Offering Good Food and Good Income, Varanasi’s Didi Café is a Hit

To provide livelihood to women self-help groups, CDO, Varanasi, IAS officer Himanshu Nagpal, started the Didi Cafés

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Didi Café is a canteen in schools and colleges of the district where the SHG women provide nutritional food to the students

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Through the café, the women are getting monthly income of five to seven thousand rupees

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