About Amar Kutir Society for Rural Development

Amar Kutir is committed to encouraging craftsperson’s in the local area upgrade their skill by organizing training programme. Design development and marketing are stressed to enhance the economic capacity of its members. The society enhance markets its own products as well as acts as a means of dissemination and commercial display of quality objects brought in by freelance/individual craftspeople throughout the region.

Currently, Amar Kutir’s primary objectives are to promote self-help groups, develop thrift savings and link microfinance to handicrafts development, and to enhance self-help employment opportunities in order to alleviate poverty. Self-help groups were created in India in order to combat poverty by making credit accessible to people struggling with poverty. Based on the principles of community, empowerment, and democracy, this scheme puts the rural person’s quality of life into his/her hands. .. more