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| Women empowerment & education are two wheels of a chariot | | | | If the Congress is in favour of adoption of the Women Reservation Bill by the Parliament it is a genuine demand because through reservations alone a community or weaker sex,as are women called, can progress and seek political and economic emancipation.In fact the first thing that the current Government has been able to do was its encouragement it provided to the Armed Forces,especially the Air Force which has decided to train the first batch of women fighter pilots and the first batch was to be inducted in June.But if the case of support of the Congress for women reservation Bill was mooted in the Lok Sabha by Sonia Gandhi she deserves support but the way she criticized some BJP ruled states for making it mandatory for women to be educated while trying to seek election to the Local Bodies or to the Gram Panchayats.If this clause is not made mandatory for women education among women may suffer a big setback.It will help educated women to function as elected member of the local bodies.And this could be a proper gift to women on International Women's Day Congress. President Sonia Gandhi has used the occasion of the International Women's Day to seek early passage of the "long-awaited" Women Reservation Bill, asking the government to "give us women our legitimate due".Addressing the Lok Sabha where women members were allowed to speak on women's issues by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, she also criticised a law, making educational qualifications mandatory for contesting local polls in some BJP-ruled states, saying it denied women their right to contest.Gandhi attacked the government over its 'maximum governance' slogan, saying this also meant expanding the base of disagreement without inviting retribution, a reference to its crackdown on several NGOs.Criticising the law in some BJP-ruled states like Haryana and Rajasthan which makes mimimum educational qualification necessary to contest local elections, the Congress chief said it denied a large number of women from SC/ST groups to exercise their constitutional rights and called for "urgent legislative attention" to undo it.Sonia, who was the first member to speak on the issue of women empowerment, highlighted her party's role on the issue, saying the Congress gave the country the first woman Prime Minister, the first woman President and first woman Speaker. What has the Congress done all these years,when in power,about empowering women ?.Had the Congress adopted a law empowering women by now women would have achieved success in diverse fields.Well at the same time credit should be given to the Congress that it successive Governments in the centre and in various states encouraged education among women.Number of schools and colleges were opened mainly for women and co-education too was encouraged.Well there is no need for undoing,what Sonia Gandhi has suggested,the law that makes it mandatory for women to have some minimum educational qualification before she or they could contest the local bodies election.If this law is enacted and enforced at the national level and in other states it would lead to further fillip to education among women.A leader of the stature of Sonia Gandhi should not categorise SC and ST women from the rest and if any segment of women deserve education and empowerment it is the women belonging to the SC,ST and other backward classes.Once these women from the OBC,SC and ST secure higher education there should then be no need for granting reservation to them in Government jobs.If you educate a women you educate a home and if you educate a men you educate an individual.This way women empowerment and education should run side by side.In fact education and empowerment should be treated as two wheels of a chariot and if one wheel gets ignored the chariot may not be able to run. |
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