20,000 under-privileged women achieve self-reliance

NARSINGDI, Feb 23 (BSS): About 20,000 under privileged women and girls in the six upazila of Narsingdi district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income generation activities during the last 10 years.

Sources concerned said under initiatives of the government,Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department and Livestock Department have provided various income generating training to the women and girls to make them self depended. These departments have also extended credit facilities to the women to help them undertaking different projects side by side with creating marketing facilities of their products.

Most of them have achieved success through sewing handloom garments, setting up cottage industries, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening,farming of vegetables, fruits, spices, fish and agricultural activities. As a result of relentless efforts of those women and girls,the socio-economic condition of the rural people who lived in utter miseries even a few years back have changed their life style significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole.