Kupwara 25 Jun 2025: Empowerment of women is a process that leads women to claim their rights to have access to equal opportunities in economic, cultural, social and political spheres of life and realise their full potential. This progress has to go together with their freedom to work to
influence the direction of social change. Indeed, empowerment is a bottom-up process rather than something that can be formulated as a top -down strategy.
Indian Army’s Kupwara Terriers aligned with this ideology has been working constantly towards an empowerment approach to enable women of Kupwara to assess their situation and shape a transformation in society critically.
In this regard Indian Army’s Kupwara Terriers organised Annul meet for women of Kupwara associated with FLWOK (Flag Women of Kupwara) at Riwayat centre at Pathahirri Village. FLWOK is a group of voluntary women who work at different Skill Development Centers supported by Indian Army to contribute towards women empowerment through Skill Development. These women have prepared more than 15000 national flags during last 3 years.
The Aim of today’s annual meet was to enlighten and acquaint these women with transformations made by women around the globe. Two demonstrations were conducted by entrepreneurs from Kupwara to enhance the skills of these women in the field of cutting & Tailoring and Hand embroidery (Crewel). Reps from Handicraft office Kupwara and Jamkash Kupwara established awareness stalls at the event…They gave awareness lectures to the women about different schemes and shared their experience with them in their respective fields. In addition to these lecture an online awareness program was also conducted by Mr Mohd Talib who is a master in textile engineering and Designing. He is Leading in the field of textile industry in India and abroad and his designs have been appreciated throughout the world. Mr Talib has represented india in various international platforms and in the year 2015 he has been awarded by Hon PM Narendra Modi for his work in textile and Designing.
Besides these awareness programs arrangements for various fun and games were made available to entertain these women. Around 125 women associated with FLWOK attended this annual meet.
This event was presided over by Mrs Sandhya Kumar along with other families of the unit. CO Kupwara Terriers along with other officers were also present at the event. The officer applauded these women for their brave decisions to stand on their feet and became a helping hand to their families. He also assured them for any possible support in future too.
All the women present at the event highly appreciated Indian Army for supporting them time to time to get up on their feet and they hope for same kind of support in future also.
