SHILLONG, FEB 27: The National Mission for Empowerment of Women has been coordinating women-centric schemes of 13 Central ministries to ensure their effective implementation at the grassroots level.
The Mission’s senior project advisor and nodal officer, Dr. Sulochana Vasudevan, said the 13 ministries have entered into a partnership with the Mission to strengthen the processes that promote all-round development of women throughout the country by focusing on a coordinated approach to implement the schemes aimed at empowering the women.
The Mission, which was launched in March 2010, she said, aims to achieve empowerment of women by enabling them to create their own independent identity through economic empowerment, eradication of all forms of exploitation and discrimination, access to education, maternal and child health care and ensuring them rightful share in the allocation of resources and in the decision-making process.
“The Mission would be an umbrella mission under which programmes and schemes of the participating ministries having monitorable convergence indicators will be covered,” said Vasudevan while speaking at the seminar on empowerment of women that was organised by the State Resource for Women Empowerment (SRDE) at Yalana Hotel, Laitumkhrah here on Wednesday.
In her inaugural address, chairperson of the Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW T Phanbuh highlighted the women-related issues facing Meghalaya. “Even though the constitution provides equal opportunities for its citizens, gender discrimination against girls and women, high infant mortality rate and other issues still continues to be a great challenge facing the society,” she said.
Stressing on the need to educate women, Phanbuh said this was specially so in the rural areas where women illiteracy is very high. “Due to this (lack of education), most of these women become victims of social and economic exploitation including oppression, rape and sexual harassment,” she said. (By Our Reporter)
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