NEW DELHI, Mar 6:
Former President Pratibha Patil today said female literacy is a key for welfare of the society as the entire family gets educated if a women gets educations.
Addressing the valedictory session of National Conference of Women Legislators, the former President invoked Mahatma Gandhi as well as Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru to bring home her point. “Nehru ji said, If you educate a man you educate a person, if you educate a woman you educate the whole family,” she said.
Quoting Father of the Nation, Mrs Patil said, “Gandhiji said,a woman serves food to her family first as she has love,affection, care and a sense of responsibility towards her family.”
The conference, hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan,was also attended by Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Najma Heptullah and Maneka Gandhi, Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel, former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, among others.
Inaugurating the Conference, President Pranab Mukherjee had yesterday pitched in for 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies by reviving the Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, which was put on back burner in absence of a consensus among the political parties. (UNI)
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