UPA aims at women’s self-reliance: Sonia
May 11th, 2011 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), May 11 (IANS) Stressing on women’s role in nation building, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was making every effort to make the country’s women self-reliant.
“Women comprise half of the population…For the country to attain prosperity it is required that this segment (women) should become happy and wealthy. Our society and the country would attain self-reliance in its real sense only when the women are in a position to tackle their problems on their own,” Gandhi told a gathering here.
“Be it in terms of law or welfare policies, our UPA government has been making sincere efforts aimed at women’s self-reliance and empowerment,” she said during an event organised by the union women and child welfare ministry at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.
Gandhi said that due to “social barriers”, girls and women in the country were facing challenges of different kinds.
“Girls hold the future of the country. Considering this, one of the main responsibilities before our government is to secure the future of girls. We must realise the contribution of women in nation-building,” she added.
Gandhi is on a two-day tour of her constituency to review developmental schemes. Later in the day, she would inspect the Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Lalganj.
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