Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR (AJK): “Only women will be granted contracts for running canteens in the government-controlled girls schools and colleges in all the three districts of Mirpur division in the future”, disclosed Ch. Muhammad Tayyeb, Commissioner Mirpur division.
Talking to this Correspondent here on Sunday, he revealed that the step was being taken to materialize the plan for women empowerment through ensuring their participation in self-employment opportunities in the public sector schools and colleges of women in all the three districts of Mirpur, Kotli and Bhimbher in Mirpur division – besides to abandon the direct accesses of the male persons in canteens-running business in the girls schools and colleges in the division.
“ It would be, indeed, the pilot project in AJK to encourage and boost the confidence among the women, aspirant of working independently, to meet their livelihood besides the male persons of their families”, Muhammad Tayyeb, the author of the idea said while responding to a query.
Elaborating the Divisional Commissioner said that the involvement of males in running the canteens / restaurants in the public-sector girls schools, colleges and universities in Mirpur division were being totally banned to facilitate the aspirant working women to replace the male contractors to run the business and canteens or restaurants located in the educational institutions of females in Mirpur division through contracts –to be granted to the females through open auction after inviting them through stipulated advertisements in the regional and national newspapers, he added.
The project, he concluded, has been taken in hand with immediate affect and new contracts to the female applicants will be granted after expiry of the ongoing contracts granted to the male contractors for running the prevailing canteens in the govt.- controlled girls schools and colleges in Mirpur division.
