Awards to MP panchayats for women's uplift

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 14:34 [IST]

Bhopal, Mar 8 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today said that awards would be given to village panchayats that organised separate women's gram sabhas for solving women's problems and attained a 50:50 gender balance.

''Women's reservation in civic bodies, teachers' posts and the police are steps towards empowerment,'' he said at the Ravindra Bhavan here while addressing a state-level programme to mark the International Women's Day. The draft of Madhya Pradesh's Women's Policy 2007-11 was also presented on the occasion.

The Policy would be finalised on the basis of suggestions from the women's organisations and people's representatives.

UNI

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