J&K: Kashmir University holds workshop on Women Empowerment
With an aim to make women feel more empowered, University of Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar organized a two-day workshop through community participation.Registrar Dr Nisar A Mir inaugurated the workshop, organized jointly by the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) and Kashmir University’s Department of Social Works, to impart counseling skills to the staff of Mahila Shakti Kendras (MSKs), a centrally-sponsored scheme for empowerment of rural women through community participation.Asserting that women counselors could be enablers of great social transformation, Dr Mir said that it was important to continuously evaluate whether the benefits envisaged in various women empowerment schemes reach the intended beneficiaries at grassroots.“Women counselors can play a lead role in this r