Congratulating the newly appointed Chhattisgarh Pradesh Mahila Congress President Ms Anita Rawate, party MlA from Marwahi Amit Jogi said that the highly educated Rawate, alongwith all other women workers would strengthen the Congress party’s Women’s Wing while bringing the Women Empowerment Scheme of the UPA-led Congress Government at the Centre from villages to cities.
He said that Rawate, being a grass-roots level Congress leader, in view of the forthcoming lok Sabha election, would immediately inform the people concerning the women welfare related schemes of the UPA government. Jogi said, on an average, five women and girls in the state were being subjected to sexual harassment or rape. Women cannot not come out of their houses in the night. Working women feel insecure. Even today, the tribal women Soni Sori and Meena Khalkho could not get justice, he said.
Jogi said that under the ‘Indira Gandhi Janani Suraksha Yojana’ of the UPA Government, all the pregnant women and children of the State were getting the benefits of free treatment and nutritious food. As the UPA Government has launched the 108 Sanjeevani Ambulance Service, cheap Generic medicines, Aanganwadi, Mitanin and ICDS schemes, Rawate could actively inform the women folk about these revolutionary schemes, he said.
The MlA said that women are getting benefits of the biggest revolutionary ‘Nirbhaya Yojana’ for the girls launched by AICC President Sonia Gandhi. Rawate will inform the women that mass marriage of poor girls are being solemnised under the ‘Janani Suraksha Yojana’, and under the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Sabla Yojana’, arrangement for free education of girls upto graduate level .
Jogi said that under the biggest women empowerment scheme of the UPA Government and the Congress party, 33 per cent reservation for women has been made in Parliament and in the Panchayati Raj system one-third reservation has been made for women.