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Women Technology Park

Supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, PMC Tech’s Women Technology Park is a Centre for Enhancement of Livelihood and Enterprise Models for Rural Women (CELEM) in Shoolagiri taluk: free training in proven technologies, and a network to earn from them.

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Women seated for a session at the Women Technology Park
A session at the park
Trainees measuring and marking fabric at a cutting table
Measuring and marking fabric
A batch of trainees holding their certificates, with the park’s staff
A batch with their certificates

Why the park

Science and technology for women’s livelihoods

The park’s own four words say what it is for. Its objectives, as the park sets them out, fall under each.

  1. Educate

    • Awareness of technologies in priority areas
    • Training in appropriate technologies

  2. Empower

    • Science and technology as inputs that empower women
    • One resource centre for every kind of support needed to improve living conditions

  3. Entrepreneur

    • Proven technologies developed, adapted, transferred and demonstrated on live models
    • A network for earning through micro-enterprises

  4. Employability

    • Skills upgraded by every programme
    • Less drudgery, better health and environment, and new chances to earn

Community development is one of PMC Tech’s core values: training in employability skills and entrepreneurship for the under-privileged, with the community, the Government and industry. Vision & Values

Training

Six free training programmes

Short, practical courses in technologies a woman can earn from, taught on the machines themselves.

  • Two trainees at industrial sewing machines in the Women Technology Park

    Sewing

    Duration
    4 weeks
    Qualification
    Any
  • Women trainees beside a CNC hot-wire foam-cutting machine

    CNC hot-wire cutting

    Duration
    2 weeks
    Qualification
    10th standard
  • A trainer showing trainees the e-waste shredder

    E-waste shredding

    Duration
    2 weeks
    Qualification
    Any
  • Trainees at the hollow-block making machine

    Hollow-block making

    Duration
    2 weeks
    Qualification
    Any

  • 3D printing

    Duration
    2 weeks
    Qualification
    10th standard

  • Weeding machine

    Duration
    2 weeks
    Qualification
    Any
The park’s album in the gallery

Who can join

Free, for women over eighteen

  • For women above the age of 18
  • Any qualification — the 10th standard for two programmes
  • An Aadhaar card is required
  • The training is free
  • A certificate on completion

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Where to go from here

Enquire about a programme, or go back to the beginning of the story — how research at PMC Tech is organised, and the record it keeps.

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