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New Chandigarh centre for women

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator S. F. Rodrigues inaugurated a “Production Centre” for women in Sector 19-D here on Wednesday.

Set up by the Chandigarh Child and Women Development Corporation, the project is meant to impart professional and training skills in various income-generating ventures to women, with the focus on disadvantaged sections of society to enable them to be economically independent and self-reliant.

Accompanied by his wife Jean Rodrigues, Gen Rodrigues went round the facility and training classrooms for cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, stitching, embroidery, dress designing and so on.

Emphasizing that women empowerment was the key to social transformation, Gen Rodrigues asked the bureaucrats to hire the services of professional and competent coaches to impart quality training to the trainee women in different courses.

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