Two types of leadership trainings to be imparted under the Scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women

(PIB NEWS) Women from the Minority communities will be imparted two types of leadership trainings under the recently launched ‘Scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women’:

(1) Leadership training in the village/locality: Under this type of training upto 50 women in a village/locality, who are dedicated, motivated and committed to work for the betterment of the womenfolk from the Minority communities in particular and the society in general, would be imparted leadership training in one batch in the given village/locality. For this type of training the existing facilities of the village/locality will be used or a hall may be hired or it may be imparted by erecting a temporary tent. The duration of the training will be six days spread over not less than three occasions to be completed within a period of three months.
(2) Leadership training in residential government training institutes: The women selected for this training should be graduates, which condition may be relaxed to class X certificate in case graduates are not easily available. Such women should also be dedicated, motivated, physically fit and committed to work for the betterment of the womenfolk from the Minority communities in particular and the society in general. Under this a group of 50 women will be trained in a batch, out of which not more than 5 women should be from a single village/locality. Selected women would be imparted leadership training in training institutes run by the Central/State Government/Union Territory administration. The entire training fees, training material, boarding, food, refreshment and travel expenses would be covered by the scheme. The training will be done in two phases of three days each within a period of three months. The trainees would be also given allowance/stipend for the duration of the training,The organization entrusted with the responsibility of imparting the training will be responsible to select women as per the criteria set out for the scheme by the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
The objective of the ‘Scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women’ is to empower and instill confidence in women by providing knowledge, tools and techniques for interacting with Government, banks and Government functionaries at all levels. It proposes to reach out to women from the Minority communities through Non-Governmental Organizations / institutions who will be provided with financial support for conducting leadership development training.
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