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PM Modi Story Women’s Day
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has time and again emphasized on the role of women in India’s progress. On many occasions, he has focussed his speech on the power of Nari Shakti ingrained in India’s civilisational ethos. It is the result of his visionary approach towards the role of women that our Nari Shakti is at the forefront and leading every possible stream in India. Be it the health sector or services sector or becoming entrepreneur, women in India are marching ahead to conquer the world.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, presenting few interesting anecdotes where Shri Modi encouraged women to lead from the front.
Former BJP MP from Haryana Smt. Sudha Yadav shares an anecdote narrating how Shri Modi promoted the cause of women and girl child through her MPLAD Fund. Smt. Yadav states that when she became an MP, PM Shri Modi advised her to utilize the allotted MP Fund for the welfare of girl child and women in her constituency. She further says that following his advice, she utilized the funds to ensure that all schools in Rewari and Mahendragarh districts were equipped with toilets. Also, given that women had to walk long distances carrying vessels on their heads for water, a part of MP Fund was utilized to lay down pipelines in the area and in most of the parts, water had reached the homes facilitating the women.
Chief Minister of Haryana Shri ML Khattar recalls that he received a call from Shri PM Modi in November 2015. PM Modi expressed his concern on the declining sex ratio in Haryana. That’s when PM Shri Modi introduced the idea of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ to be started from Haryana. On January 22, 2015, PM Shri Modi launched a massive campaign of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, from Panipat in Haryana. Shri Khattar further says that the campaign had such a massive impact not only in Haryana but across the nation that it is now one of the flagship programs of Modi govt. Khattar says that this campaign gradually transformed into a Jan Andolan and Haryana’s gender ratio of 871 in 2014-15 rose to 923 now.
BJP MP from Chhattisgarh Ms. Saroj Pandey shares an anecdote from 2011-12 during the preparations for the Assembly elections. Ms. Pandey says that during Shri Narendra Modi’s visit to the state, she was tasked with assisting him and look after all the arrangements. Ms. Pandey recalls that while climbing the helicopter she was facing difficulty. Shri PM Modi noticed her problem in his busy schedule and breaking the protocol, offered her the seat where he himself was supposed to sit. That seat in the chopper was easier to climb. Ms. Saroj Pandey was overwhelmed with Modi’s gesture who went to the extent of breaking the protocol to facilitate a woman colleague.