Govt. to launch campaign from Mar. 1 to Mar. 7 to observe IWD 2020

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New Delhi : The Ministries of Women and Child Development (WCD), Information & Broadcasting and other Ministries of Govt. of India like Health &Family Welfare (H&FW), Human Resource Development (HRD), Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare (A&FW), Rural Development (RD), Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA), Finance ,Defence and Home are launching a campaign to observe International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 as a run-up to March 8, celebrated as International Women’s Day (IWD) all over the world.

The campaign has a theme for all the days beginning from March 1, 2020. The themes that are being observed are: education, health and nutrition, empowerment of women, skills and entrepreneurship and participation in sports, special circumstances, rural women and agriculture, and urban women.

A special program by celebrity chef, Sanjeev Kapoor will be telecast by Doordarshan from March 1 to March 7, 2020, highlighting special recipes of healthy and nutritious food for women during pregnancy and lactationn period. Fourteen women oriented Hindi movies will be telecast on Doordarshan from March 1 to 7, 2020. Some of the films that will be telecast are Sarabjeet, Raazi, Tumhari Sulu, and Parineeta.

Doordarshan is also organising special programmes to commemorate the contribution of women members of the Indian Constituent Assembly to honour their contribution in the foundation of the Indian Republic. DD Kisan will telecast programmes on women agriculturists, inventions in agriculture by women, and role of women in animal husbandry and food processing. The regional units of the News Services Division of All India Radio will also conduct extensive programmes from March 1 including talk shows, features and exclusive programmes for women, according to a PIB release. The M/o H&FW is organising camps for women on health and wellness and Anaemia.

The M/o HRD in collaboration with the University Grants Commission (UGC) is conducting round tables on women empowerment on 7 themes in about 40 central universities around the country. Road shows will be organised by M/o Housing and Urban Affairs during this period on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) at Lucknow, Patna, and Thiruvananthapuram to educate and inform women on how to benefit from the PMAY scheme.

On March 7, the M/o Rural Development is organising an event in New Delhi where women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) will be invited to interact and discuss various issues related to the Self-Help Groups with Minister and senior officials. All regional units of the Press Information Bureau are organising round tables on the 7 themes at different universities, colleges and institutes across the country.