The woman in family makes a significant contribution to the well being of the family members. If woman is empowered, the whole family gets benefited. The Centre has realized this value and is making concerted efforts to empower women from neighbouring villages.

The Centre has established a Unit for Women Empowerment in the year 1994. For a decade the Unit had engaged women in training on various skills such as making cloth bags, designing the bed sheets, wall hangings, etc. A designer was appointed in 2004 to train impart skills on designing. Since then the focus was shifted to making ready made garments. Presently, there are 17 young women are getting trained. And so far the unit has trained more than 500 women in various trades and 50 women particularly in tailoring. The ready made garments stitched by these skilled women will be marketed through exhibitions organized both inside and outside of the campus. The women earn additional income to supplement family's income. The Centre is trying to support these women to become economically independent.

Taking cognizant of size of the women population in the villages, the Centre's scale of efforts is small although it is quite significant.

Future Plans
In order to reach out to the larger section of this folk, the Centre has plans to

* Conduct awareness programme on benefits of forming self-help groups in collaboration with   other organisations and institutions for training and upgradation of skills of these members.

* Accessing and developing new markets linkages for sales promotion.

* Creating awareness on women health and sanitation.