'Empower women for development'

Biratnagar, Apr. 20 (RSS):A workshop on "Women in Politics: Problems and Necessities" was held here Friday under the aegis of South Asia Partnership (SAP), Nepal.

The workshop aimed at stirring up a debate on the need for increasing women's involvement in decisive level in the local as well as national politics and on the problems thereon.

On that occasion, ex-minister of state and MP Kamala Panta emphasised on the need to provide reservation to 33 per cent of female population in the decision making level until they reached in a position to compete with their male counterparts.

Terming the formulation of laws pertaining to domestic violence, equal rights on parental property and control on girls trafficking and formation of national women commission as milestones on the way to empowering women she noted that there remained its implementation to the letter.

Morang DDC president Khadga Bahadur Basnet called for freeing the society from the conservative mindset and feudalism in order to empower women

Executive director of SAP Nepal Dr. Rohit Kumar Nepal, from the chair, said the status of women could not be improved unless and until they were involved in policy making level.

A host of speakers including Nepal Women Association, Morang district vice-chairwoman Shanta Rijal called on civil society not to look down women just on the basis of their physical strength.

Suggestions made during the discussions were presented at the conclusion of the second session chaired by general secretary of Women Development Association, Biratnagar Tara Sharma.

The workshop was participated in by some 90 women activists, social workers, law practitioners.

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