Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has said rural women will be provided employment opportunities in the textile industry after completing skills training under the SheThreads programme.
In a statement, she said eleven hundred and fifty women have already completed training and secured jobs under the program, while a target has been set to train twenty-five hundred women by June.
Registration for the program has already started. The participants will receive a monthly stipend of fifteen thousand rupees during the three-month training in industrial sewing and apparel supervision.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be provided employment opportunities in the textile industry.
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In a vital step towards making women self-reliant and empowered on the orders of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, women were given training to drive rickshaws.
After previously providing driving training for taxis and scooties, the traffic police have now expanded the initiative to include rickshaws.
The Punjab Traffic Police conducted the training session in collaboration with a private university. Under this program, the traffic police trained as many as 34 women at driving schools in Bahria Town and Manawa.
City Traffic Officer (CTO) Syed Abdul Rahim Shirazi said the training program aimed to create respectable job opportunities for women.
