Archive · 26 Sep 2025
Pali Model: Reviving Rural Enterprises and Creating Jobs
Imagine a place where people in villages can earn good money and don't have to move to cities for work.
That's the idea behind the Pali Model.
It helps local businesses, like making bangles, clay cups, tailoring clothes, and producing henna, by bringing in new machines and ways of doing things.
This helps people make more money, have better working conditions, and makes their products better too.
For example, the clay cups are now made for the Indian Railways, helping the local people and also helping the environment.
The Pali Model helps people stay in their villages and find good jobs, giving them a sense of pride and independence.
Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the 'Pali Model' as a successful rural enterprise model.
The model has helped over 25,000 people, primarily women, earn more.
Traditional industries like bangle making and tailoring are modernized.
Eco-friendly clay cup production is being scaled up for Indian Railways.
The model aims to reduce migration by creating 'employment at the doorstep'.
- Who
- Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, Communications and Electronics & IT
- What
- Showcasing the 'Pali Model' of rural enterprise development
- When
- Thursday
- Where
- Pali district, Rajasthan
- Why
- To demonstrate how modernizing traditional industries generates self-employment and reduces migration.
- Model Name
- Pali Model
- Focus
- Reviving rural enterprises
- Key Industries Transformed
- Bangle making, Clay cup production, Tailoring, Henna industry
- Technology Implementation
- Introduction of machines and modern processes
- Beneficiaries
- Over 25,000 people, mostly women
- Location
- Pali district, Rajasthan