The 300 Local women-managed DWCRA groups have been federated into a district level association, the Banaskantha DWCRA Mahila SEWA Association, which was registered on 22nd December 1992. The Association aims to provide infrastructural support in the form of raw material, training, managerial input, credit, workspace and marketing input to individual DWCRA groups. SEWA plans to support the association in building new groups. Gradually SEWA would withdraw, when the Association is able to manage its programme activities.



The Banaskantha Women`s Rural Development Project is striving to build up and strengthen local women-managed DWCRA groups for the social and economic empowerment of poor rural women, which enables them to increase their decision making capacity, become financial managers or their own organizations, represent their activities at the district, state, and national level boards, and thus come into the mainstream of the Indian economy as full and rightful participants.



BANASCRAFT is the direct marketing outlet of these artisans that provides them with direct access to the market and helps them get sustained work and income. FULL EMPLOYMENT AND SELF RELIANCE are the two main objectives. more than 10,000 artisans are currently getting sustained employment and income. Building on their traditional skills and rich reservoir or traditional motifs, designs and colors and reviving the use of local materials is Gaji, Mashroo, Bandhani[tie-dye] and vegetable block prints which is hand: spun, woven dyed and printed. It offers a range of products catering to the discerning tastes of the market but grounded in the traditional skills of APPLIQUE, PATCHWORK, AARI EMBROIDERY. Besides developing traditional products like Cushion Covers, Door Panels, Accessories, Jewellery, Letter Holdings, Floor Cushion Covers, WallHangings, Shawls, Garments, Batvas, Bedsheets, Curtains, Dupptas, Table Tops, Throw, Quilt. they also develope products following the current market trends and needs of specific buying houses.