Here is an interesting story of Ghasipur village of Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh)!
The village, having around 400 homes, has more than 20 small factories producing variety of garments. Notably, it is producing apparels of around Rs. 10 million per month.
The village is a clear example of how a disaster can be converted into an opportunity. Around 250 workers are completely involved in these small units.
It started with the recent development when workers, who used to work in garment factories, returned to their homes and tried to do something in village only.
Mahdi Hasan, running a factory in the village, says, “The challenge was creating market and youth of the village started supplying to other villages and few of them even sold garments (door to door) in villages. Now the factories of villages are supplying garments to states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi-NCR.”
Not only male workers in small factories are stitching garments, even women at homes are involved in similar work.
Importantly, some of the factories are taking stock lot fabric and producing good quality T-shirts and lowers.
It is also interesting to know that these factories work on piece rate, and for every piece, the cutting master gets on average Rs. 3 and for a lower/T-shirt, a worker gets Rs. 7.
Most of the factory owners have managed the resources by putting efforts in their own circle.
Yogesh Kumar and Shishpal Singh, who used to work in Jaipur’s garment factories, are now happy and comfortable to work in their village.
That’s a perfect example of entrepreneurship!
