Kudumbashree Mission launched launched three innovative enterprises in Paravur Municipality. Designer Cloth bag making units, A 2 Z service team and Fresh cut vegetable & Fish are the three innovative enterprises launched by Paravur Municipality associating with Kudumbashree Mission. The teams are set up with the help of the centrally designed programme National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM).
The five Kudumbashree units in Ward number 16 at Paravur Municipality are operating the bag manufacturing units with subsidy from the municipality. Designer cloth bag making units have started grabbing attention with their unique bag manufacturing project. When other tailoring units are struggling to dispose the pieces of cloth after stitching dress, these women find these clothes as raw material for their product. They collect such pieces of cloth and started making beautiful bags. Apart from hand bags and sling bags, the team also introduced pencil pouch titled ‘Changathi Cheppu’ to replace plastic pouches used by students. This eco-friendly project has secured recognition of State Haritha Keralam Mission. A year ago, the women attended a training session in cloth bag making at Paravur. Bhoomithra club in Ernakulam St. Terasas College organised the training programme The municipality had even explored new ways to market cloth bags. The bags are being sold through the Nano market of Kudumbashree. Apart from this, the municipality had strictly directed all shops to replace sale of plastic bags with cloth bags. Cloth bags and pencil pouches manufactured at Paravur will be made available soon in ‘Amazon', the online shopping site as the Municipality had reached upto an agreement with Amazon marketing department in this regard. The Municipality will sponsor ‘Changathi cheppu’, the pencil pouch, to all students in all LP schools and UP schools this academic year. The move was taken to completely replace plastic pouches or boxes with cloth pouches. The chairman noted that around 3000 pencil pouches will be made available from Kudumbashree for this purpose.
The A2Z Service team is from Vaniyakkad of Paravur Municipality. They make avail the services to households and offices like paying telephone bills, electricity bills water bills, buying medicines for those who stay alone, getting food from hotels, buying and delivering grocery, vegetables, fish etc.The A2Z service team make avail all these services in minimal rates.
The Fresh Cut Vegetables and Fish supplies 'ready to cook' clean and fresh vegetables and fish in minimal rates to the customers. Sukrutham Fresh Cut Vegetables and Vegetables and Fish unit and Nanma Vegetables and Fish cut unit are the units which make avail the ready to cook fish and vegetables to the customers. During May 2018, Paravur Municipality had launched three innovative enterprises. It is in addition to those innovative enterprises, that the new set of innovative enterprises are launched.
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