Kudumbashree is about to start imparting skill training in more BUDS Institutions. It is the new project that Kudumbashree intends to start for BUDS Institutions. Kudumbashree had already been imparting skill training in most of the BUDS Rehabilitation Centres (BRC) in Kerala on various skills like paper binding, spiral binding, paper cover making, paper pen production, mattress making, soap and hand wash production, farming etc for the children in BUDS Institutions. Now, Kudumbashree aims at imparting skill training to more institutions in this financial year as a part of the special livelihood initiative. The plan is to scale up and implement the skill training programme to 150 more BUDS Institutions this year.
In the first phase, the teachers, children and parents of each BUDS Institutions would identify the skills which the students wish to acquire. Based on the identified skill need, Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be prepared by each institution. The activities for preparing DPR for each BUDS school had already been started. August 15 is the last date to submit the DPRs. Once the DPR is received from all institutions, approval would be given for each BUDS school. Special financial assistance would be provided to each institution for this special livelihood assistance. Rs 4 crores has been earmarked for 150 institutions for setting up basic infrastructure and for buying machineries. Also find will be provided for arranging working capital. There is financial support for monitoring, evaluation and for branding and marketing.
After the completion of training, Kudumbashree has also planned the branding of the products manufactured by the students of BUDS Institutions. Marketing support will also be provided in a centralised manner. As per the schedule, skill training courses will be started by September/ October 2020 and the branding and marketing activities will be started by December 2020.
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