Prime Minister Modi To Address Post-Budget Webinar On 'Economic Empowerment Of Women' Tomorrow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the inaugural session of the post-budget webinar on “Economic Empowerment of Women” at 10 am tomorrow (10 March).

The webinar is being organised by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and Ministry of Rural Development.

According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the webinar is part of a series of post-budget webinars being organised by the government with an aim to brainstorm and firm up pathways for sustainable growth of women- owned and women-led business enterprises and develop a strategy and blueprint for implementation of the announcement.

Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of Rural Development, Giriraj Singh, Minister of State of Women and Child Development, Mahendrabhai Munjpara and other dignitaries and officials from public and private sectors would also join the inaugural session.

This would be followed by a presentation from secretary, women and child development to set the tone of the webinar on budget implementation strategy, the ministry said.

The break-out sessions are expected to come out with practical and implementable solutions. 

The webinar will be joined by moderators, domain experts and speakers in the field. It will be webcast live.

Participants of the webinar will include government functionaries, Women Self-Help Group members/ Federations, Representative of Public/ Private Sector Banks, Agri-Tech companies, Civil Society Organisations, academic institutions, members of Commerce and Industry Chambers, members of SRLM, and public at large.

The break-out sessions will be followed by a concluding session, which will have presentations by moderators of each of the three breakout sessions in the presence of Secretaries of line Ministries/ Departments and other stakeholders followed by open discussion.