In an initiative of the State Government to transform women SHGs to SMEs (small and medium enterprises) under Mission Shakti, as many as 40 women have been provided training in an Odia bridal makeup course for self-employment. The trainees successfully completed the 30-day course offered by the World Skill Centre.
After completion of course, the SHG members from across the State attended a felicitation ceremony on Thursday.
Mission Shakti Department Commissioner-Cum-Secretary Sujata Karthikeyan said, “We are working on the vision ‘SHG to SME’ to transform women into entrepreneurs. For this, they need high-class training. We offered a 30-day Odia bridal makeup course in association with World Skill Centre. The course will be introduced in all the SHGs in every block in cooperation with the World Skill Centre and Skill Development Department with a focus to impart market-related training on beauty, bakery, agri-entrepreneurship and hotel management that will generate self-employment.”
World Skill Centre, Bhubaneswar CEO Alka Arora Mishra said, “This is a unique training programme. Now, we are providing one-year training course in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and mechatronics. But for the first time, it was a unique situation for us to give training to 40 SHG women nominated by the Mission Shakti.”
Rajeswari Sahoo, WSHG Member, Kalahandi said, “The SHG members, who were spending their time in making badi (nuggets), achar (pickles) and papad at home, could be benefitted through this programme. It’s a course to make them smarter.”
“We had never thought of becoming beauticians. It was a dream that came true. We had seen ramp show in films, but here this became a reality for us,” said Khyanaprabha Pattnaik, Jhadeswari WSHG, Khordha.