3000 women councillors to be made computer literate
By Hina Kiyani

ISLAMABAD—Ministry of Women Development is all set to impart training of basic computer courses to as many as 3000 women councillors across the country by the year’s end, National Project Manager Javed Iqbal said on on Tuesday.
“The one-year project ‘IT training for women councillors’ involves a total expenditure of Rs 15 million and is underway to impart training to women councillorsoin basic computer skills, making them conversant with internet,” Javed Iqbal said while talking to APP.
He said during the first phase completed successfully in June, a total of 1000 women councillors were trained in basic computer courses in five-day workshops in the four provinces.
He said from NWFP a total of 525 women councillors, from Balochistan 330, from the Punjab 1500 and 646 women councillors were imparted the computer training in Sindh province.
He added that SSC qualifications was mandatory for the women councillors to take admission in these courses, covering office work and use of internet like making email accounts etc which helped them while having correspondence with other officials.
When asked whether only 3000 women councillors are having matric qualifications out of as many as 28,000 women councillors across the country, the official dispelled the notion saying most of them were found computer literate or highly qualified which necessitated the step to curtail the number of the eligible to the 3000 only.
He said that satisfactory feedback was pouring in from the women councillors and suggested that follow up training programmes in computer skills should be held in the larger interest of the female representatives of the masses at grassroots level.