“Odisha Women Empowerment Model Best In Country”, Says Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik

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While launching the first FLO Odisha Women’s Awards instituted to acknowledge and award the women achievers of Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dwells on the women empowerment model of the state government as the best in India.

CM Patnaik congratulated all the awardees and also hailed the women empowerment in the state and highlighted the women role models which will inspire the youths. While addressing at the FICCI-FLO Odisha Award Ceremony, CM stated that the fact empowerment model for women in the State is one amongst the best in India. Even the Odisha Government has always been a champion of the cause of women empowerment.

CM further referred to the awardees as the role models for all the young women of the state and their work portrayed as the source of inspiration for the young women.

Talking about his late father and former Chief Minister of Odisha, he recalled that Biju Patnaik reposed faith in women to run Panchayati Raj Institutions and he envisioned women leaders in every sphere of society. Today we are much ahead in women empowerment.

While talking about Mission Shakti, CM informed that it is one of the key initiatives of our empowerment model, which has successfully brought over eight million women from the four walls of family to socio-economic vibrancy. The rural women in Odisha are now increasingly becoming a major contributor to our growing economy.

He further added that Make-in-Odisha, Start-Up Odisha, and Skilled-in-Odisha have inspired numerous women to entrepreneurship and women have also been achieving great feats in national and international sports. He stated that Odisha is the first state to talk and resolve in State Assembly to allocate 33 percent of seats in the Parliament and State Legislative Assembly last year and since 2011 Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies in State are stewarded by over 50 percent women.

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