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The Biscuit That Changed a Village Economy Urmila Devi runs a small food processing unit outside Varanasi. She makes millet-based snacks using a government-supported machine, sells them under a cooperative label, and earns three times what she made from raw grain. Before her unit was set up under the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing…
PM Vishwakarma Yojana empowers traditional artisans by providing skill training, financial support, and access to larger markets. It aims to bring them into the formal economy and improve their livelihoods sustainably. A Legacy Without a Safety Net India’s artisan communities have been working with their hands for thousands of years. Blacksmiths, carpenters, goldsmiths, potters, cobblers,…
