BHUBANESWAR: To gain practical knowledge on ‘Poverty Reduction Through Rural Credit’ as a part of international training programme, 20 delegates from 13 countries of Asia and African continent visited the cooperative societies and self help groups (SHG) of Balakati of Khurda district and Pipili of Puri district near the city on Friday.
The delegates from National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) at Hyderabad first visited field offices of Adhikar, which is a micro finance company helps the cooperative societies run by women, to gather information on the style and strategy of operations of micro finance and poverty alleviation to empower women effectively in the rural areas.
According to a delegate from Tajikistan Abdulloev Bakhodur, the interface of their team with women beneficiaries as well as officials of Adhikar field offices at Balakati and Pipili was inspiring and informative. Another delegate from Kenya Simon Mwangi Muchigiri said that nowhere micro credit is started except Bangladesh and India successfully. Though Bangladesh is pioneer in this field, India is booming in the sector and yielding a very good result for economic viability and sustainability as well as women empowerment in the country, he added.
“India is gone ahead in tackling the issues as we think it is one of super powers and we have to learn from the country as it has started so many economic empowerment programmes for the common people,” said a delegate Tessema Boke Meharu from Ethiopia.
According to Professor of NIRD Dr Bijay Kumar Swain, the delegates want to replicate the models of cooperative society and SHGs from our country and also they have already replicated in their countries.
The delegates then visited Kalinga Institute of Social Science and MBA department of KIIT University.
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