HYDERABAD: The Taluka Nazim Tando Allahyar Haji Khair Muhammad Khokhar has said that multidimensional strategy is needed to enhance the literacy rate and leadership qualities in working women and eliminate behaviour of gender discrimination from the male composed society of this country.
He said this while addressing concluding ceremony of 4-Days Training Workshop for elected female councillors of all talukas of District Tando Allahyar. The ceremony was organised by Planning & Development Department, Government of Sindh with the collaboration of UNDP and Sindh Civil Service and Local Government Academy Tandojam at Tando Allahyar yesterday.
Addressing the ceremony, Khokhar said that due to illiteracy, ill rites and so called tribal system, the country has been deprived from major part of our human resources of women folk. He said that though increasing the representation of women in the electoral colleges was good omen, but still there are many other factors creating hindrances for engaging women folk fully in the different development fields.
He said that literacy, capacity building of elected women, working women, would pave the ways for opening different new avenues for the development of women folk. He lauded the efforts of organisations for providing training to the women councillors and termed it as need of the time.
The Director General Civil Service and Local Government Academy Tandojam Muhammad Ibrahim Qureshi in his key note address said that after getting this training, the women councillors of Tando Allahyar District have became competent enough to undertake different development projects within their areas. He said that these women councillors would also be proved as alternate leadership for women folk and also to be instrumental source for bringing behavioural change in the society.
The Project Director of the training project Abdul-ul-Fateh Tunio said that the purpose of this project was to upgrade women folk at the par of male. He said that under this project as many as 2500 women councillors would be provided training for their capacity building and added that the project to be continued till 2012. The training participant women councillors, Zainab Nisa Memon, Ameerzadi and Zarina Bahrani also spoke on this occasion.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:10/18/2008
