A first of its kind convention connecting over 10,000 college girl students from across the country with women policy makers and social and corporate leaders will held from February 10 to February 12, 2017 in Andhra Pradesh’s Amravati, the State’s upcoming new capital.
To be attended by eminent personalities like spiritual guru Dalai lama, Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament S Sharmin Chaudhury, nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus besides 401 women legislators and 91 women MPs, the ‘National Women’s Parliament-2017’ will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu will also be present on the occasion.
“The event aims to help ignite and strengthen the sense of social responsibility among women particularly young girls who will have direct connect with policy makers, leaders and other women of eminence about grass root challenges being faced by their brethren in the country,” said M Renuka, coordinator of the NWP, here at a press conference.
She was flanked by AP Women and Child Minister P Sujata and MPs like K Geeta and lakshmi Seetharama (AP), Moon Moon Sen and Dr Mamtaz Sanghamita (WB) and Ramadevi (Bihar).
The women MPs felt that it was a long way to go for their fraternity to be really politically empowered in the male-dominated society.
TDP leader and Minister of State for Science and Technology YS chaudhary emphasized on women’s empowerment for positive changes in the society.
The NWP is a non-political platform for women from diverse background like politics, education, sports, industry, media, cinema, arts and culture, judiciary and young aspiring girl students to share their experiences and knowledge in the area of women’s social economic and political empowerment, summed up T Srinivas Rao, OSD to the State CM (Media Affairs). The event is being organized by the Andhra Pradesh legislative Assembly in association with MIT School of Government, Pune.