon, an NRI-foundation for supporting and developing Gujarati language on the web.
But why all girls? “We met accidentally. Many tell us that any company should have equal gender distribution. But, we never thought of such things. For us, passion and work is more important. We all are capable of coping with any challenge,” says Maitri Shah, who handles Gujarati translation and proof reading, with Amin. Vohra and Jadav handle project management.
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About the Programme
Launched by Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women is a global
initiative that will increase the number of under-served women
receiving a business and management education.
10,000 Women is built on the premise that partnerships
between education, development and business experts can
help bring about significant change through improved business
education for women.
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad is an academic
partner for the 10,000 Women initiative in India.
Through this programme Goldman Sachs and ISB, will be
able to provide world class education that help the women
entrepreneurs to think big and grow their businesses.
In the launch year of 2008-09, two programmes were
successfully completed, one each at Hyderabad and
Bangalore. Four new programmes at Hyderabad, Bangalore,
Delhi and Kolkata will be conducted in the year 2009-10.
Who should apply?
In order to ensure that the maximum benefit is provided to
the most deserving women entrepreneurs the programme is
targeted to cover:
• Women entrepreneurs running and managing their own
business venture.
• Business venture which has been in operation for more
than a year.
• Have excellent potential for growth.
• Business Ventures with annual revenue of INR 5 lakhs -
50 lakhs
At the end of this programme the women entrepreneurs will be
enabled to:
• Build a robust business by refining their business model
and moving from start up to entrepreneurial phase
• Train on different functions and business strategy
• Bridge the gap of a formal management education
• Gear up to meet the challenges of growing competitionnational
and international
CONTACT
For more details,
Marketing Services, Centre for Executive Education,
Indian School of Business, Gachibowli, Hyderabad – 500 032, India.
Ph: +91 40 2318 7516, +91 40 2300 7000 (Extn. 7516)
Fax: +91 40 23007040
Email: latha_venkatesan@isb.edu | Mobile: +91 93945 68012
www.isb.edu/execed
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http://www.isb.edu/10000women
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Tata second career – Tata launches Second Career option for women -The Tata Group has launched the Tata Second Career Internship Program (SCIP) – for women to take on a second career, Tata second career option. On the very first day of Tata second career launch, the portal has got great response and resumes too.
Tata second career SCIP aims to tap the huge talent and capability among women professionals who have discontinued work due to various personal reasons. The Tata second career -option will provide live business projects involving about 500 hours of work, spread across 5 to 6 months on a flexi-time basis.
About Tata second career SCIP
- Begun in June 2008, Tata second career SCIP is a career transition management programme for professionals
- Tata SCIP is not a job. It is an intermediary programme aimed at developing alternative talent pools in traditional/non-traditional formats and facilitating career transitions
- Tata SCIP II, once again focuses on women professionals who have taken a career break but offers an extended opportunity in terms of professional categories
- Tata Group companies provide live business projects covering approx 500 hours engagement spread over 6 months on a flexi time basis
- There is no placement guarantee at the end of the project. However, the women professionals have the option of exploring full-time employment on mutually acceptable terms with the respective Group Company
- SCIP projects are allotted based on the area of expertise of the applicant, following a rigorous
selection process that is completed in 60 days - The project remuneration will be 4 Lakhs for 500 hours, divided into monthly payouts
(taxes as applicable) - Flexi time delivery with defined core hours on-site
- Induction & training programme conducted by Tata Management Training Centre
- Appointment of individual Mentor-Guide
- HR helpline during the programmeDesired profile :
Tata second career Desired Profile : Currently the Second Career Initiative is for women professionals who have worked for a minimum of four continuous years in any of the domain areas listed below, prior to taking a career break of 1-8 years.
Tata second career Domain Areas
a. Marketing h. Engineering
b. Sales i. IT
c. Advertising / Communications j. Corporate Planning
d. Human Resource Management k. Hospitality
e. Finance / Accounting l. Retail
f. Legal m. CSR
g. Manufacturing n. Other Corporate Functions
Tata second career - Criteria 1 – Qualification:
All women professionals with professional, post graduation or equivalent technical qualifications in any of the above mentioned domain areas with atleast four years continuous working experience.
Tata second career- Criteria 2 – Current Residence:
SCIP II is available only to women professionals residing in Mumbai and Bengaluru region.
Tata second career - Criteria 3 – Work Experience:
Currently, SCIP is available only to women who have a work experience of four continuous years or more in the specified domain areas.
Tata second career - Criteria 4 – Career Break:
SCIP II is open to women professionals who have taken a continuous career break of 1-8 years and have not functioned in a remunerative capacity during that time.
