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Helping SC, ST women become economically self-reliant

Staff Correspondent

BELLARY: Bellary City Municipal Corporation, in association with the District Industries Centre (DIC), has come out with a novel idea of utilising the 18 per cent grant reserved for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A permanent centre, perhaps, the first one in the State, to train women from these communities in stitching ready-made garments has been set up by the corporation, in association with the DIC.

Arvind Srivastav, Deputy Commissioner and administrator of the corporation, who was instrumental in setting up the centre, said that women belonging to these communities would be trained for six months in stitching trousers and would be given a stipend of Rs. 500 a month.

After undergoing training, which includes all aspects of tailoring, these women could take up a job in any of the garment manufacturing units in the city or could set up a stitching unit of their own by taking loans under the Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana. To start with, 30 women, selected from these two communities, would be imparted training. “Every year two batches would be trained regularly,” he added. Mr. Arvind Srivastav said that the permanent training centre would help the women from these communities to become economically self-reliant.

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