Lucknow: A women’s felicitation ceremony was organized at Lok Bhawan on Saturday, a day before Shardiya Navratri. A day before Navratri, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath honored special guests Padmashree Hema Prabha Sotia, ISRO scientist Ritu Karidhal Srivastava and HCL Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra as a symbol of the three goddesses sitting on the stage.
On this occasion, CM Yogi Adityanath said that in Indian tradition, out of the nine forms of the Goddess, three important aspects are worshipped. In these, one side of the goddess is truth, the other side is in the form of the presiding goddess of knowledge. Whereas the third side is in the form of happiness and opulence. Today she is present in the program in the form of women empowerment. It also symbolizes that everything is possible, just a continuous effort is required.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the presence of Lucknow’s daughter ISRO scientist Karidhal Srivastava in the program inspires daughters to move forward in this field. His success shows that nothing is impossible. Only effort is required, after that success follows you. CM said that Padmashree Hema Prabha Sophia, who is working to connect the North with the South, may have given her address in Assamese, but every person was understanding all her expressions. Language cannot be a hindrance in expressing our feelings. She gave a platform to her skills through hand craftsmanship, which represents a model of empowerment.
HCL Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra has written a new story by taking the industry to new heights with her strength along with social work. His success shows that there are possibilities in every field. One just needs to choose those possibilities timely and then gallop on it. Our government had started Mission Shakti in the year 2020 for women’s respect, safety and self-reliance. But even before this, 20 percent recruitment of women personnel in Uttar Pradesh Police was ensured.
From 1947 to 2017, there were around ten thousand women personnel in UP Police, but today this number has increased to 40 thousand. Not only this, she is being entrusted with field work, for which she is performing the responsibility very well. It is the result of Mission Shakti that according to NCRB data, there has been a significant decline in crimes related to women in the state. Besides, Uttar Pradesh has also become the state that gives maximum punishment to such criminals.
Vocal for Local and Local for Global taken to new heights
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that at present the state government is providing pension facility to one crore families. Of these, more than 31 lakh destitute women are included. Under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, free Ujjwala LPG connections have been provided to one crore 75 lakh families. All of them are being linked to Aadhaar as soon as possible, so that they can be provided free cylinders before Diwali. Not only this, houses have been provided to more than 55 lakh families in the state.
Through Pradhan Mantri Swamvaat Yojana, ownership rights have been provided to 66 lakh families. Most of the beneficiaries in all these schemes are women. In the last 9 years, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigns ranging from Beti Bachao Beti Padhao to Matri Vandana are being run. The state government is providing assistance of Rs 15,000 under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana for the education of a daughter from birth to graduation. Whereas for the daughter’s marriage, assistance of Rs 51 thousand is being provided through mass marriage scheme. Till now more than 3 lakh poor daughters have been married.
Most of the beneficiaries and trainees of One District One Product are women. Who have presented it as a model. This model has played an important role in giving new heights to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vocal for Local and Local for Global campaign. When we worked to connect women with technology, design, packaging and marketing, they helped in presenting the state as a hub of exports.
He said that earlier there used to be frequent disputes in the government ration shops. Ever since women self-help groups have been given the responsibility for this, all the controversies have ended. Earlier, there were complaints regarding the nutritional food provided by the Child Development Department. Ever since the women self-help group started its operation, the take home ration facility is progressing successfully.
Women Welfare, Child Development and Nutrition Minister Baby Rani Maurya, Lucknow Mayor Sushma Kharkwal, Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner Manoj Singh, Principal Secretary Home Sanjay Prasad, DGP Vijay Kumar, DG Training Renuka Mishra, Divisional Commissioner Roshan were present in the program. Jacob, ADG of Child and Women Protection Organization Padmaja Chaudhary, SP of Child and Women Protection Organization Raveena Tyagi, Police Telecom DIG Sunita Sharma etc. were present.