To ensure employment opportunities especially for women in the state, Haryana Government has decided to provide employability training to the girl students of the government colleges.
Announcing this, Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Thursday said that in the first phase, as many as 12000 girl students of 11 districts would be given training for 16 hours free of cost and out of these, around 4000 girl students would be given employment.
Sharma said that providing job opportunities for the youth of the state is always the priority for the State Government.
He said that “United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)” has implemented a unique project “Disha” for creating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for underprivileged women so as to make them economically independent.
Under this programme, approximately 6.5 lakh girls and women have been imparted training in the states of Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi and NCR in the areas of career guidance, career counseling, employment marketplace, entrepreneurship and value chains, the Minister said.
Under this project, in the first phase, 12000 girl students of 11 districts of Haryana would be given training for 16 hours free of cost on which a sum of Rs 1.16 cr would be spent, he added.
