Dhaka, April 7 -- As strengthening gender equality and women's empowerment is one of the core development needs, the government is attaching special importance to making the backward women self-reliant through various time-befitting initiatives.
As part of these initiatives, several projects for the improvement of women's educational, economic and social conditions have been formulated. The projects are: providing bicycles to schoolgirls, giving training to make women self-reliant at upazila level alongside imparting advanced training to women to diversify jute products. ICT-based skill development training has been planned for generating employment for rural women.
Senior officials of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs said that ...