Nagpur: Radha Majji, a former member of the Division Committee (DVC) from the Indian Communist Party (Maois), was once considered a cadre of armed gadchiroli rebels, now taking baby steps to the world of entrepreneurship.
He is a member of the Swadaya Group (SHG) consisting of Naxalit who was handed over like him.
The group has just launched the first product, floor cleaner, with the ‘clean 101’ brand name.
The three-day training session at Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI) in Wardha in August this year, along with a visit to Sewagram Ashram, especially BAPI Kuti, brought a transformation that changed life in him.
The Gadchiroli police helped him by forming a group of 10 former Maoists and two men.
SP Ankit Goyal said former Maois was sent to MGIRI at Wardha, where they were trained in the manufacture of phenyl and floor cleaners.
A visit to Sewagram Ashram also helped them to be introduced to the ideals of peace and the highest brotherhood.
“We will initially help self-help groups grow their business and try to make sure they become independent in time with our support,” said Goyal, adding rehabilitation will serve the real purpose of bringing back former rebels into the mainstream into the mainstream into the mainstream.
from the community.
“In addition to training them at a well-known institute, it also provides extraordinary opportunities for us to introduce them to ashram hours ashram, where they can walk into the peaceful universe that cannot be violent ideology where they were previously wrong direction,” said SP.
Radha, who has some violations of it in the past, is the wife of another DVC member in Maoist’s clothes.
He, together with her husband, has given up before Gadchiroli police in 2019.
Radha said he is now sure he will take his skills forward and make life alone.
“We are positive about carefully in the current effort,” Radha said in Madia, which was interpreted for Toi by police personnel.
He also acknowledged that gaining peaceful teaching and Harmoni Gandhi for the first time in his life, through photo frames and other Bapuji artifacts in the ashram, had a big influence on him.
Apart from Radha, the former former Maoist Cadre Saguna Pendam is also part of the skills development training program and is now a member of a group that aims to produce and market the floor cleaners they just launched with Goyal assistance.
“We hope to take a mission in front,” he said, adding the atmosphere at Sewagram Ashram had left him fascinated and he now wanted to follow a peaceful message.
Saguna is a member of GATTA in and has four violations of it.
He has given up in 2014.
The Gadchiroli police said that SHG initially received several support from organizations such as Dr.
Panjabrao Krishi Vidyapeth in Akola, who had placed an order for 200 units.
“We approach government and non-government organizations to make orders for floor cleaners from the SHG to encourage former Maoists to settle into the mainstream of the community,” said a police officer.
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