Kudumbashree Mission is about to launch Common Facility Centres across the State, where a consortium of Kudumbshree Entrepreneurs come together to make same kind of products. As part of this, 19 Common Facility Centres would be started in 12 districts in Kerala very soon. It is envisioned to form a consortium of enterprises by clustering them in the basis of the kind of the products they make. Mainly the production of apparels, food products and cement brick sectors are aimed at by launching the Common Facility Centres. The Common Facility Centres would act as a working area where the entrepreneurs from an area could make their products, pack it and ensure its quality. Kudumbashree aims to identify all enterprises in the district level working in similar way and to start Common Facility Centres ensuring them enough support they need. 4525 Kudumbashree women would be benefited out of thelaunch of Common Facility Centres.
It would then be possible to produce branded products from a particular locality itself, if the entrepreneurs from that particular locale would be able to produce huge quantity of products. Those entrepreneurs who can't afford buying machinery may make use of the Common Facility Centres. The production cost could be minimized as the raw materials are procured together by the Common Facility Centres. The Product Testing facility would also be arranged at the Common Facility Centres. By ensuring the service and supervision of the professionals in this sector, this initiative could secure better marketing of Kudumbashree Products. Common Protocol would be ensured in the sales of the product. The respective District Mission Coordinators would be in charge of the Common Facility Centres.
The respective Local Self Government Institutions would arrange the infrastructure for starting the Common Facility Centres. Kudumbashree Mission would spent around Rs 50 lakh for launching Common Facility Centres. The 60 % of the amount would be used for buying machinery, 15 % for building renovation and, another 15 % would be use for conducting training programmes and 10 % would be used for designing, packing and better marketing.
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