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Integrated Livelihood Model
Women-Led Village Economies

Livelihood . Community Empowerment . Women Led Enterprises

Across 193 villages in 18 states, Amrita’s integrated livelihood model enables communities to learn, produce, market and reinvest locally — transforming agricultural wage-dependent households into sustainable micro-enterprises through women’s SHGs, nature-based innovation and digital financial inclusion. A proven, women-led ecosystem building self-sustaining rural economies.

49,473+

Livelihood Participants 193 Villages

250,000+

Women Empowered Via Amritasree

18 States

Integrated Livelihood Model

13,500+

Self Help Groups Strengthened

THE INTEGRATED MODEL

AmritaSREE & Smart-SHG Ecosystem

Market Linkages & Value Chains

Digital Financial Inclusion

Vocational Skill Development

Nature-based SHG Enterprises

Government Scheme Convergence

FLAGSHIP INITIATIVES

250,000+ women across 13,500+ SHGs — small-business capital, vocational training, microcredit, life-enrichment education and the Smart-SHG digital ecosystem for mobile banking and digital finance.

Interdisciplinary innovation co-designed with tribal communities — solar thermal technology, ergonomic design, income generation and sustainable energy for women’s enterprise.

PMKVY vocational training, PM Vishwakarma, tailoring & dressmaking (5,612+), beekeeping (3,504+), Training of Trainers, digital literacy and bank-linkage facilitation.

Seaweed enterprise (21+ tonnes, AI-enabled monitoring, NSDC-certified), mushroom cultivation (1,015+ participants, IoT-enabled), water-hyacinth valorisation into biofertiliser, biofuel and handicrafts.

Moonj grass baskets & mats, areca-nut biodegradable plates, fabric painting & block printing, sarees & handicrafts — home-based women’s enterprises with market linkages through SHGs.

Smart-SHG digital ecosystem, mobile-banking adoption, IoT cultivation models, AI seaweed monitoring, financial management and technology co-design with communities.

Community Capacity Building

  • Women’s SHG leadership: federation & enterprise management, microcredit & small-business capital, digital finance & mobile banking, market access, leadership education.
  • Village livelihood champions: Training-of-Trainers framework, peer-to-peer skill multiplier, financial literacy & entrepreneurship, government-scheme navigation, self-sustaining community model.
  • Digital & technology adoption: Smart-SHG ecosystem, IoT-enabled enterprise models, AI tools for monitoring, digital-literacy programmes, community technology co-design.

Aligned With Rural
Development Mandate

Integrated Livelihood Model — Women-Led Village Economies

Rural Livelihoods & Green Income

49,473+ participants, microenterprises

Women & SHG Empowerment

250,000+ women · 13,500+ SHGs

Nature-based Economy

Seaweed, lemongrass, biomass

Digital Rural Transformation

Smart-SHG · AI · mobile banking

Govt Scheme Convergence

PMKVY · PM Vishwakarma · KCC

Scale-up Opportunity

Rural Livelihood & Women’s Enterprise Hubs

AmritaSREE SHG Federation Scaling

Government Scheme Convergence

Mushroom IoT Cultivation Models

Solar Lemongrass Distillation Units

Market Linkage & Value Chain Support

PMKVY Vocational Training

Craft & Textile SHG Enterprises

Seaweed & Coastal Enterprise Expansion

Training-of-Trainers Framework

Smart-SHG Digital Finance Platform

Nature-based Enterprise Clusters

Digital Literacy & Financial Inclusion

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