EDUCATION

Vocational training centre
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, May 5 — A vocational training centre was started by Surya Foundation in Raipur Khurd village to train adolescent girls and women in the trade of stitching, tailoring and beauty treatment.

Nearly 40 girls and women were enrolled for the stitching and tailoring course and 43 in the beauty care course. While the stitching course will be of one-year duration, the beauty care course will be for six months. Examinations will be conducted at the end of the course and certificates will be given to the successful ones.

Giving this information, Dr Ramneek Sharma, director of the foundation, said such programmes will empower women and make them self reliant. The residents of the area had identified the need for this course and asked the foundation to help them.

While inaugurating the programme, Mrs Kamla Sharma , Chairperson of the Social Welfare Advisory Board, lauded the role of the foundation in starting the centre and also assured help from the Social Welfare Advisory Board for such programmes for the benefit of women. About 250 women and girls, village leaders and mahila mandal members attended the function.