WBDC holds session on Hunarmand Scheme

WBDC holds session on Hunarmand Scheme

PESHAWAR: Women Business Development Centre (WBDC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Monday organized an orientation session for guidance of skilled women entrepreneurs about the Hunarmand Scheme' launched by the provincial government.

The skilled women entrepreneurs gave presentation about the programme through a multimedia. The Bank of Khyber (BoK), Credit Officer (Consumer & Micro Finance Department), Bahar Ali delivered a comprehensive lecture and informed about entire procedure and other prerequisite for availing the benefit.

Talking to a group of journalists, WBDC project Manager, Nabeela Farman said that the orientation session aimed at providing guideline and other procedural means regarding the Hunarmand programme.

She said that the introductory workshop would be helpful for skilled women entrepreneurs for taking fully benefit from the scheme. Kiran Yousaf, supervisor at WBDC, said that more than 20 skilled women entrepreneurs had participated in the introductory workshop.

She said that the training participants had informed about different steps and procedural verification for availing the benefit, saying that the women entrepreneurs took keen interest to learn more about the scheme.

After the informative session, she expressed the hope that the skilled women businesspersons would take fully benefit from the scheme, which has also clearly much of complexity about different steps essential for applying for the programme.

She informed that the WBDC had also issued application forms to women entrepreneurs after successful completion of the session.

The KPK government had launched a Hunarmand Programme worth of Rs1.3 billion under its self-employment generation and poor friendly initiatives. 30 per cent quota of the scheme is reserved for women. (APP)