Vocational training to female sex workers

By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, FEB 19

 Haryana Government has implemented a new scheme namely Rehabilitation of Female Sex Workers- Sexually Abused Women to generate employment opportunities by providing various technical and vocational training to such women.

          While stating this today, Director General, Women and Child Development Department, Mrs. Sumita Misra said that the beneficiaries of this scheme are the female sex workers and sexually abused women who are identified by the agencies of the State Government with the help of NGOs, expert bodies and demographers.

          She said that the scheme has been launched to focus on the capacity building or skill building and development of these women, to provide befit of Industrial Training Institute to sex workers to make them self dependent and rehabilitation of the beneficiaries by providing them vocational or technical training through Women Development Corporation and I.T.Is identified by Department of Technical Education.

          She said that other objectives of the scheme included assistance in securing loans for establishing self employment ventures of the women trained under the scheme,   provide back-ended capital subsidy on loans provided through Haryana Women Development Corporation and arrange for sale of the products of the entrepreneurs assisted by the Department under this scheme by organizing and participating in exhibitions or melas in collaboration with District Urban Development Authority or District Rural Development Authority or District Red Cross Societies, Social Welfare Board, NGO, Industrial Training Institute or any other place.

          She said that such women are being   provided skill development training in manufacturing  spice powder and packaging, book binding and note books manufacturing, Papad manufacturing, Printing and Dyeing of clothes, Making of sweet containers and toy making, sanitary napkins, hospitality, chalk making, non-woven fabric  bags, bakeries, footwear manufacture, geniatric Nursing and housekeeping, computer training, diagnostic lab, Jam, Jelly and pickle, food processing, hair and skin care, dress designing and making, leather goods manufacture and stenography and data entry processing.  She said that a stipend of Rs 3000 per month would be given to each trainee undergoing training in these skills. The duration of training would be between one month to one year depending on the trade.    

          She said that the Department is bearing the expenses of raw material, trainer required, stipend to the trainees including other expenses through Women Development Corporation. The Department would also bear 100 per cent actual expenses for conducting various training programmes. She said that for those women who intend to start their own self employment projects, loans would be arranged through nationalized banks. The Corporation would provide interest subsidy of five per cent subject to a maximum of Rs. 10,000.

          She said that the sponsoring of applications of eligible candidates is being done through Women Development Corporation, District Red Cross Society, Renowned Training Institutes, Experts and Trainers.  In addition to this district administration also identify the place for training and the trainers or resource persons.

          She said that the training institutes will send the report to the District Manager, Haryana Women  Development Corporation about candidate who have joined training and are attending training courses. The Department will release the funds to the Corporation under subsidy component. The Corporation would release the funds to the concerned training institutes for paying the stipend to the trainees. The Training Institutes would send the utilization certificate along with demand for the next quarter to the Women Development Corporation.

          The Women Development Corporation would process the loan cases for onward submission to nationalized banks and would release interest subsidy as per procedure. She said that the marketing of the products prepared by women can be through District Urban Development Authority or District Rural Development Authority or any other forum. The prepared goods or items could be sold in various exhibitions, hatts or melas organized by district  administration or by NGOs. The district administration would be involved actively at all the stages of implementation of the scheme. A corpus would be created separately under the existing scheme of grant-in–aid to the corporation, she added.