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Kashmiri woman chooses electrical fitting work, inspires women with in Valley with her career choice

| @indiablooms | Jan 23, 2023, at 12:22 am

Srinagar: A Kashmiri woman has started inspiring women in the region for her career choice as she is currently performing the task of electrical fittings across homes.

Shabnam has preferred to taken up a profession which Jammu and Kashmir women do not prefer to join.

After completing her school education, she studied  diploma in Electrician from Polytechnic Colleg Srinagar in 2016.

After her father died in 2014, Shabnam said that her family underwent mental stress due to financial problems at home, reports ANI.

She returned to Jammu, got training in electrical fittings and started to work there.

The young woman now visits different houses in search of work.

"I started this work under compulsion but now I want to establish a name in this field after receiving wider recognition for my work," Shabnam told a local newspaper as quoted by ANI.

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