Govt inks MoU with Amazon

NT CORRESPONDENT

Bengaluru:The state government’s intervention in economic activities is necessary to eradicate poverty, opined Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. He was speaking at a programme to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society and Amazon organised by the Skills Development and Livelihood department here on Saturday.

“Presently poverty is our biggest enemy. It is not enough to uplift the rural populace, we need to defeat poverty. We need to empower them economically. The MoU with Amazon is a big move of intervention,” he said.

Cultural exchange

“ The MoU puts a greater responsibility of branding and exchange of product culture on us. We should live and breathe change. Apart from finding a good and sustainable market we should script a success story that would boost self-help groups in rural areas and also small and micro industries”, the CM said. “The Karnataka government and Amazon should work together for empowerment of rural women”.

One District-One Product

Referring to the ‘One District-One Product’ programme, the CMsaid local talent and products should be taken to national level under the programme. Channapatna toys, Ilkal, Molakalmuru sarees and local food products would get a market boost with this MoU, he added.