To make women empowered we should first make them self reliant, said the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat while inaugurating a training programme on lED making at Bala Sundari Temple premises at Thano here on Wednesday.
The CM said that the training programme is being organised to promote Women Self-help Groups (SHG) self-dependent. He added that it is necessary to provide self-employment to Women SHGs at block level, as it will help PM Modi’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign successful.
Expressing hope that the Women SHGs will work more efficiently after getting the training, he assured said that the government would ensure proper marketing of the products produced by the SHGs. The second such training programme would be organised in Kotabagh. The CM said that in future, more lED light Training programmes will be organized to provide self-employment to Women SHGs at Gram Panchayat level. He added that these programmes would help in promoting local products and will put an end to purchase of Chinese products. Rawat emphasised the need to use all resources effectively. On the kits were distributed to the members of Women SHGs for making lED lights and other equipments. A total of 50 women from 10 Women Self-help Groups would receive training in the programme spanning five days. Speaking on the occasion, Secretary ,Power, Radhika Jha hailed the programme as very good initiative to provide employment to women at local level. The lED light Training programme will be taken to villages on massive scale so that more employment opportunities are created for local people, she added.
In the First Phase of the training women SHGs would be trained in making lED Chandelliers, Hangings, lED Bulbs, lED Tube-lights and Solar Emergency lights.
The programme was also attended by MlA Bharat Singh Chaudhary, Secretary (Skill Development) Dr Pankaj Pandey, Director of Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (UREDA) Ranveer Singh Chauhan, BJP Dehradun District President Shamsher Singh Pundeer, Block Pramukh Beena Bahuguna and others.