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Adolescent girls need society’s support: Minister

KARUR: Adolescent girls need the support and understanding of society. The girls themselves should prepare themselves to beat competition and excel for which the State Government was organising life skills training programme, according to Social Welfare Minister P. Geetha Jeevan.

Speaking after distributing certificates to adolescent girls who underwent life skills development training programme here on Friday, the Minister said that a two-day training programme was conducted in 454 centres all over the State in which more than 3.40 lakh adolescent girls participated and benefited.

In the programme the girls were also being trained in tailoring, computer education and such other technical aspects for economic development activities. The girls were trained on day-to-day needs. That training would be for 45 days. Following the technical training, a health and medical awareness programme would be organised for the girls’ benefit. That would create awareness on their evolving physical and psychological positions. Besides that the State Government has chosen 40 destitute girls and was imparting teacher training to them, the Minister added.

Mrs. Geetha Jeevan counselled the girls to show great care in food intake. Nutritious food would do good for the adolescent girls and help them in the long run, she said.

The State Government was executing a lot of development and welfare schemes for the benefit of the girls, Mrs. Geetha Jeevan said exhorting the girls to make full use of the schemes.

On the occasion, the Minister handed over LPG stoves and cooker to 245 childrens’ centre at a cost of Rs.16.66 lakh and certificates on computer literacy to 240 girls who underwent the camp.

Collector T.N. Venkatesh, Krishnarayapuram MLA P. Kamaraj, DMK district secretary Vasuki Murugesan, District Panchayat Chairperson Poovai Ramesh Babu, Tamil Nadu Weavers’ Advisory Committee member Paramathi Shanmugam and others participated.

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