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Vocational training programme for women to be implemented

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board has mooted a comprehensive vocational training and skill development programme for women from disadvantaged sections, especially in rural areas.

“The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has consented to allot funds for the scheme, which has been lying dormant for some years… The scheme will be valid for three years during which skill development initiatives such as computer training for rural literate women will be imparted,” Salma, chairperson, Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board, told The Hindu on Thursday.

She will be going to New Delhi shortly to meet Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury to speed up fund allocation.

The Board is taking to heads of women’s homes all over the State to impart specialised training to the inmates for encouraging entrepreneurship and income generation projects.

Also on the anvil is an extended training programme for newly elected women panchayat leaders, who will be put through an orientation process. The Board has written to the State Government for initiating counselling services for school students to stop examination-related suicides.

The counselling programme, which will first be started for standard X and XII students in government-run schools, will be extended to private schools with the help of school managements.

The Union Ministry has also been approached for setting up a special fund for aravanis, under which exclusive homes will be built for the community and vocational training given to the members, Ms. Salma said.

Earlier, participating in a UGC sponsored workshop on ‘Entrepreneurial Skills Development for Women’, organised by the Centre for Women’s Studies of the Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Ms. Salma exhorted colleges to incorporate aspects of entrepreneurial training as part of the education process.

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