DW BUREAU / chandigrah In continuation to Women's Week celebrations, an advanced stitching workshop was held for the community of underprivileged women of Janta Colony under project Uday of Enactus, Panjab University. Project Uday aims to minimize the use of plastic while promoting cloth as a viable alternative. Enactus team in collaboration with Developing Indigenous Resources-India (DIR), University Institute of Fashion Technology & Vocational Development (UIFT & VD), Panjab University and Versatile Enterprises Private Limited under its CSR project Amodini is training the community to make cloth based sanitary napkins, as conveyed by Prof. Seema Kapoor, Faculty Advisor of Enactus team and Coordinator of Social Review Committee of Dr. SSBUICET. She told that the fabric for the sanitary napkins is being sponsored by Versatile Group, Ludhiana and also 2 Usha automatic sewing machines worth Rs. 40000 were recently got sponsored for the said project by the collaborative efforts of Geetanjali Seth of Versatile Group and Enactus team. Enactus team has conducted a number of workshops on various socio-economic issues for making the women community self-sustainable, told Akshat Kaushik, President of Enactus team. He informed that live demo for Usha machines was held by K.S. Rawat, sales manager, Usha International Ltd. The community was taught to utilise these automatic machines in the best way possible to maximise the efficiency and product quality. The ladies were taught quality stitching of sanitary napkins by Dr. Anu H. Gupta, Chairperson of UIFT & VD. The women were also trained to make cloth kits containing set of 4 sanitary napkins. (editor@dailyworld.in)