WOMEN EMPOWERMENT & LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT PROGRAMME

The Department of Women Development and Social Welfare works towards the protection, equity and inclusion of populations that have been historically oppressed, neglected or excluded from development because of their gender, age, disability or situation. Besides other social vulnerable groups, women is included for providing them social security through livelihood support.

The State Government's Utkarsh Bangla (PBSSD) provides vocational training to socially marginalized women and transgender persons, at the Chief Minister's instance, the Department of Technical Education Training and Skill Development Govt. of West Bengal . This vocational training programme has been set up to train the deserving women in selected vocations to help them in suitable livelihood and economic development to cater the poverty and get entry into mainstreaming livelihood. Our organization has set up three such vocational centre where 120 trainees are getting training in the following vocations:

GRSD has always emphasized and addressed women issues. "Legal Awareness" and "Observation of Skill Development Week" are routinely carried out to make the people of the community (specially female section) aware regarding their legal rights and also to encourage them to become to self-reliant through development of different skills suiting to each one's aptitude.