New Delhi: Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi has said NDA government has taken various steps to ensure empowerment of women through schematic interventions like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. She was virtually addressing a function organised by Permanent Mission of India in UN, Geneva yesterday in celebration of International Women's Day.
Ms Lekhi said women have always been held in high esteem
since time immemorial in India. She added that women had participated actively in India's freedom struggle and Independent India went on to enshrine the principle of gender equality in its Constitution in 1950.
International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March every year. The theme this year was Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow.