Priya asks women activists to make people aware of welfare schemes

BJP Mahila Morcha activists posing with MoS Education Priya Sethi during district Working Committee meeting on Monday.
BJP Mahila Morcha activists posing with MoS Education Priya Sethi during district Working Committee meeting on Monday.

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 19: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha of district Jammu held its district Working Committee meeting here, today which was among others attended by Minister of State for Education, Technical Education, Culture, Tourism, Horticulture, Floriculture and Parks, Priya Sethi.
The Minister, while addressing the meeting, said that several women Central welfare schemes launched by both State as well as Central Government are meant for enabling the women folk to lead a dignified life and providing equal opportunities to them to work shoulder to shoulder with men.
Priya Sethi said this is for the first time in the history of India that women are being treated well and instead of considering them as mere vote bank they have been provided with ample opportunities to live an honorable and dignified life. She further added that more than one crore women have so far been benefited from the Narendra Modi Government’s Mudra scheme.
The NDA Government, she added completed three years in office and Mudra Yojna is one of the Modi Government’s flagship schemes to benefit the poorer sections, alongside the Jan Dhan Yojna, the crop insurance for farmers, health insurance and accidental insurance schemes. These schemes, she said are pro-poor and pro-farmer and have been welcomed by all. Similarly in J&K State the Coalition Government launched various schemes like city bus service for women, building exclusive women toilets and to setting up of two Entrepreneur Development Centres to help, guide and train aspiring women entrepreneurs. These schemes she added are all aimed at making women self reliant.
Referring to free education for girl students up to class twelfth, setting up of women police stations besides starting special buses for women and then handing over two-wheelers to college girls by the State Government, Priya Sethi added that coalition had fulfilled its promises to give priorities to women.
Mahila Morcha State president Poornima Sharma, in her address, lauded the efforts of Morcha and said that we all have to work hard to reach the common masses. She resolved that women folk of BJP Mahila Morcha will leave no stone unturned to make people aware of these schemes.
Jammu district president Rekha Mahajan, in her address, said that coalition government in J&K State has launched special schemes for women entrepreneurs and the same must be utilized for setting up units.
BJP State secretary Anuradha Charak, district general secretary Vinay Gupta also spoke on the occasion. The programme was conducted by district general secretary Savita Anand.
Vote of thanks was presented by Morcha secretary Reva Massoom.

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