Overview

• The Shilpanno complex in Alipore features 46 centrally air-conditioned stalls offering leather goods, sarees, toys and traditional handicrafts year-round.
• Abhinno, established inside the Alipore Women’s Correctional Home, provides trained women inmates with a permanent outlet to sell handmade products.
• Sulagno, a newly activated camp office near Nabanna, brings senior officials together to streamline governance and emergency response.
• Plans are formalised to build shopping malls in all 23 district headquarters on land leased at Re 1, with two floors dedicated exclusively to self-help group enterprises.
• The Bhabishyat credit card scheme has facilitated over Rs 9.5 lakh crore in loans for youth entrepreneurship and is set to surpass Rs 2 lakh crore in disbursals.