Kudumbashree Mission's multi tasking teams are all set to strengthen the rebuilding activities of Kerala post floods of August 2018. The multi task teams would start extending services at all Local Self Government Institutions in Kerala very soon. The services of multi task teams comprising of men and women would be made available in the sectors viz., electrical work, electronic repairing, plumbing, masonry etc. The state level workshop of the multi task teams was held at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram on 26 July 2019.
As of now, more than 40,000 men and women had registered in ARISE programme out of which, 2500 persons had already availed training in plumbing, electrical work, electronic repairing etc. So far, 78 multi task teams were formed including them. They were given special uniform as well. Kudumbashree plans to give interest subsidy to them, for buying toolkit for repairing and for buying vehicles. In the next phase, Kudumbashree would extend them further training of 400 hours to help them gain more expertise in their work. For this, Kudumbashree had came in contract with 16 Government ITI institutions in the state. Kudumbashree also aim at getting accredition to those multi task teams as well. The members of multi task team formed under Kudumbashree Mission would be known as 'Arise Technicians'. Kudumbashree plans to form at least one team in every Local Self Government Institutions by this year itself.
Post floods, ARISE programme was launched after identifying that there exist many job offers in these sectors, through the livelihood survey during October 2018. ARISE aimed at extending skill training to 50,000 flood affected families in various sectors, thereby equipping them for paid employment. The campaign aimed at helping them in attaining resilience. Kudumbashree aims at equipping the multi task teams take up the works from the households and earn income of their own. It is also planned to make use of the opportunities in the construction sectors for multi task teams.
Shri. T.K Jose IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala delivered the keynote address. Shri. S. Harikishore IAS, Executive Director, Kudumbashree Misson delivered the introductory speech. Smt. Niranjana.N.S, Programme Officer, Kudumbashree Mission welcomed the gathering. Smt. Suchithra and Shri Shibu. N.P, State Programme Managers, Kudumbashree Mission led the classes. The team members and the state programme managers shared their experiences faced during the implementation of the programme. More than 300 members of the multi task teams took part in the workshop.
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