It's all about self help

The district administration has decided to earmark Rs 1 crore for development of self-help groups of the district. Dhubri deputy commissioner Ganesh Chandra Kalita announced this during an interactive session with around 200 office bearers of 75 self-help groups at the deputy commissioner’s conference hall. He appealed to the self-help groups to take their income-generating ventures more seriously. “There is hardly any job opportunity in the government sector and in view of this scarcity, there seems to be only one way open to the common people to become self-employed, that is, by taking up income-generating activities through the formation of self-help groups,” Kalita said. He said in order to assist the self-help groups, the state as well as the central government is willing to extend all aid, including development of required infrastructure.