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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RS/SB)
Mangalore, Oct 10: There is a need to empower girls from Muslim community through imparting information on education and thereby provide guidance on career opportunities, said former education minister of state B A Moideen, on Saturday October 10.
Speaking at the ceremony held to hand over the laptop and LCD projector to Career Guidance and Information Centre at its office in Al-Rahaba complex in the city here, he said that the Muslim community was educationally backward. However, a ray of hope has emerged with things changing with passage of time. In today’s time the community has been laying stress on educating girls in the community too. But many girls are yet to take up a proper career due to lack of right guidance, he observed.
Pointing out that the organizations in the community have been introducing several other development programmes to empower the girls and women of the community after Sachar Committee report pointed out lack of encouragement for empowerment of women, he said, “Now with these pro-women programmes in place, what the need of the hour is to educationally empower women,” he said.
Umer U H, chairman of Career Guidance and Information Centre said that his centre has been in a way helping students from the poor community. The efforts have borne fruits with success of most of the students who write professional exams, he said. He also added that the centre is a non-commercial organization and run on the donations by the people of the community.
NRI entrepreneur from KSA, Bajpe Zakaria Jokatte handed over a laptop and LCD projector worth Rs 1 lac donated by him. Jamat-E- Islami Hind Central Advisory Committee member K M Shareef, Kendra Beary Academy vice-president B A Akbar Ali and entrepreneur Riyaz Musaddique were present.