Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Effectiveness of Developed Training Package on Garment Construction and Fabric Enrichment for Rural Women

  • Author:
  • Meenu Srivastava, Preeti Udawat
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 101 to 104

Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rajasthan)

Online published on 4 December, 2012.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to find out the existing knowledge of rural women and gain in knowledge after imparting training through training package on “garment construction & fabric enrichment” for rural women thereby judging the effectiveness of developed package. Pre and post-test experimental research design was used for conducting the present study in Virdholiya Village of Mavli Tehsil of Udaipur district. Total 30 selected women were interviewed individually to find out their existing knowledge on different aspects of garment construction and fabric enrichment through interview schedule. Training was given to rural women on these broad aspects with the help of developed training package. After 7 days of exposure to the training package, post-test was conducted to find out the gain in knowledge on various aspects with the help of same knowledge check used for pre-test. Findings shows Significant improvement in the knowledge of respondents as a result of exposure to training package as the pre-test scores increased from 27.57 to 74.93 with the gain in knowledge of about 47.36 per cent.

Keywords

Training package, Impact, Knowledge gain, Rural women