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| April 05, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 16, 1428 |
Training centres for women
ASTORE, April 4: Five women’s training centres have been planned for various parts of Northern Areas and the five-year project will cost Rs30 million. A spokesman for the Door State Employment for Artisan, Sumera Ahmed said on Wednesday that the training centres were being established under the prime minister's programme `Goals and Targets’.
She said that so far 750 women had been imparted embroidery training, adding that the target of training 4,800 women would be achieved at these centres.
Under the project, she pointed out, local artisans were also sent to the annual cultural show held at Lok Virsa in Islamabad to introduce locally-made products at the national level.—APP
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