Sunita
She left school after class five and walked to the centre for the mushroom cultivation training. She now cultivates and sells mushrooms for her livelihood.
Sunita is 25 years old and lives in Koti village of Kalsi block in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand. She is the daughter of Hari Singh Negi and Sun Dei and the family lives on farming. Her UGVS identification number is 118000623.
She belongs to a poor family in a small village of Uttarakhand and stopped her studies after class five because of the financial condition at home. She heard about the UGVS programme and attended the counselling session in her own village. She was influenced by what she heard and wanted to be technically skilled so that she could do something for her family and for her livelihood.
Road and transport were a problem for her, as there is no road facility in the hilly area and the only way to reach the training centre was on foot.
Her knowledge level changed for the better and she is now skilled in mushroom cultivation through scientific techniques. She cultivates and sells mushrooms for her livelihood, with earnings recorded between 3000 and 5000.
The programmes behind this record
The schemes that trained and placed this candidate admit fresh batches at the foundation centres in Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.