Jaipur, 9 March. Chief Minister Mr Ashok Gehlot has said that the State Government is committed to empower women and provide the safe environment in the State. He called upon women to raise their voices with full force against injustice, atrocity and harassment. The State Government will not allow any shortage of funds to provide self-defence training to women.
Mr Gehlot was addressing a state-level programme organised on International
Women's Day at Birla Auditorium on Tuesday. He felicitated the people who did
commendable work under Indira Mahila
Shakti Protsahan evum Samman Yojana. He also visited exhibition and released
a booklet and a poster related to increase awareness towards the Udaan Scheme.
He
said women and girls are being given self-defence skill training in educational
institutions and police lines through Nirbhaya Squads. We are making efforts to
provide self defence training to maximum women and girls.
The
Chief Minister said that keeping in view the health security of women and
adolescent girls, the State Government has implemented 'Udaan Scheme'. 'It is
our endeavour to carry the message of health and hygiene to every woman in
villages and hamlets through this ambitious scheme. It is the responsibility of
all of us including Anganbari Workers, ASHA Sahayoginis, Sahayikas, ANMs and Patwaris
to contribute in making this scheme successful up to the grassroots level and also
that free sanitary napkins reach to every woman and adolescent girl in the
State,' he said.
The
Chief Minister said, Hindi movie 'Padman' inspired to implement this scheme.
Our Government has implemented this scheme with full commitment to provide
health security to women, which is half of the population of the State. We have
made a provision of Rs 200 crore for this in the previous budget. Shri Gehlot
said that due to illiteracy and hesitation women in rural areas are unable to
tell the hygiene related problems and they get affected by various diseases.
This scheme will prove to be a boon for these women. He praised the subject of
the movie 'Padman' for raising the untouched and sensitive issue such as
hygiene among women and said that every person must watch this film.
Mr Gehlot said that women have brought laurels to the State with their talent,
passion and struggle. Their participation is increasing in every sphere of
life. The State Government has started many schemes with an objective of women
empowerment, providing equal opportunity to move ahead and making women
self-dependent by providing education. “We will provide smartphones with
internet connectivity for three years to one crore 33 lac women heads of family
linked with Chiranjeevi Scheme,” he said.
The
Chief Minister said that all sections of the society have welcomed the recent state
budget. He said, we are going to implement ‘Indira Gandhi Urban Employment
Guarantee Scheme’ and Rajasthan is the only State where the families residing
in urban areas will get employment for 100 days per year.' Our great leader and
former Prime Minister Late Indira Gandhi is an example of women empowerment,
who proved India’s power to the entire world with her leadership ability, the
Chief Minister said.
Women
and Child Development Minister Smt. Mamta Bhupesh said that the State
Government has implemented Indira Mahila Shakti scheme of Rs 1000 crore for
multidimensional development of women. Activities such as linking women and
girls with education, to make them self-dependent through skill development and
entrepreneurship development are being carried out with this fund. She said
that 75,000 girls who had dropped out due to the corona pandemic have been
linked again with education through the Shiksha
Setu scheme.
Chief
Secretary Smt. Usha Sharma said that Mahatma Gandhi Ji believed that society
will progress if the position of women gets stronger. UNFPA Country
Representative in India Andrea Warner said that Rajasthan is moving fast
towards reducing girl child marriage and infant mortality rate. She said that
UNFPA is cooperating with the State Government on the issues such as ensuring
gender equality and participation of women in society.
Principal
Secretary, Women and Child Development Smt. Shreya Guha said that in the first
phase of Udaan scheme free sanitary napkins have been provided to 27 lakh girl
students in 34,000 government schools and 3 lakh adolescent girls and women
through 1410 Anganbari centres.
Minister
of Disaster Management and Relief Mr Govind Ram Meghwal, Chairperson, State
Women Commission Smt. Rehana Riyaz and Chairperson, Social Welfare Board Dr.
Archana Sharma were present in the function. Commissioner, Women Empowerment
Dept. Smt. Rashmi Gupta gave the vote of thanks. A large number of women and
representatives of institutions working in the field of women empowerment,
anganbari workers and others were present.
Mr Gehlot felicitated Smt. Sushila Bohra of Jodhpur in Indira Mahila Shakti
Special Award category and Azad Foundation, Jaipur in the personal and
institutional category. Rs. 51,000, certificate and memento were given as the
first prize. Vinita Trivedi of Banswara and Foundation Fior Di Lotto India INC
Ajmer were given second prize and Jaisalmer’s Smt. Sunita Choudhary and
Jaipur’s Smt. Nitisha Sharma were given third prize. Smt. Kiran Nirmal of
Sikar, Smt. Vimla Bunkar of Banswara, Smt. Santosh Mewara of Kota and Smt. Mool
Kanwar of Jaisalmer were awarded in the category of Sathin and Bal Vikaskarmi.
Smt. Ucchav Sharma of the Women Empowerment Department and Smt. Suman Yadav of
ICDS were given the state-level honour.
Hindustan Zinc-Kaushal evum Udhyamita Vikas Sansthan,
Jindal South West Foundation were felicitated in the CSR category. Similarly,
branch managers Meenu Gajraj of Fatehpur Shekhawati and Nilesh Saharan of
Tamkore (Jhunjhunu) were awarded in the category of bank sanctioning maximum
loan under IM Shakti Udhyam Protsahan Yojana. Jhunjhunu District Collector Shri
Viplav Nyola and Jhunjhunu leading district manager Shri Ratan Lal Verma were
felicitated for sanctioning maximum loan under IM Shakti Udhyam Protsahan
Yojana. Besides this, Nirbhaya Squad of Police Commissionerate, Jaipur was
awarded the certificate for the commendable work in the field of girl security
and protection.
