GMR opens centre for Empowerment, livelihood

Hyderabad: Mr Ashok Chawla, Secretary in the Civil Aviation Ministry, inaugurated the Centre for Empowerment and Livelihoods, an initiative of the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation.

The foundation was set up by the GMR group to take up welfare activities.

The centre, established at the new international airport at Shamshabad, would equip 600 youth every year with job-oriented skills. “Unemployed youth and school dropouts from the villages around the airport will be selected for the training programmes,” Mr G.M. Rao, Chairman of the group, said here in a press release.