NEW DELHI, Akash Dwivedi: Dr. Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of
Meghalaya, expressed a keen desire to partner with FICCI Ladies Organisation
(FLO) to enhance the socio-economic position of women in the state. Many of the
schemes of the Meghalaya government for imparting financial literacy and social
emancipation could be integrated and dovetailed with those of FLO and the
success stories so generated could be replicated in states across the country.
Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation’s (FLO) 32nd Annual Session,
Dr. Sangma said that FLO provides an apt platform for integrating and scaling
up the policies of the government. The convergence of efforts of the government
and Flo could help in promoting women empowerment. He added that women should
not be just beneficiaries in these initiatives but must be made partners.
Sangma said that education could
play a great role in improving the stature of women in society. Educated women
had the power of scripting their own success stories while enabling their
families and children to step up in the society.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Union
Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship &
Parliamentary Affairs, today offered the government’s commitment to FLO and
assured that then government would facilitate the initiatives taken up by FLO.
The government was promoting the agenda of skilling and had created an enabling
ecosystem for it and needed organizations like FLO to scale up skilling.
In his special address, Rudy
said that only 4.5 per cent of India was skilled as compared to the US, UK,
Japan and Korea with figures of 54 per cent, 68 per cent, 86 per cent and 96
per cent, respectively indicating a much higher percentage of skilled manpower.
He added that 10 years of education was necessary but it does not make a person
employable whereas a 10-week skilling program could allow a person to become
immediately employable. Hence, it was imperative to promote skilling amongst
workforce.
On the occasion, a FLO Annual Report was released and the FLO Governing
Body Members 2016-17 was announced.
In her presentation on FLO initiatives, Archana Garodia Gupta, President, FLO, said
that FLO had initiated a number of long term programmes such WE in Education;
WE in Transport; WE in Telecom; WE in Ecommerce; SWAYAM; FLO Smart Village and
FLO Mahila Haat Project. She suggested that the government could initiate
policy & advocacy measures for women empowerment such as increasing land
ownership by women; create women’s industrial parks; create Mahila Haats;
create a procurement policy for the government to purchase from women SHGs and
entrepreneurs; skill development; gender budgeting in Sectoral Skill Councils;
improving access to Finance; and making available good quality and affordable
Childcare.
In her acceptance speech, the new President of FLO, Vinita Bimbhet, announced that FLO would soon
be opening a new chapter in Jammu and Kashmir.
In his special remark, Harshvardhan Neotia, President, FICCI, said
that men and women were equally responsible for achieving gender quality.
Lauding FLO’s efforts to bring about awareness among women and furthering the
cause of women empowerment, Neotia said
that FLO had initiated exceptional schemes which were bringing about a positive
change.
Later, Debjani Ghosh, Vice
President, Sales and Marketing Group & Managing Director, South Asia,
Intel; Rebecca R Tavares, Representative
in India -UN Women and Akshay BD,
Founding Member, Uber India, also shared their perspectives on women empowerment.
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