TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR LEADERS (Secretary & Chairpersons’) of SHGs under SCOPE NGO

Topic for Workshop

1. Management and practice

Total participants present were 

50 from six villages of Rahu Cluster of Daund Block, Pune.

To keep the records of Accounts SHGs

Practices, Rules, laws financial support of Nationalized Banks to the SHGs.

Agricultural Schemes of the State. 

Resource Personnel:

1. MRS. Sanjivani Pathak, Asst. MANAGER,   

    United Co-operative bank (Nationalized bank), 

    Rahu, Daund Block, Maharashtra.

2. Mr. J. S. Bhadakvad, Agricultural Asst. 

    supervisor (State Agricultural Dept), Rahu, Daund 

    Block.

3. Mr. Baban Sheikh, SCOPE coordinator (Pune 

    Region)

4. Mrs. More, SCOPE-SHGs’ animator, (Pune 

    region)

5. Mr. Vishwas Chakranarayan, Executive Director-
     SCOPE, 

Date: 28.02.2013

Venue: Rahu Grampanchayat Sabhagriha (Village Community Centre)


The Resource persons Spoke:

1. Mrs. Sanjivani Pathak:

She promised the group of the assistance from the bank, she invited the women to invest in small scale agriculture-allied business. She also told the women to approach her in case of any difficulties in the banking.

2. Mr. J. S. Bhadakvad said that the Govt. has been giving more priority to the group work. ‘We also support you to give agricultural schemes’ he told the women.

3. The Director of the SCOPE Mr. Vishwas Chakranarayan  said, ‘if you keep yourselves open and generous and together, then SCOPE will also support you thorough various training programmes. It will encourage you to market your products.’ Along with this Mr. Director also spoke to them about the Laws of Banks and its relationship with the SHGs. He further spoke about Integrity, accountability transparency in the accounts, teamwork, and respect for each member in the group.

4. Mr. Baban Sheikh and Mrs. Anita More explained the women leaders of SHGs about the account books and how to record things.

Conclusion: Several women expressed their thought and opinions. The women admitted that this was their first ever meeting. They expressed their happiness over the guidance from the Bank Personnel. Many desired that there should be many more such workshops and follow-up programmes. That will gradually prepare them to handle the difficulties in their own respective SHG groups in their won villages. This way there would be village leaders automatically being prepared from among women.  After the workshop there was light refreshment to all the participants and the resource persons.

Mr. Vishwas Chakranarayan, the Director of SCOPE is explaining various books of SHG Accounting. 

Here, he is exhibiting the Passbook of the SHGs

Here he is showing a sample of the Account Book to the women.