Extending best wishes to all the women of the State on International Women’s Day, Marwahi MlA Amit Jogi said that the Congress and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, by giving political leadership and women empowerment, has become the role-model of women in the country.
Jogi said that recently, by opening Indian Women’s Bank for the first time in Chhattisgarh, the economic and professional self-reliance of women has started. The credit of this bank goes to the Indian Women’s Bank scheme of Sonia Gandhi. He said that followed the footsteps of the most powerful former Prime Minister the late Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and provided reservation in the political history of the country in Parliament, Assembly and Panchayat Raj, has given political leadership to the women of India. The greatest democratic party of the world, the Congress itself has implemented reservation to women in the party, he added.
He said that Sonia Gandhi had started various revolutionary schemes, like Mahila Samakhya Yojana, Women’s Polytechnic, Women Hostel, Indian Women’s Bank in the country for women empowerment during the last 10 years.
He said that women literacy in 1991 was only 32.29 per cent, which has increased to 66 per cent in 2011. Women have also benefited from the biggest revolutionary Nirbhaya and Mahila Utpeedhan Punarwas scheme. Women are getting equal wages in the MNREGA, Ajeevika and Bharat Nirman schemes.
He said that in accordance to the women empowerment policy of the late Indira Gandhi, under the biggest scheme of the UPA Government women in the country got 33 per cent reservation in Parliament and thousands of women in the country got the opportunity to become panchayat presidents, mayors and sarpanchs.