Woman and Child Development Minister Maya Singh has said that officers should undertake maximum number of field visits to ensure effective implementation of women’s empowerment schemes. Singh was reviewing activities of Tejaswini Rural Women’s Empowerment Programme on Tuesday.
Singh lauded works to empower women in six tribal districts of the State under Tejaswini programme. She said that Dindori district’s women have glorified the State in the country.
She asked Commissioner Women’s Empowerment to ensure branding of minor forest produce being produced by tribal women. Products should be introduced in market with better marketing strategy so that these women can become more empowered economically.
Singh directed to accelerate pace of constituting Shaurya Dals in entire State. She instructed to set up Nribhaya Kendras for safety of women in all divisions.
Commissioner Women’s Empowerment Kalpana Shrivastava gave details about activities under Tejaswini Programme.
As many as 12 thousand 759 self-help groups have been formed in 6 districts of the state covered under the programme including Mandla, Dindori, Balaghat, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur and Panna.
These groups have 68,744 women members. As many as 2,639 villages have been included in the programme.