Microcredit Introduction | Objectives | Achievements | Future Plans Objectives • Economic and social empowerment of adivasis, migratory adivasi laborers and adivasi women in approximately 60 villages in the region. • To reduce and eliminate the dependence of adivasis on private money lenders. • To create their own credit-worthiness for microfinance requirements. • To increase self reliance of adivasis and to involve them in community development work. • To create easy access for adivasis to information related to development schemes and modernization of agriculture. • To create livelihood opportunities for nomadic people in Gujarat. • To train members of adivasi self help groups for achieving the above objectives and to set up Development Service Centres for employment generation and for spreading developmental activities of Bhasha in a larger area. • To encourage self help groups and to monitor their operations as well as to work as Information Resource Centres. |