NEW DELHI: Laying stress on moving towards women-led development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged elected representatives to use technology to be more effective in their role and suggested creating a e-platform of women MPs. Addressing the National Conference of Women Legislators, he said the country must think beyond “women development” and move towards “women-led development” and asked woman lawmakers to interact with panchayat and municipal representatives in their area as a step towards their “empowerment”.
He however did not mention the women’s reservation bill to which President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari had referred in their speeches on Saturday. The two-day conference, which concluded on Sunday, was attended by women members of parliament and state legislatures and legilative councils, union ministers and present and former chief ministers. In her speech at the valedictory session held in the central hall of parliament, former president Pratibha Devisingh Patil said children should be imparted values to respect women. She also stressed that women legislators should scrutinise provisions of gender budgeting.
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