A seminar on Women empowerment and social development was held recently in the Capital as the part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University—Institute of Management and Research (BVIMR).
The event was inaugurated by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit who addressed the public and lamented callousness on the part of people in shouldering their responsibilities with the Government.
She stressed on the fact that people and society in particular have equal responsibility to interpret the concept of women empowerment in letter and spirit. She elaborated that women partnership is an essential pre-requisite for National Development.
The event also saw the presence of regional director Sawant to mark this important event. Dr Nitin Nayak, director, BVIMR said empowerment of women was implicit in the preamble of the Indian constitution in the promise to secure justice, social, economic, political, equality of status and opportunity and assuring dignity of the individual. He praised Dixit for successfully completing a tenure of 14 years as a chief minister in a sensitive state like Delhi.
Prof Nupur Prakash, VC Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University for Women, talked about the role of women in science and technology. She elaborated that women are indeed the change makers and the purview of their role starts from home to the nation.
The themes of the two plenary sessions were ‘Knowledge is Empowerment’ and ‘Success Mantra for women—A face to face with some women entrepreneurs’. Although number of talents recognised is very less but societies are sustained by the strength of women. It is women only who can have a perfect blend of compassion and economics. The speakers also highlighted that there is no fight between men and women, they are equal; the need is to consider the importance of the other.