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A training mission to empower
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It was a programme aimed at making a difference, and it seemed to work perfectly.
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Learning skills: The candidates at the ELCOT computer training programme.
After providing hands-on training to over 60 partially blind teachers, the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) imparted computer knowledge to 20 transgender candidates at its head office from May 5 to May 9. The participants, who have not touched the computer keyboard before, started operating it like an experienced person at the end of day two.
In fact, they were at the classroom hours before the actual training session and worked late hours to learn as much as they could during the training period. On the last day, they requested ELCOT officials to get them a data entry job in reputed firms.
The training session was culmination of a joint effort by the officials of ELCOT and Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative (TAI), who wanted to do some thing for the transgender. The training was provided by ELCOT Training in-charge V. Girijaashri, who had so far trained over 400 government employees on Linux operating system.
“TAI has been striving hard to provide skill building to transgender in various spheres like tailoring and fashion designing, video camera skills training, catering, computer skills training, entrepreneurship, folk theatre training and beautician training. Transgender hailed from six different cities. Some of them have completed only school education, while others have diplomas or degrees to their credit. Presently, a handful of them are working with TAI as volunteers or part-timers,” Mrs. Girijaashri told The Hindu EducationPlus.
“To start with, they were trained on Suse Linux Expertise desktop and later we will try to place them with some big IT firms,” said ELCOT managing director C. Umashankar.
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