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With 600 nurses in hospitals and Basic Health Units (BHUs) currently, the country is facing an acute shortage of 500-1,000 nurses with the only nursing Institute producing 50 nurses per year. An official from the labor ministry said that the ministry has been sending 100 students for nursing training every …
Read More »Special skills training for monks and nuns
For more than a decade, the Labor ministry (MoLHR) has been providing Special Skills Development Programme (SSDP) for groups not integrated into the general education system. Initially, the group included armed personnel, juvenile and disabled youth. But from the year 1999 till 2011, the ministry has also trained around 845 monks and 209 nuns in the traditional arts and crafts which were …
Read More »Small-time female entrepreneurs to avail grants through UNDP-funded programme
An Income Generation Start-up Programme (IGSP) that would help females to set up business in high-poverty headcount regions was announced on April 9 and will end on April 24. The program aims to train a selected batch of people through training courses such as Basic Entrepreneurship Course (BEC), Comprehensive Entrepreneurship …
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