Self-Employment Training at Porapara Village
We held several discussions with key members of Social Engineering and Advanced Technological Education (SENATE) on how to impart self-employment training to the needy in our neighbourhood villages. SENATE has conducted various such training in the past ( Link ). The bonding grew stronger when SENATE team attended our Annual Day function held on April 14, 2015 ( Link ), interacted with villagers who attended the function and had a look at range of our activities. Also, their work featured in our Newsletter, Annual Day 2015 issue ( Link ). Come endsem. examination, summer break after this Annual Day event. May-June are the months when our young student volunteers are not here due to summer break. But we had enthusiastic NSS faculty coming forward to arrange a 20 day long training with SENATE's help. It was on tailoring where Unit 4 works. The village was Porapara, about 7 KM from IIT Kharagpur campus. A total of 35 village women attended the training spread over the months Ma...