Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: J&K State Rural Livelihoods Mission, having mandate to reach out to all the poor families, link them to livelihoods opportunities and nurture them till they come out of poverty, is implementing project in the State under the name “UMEED”.
The Mission aims to reduce poverty in the state by building strong grassroots institutions of the poor, engage them into gainful livelihoods interventions and ensure appreciable improvement in their income on a sustainable basis In the year 2016, a new dairy based developmental initiative was started in J&K with active collaboration of J&K Milk Producers Co-operative Limited (JKMPCL).
Under this initiative, it was envisioned to transform the Women Self Help Groups organized under JKSRLM into Women Dairy Co-operative Societies having village level milk collection booths. In order to bring greater transparency and accountability in the system, Automatic Milk collection systems have been installed at these newly organized societies. These Automatic Milk Collection Booths are owned and managed by members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in a village. Each booth has an Automatic Milk Collection System (AMCS) which is a combination of a Personal Computer with milk procurement software, automatic FAT determination machine, weighing scale and UPS/battery, used for testing and maintenance of records.
Additional Mission Director, JKSRLM, Jammu Kapil Sharma, KAS informed that in Jammu Division, 79 booths have been established in five districts. The Self Help Groups of these blocks associated with the project have procured 3.95 lakh kgs of milk from 1900 milk producers. Average daily milk procurement being reported is 1870 kgs per day. The SHGs have reported turnover of Rs 128 lakh.
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