What is the main objective of AHVY scheme?
Diagnostic survey of the identified cluster is the prima-facie requirement for ascertaining the needs of specific interventions required for making the cluster self-sustainable. Mobilization of the beneficiaries shall be undertaken in the clusters where diagnostic survey has been completed. This activity shall include mobilizing the community business enterprise. With introduction of economic reforms through liberalization, privatization and globalization, India has entered into a new era of economic development and therefore, Community Empowerment programme for handicrafts sector/Cooperative/SHGs is a must to empower the artisans by making them active entrepreneurs-cum-primary stake holders of development and brining them to a visible platform so as to enhance their operational efficiency and competitiveness to face the new challenges and make them viable and self supporting economic entity.
