Chairs 1st meeting of State Mission AuthorityOmar for setting definite goals for women empowermentFlags women health, education, security basic areas for attentionEmphasizes on addressing female foeticide, infant mortality SRINAGAR, JULY 16 – Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Tuesday asked the State Mission Authority for women empowerment to set the definite goals, share programmes and make regular review a constant feature of functioning to ensure success in the stupendous task of women welfare and empowerment. Chairing the first meeting of State Mission Authority for implementation of National Mission for Empowerment of Women of which he is also the Chairman, the Chief Minister said that ladies specific and gender neutral activities have to be underlined in all the departments to involve women participation and help their economic and holistic welfare. “I will stress upon the functionaries of State Mission to primarily address the issue of decline in female child ratio, mortality of infants and pregnant women, gender gap in education, drop outs of female students from schools and other similar matters confronting the women in the State”, he said and added that creation of economic opportunities to empower the women by realizing specific targets and goals through various programmes should be another area of focus in the task of women empowerment and welfare. The Chief Minister said that it has been observed that most of girl students leave schools for want of adequate sanitation facilities. This, he said is a critical area having huge impact on the continuation of education by the girls in schools. He also underlined importance of compound walling of girl schools as an essential ingredient to ensure girls continue their studies in the secured schools
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:51:11 +0000
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