Rodrigues inaugurates training centre for women

Chandigarh, Jun 25 (UNI) Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Gen (Retd) SF Rodrigues today inaugurated a Production Centre set up by the Chandigarh Child and Women Development Corporation in Sector 19-D here to impart training in various income generating ventures to women.

The Centre will impart training in cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, stitching, embroidery, dress designing to women to enable them to be economically independent and self-reliant.

General Rodrigues, who was accompanied by Ms Jean Rodrigues, asked the Finance Secretary and Director Social Welfare to hire the services of professional and competent coaches to impart quality training in different courses.

He also told the officers to tie up with the fashion designing institutes in the region and corporate and business houses to help them in training programmes and for providing a platform to sell their products.

He also stressed the need for a further strengthening of the support structure for training programmes in different trades and evolve a monitoring system to identify the bottlenecks with follow up corrective measures.

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