Railway stations across 21 states and 3 UTs covered under ‘One Station One Product’ scheme
The OSOP scheme is a step towards encouraging and promoting local products and creating a sustainable income source for marginalized communities.
PremiumNew Delhi: The railways ministry has launched ‘One Station One Product’ (OSOP) scheme across the Indian rail network, aiming 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 designed uniformly 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 northeast India, for example, varieties of Assamese Pitha, traditional Rajbongshi Dress, Jhapi, local textiles, and jute products are available on OSOP stalls. In the 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, is 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 marginalized communities.
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