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IT-enabled training for SHGs

Staff Reporter

Initiative to introduce rural women to cyber operations

EMPOWEMENT MOVE: Collector K. Nanda Kishore (extreme left) inaugurating the information technology-enabled training for self-help group members in Tiruchi on Tuesday.

TIRUCHI: : As part of its initiative to empower rural women using Information Technology as the means, the district administration has taken up the task of organising IT-enabled training programmes for select self-help group members in the district so that they have basic knowledge in cyber operations.

The first programme was inaugurated by Collector K. Nanda Kishore here for the first batch of SHG members on Tuesday.

Sponsored by the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), the hands-on training would be provided to the group members by private company Ambienz Technology Private Limited here.

A total number of 15 SHG members, with basic computer knowledge and those familiar with data entry, have been handpicked from Tiruverambur, Lalgudi, Mannachanallur and Manikandam blocks to undergo the cyber programme.

The participants would be imparted training in areas such as document and data conversion, optical character recognition, opening of an image file using OCR engine, receiving files through the internet etc.

The objective is to further sharpen the IT skills of the rural women by exposing them to newer areas, which would enable them to get data conversion works and carry out them in their respective panchayats itself, says M. Manohara Singh, Project Officer, DRDA, Tiruchi.

The trainees have been selected from those panchayats where computers have already been provided by the State Government. Out of 408 panchayats in the district, 41 of them have been provided with computers with internet facility till now.

The chairman and managing director, Ambienz Technology, C.K. Sivaramakrishnan, said that the SHG members would be trained in non voice-based data handling, electronic document conversion etc.

With information technology promising new opportunities in the future, the district administration had thought of using it as a means to empower the computer-literate rural women which would secure them some employment, Mr. Manohara Singh said, adding that the authorities had planned to organise such IT-related training programmes for 82 SHG members in the months to come.

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