Kanchapur Initiates Livelihood Training and Grants for Dalit Community

Kanchapur. A special training and grant program has been started with the objective of making the impoverished Dalit community of Simalkhet, Shuklaphanta Municipality-10, Kanchapur, self-employed.

The Social Development Office, Kanchapur of Sudurpashchim Province, under the approved program of the current financial year, has started a seven-day training on goat and poultry farming for 25 Dalit families.

According to the office chief Bhim Bahadur Buda, this program aims to make the participants skilled, improve their economic condition, and create income-generating opportunities at the local level. Training is being provided by expert trainers to extremely impoverished families selected on the recommendation of the ward office.

After completing the training, each participant will be provided with a grant of 25,000 rupees through a bank account as an incentive to start a business. Deputy Mayor Kalpana Pant urged the participants to put the skills learned in the training into practice and to make proper use of the grant amount, informing that regular monitoring will be done. Similarly, Ward Chairman Lal Bahadur Air said that such programs inspire the impoverished community to become self-reliant and reduce the compulsion to go abroad for employment.

Tek Bahadur Sarki, a participant in the training, shared his compulsion to go to India due to the lack of work at the local level, expressing hope that this program will help him become self-employed. Last year, the provincial government had constructed and handed over safe housing for 11 extremely impoverished Dalit families in Simalkhet.

The current training and grant are believed to provide further support for them to start their own businesses and improve their living standards while staying in the village.