The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) has urged the state government to set up self-employment training centres exclusively for women in all the district headquarters.
A resolution adopted at a seminar organised here on Sunday said that specialised training to women will go a long way in setting up self-employment ventures.
The meeting called upon the Centre to increase the working days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) to 200 days a year and hike the daily wages to ₹ 400. The scheme should also be extended to the town panchayats and municipalities too.
The government should take effective steps for providing jobs to all those who have enrolled their names in the employment exchanges in the State, and fill all the existing vacancies in various government departments.
The meeting urged the government to recruit adequate conservancy workers for maintaining cleanliness in the rural areas, regularise the services of all the nurses employed on temporary basis in the government hospitals, and absorb the noon-meal workers as government servants.
R. Alamelu, district secretary of the AIDWA, presided over the seminar. S. Lavantina, State president, G. Savithri, vice-president, S. Gomathi, district vice-president and others spoke.
