PEERZADA SAYEED
Chairperson, National Commission for Women (NCW) GoI, Rekha Sharma today visited Karnah sub division of frontier district Kupwara to have an interaction with women and to review the empowerment of women and women-friendly schemes.
The Chairperson paid a visit to Teetwal village where she met several delegations and heard them.
Chairperson visited Seemari the last village of India (which is located close to Zero line) and interacted with locals of Seemari and sought their feed back regarding implementation of women oriented welfare and development schemes.
Later, the Chairperson NCW convened a meeting at Meeting Hall of Mini-Secretariat Tangdhar where she took a review of various schemes related to the empowerment of women.
Addressing the meeting the Chairperson asked women to come forward to take benefit of women-friendly schemes of the Government of India.
She emphasized that women have to lead from the front in every sphere of life.
She said that the various roles performed by the women in every sphere of the human society ranging from taking care of their households, upbringing their families to confronting and safeguarding the borders of the country, heading the top most positions in the different Ministries of the Government of India, etc., were appreciable and commendable. She also stressed on the need for empowering the women and making them aware about their fundamental rights & the Government Policies that are beneficial for them.
The Chairperson emphasized on PRIs and functionaries of different departments to give awareness about empowerment of women, girl child education, legal support to women, and helath care facilities for women.
The Chairperson complimented the District Administration Kupwara for showing good progress in the empowerment of women.
She assured that all possible support from the National Commission for Women will be provided to district adminstration Kupwara.
The Deputy Commissioner Kupwara Ayushi Sudan thanked the Chairperson for visiting Karnah and evaluating the benefits being provided for the betterment of women.
The review meeting was attended by Deputy Commisioner Kupwara, Ayushi Sudan; SDM Karnah, Gulzar Ahmad Rather; BDC Teetwal, Miss Naushada; CAO Kupwara Gurdeep Singh; District Information officer Kupwara, Muddaser Sikander; Tehsildar Tangdhar, Ayad Qadri; Women PRIs (Women Sarpanches, women Panchs), female police personnel, members of Self help groups of NRLM, AWWs, and ASHAs and other concerned.
While talking to media persons on the sidelines of review meeting, the Chairperson NCW said that the aim of her visit to Karnah sub division was to take stock of implementation of women oriented CSSs and interact with PRIs,Women beneficairies, officers and functionaries of district adminstration and get their feed back regarding implementation of different women related schemes.
“I conveyed women to take special care of their health and take benefits of different women related schemes” the Chairperson said.
She added that “the demand of establishment of Women police station, Women Degree College, and women Skill centre in Karnah will be taken up with concerned quarters”.
