
Kudumbashree units pin hope on sales from Onam kits
The Hindu
Receives orders for 2.37 lakh packets of sarkara varatti and 5,000 packets of banana chips
Latha V. is president of Karthika Food Products in Kottukal grama panchayat. Her agri microenterprise unit is among the 11 Kudumbashree units in the district that are supplying sarkara varatti (jaggery-coated banana chips) and banana chips for the Onam kits of Supplyco (Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation) this year. The kits are to be distributed to ration cardholders. The Kudumbashree has received orders for 2.37 lakh packets of sarkara varatti and 5,000 packets of banana chips of 100 gm each in the district.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












