City Desk :
As strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment is one of the core development needs, the government is attaching special importance to making the backward women self-reliant through various time-befitting initiatives.
As part of these initiatives, several projects for the improvement of women’s educational, economic and social conditions have been formulated. The projects are: providing bicycles to schoolgirls, giving training to make women self-reliant at upazila level alongside imparting advanced training to women to diversify jute products. ICT-based skill development training has been planned for generating employment for rural women.
Senior officials of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs said that the projects have already been sent to the Planning Commission for its approval. The next steps will be taken only after getting its clearance, they added, reports BSS.
The government is committed to ensure women’s empowerment and their welfare and as part of the policy, the projects have been undertaken with the aim of ensuring sustainable development of the womenfolk through enhancing their skills and creating entrepreneurship by giving them appropriate training on technology.
These projects will be implemented by the Department of Women Affairs and an private organization.
Shahana Sarmin, Executive Director of the National Organization for Women, said, “We have not yet received any decision on this matter. However, we provide various types of trade-based training to make women self-reliant and develop their skills at the grassroots level.
Such activities will continue in the future as well.”
According to sources, each project has been specially designed to address the challenges faced by women, educate women in rural and remote areas, and provide them with the necessary tools to achieve economic emancipation and ensure their social mobility.
The government has taken a project titled “Giving Bicycles to School-going Girls for Youth Empowerment”. Its aim is to increase the interest of schoolgirls studying in class-VI and above.
