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Business EconomyPosted at: Oct 6 2020 8:24PM


FLO signs MoU with NSDC for empowering women through skill training

Kolkata, Oct 06 (UNI) FLO, the Women’s Wing of FICCI, today signed an MoU with
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) for empowering women through skill
training to enhance their employability and promote entrepreneurship.
With a primary focus on sustainable livelihood generation for women, the collaboration
between the two organizations will support empowerment of women to create sustainable
economic possibilities at different levels - grassroots, medium and senior.
FLO and NSDC will work towards supporting short-term training of women in various
sectors such as healthcare, tourism and hospitality among others; and will aid with
domestic and overseas placements.
Commenting on the association, Dr. Manish Kumar, MD & CEO, NSDC, “Increase of
women participation in the workforce is a key element to the overall development of our
country. Under Skill India Mission, we are committed to empowering women workforce
through gender mainstreaming of skills and providing them with opportunities to become
self-reliant. This alliance will strengthen our efforts to enable better employability and
livelihood opportunities for women by imparting market-relevant skill training for various
job roles in India and even globally.”
FLO National President, Janabi Phookan said, “For an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, it is important
to take the women along. This is the need for the hour and as a business chamber working
towards the goal of inclusive growth, our focus is on the role of women in reviving the economy
and making India self-reliant.FLO will be the facilitator in the process and will connect women
with the relevant stakeholders, from training in specific verticals for enhancing their livelihood opportunities, increasing their self-awareness as equal partners in the nation’s growth and
working towards their economic empowerment.”
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is committed to promoting skill development
by catalyzing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational institutions.
A unique public-private-partnership entity, NSDC engages a gamut of stakeholders including
industry bodies, corporates, academicians, and Central & State governments to raise
employability of workforce through vocational training, digital learning and soft skills. Through
direct interventions and partnerships, it enables an ecosystem focusing on quality assurance, technology, capacity-building, gender mainstreaming and convergence in skill development.
FLO plays an integral part in this process and contributes effectively towards the growth
agenda of the nation. Since the inception in 1983, FLO has been working towards empowering
and enabling women entrepreneurs and professionals of India and working towards economic self-reliance.
The MoU between FLO and NSDC will be under the auspices of the FLO 3Cs initiative.
FLO believes in skilling, leading to livelihood generation, creating micro entrepreneurs and
help build nano enterprises.
The 3C initiative of FLO- Competency, Capacity and Confidence building through
transformational Life Skills & Technical Education Adopt ITI Programme (AITIP) will
empower women with tools and knowledge that will enable them to become economically
independent.
This will in turn enhance the perception of women’s contribution to household income and
family welfare resulting in sustainable livelihood and increasing women’s participation in
household decisions. 3C initiative complements NSDC’s work on increasing the female
labor force participation.
Dharitri Patnaik, Chapter Chairperson, Bhubaneshwar and National Head of FLO 3Cs
initiative, was the Day Chair for the session.
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