With two successive Onams disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic behind it, the Kudumbashree mission is looking forward to a promising festive season this year.
The poverty eradication mission hopes to double its sales turnover from the annual Onam fairs in order to recover lost ground and provide a further boost to its microenterprises, which have largely pulled through two years of uncertainty.
The Onam fairs will concentrate on community development society (CDS)-level fairs this year. In all, 1,070 CDS-level fairs will be held in panchayats and 14 fairs at the district level in the days leading up to Onam.
