Tezpur: Dabur India Ltd on Wednesday announced the expansion of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme in Tezpur with the inauguration of a new vocational training centre for women.
The centre, set up at Dhekidol village in Sonitpur district, will seek to empower women in the neighbouring areas by offering skill development programmes based on the needs of the community.
The new centre, inaugurated by Air Commodore M.K. Gupta along with Dabur India Ltd Tezpur unit head Alok Gupta in the presence of village elders and community leaders, will start with a six-month course on stitching-tailoring.
Dabur India Ltd head (CSR) A. Sudhakar said, "Limited access to employment opportunities and skills has played a spoiler for women, particularly young girls."
"At Dabur, we believe that skill development is a powerful agent of social transformation. Providing vocational training, we feel, will not only bridge the gap between skilled and unskilled labour but also help rural women with better employment and self-employment opportunities," he said.
The centre will be run by Dabur's CSR arm Jivanti Welfare & Charitable Trust.
The courses that will be offered through the centre have been devised after detailed discussions with the community members and keeping in mind their specific needs and sensitivities.
It will provide a platform to the less privileged girls, supporting them in learning the desired skill sets that will make them employable.
Jivanti will also help and guide these young girls in setting up small businesses.
Both Dabur and Jivanti plan to add a number of vocational training courses - like beautician training, computer education and English language speaking - as part of their efforts to develop a social infrastructure.
Dabur already runs 12 such centers in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
The launch of the vocational training programme comes on the heels of its education-related CSR in Tezpur, under which the company had adopted and revamped a government primary school.
