These days every single person is known with the word-computer. We can find computers at everywhere around us. In fact modern world will be incomplete without computers and their applications. Shopping, banking, traveling, stocking, literature, entertainment, public sector, private sector, almost everywhere computers are playing their roles efficiently. Therefore, the knowledge of computers has become indispensible for all educated youth in the present day to secure a job, whether they are hailing from urban or rural.

Need for Training:

There are large numbers of girls, who have studied 10th or 12th standard in the backward and neglected villages in the rural parts of Tiruvallur Dt. All of them belong to poor families. Their parents are mostly agricultural laborers, coolies, fishermen, hawkers, vendors and domestic servants earning very small wages and are living below poverty line. So, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai helps them to acquire some vocational training so as to enable them to earn and look after their families. In the year 2005-06 the Math ran 4 computer centres exclusively for giving computer training to the educated rural girls in the following villages in Tiruvallur Dt.

In these computer centres, training was given to thcee poor girls with 10th standard qualification belonging to those villages and also other nearby villages.

More computer training centers:

The Lions Club of Nungambakkam, after seeing progress in the above 4 computer centers, donated 30 computers with necessary accessories to the Math for conducting similar training programmes in 10 more villages in Tiruvallur Dt. for the benefit of the educated unemployed rural girls. Our volunteers visited various backward villages to verify the economic conditions of the families prevailed therein and from the data furnished by them we picked up the following 10 villages in the rural part of Tiruvallur Dt. to open computer centers:

These 10 centers are now functioning and in each center, 20 girls from the villages concerned and from surrounding villages are undergoing computer training. The computer centers are now housed either in Panchayat Board buildings or in the High Schools premises with the consent of the Panchayat Board President or the Headmaster of the school. Each center is having an Instructor. Besides this, two persons have been employed for overall supervision.

Training and Placement:

In every center we have arranged to give training to 20 poor girls for a period of 4 to 6 months. On completion of this period and after ascertaining the performance, these girls are placed in various companies in Chennai as Data Entry Operators on an initial pay of not less than Rs. 1800/- per month. More than 400 girls who underwent this training have obtained placements with the help of Math in various offices in Chennai city so far with an initial salary of Rs. 1800/- to Rs. 2500/- per month.

Every year we have planned to give training to about 840 girls in these 14 computer centers and get them placements in Software Companies as there is a great demand for such jobs. All these girls hail from rural areas in Tiruvallur Dt. belonging to poor families. If they start earning, their families will be benefited to a large extent. Otherwise they will remain as daily wage earners for the rest of their life.

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