Prasagraj: in Baribojh Village Pratapgarh, a group of women gathered to collect LED bulbs, and decorative lights such as night lights and hanging lamps (jhoomar) to get their livelihoods, gradually but continue to take steps towards the employer.
The quality of LED bulbs and decorative lights made by these women is available on the market and are sold well too.
This is the first time in any Eastern District when more than a dozen women related to two independent groups under the mission of state rural livelihoods have taken the initiative to assemble \ producing LED bulbs in each group or in groups.
Not only in Baribajh Village under the Lalganj block, but women in Newadi village under the Mandhata block also advanced to assemble LED tubers and decorative night lights.
After receiving training for a week from the National Rural Living Mission (NRLM) official, they began to assemble LED lights and now accept orders from various parts of the country.
Nafees Ahmad, Block Mission Manager (Pratapgarh) told TOI that more than a dozen women associated with the self-help group in the Lalganj and Mandhata blocks of this district piled a good quality LED knife after carrying the ingredients needed from Delhi and other parts of the country.
This LED light is equivalent to those labeled available on the market.
Competitive prices, these LED lights see good requests and this is evidenced during the recent celebration season.
He added that this was the first time when women had taken the initiative to produce LED tubers in their homes.
He further added that orders for LED lights had poured from many districts including Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Amethi and Sultanpur.
He, however, said that there was a plan to provide training to more women in another block for the manufacture of LED lights.
Meanwhile, the woman associated with LED assembly claimed to usually spend between Rs 40-45 to assemble LED bulbs and it was sold out for Rs 70-80.
They have also received mass orders where each led bulb is sold for RS 65-70.
Sarita, a group member, said, “We want that the village, beam, and our city must be illuminated through LED lights.
He added that they had also delivered a message between the masses they could save using LED lights made by them.” Officials said that women related to different independent groups are now interested in new projects, especially the manufacture of lights and LED lights.
“It was not far away when the villages in Mandhata and the Lalganj block would be converted into LED bulb assembly hubs,” said an official.