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Two day legal awareness programme inaugurated
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Two day legal awareness programme inaugurated
PHOTO : Tripura women commission chairperson inaugurates two day legal awanerness programm at press club. TIWN Pic March 30

AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Tripura commission for women Chairperson Manika Datta Roy on Wednesday inaugurated the 2 day long legal awareness programme for the working women in collaboration with the national commission for women-New Delhi at press club.

Tripura commission for women Chairperson Manika Datta Roy while inaugurating the awareness programm said that this initiative is taken to provide information especially to the working women’s.

However, the first day of the session held discussions on Women and Indian constitution: Maternity benefit act 1961, Equal remuneration act 1976, Government welfare scheme for women’s and girls in Tripura

Discussion on issues like, sexual harassment of women at workplace (Prevention, prohibition and redressal act 2013 were also held.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women. It was established in January 1992 under the provisions of the Indian Constitution, as defined in the 1990 National Commission for Women Act. The first head of the commission was Jayanti Patnaik. On 17 September 2014 Lalitha Kumaramangalam was appointed Chairperson.

The objective of the NCW is to represent the rights of women in India and to provide a voice for their issues and concerns. The subjects of their campaigns have included dowry, politics, religion, equal representation for women in jobs, and the exploitation of women for labour. They have also discussed police abuses against women.

The commission regularly publishes a monthly newsletter, Rashtra Mahila in both Hindi and English

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