Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday announced that women would be provided 30 per cent reservation in recruitment of constables, as against the present 10 per cent, and the Dial 181 CM Helpline's capacity would be enhanced by one-and-a-half times.
Chouhan made this announcement while addressing the valedictory session of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha's two-day 'Abhyas Varg' in the State's commercial capital Indore.
The Chief Minister said, "Monitoring will be done to make schemes for the fairer sex more practical and effective. The Mahila Morcha should come forward to eradicate social evils." An endeavour should ensure that there is no discrimination against daughters, Chouhan added.
He said that the initiative taken by the Madhya Pradesh Government in the direction of women empowerment is followed by other States also while the Centre has also copied our 'beti bachao drive' (save girl child).
He said the BJP has always remained in favour of women reservation and it has practiced it by providing 33 per cent reservation to the fairer sex in organisation. The Madhya Pradesh Government ensured their participation in the local politics by providing 50 per cent reservation to them in the local bodies, in the result their participation became 54 per cent in local bodies, he added.
He said that not only the welfare schemes have been made in the State for the girl child from her birth to life long and but they are affectively implemented in the State. Monitoring will be done to make these schemes for the fairer sex more practical and effective. The Mahila Morcha sisters should come forward to eradicate social evils in their respective districts and wherever they see any error they should persuade the concerned to correct it, he added.
He called on the women to come forward to eradicate social ills.