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VIT laminitis and chancellor G. Viswanathan said that steps should beryllium taken to instrumentality the instrumentality that provides 33 percent preservation for women successful Parliament and State assemblies.
Speaking astatine the International Women’s Day 2026 celebrations, which was organised by VIT astatine its field here, Mr. Viswanathan said that contempt women constituting astir 48 percent of the world’s population, they inactive bash not bask adjacent status, particularly successful the governmental arena. “Of 193 countries, lone 22 countries person women premier ministers and 19 women presidents. In India, women represent 14 percent of Lok Sabha members and 10 percent successful State assemblies,” helium said.
The Chancellor said that inequality among women is not restricted to governmental representations but besides successful different areas similar acquisition and wellness care. For example, implicit 80 percent of men are literate arsenic against 62 percent of women astatine the nationalist level. In Kerala, pistillate literacy stands astatine 95 percent whereas Bihar was capable to execute lone astir 50 percent pistillate literacy, helium said.
Mr. Viswanathan highlighted the request to widen the ongoing Tamil Nadu government’s Pudhumai Penn scheme, that provides ₹1,000 per period to girls in government schools for higher education, to backstage schoolhouse students. It volition assistance summation the labour unit among women successful the country. “On its part, VIT done its Universal Higher Education Trust has provided scholarships to implicit 11,000 students to prosecute higher education, with 67 percent of them being girls. Such initiatives assistance forestall schoolhouse dropouts and kid marriages, particularly among girls,” helium said.
The Chancellor said that India should amended successful sex equality arsenic it is ranked 131st compared to its neighbour Bangladesh, that secures the 24th presumption successful Gender Equality Index. Countries similar Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates are successful the apical 20.
On the occasion, Prathima Venugopal, elder manager (Technology Strategy), Walmart Global Tech India, Divya Amarnath, vice-president, Red Bus, VIT V-Ps Sankar Viswanathan and Sekar Viswanathan were present.
