PANAJI
Scan a QR code, navigate through the swayampurnagoa.com website, pre-order your 'matoli' or 'falar' items and make the requisite payment online.
Your order will then be delivered to your doorstep in time to welcome Lord Ganesha and appropriately celebrate the Chathurti festival slated to begin on September 7.
The Goa government's permanent online platform for artisans and Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to sell their wares, has this year added a combo pack of 14 matoli items which can be ordered online for just Rs 1,100, ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
Additionally, a combo pack worth Rs 600 of six 'Falar' items like 'neureo' and 'besan ladoos', can be pre-ordered online until midnight on September 2 and it will also be delivered to you at your doorstep.
Officials said, a tie-up with 'Swiggy' is being tapped to execute the home-delivery service and talks are on to take on board the delivery services peers, possibly Zomato and Blinkit.
Included in the 'Matoli' combo pack at Rs 1,100 are 14 items: toring, mauling, ghagryo, fhrishele, nagulkudo, kewan, matta, amyache tale (mango leaves), kavandale, ambade, varsabhogi, supari, betel leaves and dry betel nuts and kangla.
Goan neureo, besan ladoo, chakli, shakarpali, chivda and fenori are the six items that make up the 'falar' combo pack which will cost Rs 600.
An idea conceived by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant two years ago to give a leg-up to women in rural Goa, the State government began two years ago by providing a physical platform to women of SHGs at 22 different locations in the State to sell their 'falar' and 'matoli' items for Ganesh Chaturthi.
Last year the experiment attempted to go virtual, with the e-Chavath Bazaar online platform where women got a sales window for their home-made delicacies. The government roped in Swiggy to provide the backend linkages to delivery services.
A month later in October last year, the government made it a permanent platform for artisans and rural women to sell their products not just in Goa but across the country, as well.
This year, the initiative has improvised its offers giving customers the choice to order 'combo packs' for their 'Matolis' and also the 'Falar' items with attractive discounts incorporated.