Women self help groups will have to be motivated for bigger change in the State.Women will have to be roped in for the schemes which are launched for the welfare of women. Additionally, the women SHGs, which have either closed or become defaulters due to some reason, will be revived by the State Government. Education and jail department will be asked to procure their goods from these SHGs. These views were expressed by the Chief Minister Harish Rawat while addressing a function organised by ICDS department at CM residence on Sunday. later he also felicitated 28 women for excellence in different spheres. He also launched Mission Ghar Wapsi portal on the occasion.
Rawat further said that women have played pivotal role in state’s development. To increase their participation state government will promote Women SHGs and for this the State has been working on a solid plan. He also said that the females who have been felicitated, will be taken to Delhi tour by ICDS department. To ensure security of women and girls state government has already issued a notification to constitute Nirbhaya cell in each district of the state to enable women take legal advise free of cost. He said that the State Government has also been working hard to improve the sex ratio of girl child. With this state would secure its place among the group of states which have done better in checking declining sex ratio. Now mentally handicapped and general women will be kept separately and will be provided better medical facility. Condition of Anganwadi centres is also being upgraded and safe drinking water is being provided to these centres. Besides it, the government has also been checking the health of children and pregnant women on Bharan Poshan Diwas. State has also achieved a positive development in the execution of its Nanda Devi and Gaura Devi Kanya Dhan schemes.
Chief Minsiter also felicitated women for their achievements in the fields of sports, education and other fields. These included Tanshi Nungshi for mountaineering, Shreshtha Painuli for skating, Bedangi Joshi from Nainital, Monika for boxing, Deeksharaj for Karate, Raksha Rautela for Taekwando, Jaskiran Chopra from The Pioneer, Jyotsna from Sahara Samay and Hema Pant. CM also felicitated Reshma Khan of Haridwar for adopting a girl child.
Other dignitaries including Child Development and Women Empowerment council vice chairman Vijayalakshmi Gusain, principal secretary ICDS Radha Raturi, Secretary Social Welfare Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh, Director ICDS Vimmi Sachdeva, Dehradun DM Ravinath Raman and SSP Sadanand Date were present on the occasion.