Tata Group reserves the right to revise / relax the above criteria
For more details, please visit http://www.tatasecondcareer.com/
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“While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is within our grasp — and has been for years. New research says a healthy dose of estrogen may be the key not only to our fiscal recovery, but also to economic strength worldwide.” read more of Katty Kay and Claire Shipman’s article in the Washington Post
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When I married the man of my dreams and he swept me off to Paris to propose under the Eiffel tower, I never thought life would surmount to this. Here we are seven years later, getting through life with two kids, a house to keep up, social obligations to meet and of course our vows to uphold. So his end of the deal was to keep me sheltered, clothed, fed and happy which all equals to him going out of the house to work a twelve hour, ‘stressful’ job in an air-conditioned office while his beautiful secretary brings him hot steaming coffee every two hours. My end of the deal was a little different – we never quite agreed upon the terms because I was too busy being wined and dined in those sugar-coated days. Those were just a pure scam.
Today my day began at 6.30 in the morning with my trainer whose name is ‘Dharmendra’ if you please or ‘Hitler’ as I like to call him, making me do my toughest workout of all time; the only thing which kept me going was imagining his face on the cushion he was making me kick-box. I like to workout in the morning before my kids get up because it helps alleviate the guilt I carry around all day because of the time I sacrifice with them to work my full-time job. Although my employers call it a flexi-time position – it is definitely a full time job, made very difficult by the constant interruptions I have all day to pay bills, deal with the garbage man, change diapers and of course chat with my grocer with whom I now have an intimate relationship thanks to our communication five times a day. And then people dare to question how much I actually work from home? Do they not realise that my hours get longer because of the inability to get actual work done in normal nine-to-five hours.
Anyway, back to my day. Work out ends at exactly 7.30 when my son bounds into the room and launches himself on top of me demanding breakfast. I get the hint, say goodbye to the God of Fitness and head into the kitchen to put together an all-food-groups breakfast of cereal, milk and bananas which I then dish into the three year old’s mouth while we discuss Dora’s antics for the millionth time. In between all this, my trusted nanny escorts in my 11 month old daughter who has just started moving and so cannot be left unattended for a minute and plonks her in my lap. All this while, hubby dearest is still in bed because poor chap, he was up half the night on conference calls with the States (or maybe too busy watching Splitsvilla on TV?).
Get number one dressed, get number two dressed, get myself dressed and send number two to drop number one to school with the nanny while I skim through the papers, wallop down my papaya and sit down at my desk. Ah! What a feat – three hours of almost uninterrupted work today. Feed number one and put him to bed for his afternoon nap, feed number two and put her to bed, feed myself lunch and get back to my desk. Hubby calls from work and makes his requests – could I send his red tie (he doesn’t know where it is) for dry cleaning and pay that bill lying on his dresser (of course honey, I have all the time in the world).
I shutdown my laptop at five, marinate pork chops for dinner and head out for soccer practice with my three year old because hubby believe it or not, wants to retire on his Premier League salary when the kid is ten. It’s really nice sitting out on the grass and playing ‘soccer mom’ with the other moms, comparing notes and sharing issues if only I didn’t have the office sending messages every three minutes which mean I have to sit and type out essays on my blackberry buttons which are tinier than my baby’s nails. Following soccer I have to calm down my three year old’s tantrum which is caused by his bike not being available when his best friend is riding his; he just does not understand that there is no air in the tires. Eventually, for the sake of peace, I take the bike, the kids and the nanny to the petrol pump to fill up the tires after which he declares he doesn’t want to ride it anymore. It takes all I have inside me to keep from ringing his neck – after all, he is my flesh and blood and I’ve got enough gyan on good parenting to know ringing your own child’s neck pretty much kills all chances of your picture reaching the parents hall of fame.
We struggle home, bathe and feed both the kids and manage to pacify them both so that I can have a few minutes to cook our own dinner. Voila! I’m quite pleased with the results as I’ve managed to throw together a meal of pork chops, mashed potatoes and rocket salad in a matter of twenty minutes. Hubby should be thrilled today, I think. We’re every man’s dream – the kids clean and settled down, dinner on the table cooked by the lovely wife who works a day job as well – all that’s missing is my little black dress. He comes home, we sit down on the table and dig in. I take a deep breath, ready for that big pat on the back and watch him chew on his first bite. ‘Isn’t this pork chop a little overcooked?’ asks my husband, the man of my dreams as if to chide me gently; after all, what had I been doing all day?
Anika is a supermom who works virtually with the Mahindra Group. The gharkamai team is proud of Indian companies like Mahindra that recognize the value of professionals like her and provide her the flexibility to be a terrific professional and a great mom. Tell us your story…
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