VICHAAR: Aagor Weaves- A story of empowerment

In this episode of Vichaar, the Team is conversation with Miss Smitha Murthy, the Managing Director of the Ant a voluntary organization that is registered as a public charitable trust in Bongaigaon, Assam since October 2000. Over the past few months, the field researchers as a part of an ethnographic project undertaken by  the Centre for New Economics Studies’ visual storyboard team, O.P. Jindal Global University, witnessed an all women weavers organization Aagor, registered as a separate trust, under the Ant. Aagor, a Bodo word that means "motifs," not only has a connection to the tribe in its name but also in its craftswomen and administration. Started as merely a livelihood project, Aagor gives work to over 140 women weavers and runs a training center for building up capacities of other NGOs in Assam and other northeast states.