For the first time, a month-long training programme on Beauty Parlor Management for hearing-impaired girls was inaugurated by PWDs State Commissioner Kasturi Mohapatra here on Monday.
Around 25 hearing-impaired girls from across the State are undergoing the training free-of-cost. Mohapatra said that this type of new areas is to be innovated in the field of training, employment and self-employment.
Among others, VRCH Assistant Director Ram Kishore Sharma, RUDSETI Director BK Rout, Instructors Deepak Brahma and SP Mishra and VRCH Psychologist P Mandal also spoke. The programme is jointly organised by the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped (VRCH) under the Ministry of labour and Employment and RUDSETI, Bhubaneswar.