GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT POLICY

As a part of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Policy an online course on Digital media and marketing to 30 young and educated women from fishing community has been given under the “Bridging the digital divide–include, up-skill and innovate” project. Through this project, beneficiaries are equipped with skills in digital media and online marketing, and provided technical support (Tablet) to the beneficiaries of the course to pursue digital media as a full-time profession. 3 beneficiaries each were selected from 9 marine districts and Kottayam. The online course has been given with the tie-up of ASAP- Additional Skill Acquisition Programme of Higher education department. On completion of the online course, these trainees were given 6 months practical training in the online marketing and sales of SAF micro enterprise units.