RAJSHAHI, Sept 7, 2019 (BSS)- Advanced women in various fields are inspiring many other womenfolk to march forward leaving behind their backward position.
More than 1,000 women coming from poor and underprivileged families got employment in Nasima’s Block and Boutique House. After getting training from Department of Youth Development, Nasima started the block and boutique business in small-scale in 2000. She also received training on the trade under Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries.
After taking trade license and bank loan she continues her efforts of expanding the venture since 2005.
Nasima Khatun, mother of three daughters, is now a successful entrepreneur in Rajshahi city. But the success didn’t come overnight as she had to cross various types of constraints and hurdles to attain it.
Nasima, a resident of Bhadra area in the city, said her journey towards becoming an entrepreneur was not smooth. After passing SSC, she couldn’t continue her study as she was given marry by her parents.
“I got a huge response from the people that increased demand of my works,” she said adding that her monthly income is now Taka 80,000 to 90,000 on an average.
She said many underprivileged and distressed women have become self-reliant through working in boutique houses in the metropolis contributing a lot to the society.
Not only Nasima Khatun, many other women entrepreneurs are contributing a lot towards strengthening the economical foundation of the region.
District Women Affairs Office imparted training to more than 1,050 unemployed women on various trades like modern tailoring and embroidery, mobile phone servicing, beautification, food processing and packaging and shopping bag preparation in order to improve their living and livelihood condition.
Four traffic sergeants, Yeasmin Sultana, Afsana Ferdousi, Sumita Akter Sheuly and Sabiha Akter, are performing their duties efficiently and competently side by side with their male colleagues in the city encouraging many others to follow the same.
Professor Mostofa Kamal Akanda of Department of Anthropology in Rajshahi University termed the existing microcredit as a laudable initiative of making the rural women self-reliant.
He said the women have got the scopes of facing the challenges related to attaining capacity, competence and self-reliance through various income-generating activities like cattle, goat, sheep and poultry farming.
This way, women participation in economic activities is gradually mounting. The participation of rural women is also significant.
Prof Kamal Akanda added that the female participation to education is more important than male.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Nur-Ur-Rahman said women empowerment is one of the Prime Minister’s Ten Special Initiatives. More than 3.34 lakh beneficiaries were brought under various financial supports worth Taka 492.90 crore in order to infuse dynamism into the women empowerment process in the division in last two fiscal years.