Taking another step towards making rural women of Dehradun district financially independent, the district administration has started to provide training of entrepreneurship and skill development in the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
Last year, the administration provided the training of making LED light strings to about 100 women of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in LED Growth Centre which did the business of about Rs two lakhs within the first four days during Diwali festival. Besides this, the administration also inaugurated a bakery operated by an SHG in Vikas Bhawan which is also doing well as per the officials. According to the chief development officer (CDO) Nitika Khandelwal, the administration focuses on such employment programmes that alleviate women and make them financially independent. She said that while several women learnt making LED light strings last year, they are also being trained now to repair them as very few people repair LED light strings in the district.
Apart from training women in making products, the administration has also started to train about 50 rural women in entrepreneurship and skill development in Doiwala area so that they become competent enough to run small businesses on their own and become financially independent, stated Khandelwal. She said that the administration has various plans to empower rural women which will be executed in the upcoming months.
