Archive · 28 Aug 2026
Noida Student’s Sutradhar Turns Textile Waste Into Women’s Wages
Rahini started Sutradhar in 2024 to help women earn money from home.
The women learn skills such as sewing, embroidery, and knitting.
They receive leftover fabric from textile factories instead of buying new material.
Sutradhar also gives them paid orders to make clothes and other useful products.
The project began with six women and now includes more than 250 people.
They earn between ₹4,000 and ₹25,000 each month.
Many participants use the money to support their children’s education or pay for their own studies.
The project helps families while also reducing textile waste.
Rahini launched Sutradhar in 2024 to train women and girls in sewing, embroidery, and knitting.
The initiative supplies pre-consumer textile scraps and connects participants with paid, home-based work orders.
Sutradhar grew from six women to more than 250 active participants, with monthly earnings ranging from ₹4,000 to ₹25,000.
Participants use their incomes for children’s education, college tuition, vocational training, and other household needs.
The initiative also repurposes industrial fabric waste that might otherwise be burned or sent to landfills.
- Who
- Rahini and more than 250 women and girls participating in Sutradhar.
- What
- A training and employment initiative that turns textile scraps into handmade garments and lifestyle products.
- When
- Launched in 2024.
- Where
- The initiative serves rural and semi-urban communities, and Rahini is identified as a Noida student.
- Why
- To provide flexible income opportunities for women while repurposing discarded industrial textile material.
- Initiative
- Sutradhar
- Founder
- Rahini
- Launch year
- 2024
- Participant growth
- From six women to more than 250 active participants
- Monthly earnings
- ₹4,000 to ₹25,000
- Training
- Sewing, embroidery, and knitting
- Materials
- Pre-consumer fabric scraps from the textile industry
- Work model
- Flexible, paid work completed from participants’ homes