Vocational training must for rural women

UNDER SECRETARY of University Grants Commission (UGC), VK Bhatia has stressed the need of vocational training for the empowerment of rural women. He was inaugurating a ?Training Centre for Self Empowerment of Rural (Distressed) Women? at TKS Inter College in Amra Khaira village here on Tuesday. Centre for Women?s Studies and Development at Social Science Faculty in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has set up this training centre.

UNDER SECRETARY of University Grants Commission (UGC), VK Bhatia has stressed the need of vocational training for the empowerment of rural women.

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He was inaugurating a ‘Training Centre for Self Empowerment of Rural (Distressed) Women’ at TKS Inter College in Amra Khaira village here on Tuesday. Centre for Women’s Studies and Development at Social Science Faculty in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has set up this training centre.

“Vocational training is a must for the empowerment and development of rural women in particular and the nation in general”, he said. Appreciating the efforts of the centre, he expressed hope that such programmes would be carried out in future also to ensure proper development of rural women.

Coordinator of centre, Prof Chandrakala Padia, delivered the welcome address and exhorted rural folks to get their kids educated so that they could contribute in the development of the nation. “There is nothing without education”, she added.

Reader at Community Medicine Department in the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS-BHU), Dr. Sangeeta Kansal, delivered a lecture on ‘Health Promotion and Family Planning’ on the occasion.

She spoke in length about various aspects of family planning and measures required for health promotion. She also discussed the problems rural women and girls faced and suggested possible solutions to their problems.