Tomar, Sanghani, Awasthi and others greet women achievers
Many take to social media to greet women achievers
Cooperatives are generally known as a male bastion in India but they looked just the opposite on March 8. Cooperative leaders from Union Ministers to NCUI President to IFFCO MD and others all of them have greeted women cooperators on the occasion of International Women’s Day reiterating their commitment to help them have pride of place in the cooperative world.
Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister on the occasion of International Women Day has inaugurated the regional Agricultural Fair organized by the Central Agricultural University, Imphal.
It is time to appreciate and buck up women co-operators who have made the country proud by empowering and making poor women self-reliant. Several such women leaders are doing praiseworthy work in not only help fighting the domestic violence but also making helpless women stand on their feet economically.
There are several cooperatives in the country including Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Working Women Forum (WWF-ICNF) and others who are wholly working for the upliftment of women.
Indian Cooperative movement indeed has several women who are spearheading the movement in their own way. A few names such as SEWA’s Ela Bhatt, WWF’s Nandini Azad, Surekha Khot, Asha Snegar, Sadhana Jadhav, Arti Bisaria, SEWA’s Mirai Chatterjee, Alka Srivastava, Bhavana Gondaliya etc immediately come to mind.
She has been renominated in recognition of her contributions to the cooperative movement.
Asha Sengar happens to be the media in-charge of Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha, and state head of Credit Cell of Sahkar Bharati (Union).
The National Centre for Cooperative Education (NCCE) recently organized an Online Leadership Development Programme for Women Cooperatives and SHGs of Madhya Pradesh from the first week of February, 2021.
More than 100 women co-operators from over 40 districts of the state joined this programme which was conducted on the Webex platform. This programme was conducted in collaboration with Avantika Credit Cooperative Society, Bhopal whose chairperson Mrs. Asha Sengar is also the member of the NCUI Committee on Women Empowerment.
Arvind Bhadoriya, Minister of Cooperation of MP inaugurated this programme and appreciated the efforts of NCUI in empowering the state’s women co-operators by training them on the important aspects of managing their cooperative societies and SHGs.