KENDRAPARA: Sharp at 6:30 every morning for the previous one and a half months, a team of ladies of Radha Krishna Self-Help Group (SHG) has been strolling from Gobarghati Rehabilitation and Resettlement Colony towards Duburi Chowk with a mobile meals van. Their vacation spot? The major gate of the Tata Steel Plant in Kalinganagar in Jajpur district, the place they sell breakfast pieces.
The SHG, with the support of the Kalinganagar unit of Tata Steel Rural Development Society, began the 'meals on wheels' in the first week of April. The pieces the ladies sell come with vada, samosa, idli and chakuli. They transfer to 2 other spots in the space sooner than returning to their colony after round three hours at the road.
The approval for the mobile meals van has picked up slowly however steadily. The neat and colourful cart, with an all-woman team serving high quality breakfast pieces, is a brand new thought in Kalinganagar and has drawn eyeballs right here. And the ladies of Radha Krishna SHG aren't the one ones to make lots of the business alternative.
Two other SHGs in Gobarghati - Maa Laxmi and Sai Ram - also sell meals pieces price round Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 a day. After the Radha Krishna breakfast team returns to base, the Maa Laxmi team follows the same route with lunch - vegetable biryani, non-vegetable biryani and lata mandi (a tribal non-veg recipe) - and returns by 3:30 pm; then, the Sai Ram team strikes ahead with the night snacks - samosa, vada and other deep-fried pieces.
Around two months in the past, a gaggle of 17 members of the SHGs were despatched to the PACE Skill Centre, established by Tata Steel, at Sheregada in Ganjam district to obtain coaching on meals manufacturing. At the three-day residential course, the ladies were taught to arrange different gravies, biryani and South Indian dishes.
"The training has given us a lot of confidence. Earlier, we were apprehensive about preparing restaurant-standard food. We saw food being cooked at low investment. The chefs gave us tips," mentioned Sukumari Jamuda, the secretary of Sai Ram SHG. Now, round 30 SHG members earn round Rs 3,000 a month by promoting conventional meals pieces.
The SHG, with the support of the Kalinganagar unit of Tata Steel Rural Development Society, began the 'meals on wheels' in the first week of April. The pieces the ladies sell come with vada, samosa, idli and chakuli. They transfer to 2 other spots in the space sooner than returning to their colony after round three hours at the road.
The approval for the mobile meals van has picked up slowly however steadily. The neat and colourful cart, with an all-woman team serving high quality breakfast pieces, is a brand new thought in Kalinganagar and has drawn eyeballs right here. And the ladies of Radha Krishna SHG aren't the one ones to make lots of the business alternative.
Two other SHGs in Gobarghati - Maa Laxmi and Sai Ram - also sell meals pieces price round Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 a day. After the Radha Krishna breakfast team returns to base, the Maa Laxmi team follows the same route with lunch - vegetable biryani, non-vegetable biryani and lata mandi (a tribal non-veg recipe) - and returns by 3:30 pm; then, the Sai Ram team strikes ahead with the night snacks - samosa, vada and other deep-fried pieces.
Around two months in the past, a gaggle of 17 members of the SHGs were despatched to the PACE Skill Centre, established by Tata Steel, at Sheregada in Ganjam district to obtain coaching on meals manufacturing. At the three-day residential course, the ladies were taught to arrange different gravies, biryani and South Indian dishes.
"The training has given us a lot of confidence. Earlier, we were apprehensive about preparing restaurant-standard food. We saw food being cooked at low investment. The chefs gave us tips," mentioned Sukumari Jamuda, the secretary of Sai Ram SHG. Now, round 30 SHG members earn round Rs 3,000 a month by promoting conventional meals pieces.
Women from rehab colony blaze food trail in Jajpur dist
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