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‘Empowerment of women should start early in life’

makinG a point: Regional Director of the Reserve Bank of India Devaki Muthukrishnan (left) and Principal Chief Post Master General Meera Datta at a ‘Sahakara Spandana’ programme in Bangalore on Sunday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Principal Chief Post Master General of Karnataka Meera Datta has urged elderly people in families to pass on the benefit of empowerment to women early in life, which she said, would help their personalities to bloom.

She was speaking at a “Sahakara Spandana” programme organised by the Tejaswini Women’s Social and Cultural Forum here on Sunday.

Ms. Datta said elderly women should take the lead in empowering younger women in the family early in life so that their horizons would widen and they could do better in life. Modern women should not be tied down to a life within four walls of a house, she said.

Women’s liberation would not be complete until families themselves resolved to put girl children on a high pedestal, she said.

Delivering the keynote address, Regional Director of the Reserve Bank of India Devaki Muthukrishnan said that economic empowerment of women was most important for all-round growth of women. They should be enabled to command economic freedom in society and this was possible only through providing them education, skills and enough support through policies.

“The Reserve Bank has exemplified itself by relaxing entry point norms for women’s cooperative banks. More representation of women on the boards of cooperatives and credit societies will pave the way for supporting the economic empowerment of women at the grassroots.”

Self-Help Groups (SHGs) were also the instruments of empowerment of women especially those in the rural areas. Cooperative banks could link women’s SHGs on priority, she said.

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