Women achievers in various fields would be honoured at a State-level function at Haryana’s Panchkula on the occasion of international Woman’s Day falling on March 8. Haryana Women and Child Development Minister Kavita Jain on Tuesday said that the Chief Minister Manohar lal will be the chief guest at the state level function. Sandhya Aggarwal of Sirsa would be honoured with Indira Gandhi Mahila Shakti Award and Kanta Devi of village Kureli, Hisar would be honoured with Kalpana Chawla Shaurya Award.
Jain said that under women outstanding achievers award, 17 women would be honoured for their outstanding performance in sports which includes lalita, Savita Punia, Poonam Rani, Geetika Jakhar, Krishna Punia, Pinki Jangra and Pooja Rani of Hisar, Ritu Rani, Rani Rampal, Jaspreet Kaur and Navjot Kaur of Shahabad, Deepika Thakur of Yamunanagar, Anisa Sayyed of Faridabad, Babita and Vinesh of Bhiwani, Seema Punia of Sonipat and Sakshi Malik of Rohtak. Similarly, she said, for their outstanding work in social work, Rekha, Dr Vinay Khurania, Anju Bala, Anita Sharma, Prem Sharma, Poonam would be honoured.