Kathmandu, July 8
The Women's Chamber under the Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) has
launched a training as an economic empowerment programme for women.
The Women's Chamber has organized training in various fields to
increase women's participation in the economic sector through entrepreneurship
development and job creation. In the first phase, training is to be provided to
women in six different fields including cooking, beautician, photography,
candle crafting and fabric painting. The women's chamber has stated that
training is being provided to different women in different areas.
Inaugurating the training, President of NCC, Rajendra Malla, said
that economic participation of women should be increased through entrepreneurship
development.
"NCC has given high priority to the issue of women's
empowerment. Many options have been started in the field of information
technology for income from home in recent times, so women should take advantage
of it," he said.
According to Malla, the chamber will assist in the marketing the
products produced by women. Training is also required for the processing of
agricultural commodities. The chamber will help in it, he said.
Stating that the participation of women in the economic sector
has increased, Malla said that they have a significant contribution in creating
employment.
Urmila Shrestha, vice-chairperson of NCC and president of the Women's
Chamber, said that the training was conducted for the financial security of
women and it being provided as per the market demand. She said that training
would be important to create trade and employment.
Secretary of the Women's Chamber Lima Adhikari said that the
participating women would be given training for at least 15 days.
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