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Unused cloth bits and stationery are recycled into Hand Made Files. Since Cloth is more predominantly used that paper the durability of the file is enhanced by more than 70% and the file fold doesn't give away so easily.
Speciality: Being made from recycled cloth bits
Durability of the files is considerably enhanced.
Completely Wood-Free. Child Labour is conscientiously avoided.
File Folder-Rs 4.80 per file folder.
Extra Thick Tag File - Rs 7.50 per file.
Laminated File - Rs 13 per file.
Cobra File - Rs 11 per file.
The Files can be tailor-made and printed to customer needs. For orders numbering more than 300 for a single item the printing charges are waived.
Wealth from waste:
Neem seeds from this drought prone areas were rolled out going to waste till 1967. The Ashram requested the local people to collect these seeds and paid them for the same. Neem Oil was extracted from the seeds and used in production of non-edible oil washing soap. Prior to these edible oils were used to make washing soaps. Neem cake powder obtained from the oil extracted seeds was used by the agriculturalists as natural manure. This natural manure is very much used in producing organic food.
Eco friendly Incense sticks under The centralized production:
Unscented sticks were within the Ashram premises utilizing 10 full-time workers. To meet the ever increasing demand these 10 workers were deputed to 10 villages to impart the knowhow of making Herbal coated unscented sticks to 25 women in each village. This enabled the women to work at their leisure hours from their homes to supplement their income and also resulted in increased production for the Ashram. When the demand for the incense sticks increased, the duplicate incense sticks started rolling out in the market. In order to overcome this difficulty,endemic the Ashram used the Gandhian policy in packing the insence sticks.
Palmyra leaves are usually abundant in drought prone areas. To provide income to the people of such areas, Gandhi Ashram procures in lorry loads these leaves and makes innovative use in the paking of Agarbathi(Incense Sticks).Unlike paper the Palmyra leaves do not absorb the scent of the incense sticks. In making the leaves into unique small palm leaf modules about 100 women are given work at their homes on self employement basics . Earlier the Ashram was packing the sticks in polythene covers, but certain unscrupulous traders started selling limited products. Since no private manufacturer of incense sticks could mobilise adequate resources to buy palm-leaf in such bulk quantity the fake brands have disappeared from the market. Subsequently the sale of incense sticks has gone up significantly from 20 lakh rupees to 1 crore.
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