The Speaker underlined the importance of women-led development, citing the pioneering role of reformers like Savitribai Phule, who championed women’s education and emancipation.
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Monday, stressed the need for sustainable economic empowerment models for women, highlighting their crucial role in India’s journey towards becoming a developed nation, ‘Viksit Bharat’, by 2047.
Speaking at the valedictory session of the first national conference of Parliamentary and Legislative committees on women empowerment in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, Birla emphasised that women’s empowerment is both a social imperative and an economic necessity.
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The Speaker underlined the importance of women-led development, citing the pioneering role of reformers like Savitribai Phule, who championed women’s education and emancipation.
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He highlighted the significance of Gender Responsive Budgeting as a socio-economic model that integrates women’s needs into the national development agenda, ensuring equal access to healthcare, education, skills, and livelihoods.
Birla emphasised the need to bridge the digital divide, ensure cyber safety, and expand digital literacy programs to empower women as active creators of technology.
The conference adopted the ‘Tirupati Resolution’, which outlines a roadmap for advancing women’s empowerment through: applying a gender lens across all ministries and departments, enhancing allocations for health, education, skills, and entrepreneurship, institutionalizing gender-responsive budgeting, and bridging the digital divide and promoting women’s participation in STEM fields.
Birla also emphasised that women’s empowerment is central to India’s progress and that investing in women’s health, education, skills, and entrepreneurship can unlock a vast reservoir of human capital, building a resilient socio-economic model of development.
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