Shuklaphanta municipality provides skill training to 133 residents to promote self-employment

Kanchanpur: Shuklaphanta Municipality has provided skill-based training to 133 local residents with the aim of promoting self-employment and making communities more self-reliant.

The training was conducted under the Small and Cottage Industries Promotion Program in the current fiscal year, targeting economically disadvantaged groups including Dalits, indigenous people, women, people with disabilities, families of martyrs, conflict victims and individuals who have returned from abroad.

As part of the program, 20 participants received training in woodworking, 20 in gas stove repair, 20 in gundri making, 13 in toy making, 20 in auto driving, 20 in duna-tapari making and 20 in foot massage (postpartum care).

According to Dhan Bahadur Chaudhary, the program’s enterprise development facilitator, the municipality has also provided the necessary materials as grants to the trainees to help them start and operate their own businesses.

“We have tried to make the target group self-reliant by providing necessary materials along with the training,” Chaudhary said. “Many of the trained people are engaged in self-employment and conducting business activities.”

He added that 39 of the trained individuals have already started running their own businesses.

Sarita Chaudhary, who received training in making duna-tapari, said she has begun earning income by producing duna-tapari and selling them in the market after completing the training.

Similarly, Jagat Bahadur Singh, who received a modern sewing machine as a grant after the training, said the program has helped him expand his garment business.

The trainees fall within the age group of 18 to 55, with most of them being women.

Municipality spokesperson Lal Bahadur Air said the training was conducted with the objective of providing “skills in hands and employment in homes.”