City Desk :
Department of Social Service (DSS), Rajshahi has handed over government grants worth about Taka 5,000 each to 20 ethnic minority women for improving their living and livelihood condition.
The office organized a cheque distribution programme on its premises in the metropolis on Thursday. Social Worker Shaheen Akhter Rainy, former Deputy Director of DSS Mozammel Haque, college teacher Dr Azizur Rahman and social service officer Abdullah Al Firoj were present at the ceremony.
In his remarks, Mozammel Haque said the present government is very much positive about elevating the ethnic women and has been implementing time-fitting programmes for making them empower.
Youths both male and female from the ethnic communities are getting skill development training in the city. After getting the technical and vocational training, the beneficiaries are getting scopes of being income generators, he added.
He, however, opined that the people of the ethnic communities need both national and local level policy support for elevating their living and livelihood condition as their cherished socioeconomic development couldn’t be possible without effective cooperation.
Department of Social Service (DSS), Rajshahi has handed over government grants worth about Taka 5,000 each to 20 ethnic minority women for improving their living and livelihood condition.
The office organized a cheque distribution programme on its premises in the metropolis on Thursday. Social Worker Shaheen Akhter Rainy, former Deputy Director of DSS Mozammel Haque, college teacher Dr Azizur Rahman and social service officer Abdullah Al Firoj were present at the ceremony.
In his remarks, Mozammel Haque said the present government is very much positive about elevating the ethnic women and has been implementing time-fitting programmes for making them empower.
Youths both male and female from the ethnic communities are getting skill development training in the city. After getting the technical and vocational training, the beneficiaries are getting scopes of being income generators, he added.
He, however, opined that the people of the ethnic communities need both national and local level policy support for elevating their living and livelihood condition as their cherished socioeconomic development couldn’t be possible without effective cooperation.
