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Women farmers' club inaugurated

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TIRUVANNAMALAI: Women who have proved successful in the self-help group movement, could play a better role by taking up economic activities, according to Kamlesh Chandra Chakrabarty, Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank.

Inaugurating the Everest Farmers' Club (the first all-women farmers' club in the district) formed by women farmers in Randham in Cheyyar taluk with the assistance of Indian Bank and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on Wednesday, Mr. Chakrabarty assured them that his bank would finance their self-employment ventures.

He said that there should be proper use of credit and timely repayment. The attempt of the Randham women to form an all-women farmers' club was a feather in their cap in their efforts at economic empowerment, he noted.

Tiruvannamalai Collector Satyabrata Sahoo said that women had become thrifty and had a greater concern for family welfare, children's education and the health of the elders. The State Government has made efforts to bring them under the SHG programme so that they could become self-reliant. He congratulated the NABARD for supporting the farmers' club. He assured Government support in extending the programme to other villages.

S. Sankaranarayanan, Assistant General Manager, NABARD, Tiruvannamalai, said that the Farmers' Club initiated by the NABARD aimed at strengthening the relationship between banks and farmers. The NABARD has proposed to form 10 such clubs this year, out of which four would be exclusively for women farmers.

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