Objective is to promote ‘Vocal for Local’ vision, provide a market for local/indigenous products

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Prayagraj bureau: Ministry of Railways has launched ‘One Station One Product’ (OSOP) scheme over Indian Railways with objectives to promote ‘Vocal for Local’ vision of the Government of India, provide a market for local/indigenous products and create additional income opportunities for the marginalised sections of society.

Under the scheme, OSOP outlets at railway stations are allotted for showcasing, selling and giving high visibility to indigenous /local products. The pilot of the scheme was started on 25.03.2022 and as on 01.05.2023, 73 stations are covered with OSOP outlets in Uttar Pradesh. These OSOP stalls are designed through National Design Institute for uniformity.

‘One Station One Product’ is specific to that place and includes artifacts made by indigenous tribes, handlooms by local weavers, handicrafts like world-famous wood carving, chikankari and zari-zardozi work on clothes, or spices tea, coffee, and other processed/semi-processed food items/products indigenously grown in the area. Product categories, under this scheme, include Handicrafts/ Artefacts, Textiles, and Handlooms, Traditional Garments, Local agricultural produce (including millet)/ Processed/semi-processed foods.

The concept is aimed to popularise local indigenous products at the railway station to provide an opportunity for passengers to experience the rich heritage of India and create additional income opportunities for the marginalized section of society.

Artisans, weavers, craftsmen, self-help groups, tribal cooperatives, and marginalized and weaker sections of the society dealing with these products, sell their products at railway stations across the state of Uttar Pradesh and changing the lives of sellers and their families by the opportunities provided to them under this scheme.

OSOP stalls across the entire state of Uttar Pradesh cover variety of products including Brass Statue of lord Krishna & Photo Frame, Carpet, Chikan zari-zardozi garment, Agriculture herbal product, Jute product, Pickles, jams, Jelly, Ketch-up, Kal Namak Rice (a unique rice variety of Siddharthnagar and nearby areas), black pottery, wooden toys, Terracotta artifact & Banana fiber product etc

Details of stations with OSOP outlets are as under:

Agra Cantt, Agra Fort, Akbarpur (ABP), Amroha (AMRO), Anandnagar (ANDN), Aonla(AO), Ayodhya (AY), Badshahnagar (BNZ), Balamau (BLM), Ballia, Banaras(BSBS), Barabanki (BBK), Bareilly City (BC), Bareilly(BE), Behta Gokul(BEG), Chandausi (CH), Fatehpur, Ghaziabad, Gonda (GD), Gorakhpur (GKP), Hapur (HPU), Hardoi (HRI), Idgah, Kanpur Anwarganj, Kanpur Central, Kasganj (KSJ), Kherli, Kosikalan, Lakhimpur (LMP), Lucknow jn (LJN), Lucknow(LKO), Makhi (MKHI), Manikpur, Mathura Jn., Mau(MAU), Mauranipur, Meerut City, Miranpur Katra(MK), Mirzapur, Moradabad (MB), Muzaffarnagar, Najibabad (NBD), Nautanwa (NTV), ORAI, Pratapgarh (PBH), Prayagraj Chheoki, Prayagraj Jn, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU), Pukhrayan PHN, Ramganga Bridge (RGB), Rampur(RMU), Renukoot, RNQ, Roza(ROZA), Safipur (SFPR), Saharanpur, Sandila (SAN), Shahjahanpur (SPN), Siddharthnagar (SDDN), Sitapur (STP), Subedarganj, Tundla, Varanasi (BSB), Varanasi City(BCY), Veerangana Laxmi Bai, Ayodhya Cantt, Banda, Chitrakoot, Nihalgarh, Phulpur, Prayag, Raebareli, Shahganj, Unnao.