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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

MBA(E)

4thSem.

Dr. Anjani Kumar Singh

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• Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph from 1994, taken during the Sudan famine.

• Identify the problem

• Innovative idea

• Social entrepreneurship model

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Lijjat CaseMission Empowering the Indian women

Problem• Patriarchal

• Social restrictions

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Opportunities• Women at a grassroots level became active

agents in the process of their own empowerment.

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Organizational Context

• Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, popularly known just as Lijjat.

• Since its inception in 1959, Lijjat has provided self-employment opportunities to mostly poor urban women.

• Today with 72 branches across 17 states of India and a membership of 42,000 women

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• Core product is Papad

• Cooperative, where ownership is restricted to its working women members,

• Members(Sisters) are typically unskilled women hailing from poor to lower-middle–class backgrounds.

• Membership in Lijjat is open to any woman, irrespective of class or caste or religion,

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• In 2008–2009, Lijjat’s financial turnover was Rs. 5 billion ($111million)

• The organization also employs a few salaried employees, both men and women working in drivers, and administrators. The employees do not have any ownership rights.

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• The average monthly income of a Lijjat sister is Rs. 3,000/– (about $70/–) for rolling papad from home for 6 hours of manual labor. Besides the daily rolling charges, the women earn distributed profits. For instance, in 2008, women members of Bandra Branch in Mumbai were paid Rs. 15,000/– (about $330/–).

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Welfare measures to its women

• Daily transportation from home in company buses,

• Health checkups, scholarships for sisters’ children, literacy campaigns, computer training for sisters’ children, and a savings/borrowings scheme.

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• Lijjat is organized as a for-profit cooperative with a nonhierarchical organization

• Decision making in the organization is based on consensus.

• The overall running of Lijjat is entrusted to a Central Management Committee of 21 members, six of whom are sister members elected for a fixed term of 3 years.

• Similarly, branches are run by branch committees.

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• In 1966 it was formally registered and recognized as a cottage industry by the Khadi & Village Industries Commission(KVIC), a government body in India.

• This helped Lijjat to access a subsidized, working capital loan for Rs. 8 Lakhs (approximately $18,000), and the organization’s status as a cottage industry attracted tax exemptions.

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LEARNING OF THE CASE Collective Ownership Cooperation Self reliance Profit sharing Economic security Development of entrepreneurial behaviuor Contribution to the family

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