The FLO Hyderabad Chapter launched a Rural Skill Centre in Bhongir to empower 2,000 rural women with training in tailoring, IT, handloom, and entrepreneurship. The centre aims to promote dignity, self-reliance, and economic inclusion for grassroots women in Telangana
Published Date – 14 June 2025, 06:30 PM

Hyderabad: In a move towards bridging the rural-urban skill divide and empowering women at the grassroots, the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), Hyderabad Chapter, inaugurated its Rural Skill Centre in Bhongir.
Through the newly opened skill centre, FLO aims to train 200 students in each of the disciplines for 45 days, and they aim to train 2000 women in the current year. “This is more than a training centre – it is a launchpad for dignity, self-reliance, and economic inclusion of rural women,” said Prathibha Kunda, Chairperson, FLO Hyderabad Chapter.
The FLO Rural Skill Centre in Bhongir is designed to offer structured training programs in tailoring, handloom, basic IT skills, and micro-entrepreneurship, in partnership with local experts and industry mentors. With this launch, FLO Hyderabad becomes one of the first chapters in South India to establish a dedicated rural skill development facility under the FLO banner.