Mega textile park will act as a boon to people, says MLA Dharma Reddy

Warangal: Parkal MLA Ch Dharma Reddy has exhorted the rural women and girls to gain expertise in tailoring and fashion designing, which would ensure better employment and livelihood opportunities.He said the government was planning to set up a mega Textile Park at Sangem in Parkal assembly segment soon. Once the park was set up, it would open up wide range of employment chances for locals and hence they should be ready to grab such an opportunity by obtaining skills.

The MLA has on Tuesday inaugurated a free computer training centre setup at Atmakur mandal headquarters under the aegis of Sarvodaya Youth Organisation (SYO). He stressed the importance of computer literacy, saying it would help a person to be abreast of latest happenings and ensure gainful employment.

The MLA has offered to offer training in accounting software, Tally, free of cost to local women if they excelled in PGDCA course to be offered at the centre. He appreciated the SYO in offering training to women in tailoring and allied courses along with computer training to provide them livelihood.Dharma Reddy asked the organisation to spread its activities to other parts of the district and to neighbouring districts also to benefit the rural women and girls.

Joint Collector M Haritha also suggested to extend the training activities to other parts and to offer driving classes to women and girls. The SYO secretary, Pallepadu Damodar informed their organisation was running training centres at Geesukonda, Atmakur and Hanamkonda with the help of Karl Kübel Foundation (KKS) and German Federal Ministry for Economic and Development. Efforts would be made to extend the activities to other mandals, he added.Gudeppad market committee vice-chairman G Ramu, MPTCs Forum president K Kamalakar, local tahsildar Venkanna, several elected representatives and nearly 500 women and girls attended the programme.