MRS VASANTHAMANI MOH

50 year old Mrs Vasanthamani, who has studied upto the 7th standard is a farmer for as long as she can remember. Since she joined CORD’s MM she has been very participatory and enthusiastic in all the activities. She is the treasurer of Velmurugam MM. She has 3 acres of rain-fed land, which has a borewell. Since 2009, she had been trying to get electrical supply for this piece of land; her attempts were not suvccessful. In June 2017, she attended a Capacity building meeting facilitated by CORD. The resource person Mr Pradeep Kumar, a senior official in the Consumer Forum, guided the farmers on how to approach the problem. She and others managed to get the electricity connection under the Tatkal scheme by paying Rs.3 lakhs. She is very happy that she is not totally dependent on the rains now. She has a hen and a cow and uses pheromone traps and other inputs. She supplements her income by making paper covers, sold to nearby shops.