Best Practices

• Provisioning of Services and Procurement of Goods in Government Departments through WSHGs

• Empowerment of women is one of the key pillars of the transformation story of Odisha. Recognising the role that women play in the development and transformation of families, communities and States, the Government of Odisha has accorded tremendous importance to women centric policies and programmes. One of the flagship programmes of the State is Mission Shakti – the women’s self-help group movement.

• The Cabinet in its 1st meeting on 29.05.2019 has been pleased to approve the proposal on Convergence of Mission Shakti with different Government Departments for provisioning of Services & Procurements through Mission Shakti SHGs.

Department	Provisions
Department of Women & Child Development and Mission Shakti	Supply of pre-school uniforms in AWCs
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department	Paddy procurement operations
	Appointment of WSHGs as fair price shop dealers under the Public Distribution system (PDS
Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment Department	Engagement of women SHGs as seed dealers of OSSC
	small nursery management, Bee Keeping, Preservation unit cultivation under MIDH scheme
	Supply of Ragiladoos by WSHGs under ICDS programme
	WSHGs as commercial Agri-enterprises under MKUY
School & Mass Education Department	Preparation & supply of Mid-Day meals
	SHG as transport agents of rice for MDM
Department of Energy	Engaging WSHGs for electric meter reading in GPs across the state
Department of Forest and Environment	Conservation of existing forest and restoration of degraded forest by WSHGs
	Engaging WSHGs under AmaJangalYojana for sustainable forest management
	Processing and value addition to the available NTFP items
Department of Housing and Urban Development	Running Common Service Center in urban local bodies
	PDS distribution in urban areas
Fisheries and Animal Resources Department	Pisciculture in Gram Panchayat tanks
	Semi commercial layer farming in Deep Litter System
Health & Family Welfare Department	Supply of hospital diets, Sanitary napkins and mosquito nets
Department of Rural Development	Routine maintenance of 10,000 KM of rural roads




• This will ensure sustainable livelihood sources to WSHGs while increasing their involvement in last mile delivery of services. This is a unique model of outsourcing Government procurements and provisioning of services in a structured manner to women SHGs under Mission Shakti amounting to almost Rs. 5,000 cr in the first phase.