Urad Dal Papad
₹179₹220
Women’s Self Help Group
Jeevika Mahila Sangathan
Thirty-one women, one terrace full of drying papads
- Village
- Harnaut
- District
- Nalanda
- State
- Bihar
- Members
- 31 women
- Trading since
- 2016
- Craft
- Hand-rolled papads
Their story
The story of Jeevika Mahila Sangathan
The group started with a loan of ₹40,000 and a single order for sixty packets of urad dal papad from a nearby hostel mess. In the first year the women rolled only in the dry months; today they make papads all year round in a purpose-built drying shed behind the panchayat office.
Everyone in the group is paid per batch rather than per hour, so the fastest hands earn the most and nobody is penalised for a slow day. Ten members now hold bank accounts in their own name for the first time.
The group invested its third year of profit in an FSSAI licence and a commercial weighing scale — the two things that turned a home kitchen into a supplier that shops can legally stock.
“We used to sell papad to one shop. Now the same packet goes to Delhi and Bangalore, and we know what it is worth.”
Registered, and checked in person
Before this group’s first listing went up, we visited Harnaut, met the members and read the papers behind each line below. The group keeps its own registration and its own bank account.
- FSSAI licensed
- SHG bank-linked
- NRLM registered
Food licence
FSSAI licence 12716045000123
Food from Jeevika Mahila Sangathan is packed under this licence at the group’s own unit in Harnaut — not at our end. The batch date and the address printed on the pack are the group’s, which is how you can trace a jar back to the kitchen it came from.
Made here
What Jeevika Mahila Sangathan makes
3 products from Harnaut, packed at the group's own unit.
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Buy one thing Jeevika Mahila Sangathan made
Start with something small and see how it arrives. It was made and packed in Harnaut by Jeevika Mahila Sangathan, and the money goes to the group’s own account — not to ours.