UT starts professional course for girls

UT starts professional course for girls

Chandigarh As part of the Chandigarh Administration
’s action plan for gender sensitisation and removing discrimination against girl child, a certificate course has been started for adolescent girls and young women who have passed Class XII.
Classes for the three-month vocational course in office management will be held in Post-Graduate Government College, Sector 11.
It is for the first time that such a course has been started in a co-educational college.
A similar course is being offered at Government College for Girls, Sector 11. But it is not able to achieve its motive of enabling women to work in a professional environment-according to the feedback received by the Education department, students do not get used to a professional life in an all-girls college.
The new course is being offered in a co-educational college so that students quickly adapt to a professional life once they step out of college, Director Higher Education Ajoy Sharma said.
The course will provide basic training in computer and soft skills, tally and accountancy, documentation, adobe programme and typing. The fee for the course is Rs 1,500 and the first batch will have 40 students.
“A survey conducted by the Administration found that office management jobs in banks and other offices were not taken up, for lack of applicants,” Sharma said. “To empower adolescent girls and young women, the Administration decided to start this short-term course.”
The course includes counselling, placement guidance and ‘emotional support’.
Sharma said depending upon the response, the number of seats at PGGC-11 might be increased. Also, the course would be started at other co-education government colleges.
The special feature of this course is lectures by qualified teachers of the college and professionals.

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