AMN
Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan chaired separate meetings to review the functioning of Women’s Development Corporation (WDC) and J&K Rehabilitation Council (JKRC) at Jammu yesterday.
While reviewing functioning of WDC, the meeting was informed that the Corporation disbursed loans to the tune of 25 crore rupees among 1000 women beneficiaries in the year 2019-20 to empower them socio-economically by helping them to set up their own income generation units.
The Corporation has disbursed 188 crore rupees loans among 16,224 beneficiaries up to March 31, last year since the inception of the Corporation. Mr Khan appreciated the performance of WDC and hoped that more socio-economically backward women would be aided under income generating schemes and programmes. He also highlighted the need for vibrant mass awareness across the UT of Jammu and Kashmir so that the economically weaker sections of society are benefited. He also directed the Corporation to conduct various vocational training programmes across the UT so that aspiring entrepreneurs would be well acquainted with required skills for running their business units successfully.