As part of its initiative to empower rural women using information technology as the means, the district administration has taken up the task of organising IT-enabled training programmes for select self-help group members in the district so that they have basic knowledge in cyber operations.
Sponsored by the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), the hands-on training would be provided to the group members by private company Ambienz Technology Private Limited here.
A total number of 15 SHG members, with basic computer knowledge and those familiar with data entry, have been handpicked.
The participants would be imparted training in areas such as document and data conversion, optical character recognition, opening of an image file using OCR engine, receiving files through the internet etc.
The objective is to further sharpen the IT skills of the rural women by exposing them to newer areas, which would enable them to get data conversion works and carry out them in their respective panchayats itself, says M. Manohara Singh, Project Officer, DRDA, Tiruchi.
With information technology promising new opportunities in the future, the district administration had thought of using it as a means to empower the computer-literate rural women which would secure them some employment, Mr. Manohara Singh said, adding that the authorities had planned to organise such IT-related training programmes for 82 SHG members in the months to come.
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