Tribal housewife uses skill training to turn herself into bamboo entrepreneur

Mira Devi is a determined woman with a strong desire to learn some technical skills in order to support the family's financial condition.

33-year-old Santhali tribal woman Mira Devi lives in a remote tribal village Kelo of Rania block of Khunti district Jharkhand, situated 38 km from the district headquarter and 71 km from the state capital Ranchi. This village is on the border of Khunti district headquarter and West Singhbhum district. The dominant community of the village is scheduled tribe and their local dialect of the language is Santhali and Hindi. The village is also surrounded by forest areas where tribal communities access the Non-timber forest produce collections from the forest like Lac, Chironji, Mahua, bamboo, etc. for their income generation.