World News | PM Modi stresses importance of gender equality through events like ‘Beti Bachao’: India envoy to UN

New York [US]March 10 (ANI): India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, said on Friday that Prime Minister Modi’s leadership has stepped up efforts to highlight gender equality and women’s empowerment through influential campaigns like ‘Beti Bachao’, ‘Beti Padao’. played an important role in importance.

“India’s ancient civilizational values ​​and cultural ethos have taught us to recognize gender equality and women’s empowerment as one of the key tenants of our society,” Permanent Representative to the United Nations said at the CSW67 side event “We Women and Girls Want: Technology Driving Society and economic progress”.

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“We have also been guided by the leadership of the Prime Minister who has highlighted the importance of these issues through influential campaigns such as ‘Beti Bachao’, ‘Beti Padao’, ‘Digital India’, ‘MyGov’ platforms etc. , has become a remarkable success story in creating a digital society and knowledge economy in India,” Kamboj said at the event.

The Indian government has also undertaken a number of citizen-centric digital initiatives, with a greater focus on giving women access to finance, credit, technology and employment opportunities, she said.

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She said the initiatives were focused on providing significant assistance to women in difficult situations, preventing violence against women and promoting women’s equal participation in all spheres of society.

Kamboj gives an example: “The government of India has opened bank accounts. Bank accounts serve more than 482 million people, and more than 55% of the account holders are women. During the COVID pandemic, this initiative has helped direct benefits to to nearly 200 million women.”

Meanwhile, India recently slammed Pakistan for raising the Jammu and Kashmir issue in a Security Council debate on women, peace and security, saying it was not worth responding to such “malicious and false propaganda”.

Speaking to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Kamboji said: “Let me dismiss the rash, baseless and politically motivated statement made by the representative of Pakistan regarding the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. My delegation does not believe it is even worth responding to This malice and disinformation. Instead, our focus is to always be positive and forward-looking.”

“Today’s discussion is critical to strengthening our collective efforts to accelerate the full implementation of the women’s peace and security agenda. We respect the subject matter of the debate and we recognize the importance of time. As such, our focus will remain on this subject,” she added.

The statement came after Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari mentioned Jammu and Kashmir in a Security Council debate.

In a speech at the UN Security Council, Kambogi said that terrorist violence against women and girls is still rampant and should be strongly condemned, while calling for zero tolerance for all forms of terrorism. (Arnie)

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