Around 5,250 male and female youth will be given training on various income generation fields in the district aims at making them self-reliant through their self-employment during the current fiscal year.

Department of Youth Development (DYD) will impart the non-formal training under its training and self-employment programme on the potential fields like goat and cattle rearing, poultry birds rearing, fish farming, sewing, block- boutique, embroidery and nakshi kantha stitching.

“We will arrange seven-day training course on each of the trade in phases,” said Shamim Chowdhury, Deputy Director-in-Charge of DYD, while talking to BSS here today on the issue.

He said most of the training will be held in village-level so that the grassroots men and women aged between 18 and 35 can derive total benefits of the training.

All the interested persons will be brought under the training that will be held in 15 batches in each of the upazilas, Chowdhury added.

Meanwhile, a training course was inaugurated at Patiakandi village under Charghat Upazila yesterday. Upazila Chairman Fakhrul Islam, Youth Development Officer Mukhlesur Rahman and its Credit Officer Nazrul Islam addressed the function.