Urban Services Department of Tata Steel organised the annual convocation ceremony of various ‘Women Empowerment’ programmes at Kitadih Centre. Helena Sanga, principal of GEl Church High School, Kitadih, was the Chief Guest. She appreciated the initiatives of the Urban Services Department, under the Corporate Relations Division of Tata Steel and also suggested that such programmes should encourage a larger segment of women from bastis. She said that these initiatives empower the women to become self-dependent. A total of 47 certificates were distributed to successful students.
Tata Steel facilitates a host of community-based initiatives for vocational development of women enabling them to realise their full potential. Women from its operational basti areas (urban settlements) constitute significant size of the population and are very often in the situation of extreme economic dependence.Given the harsh realities of intra-household and social discrimination, the vocational programs aim to specifically address the needs of such women.
Key programs aiming to build the capacity of basti (urban settlement) women comprise skill-building vocational trainings on sewing and design, embroidery, mehendi rachna, zari work, fabric painting, personal grooming etc. The aforesaid vocational trainings open a new pathway to economic self-reliance arming the women with a new found skill to earn.