The Times of India             10.09.2013

AMC approves training scheme for women

AURANGABAD: The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has recently approved two projects for empowering women wherein its women and child welfare committee will conduct training programmes on desk top publishing (DTP) and nursing.

With an expenditure of Rs 20 lakh, the training programmes will be open for below poverty line (BPL) and non-below poverty line (NBPL) category women.

Prajatka Bhale, president of women and child welfare committee, said on Monday that the AMC would start both the activities within 30-40 days.

"The courses are selected keeping in mind the market requirement of skilled manpower in these fields. The successful candidates can start their own ventures or join some company," Bhale said.

She said that the AMC's initiative would bring in positive change in the lives of more than 700 female candidates.

"For DTP training, we will invite four participants each from all the municipal wards while for nursing training, three participants will be selected," she said.

There are 99 municipal wards in the municipal corporation.

Bhale said women participants with minimum qualification of SSC would undergo the three-month training programme.

For both the courses, the BPL participants will get subsidy of 90% of the total course fee. Similarly, for NBPL category candidates, the subsidy will be of 85%. Women candidates between the age group of 16 and 40 years residing within the city limits are eligible for the course.

"We are now in process of identifying agencies for providing training and the actual fee structure will be declared soon," Bhale said, adding that the fee structure will be well within the reach of common people.

Besides, the women and child welfare committee has also approved a two-month training course in spoken English.

"Three to four interested candidates from each municipal ward can undergo the course which is aimed at developing knowledge of English," she said.