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Gender equality always top on our agenda: Chandrababu Naidu
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday asserted that it was under the TDP government that a true meaning was given to women empowerment by implementing a number of welfare programmes during the past five years to ensure equal opportunities for women in all sectors of development
Amaravati: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday asserted that it was under the TDP government that a true meaning was given to women empowerment by implementing a number of welfare programmes during the past five years to ensure equal opportunities for women in all sectors of development.
Addressing women on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Naidu said it was his government’s commitment always to put women on an equal footing with men in education and jobs.
The Chief Minister said that his ultimate goal would be to create at least one woman industrialist or entrepreneur in every family in the state. If there is one educated woman in a family, then all other members of that family would become knowledgeable and educated.
Naidu told the members of DWCRA women groups that the second instalment of Pasupu Kumkuma has been deposited in their bank accounts to mark the auspicious occasion of Women’s Day. About 94 lakh accounts of self-help group members have been credited with Rs 3,500 each on Friday, he said.
Stating that the TDP is always in the forefront of women empowerment, Naidu said TDP founder NT Rama Rao would forever have the credit of making an SC woman as Assembly Speaker in the united AP and for providing 33 per cent reservations for women and for giving them equal rights to property.
The CM said his government doubled the salaries of Anganwadi teachers and assistants while over 18,301 Anganwadi centres and 103 CDPO offices were constructed across the state in the past five years. The maternity leave for women home guards has also been increased, he said.
Stating that mass seemanthams were held for 3 lakh women, the CM said 5.61 lakh bicycles were distributed spending Rs 207 crore under Badikosam programme. He recalled how they brought the Amaravati Declaration during the women parliament held in Amaravati for ensuring equal opportunities and social security for women.
It is a matter of happiness that greater number of women are getting jobs in the mobile phone industries being set up in AP, he said. He deplored that there were still instances of discrimination against women in education and jobs and stringent action will be taken if anybody is found guilty of such offences.
