Ms. Umeswari Barman
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Ms. Umeswari Barman

NEDFi is also facilitating marketing support to the artisans of NER through exhibition participation and its various showrooms at Guwahati & Khetri in Assam, Imphal in Manipur, Aizwal in Mizoram, Namchi in Sikkim and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

The showrooms at Guwahati, Khetri and Aizwal are under NEDFi's direct CSR support and the rest of the showrooms are setup in collaboration with various established NGOs/Societies of the locality.

5. Name: Ms. Umeswari Barman

Ms. Umeswari Barman is an inhabitant of village Choudhuripara (Mana Basti) under Bongaon Development Block of Kamrup district, Assam.

She is residing with her husband and one son & one sister-in-law in a small cottage. The villagers of Choudhuripara (Mana Basti) are very poor and are unable to meet the day to day basic needs.

They came from Bangladesh at the time of separation of Pakistan in the year 1972 and the then Indian Government kept them in a camp at Bongaon.

After a long time, the Indian Government allotted one katha land to each family and provided them livelihood based training facility, such as, making murha, tailoring, and other cane & bamboo related items.

She got training on tailoring cum embroidery, but had no capital to open a tailoring shop.

She availed a loan of Rs.7000 from Grameen Sahara and opened a tailoring shop by hiring 2(two) sewing machine at her home.

She was able to earn a satisfactory amount on regular basis and therefore, paid her installments timely.

In 2nd cycle she availed a loan of Rs.12000 and invested the whole loan amount on purchase of cloth to make school uniforms, sarees, churidars, etc. and grew her earnings steadily.

She had also acquired a micro insurance policy (Jiban Madhur) through Grameen Sahara & paid her premium regularly from her earnings.

She has expanded her tailoring business with 4 sewing machines and started to take orders from markets.