United for Impact: CSR Alliances Empowering Rural Women
Discover how Usha Silai School partners with visionary companies to uplift lives across rural India - from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to West Bengal. These dynamic CSR collaborations provide practical training in sewing, stitching, and entrepreneurship, fostering economic independence for women, redefining family dynamics, and creating resilient communities with sustainable, real-world change
Ahinsa Bharti's summer camp in her village has ignited creativity in 13 adolescent girls, teaching stitching basics and building confidence. Participants like Anshika Bharti dream of launching their own fashion brands, while Kanchan shares how the program steadied her hands and empowered her to stand tall-echoing the intergenerational legacy of Tata Power and Usha's collaboration.
In Uttar Pradesh, the Usha Silai School-Tata Power partnership, launched in 2022, has empowered 756 women like Ahinsa Bharti through 20-day stitching and Chikankari training. Now running her home-based Silai center, Ahinsa earns ?7,000-?8,000 monthly, supporting her family and training 10 women at a time-proving one machine can spark a ripple of independence.
In Bihar's heartland, Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd. partnered with Usha Silai School to train 25 women from surrounding villages in a 15-day program on sewing and tailoring. Graduates like Anju Kumari and Heena Devi now plan to open their own Silai Schools, teaching others and turning skills into sustainable livelihoods right from their homes.
Magadh Sugar's initiative equips women with machines, manuals, and co-branded certificates, fostering entrepreneurship. Trainees Roshan Tara Khatun and Nita Kumari, once limited to basic home stitching, now master shirts, gowns, and bags-vowing to expand their work, earn independently, and uplift their villages through this trusted K.K. Birla Group-Usha alliance.
In West Bengal's Durgapur, Neo Metaliks Ltd. and Usha International identified 75 women for 100 days of intensive Silai training, birthing micro-enterprises in tailoring. Learners like Sujata Pandey transformed from housewives to confident connectors, gaining life skills in navigation, communication, and pride-extending Neo's industrial strength into community resilience.
Neha Khaitan's journey with Neo Metaliks-Usha reflects bold evolution: from hesitation to teaching tuition and dreaming of a shop that inspires other housewives. As Ravi Agarwal notes, upgrading skills in deprived areas creates better lives-highlighting how these value-aligned CSR partnerships don't just train women; they forge leaders who redefine their communities.