Women empowerment mainly refers to the practice of making women independent so that they can make their own decisions as well as manage their lives without family or social restrictions. Simply put, it empowers women to take responsibility for their own personal development.
Women's empowerment was started in September 2013 with the aim that in order to promote the self-reliance of any victimized woman, along with connecting her with the skill upgradation training program, so she can support her family. "Chief Minister Women Empowerment Scheme" was started in every state with this feeling and aim to provide sustenance to women.
"She gives birth, she saves from death, she makes forward, that's why she is called a woman."
In our society, women have to face problems from birth. Women empowerment means education, encouraging women at the professional level, accepting their opinion, and giving them the rights they want. Women should never stay behind the shadow of someone who cannot express themselves. The first step to women's empowerment is literacy. An educated woman is confident, assertive, and capable of taking decisions. Especially in a country like India, there are many women from backward communities who, if given a chance to study, can become Prime Minister like Indira Gandhi, IAS like Kiran Bedi, or famous CEO like Indira Nooyi.
The need for women's empowerment has existed for a long time but it has become popular only in the last few years. Women's empowerment is not just a fight for equal rights. Women empowerment is the upliftment of women from a society that has been continuously pulling them down. In a country like India where Gods and Goddesses are worshipped, a woman has to face sexual harassment, she is denied the right to education and her voice is suppressed which makes her a domestic violence case. is entered. Our society will be able to develop only when the oppression of women, does not put any kind of pressure on them, they will be allowed to present their views in front of others, and only then our society will be able to develop. And today in 2023 India has completed 75 years of independence. The whole country is celebrating the Amrit Mahotsav of independence, but somewhere the women of our society are still facing many problems. From which it can be said. That the country has become free from the British but due to some conservative thinking people it has not become free even today. When women are considered equal to men, not only in speech but also in mind, then only India will be truly free.
Even today there are some such rural areas of India where women are still denied their right to education. Education is such a medium that reduces problems like child marriage, even today this practice is still prevalent in some parts of India. And education also helps in controlling overpopulation.
The government has implemented a women's education campaign, Operation Blackboard, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, and many such schemes. Education helps women to identify good and bad, and change their attitude, way of thinking, and way of handling things. Education also helps in making women self-reliant. According to the World Bank report, India has the lowest female literacy rate as compared to other countries. Being educated gives confidence and cooperation in raising one voice against problems like domestic violence, sexual harassment, and fighting it.
To empower women, they will be aware of their rights only then they will be able to fight. For this awareness, our organization Suma Blessing Foundation organizes many awareness programs for women in the state of Delhi and Odisha. Many of our volunteers give their cooperation and tell them about their basic rights.
Suma Blessing Foundation along with making women aware of their rights, they should be made aware of their health, such as menstruation, how they should take precautions at that time, use sanitary napkins, as well as make them aware of education. The women of the village are provided adult education by our volunteers, that is, they are taught to read and write a little and do household calculations, and some such employment training is given. So that he can start his own domestic employment and at the same time such girls who for one reason or another other face any problem in education. So she tries to help them financially and mentally (counseling). So that the obstacle in their education can be removed and the society can be developed because when women are developed, they will be empowered, only then our society will be empowered, it will become strong and if the society is strong then the nation will develop because it is said.
’’ यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवता ’’
अर्थात्-ः जहां नारी का सम्मान होता है। उसे पूजा जाता है, वही स्वयं देवताओें का निवास होता है।