Prez pats Bihar for empowering women
Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN | Mar 23, 2011, 06.30am IST
PATNA: President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday praised the Bihar government for taking several initiatives in empowering women, including 50 per cent reservation in panchayati raj institutions, and recruitment of teachers.
President Patil said this while inaugurating the centenary celebration of the Bihar Legislative Council at the state legislature complex here. The president, in her 15-minute speech in Hindi, said Bihar had been the in the world as the seeds of democratic systems were sowed in ancient Lichchvi and the successive generations of the leg-islators in the state have risen above partisan politics to work for the de-velopment of the state.
While calling upon the legislators to play an active role in strengthening the institutions of panchayati raj at the grassroot level, Patil complimented the state government for giving more powers to women in the various grassroot-level bodies.
She said the state government should step up efforts to bring growth in the industrial and agriculture sectors.
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