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Reaffirming the State government’s committedness to women empowerment, Priyank Kharge, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister and Kalaburagi territory in-charge Minister, said that efforts are being consistently made to integrate women into the mainstream of nine by ensuring adjacent opportunities, participation, and entree to societal and economical development.
Speaking astatine the International Women’s Day programme astatine S.M. Pandit Ranga Mandir auditorium successful Kalaburagi metropolis connected Saturday (May 9), Mr. Kharge said the thought of sex equality is profoundly rooted successful India’s societal and reformist traditions. Referring to the teachings of 12th-century societal reformer Basaveshwara, helium stated that done the Anubhava Mantapa, women were fixed adjacent abstraction and opportunities overmuch earlier modern movements for equality.
He said that contempt aboriginal reformist movements aimed astatine sex equality, women person continued to look deep-rooted structural inequalities implicit the centuries. Even today, the conflict for existent equality persists successful galore forms crossed society, helium observed. In this context, helium credited the main designer of the Indian Constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, for laying a beardown instauration of adjacent rights, including the close to employment and adjacent wage for women.
Highlighting authorities initiatives, Mr. Kharge said payment schemes specified arsenic the Gruha Lakshmi Scheme and the Shakti Scheme person been specifically designed to fortify women’s economical independency and amended their mobility. He said these programmes bespeak a sustained and focused effort to bring women into the societal and economical mainstream.
The Minister besides emphasised connected the captious relation of anganwadi workers, describing them arsenic the instauration of aboriginal puerility development. He said anganwadi centres play a cardinal relation successful shaping children’s futures.
He added that 313 kid marriages person been successfully prevented successful the district, crediting the sustained vigilance and committedness of field-level workers, on with the coordinated efforts of the Social Welfare Department and the District Child Protection Unit, successful safeguarding children’s rights.
During the event, assignment orders were distributed to 1,036 recently appointed anganwadi workers and helpers successful the district. Several anganwadi workers were felicitated for their dedicated work and for ensuring effectual last-mile transportation of assorted payment schemes, reaching intended beneficiaries astatine the grassroots level.
Allamprabhu Patil, MLA, MLCs Thippannappa Kamaknoor and Jagdev Guttedar, Mayor Varsha Jane, Deputy Commissioner Fouzia Tarannum, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Bhanwar Singh Meena, City Corporation Commissioner Avinash Shinde, City Police Commissioner S.D. Sharanappa, Superintendent of Police Addur Srinivasalu, Deputy Conservator of Forests Sumit Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police Shalu, and Women and Child Development Department Deputy Director Rajkumar Rathod were present.
