Member of Parliament Express His Happiness Over the Success of Skill Development Programmes for Women & Youths
Port Blair, March 2: The Andaman and Nicobar State Co-operative Union celebrated International Women’s Day today on 2nd March 2023 at the Union Office, Teylorabad in the presence of the Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma as the Chief Guest and other guests Smti. Shanta Singh, Smti.Pramila Devi, Adhyaksha ,Zilla Parishad South Andaman, Smti. Ratna Kannan, Smti. Pushpanjali Raju, Smti. Zubaida Begum, Smti.Jyoti, Smti. Radhika, Smti. Laxmi Ganeshan, Smti. Amar Devi, Smti. Mangayar Karasi and Smti. Sarika. A large number of women participated in this event. On the occasion, Smti. Vanisha Rajan, PGT, Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School enlightened the gathering on this year’s International Women’s Day theme “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality”.
Addressing the gathering Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma said, “Our islands have faced various challenges over the years when it comes to ensuring women empowerment and employment and it still continues. So in the year 2012 when I joined the Andaman & Nicobar State Cooperative Union, Teylorabad as a Chairman, I had made up my mind that I need to start up Skill Development Courses for the youths and especially the women of our Islands that would enable them towards a better and secure way of living on their own. I knew it would be difficult for the youths & women seeking such training courses coming from not so financially stable backgrounds to pay huge amounts for doing these courses and with the responsibilities of running a family & taking care of their children going to the mainland for such courses was out of the question. So keeping all these in mind in 2012 I started up with the first batch of Beautician Training courses, Tailoring & Fashion Designing Courses and Computer Courses for all the youths & women with a nominal & affordable fee here at Port Blair.
“As I stand here today to felicitate each one of you little did I know back then that little dream of mine that I planted 10 years ago would become such a huge tree of success. It brings me sheer joy to inform that an exceptional 3800 plus girls & women have completed their training in Tailoring and Fashion Design courses, more than 1200 girls & women have successfully done their Beautician Course Training and about more than 1000 Ladies and Youth have gained benefit with their successful completion of Computer Course training”.
“The beauty of this journey that started all those years ago with just a thought of empowering our youth & women, to build up their potentials is not just how many have completed these courses but the fact that most of them have opened up their own ventures; their own beauty parlours & boutiques, tailoring shops, empowering other youths & women providing them employment and making an income to ensure an improved & standard quality of living for themselves & their families. What makes me happier today is recognising & felicitating such strong, accomplished and independent women who are the examples of real women empowerment and are the true inspiration to other youths & women encouraging them to come forward and take up such courses and empower themselves and everyone around them and create a better life on their own."
All the women were thankful to the Member of Parliament for their success and praised him for providing them with such an exclusive platform. They also took the stand to share their journey to success while encouraging the women present at the event to do the same and take benefit of the courses provided at ANSCU.
In this program 21 women were felicitated with mementos by the chief guest and other dignitaries for their outstanding performance.
Mr. Suresh Babu, Principal ANSCU earlier welcomed the gathering and highlighted the activities of the union. The celebration concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Mr Surender Singh, NCUI.