By Our Staff Reporter
DEHRADUN, 11 Feb: Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, in a meeting held at the Secretariat with representatives of UN Women India, on Monday, instructed the Secretary, Higher Education, to work on a liberal action plan to provide admission to higher educational institutions for women who wish to complete their education.
The CS instructed the Women Empowerment and Child Development Department to ensure full use of Anganwadi buildings in villages for multiple purposes such as skill development training for women. Raturi directed the Transport and Education Departments to make an effective action plan to provide easy and low-cost transport facilities to the girl students to reach their educational institutions. She asked the Planning, Labour, Education, Skill Development, Women Empowerment and Transport Departments to work in effective coordination to bring the vision of women empowerment of UN Women to reality in the state. She ordered that the Skill Development Department be made a nodal department in this regard.
The Chief Secretary requested UN Women India to study the impact of welfare schemes on the lives of women.
The representatives of UN Women India informed her that the focus of UN Women is to work on women’s income security, economic empowerment and independence, end of gender-based violence, gender equality in the state budget and planning.
UN India representative Padmakshi, Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, Dr Ranjit Kumar Sinha along with officials from Finance, Women Empowerment and Child Development, UCOST, Rural Development were present at the meeting.
