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Welding themselves well on the path of success

— Photo: R. Ashok

Hands on: Trainees taking practical lessons in welding at the workshop in Metallurgy and Materials Department of the National Institute of Technology -Tiruchi, on Thursday.

TIRUCHI: For 50 members of the Women’s Entrepreneurs’ Association of Tamil Nadu, the five-day ‘Welders Training Course’ that the Centre for Women’s Studies, Bharathidasan University has facilitated at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi, could not have come at a better time.

They are being exposed to the basics of welding at a time when they are about to take a plunge into entrepreneurship. And that, in fact, explains their enthusiasm to learn the nuances of managing engineering-based small scale units. The participants are promising learners and grasp the methodologies quite easily, observes S. Mohan Raj, Trainer.

According to the learners, they are eager to know the processes well so that they would be able to manage better their ventures that would get operational from January 2008.

They are excited at the prospect of receiving certification from the NIT-T. The first of the two batches is currently undergoing the training that is sponsored by the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Union Human Resource Ministry. The training programme is coordinated by S.P. Kumaresh Babu, Assistant Professor and S. Jerome, Lecturer.

The day-long seminar on Wednesday sensitised them to the nitty-gritty of starting an industrial unit such as approaching banks for finance, recruiting labourers through Placement cells of Industrial Training Institutes and Polytechnics, getting SSI registration, preparing partnership deed, getting PAN card, opening current account, getting power connection, purchasing machinery, and securing gas connection for welding.

Presiding over the inaugural of the training programme, the Director of NIT-T M. Chidambaram said women are well-suited for welding job that calls for patience and a systematic approach. He appreciated the idea of women venturing into non-traditional areas which have a technical knowledge component. Starting an enterprise would strengthen their self-confidence, he said.

V. Thiyagarajan, General Manager, Welding Research Institute and Labs, BHEL, in his special address cited the successful attempt of the BHEL to train women welders in 1999 under an Indo-German Project and later in 2005.

These trainees have proved to be efficient welders and the industries where they have been placed are happy since they do not face the problem of attrition.

In her inaugural address, N. Manimekalai, Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, Bharathidasan University, focussed on the global and national trend in women entrepreneurship.

Srinivasa Rao, Head, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, and the programme convenor V. Muthupandi, Professor, offered felicitations.

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