Tulsi Bead Production Gets a Technical lift from IIT

A Technical design intervention by the Rural Technology center of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has helped about 2000 rural women in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan engaged in fabrication of tulsi malas, boost their production and earn a better livelihood by introducing advanced machinery.

Women could fabricate 30 to 40 tulsi malas with the old machines and make a profit between Rs.60-Rs.80 per day. They were facing problems of low production and physical pain while working on these machines.

Sita Ram Gupta, executes director of the Lupin Foundation who collaborated with IIT, points out that the new machines are capable of enhancing the production of Tulsi malas four-fold and provide a comfortable posture for operating them. With each machine, women are now able to prepare beads for 200 to 250 malas everyday and fabricate the final product into different designs.