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Weaving Resilience: Usha Silai School Partners With Armed Forces In Border Frontier Zones
Turtuk to Assam & Odisha: Usha Silai Schools turn tribal homemakers into earners via tailoring & crafts. Awards, skills, self-reliance!
Usha Silai School Empowers Border Heroes: Stitching Strength with Armed Forces
Stitching strength across borders, Usha Silai empowers tribal women from Ladakh's rugged terrains and Assam's frontiers to award-winning entrepreneurs in Odisha and Rajasthan
Usha Silai Schools: Partnering For Sustainable Progress
Usha Silai Schools' Kushalta Ke Kadam unites with NIRDPR and state governments, transforming West Bengal transgender artisans, Telangana tribal stitchers, and Meghalaya embroidery preservers into empowered livelihoods
Threads of Empowerment: Usha Silai Schools Weave Self-Reliance With PSU Partners
From Odisha's coal belts to Maharashtra's villages and Mumbai slums, Usha Silai Schools partner with PSUs like MCL and Voltas to train tribal and rural women in professional sewing
Empowering Curriculum: Usha Silai School Fostering Holistic Growth
From Noida's 'Wings of Hope' pad-making workshops to Hardoi's NITI Aayog-backed entrepreneurial training, Usha Silai School's Kushalta Ke Kadam with NDTV blends sewing, health literacy, and digital skills-empowering women to shatter myths and scale businesses
Stitching Possibilities, Unstitching Barriers: Usha Silai School Addressing Social Issues
Usha Silai Schools empower Bedia women in Madhya Pradesh, child marriage survivors in Bihar, and homemakers in Puducherry - from stigma to ₹10K earnings, family support, and ending cycles of poverty
Women Stitching Second Chances: Usha Silai School Transforms Lives
Life throws impossible challenges, but a needle and thread can stitch broken dreams back together. Watch how Usha Silai School create safe havens for widows, survivors, and single mothers like Marifat from Srinagar, Jyoti from Ujjain, and Vimla from Rajasthan's Sikar
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
Stitches Of Healing: How Usha Silai School Turns Trauma Into Triumph Across India's Hills
In Nagaland's misty hills, Assam's remote forests, and Telangana's villages, women like Sukla Dey, Rabina Rabha, and Chukka Madhavi transform abuse, widowhood, and poverty into purpose through Usha Silai School
From Silai School to Local Influencer: The Usha Didi Story
Meet the Silai School didis - women transforming their communities stitch by stitch. A look at how Usha Silai School empowers them to lead, mediate, and drive social change in their villages, inspiring others and reshaping women's roles in rural India
Do you want to be a part of the huge change that Usha Silai School is bringing about in the lives of millions of rural women? With just a simple click of a button, you can now contribute towards the opening of an Usha Silai School or support various other aspects of the school.
Kushalta Ke Kadam, an initiative by USHA Silai School and NDTV has entered its eighth season. The aim is to empower more women across rural India by teaching them sewing skills and helping them open new doors of opportunities for themselves. The initiative encourages rural women to become financially independent and entrepreneurs by taking up sewing and training others in their respective communities.
Since 2011, the USHA Silai School initiative has trained more than 12 lakh rural women through over 33,000 Silai schools, spanning over 20,751 villages across India.
The women earn Rs. 4,000 – 5,000 per month on an average, with the highest recorded monthly earning being Rs. 84,000 in a month. This earning works as a catalyst towards building their self-confidence, reducing gender inequities, and raising their stature within their families and in society at large.
Team NDTV | Monday February 16, 2026Odisha's Suchismita Sahu, Rajasthan's Preeti Prajapat, Manipur's Akhirun—Usha Silai School's Kushalta Ke Kadam celebrates these awardees, from homemakers to master trainers earning accolades
- Team NDTV | Thursday February 12, 2026
From Ladakh peaks to Assam fringes, Usha Silai School trains tribal women in Turtuk, Kargil & Dakhinkuchi—crafting livelihoods with armed forces, NHPC & NGOs. Stitching national resilience
- Team NDTV | Thursday January 29, 2026
From West Bengal's transgender tailors to Telangana's tribal seamstresses and Meghalaya's embroidery revivalists, Usha Silai School's Kushalta Ke Kadam partners with NIRDPR and state governments
- Team NDTV | Tuesday February 03, 2026
In Odisha's mining heartlands, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited teams with Usha Silai School's Kushalta Ke Kadam and Gram Utthan, empowering tribal women turning them into entrepreneurs
- Written by Team NDTV | Friday January 02, 2026
Usha Silai Schools give second chances to women like Srinagar's Marifat, who rebuilt after widowhood; Madhya Pradesh's Jyoti, escaping abuse to run her own center; and Rajasthan's Vimla, rising from child marriage to tailor and teacher. Through nine-day training, they gain sewing skills, confidence, and income proving one stitch mends lives and inspires communities.
- Team NDTV | Friday December 26, 2025
A new wave of corporate-community partnerships is equipping rural women with skills, income and confidence
