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Who stitched her luck with handmade talent: Meet Ruma Devi

 

Jaipur: She is only an eighth pass however she has made around 22,000 ladies in Rajasthan self-subordinate by giving them better than average employments.

She claims a customer rundown of prominent creators from over the world who have been visiting Barmer to work with her notable style and ability. She has just scored the ‘Planner of the year’ title at Textiles Fair India 2019 and has likewise gotten Nari Shakti National Award 2018 from President Ramnath Kovind for changing existences of thousands of ladies in and around her place.

She stands not the same as the style world with her ability of doing dazzling hand weaving. The creators who have been working with her incorporate Anita Dongre, Bibi Russell, Abrahim Thakore, Rohit Kamra, Manish Saksena and many regarded originators from US also.

Amitabh Bachchan on KBC has as of late facilitated her on the last place anyone would want to be and that is the manner by which her story is currently known to the world. We are talking of Ruma Devi from Barmer in Rajasthan, a fashionista who rose up out of the natural rustic paths of Rajasthan. In only a couple of years, she has scripted an example of overcoming adversity of her own via cutting a way which has every one of the points of a Bollywood content.

Conceived in a monetarily frail family, she lost her mom when she was only five. Her dad re-wedded and after that began her genuine battle. Her relatives got her name dropped from school when she arrived at class VIII and connected with her in family unit errands.

Every day, she needed to head out around 10 km to get water. At 17, she was hitched where her battle didn’t end. Neediness kept on pursuing her and when tired, she shaped a gathering of around 10 ladies and gathered Rs 100 each to buy crude material to make sacks with hand weaving on it.

Grameen Vikaas and Chetna Sansthan in Barmer came to know about her work and applauded it and in 2008 she turned into its part. In 2010, she turned into the leader of this association.

 

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