Indian Railways launches One Station One Product scheme

15 May 2023 CW Team

The Railway Ministry has launched the "One Station One Product" (OSOP) scheme across the Indian rail network to promote the government's "Vocal for Local" vision. As of 1 May, the OSOP scheme covered 728 railway stations with 785 OSOP outlets in 21 states and three union territories.

Under the scheme, OSOP stalls at railway stations offer a diverse range of products unique to their respective regions, including handicrafts, textiles, traditional garments, and local agricultural produce and processed foods. The stalls are uniformly designed through the National Design Institute to ensure consistency and promote the scheme's visibility and reach.

The product categories covered under this scheme include handicrafts/artefacts, textiles and handlooms, traditional garments, and local agricultural produce (including millets)/processed/semi-processed foods.

The OSOP outlets offer products specific to the area and include artefacts made by indigenous tribes, handlooms by local weavers, handicrafts like world-famous wood carving, chikankari, and zari-zardozi work on clothes, spices, tea, coffee, and other processed/semi-processed food items/products indigenously grown in the area.

In north-east India, for example, varieties of Assamese Pitha, traditional Rajbongshi Dress, Jhapi, local textiles, and jute products are available on OSOP stalls. In Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmiri Girda, Kashmiri Kahwa, and dry fruits are famous. In southern India, cashew products, spices, and Chinnalapatti handloom sarees are catching the attention of passengers. In the western part of the country, embroidery and zari zardozi, coconut halva, locally grown fruits, processed foods, and bandhani are famous. The cumulative direct beneficiaries from March 2022 till 1 May 2023 are 25, 109, which is expected to grow with the increasing popularity of the scheme.

The OSOP scheme is a step towards encouraging and promoting local products and creating a sustainable income source for marginalised communities.

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The Railway Ministry has launched the One Station One Product (OSOP) scheme across the Indian rail network to promote the government's Vocal for Local vision. As of 1 May, the OSOP scheme covered 728 railway stations with 785 OSOP outlets in 21 states and three union territories. Under the scheme, OSOP stalls at railway stations offer a diverse range of products unique to their respective regions, including handicrafts, textiles, traditional garments, and local agricultural produce and processed foods. The stalls are uniformly designed through the National Design Institute to ensure consistency and promote the scheme's visibility and reach. The product categories covered under this scheme include handicrafts/artefacts, textiles and handlooms, traditional garments, and local agricultural produce (including millets)/processed/semi-processed foods. The OSOP outlets offer products specific to the area and include artefacts made by indigenous tribes, handlooms by local weavers, handicrafts like world-famous wood carving, chikankari, and zari-zardozi work on clothes, spices, tea, coffee, and other processed/semi-processed food items/products indigenously grown in the area. In north-east India, for example, varieties of Assamese Pitha, traditional Rajbongshi Dress, Jhapi, local textiles, and jute products are available on OSOP stalls. In Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmiri Girda, Kashmiri Kahwa, and dry fruits are famous. In southern India, cashew products, spices, and Chinnalapatti handloom sarees are catching the attention of passengers. In the western part of the country, embroidery and zari zardozi, coconut halva, locally grown fruits, processed foods, and bandhani are famous. The cumulative direct beneficiaries from March 2022 till 1 May 2023 are 25, 109, which is expected to grow with the increasing popularity of the scheme. The OSOP scheme is a step towards encouraging and promoting local products and creating a sustainable income source for marginalised communities. Also Read CMDA authority approves new railway station in KilambakkamBids are being sought for multi-state railway station construction

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