About Us
A collective of women artisans dedicated to preserving the soul of Sambalpuri weaving, blending tradition with innovation.
Introduction
Sambandho Mahila Bunkar Producer Company Limited is a collective of skilled women weavers dedicated to preserving and promoting the traditional craft of Sambalpuri textiles. Rooted in the rich heritage of Odisha, we believe in the transformative power of handwoven artistry to uplift communities, empower artisans, and bring timeless elegance to the modern world. Our mission is to bridge the gap between tradition and contemporary demand while ensuring sustainable livelihoods for the women behind the loom.
Board of Directors
Sambandho is proudly led by a diverse board of directors, composed of skilled weavers, community leaders, and passionate advocates for women's empowerment. Their deep understanding of Sambalpuri weaving traditions, combined with their commitment to innovation and sustainability, guides our mission to preserve heritage while creating economic opportunities for women artisans.
Dashboard
At Sambandho, we believe in transparency and sharing our journey with you. Our interactive dashboard provides insights into our progress and the impact we're making within our community of women weavers. Explore key metrics, from artisan engagement to production milestones, and witness how we're weaving a brighter future together.
Sambandho is more than a weaving enterprise—it is a movement of empowerment, cultural preservation, and economic transformation. By providing raw materials, training, and direct market access, we enable rural women to become independent entrepreneurs. Every fabric woven under Sambandho carries not just patterns, but the resilience, skill, and spirit of its artisans. Through ethical trade, we ensure fair wages, sustainable practices, and global appreciation of India’s exquisite double ikat weaving.
Our Impact
30
Designs
5
Villages
1
Districts
141
Members
( INR Lakhs)
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Value
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Orders
141
Members
1
Districts
5
Villages
5
Designs
( INR Lakhs)
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Value
( In #)
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Orders
A Producer Enterprise (PE) is a legal entity formed by primary producers, viz. farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans, and craftsmen.
A PE can be a producer company, a cooperative society or any other legal form that provides for sharing profits/benefits among the members. In some forms like producer companies, institutions of primary producers can also become members of PO.Yes. The PE is an organisation of the primary producers. If the produce in question is a nonfarm item (for example, handloom or handicraft), then the PE will be that of non-farmers.
The objective of the PO is to ensure better income realisation to its members (who are producers) through aggregation and, if feasible, value addition.
Producer Organisation can be registered under any of the following legal provisions:
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Cooperative Societies Act/ Autonomous or Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act of the respective State
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Multi-State Cooperative Society Act, 2002
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Producer Company under Section 581(C) of Indian Companies Act, 1956, as amended in 2013
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Section 25 Company of Indian Companies Act, 1956, as amended as Section 8 in 2013
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Societies registered under Society Registration Act, 1860
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Public Trusts registered under Indian Trusts Act, 1882
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National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) – Aajeevika was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India in June 2011 as a restructured version of Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY). NRLM has the mandate of reaching out to 100 million rural poor in 6 lakh villages across the country.
NRLM rests on three major pillars – universal social mobilization, financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement. It works towards bringing at least one member (preferably a woman) from all poor families into the SHG network. The SHGs and their federations offer their members services such as savings, credit and livelihood support. As the Institutions of the Poor
(IoP) mature, they are facilitated to take up livelihoods/income-generating activities.A value chain is a set of linked activities that work to add value to a product; it consists of actors and actions that improve a product while linking commodity producers to processors and markets. This value added can be in terms of time value, form value or place value.
The players in the value chain are all the actors who are present in the whole process of linking the producer’s produce with the customer in the form in which the customer consumes. Each player adds a value to the chain and gains benefit from it. For eg. Farmers, Aggregators, Traders, Commission Agents, Wholesalers. Retailer, Brokers etc.
The gap in the value chain is the part where an actor or activity is either absent or has not been utilized to its full potential. Generally in a value chain gap the upstream players like Producers suffer as they have information asymmetry, weak price discovery mechanism, investment constraints and limited bargain power/stockkeeping ability.