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Healthy Lady – Wealthy Family is mission program of CAIT

“The business community of India is more better compatible to implement Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of women empowerment in every nook and corner of the country and the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has to follow make this work having its wide reach across the Country should ai as a priority in it’s agenda. The work of women’s empowerment will not be completed unless the domestic women in the country are motivated to work according to their ability even at the ground level” – said Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Smt. Smriti Irani at s Women Awards event held yesterday evening in the Capital by CAIT. She further urged the traders community to make women self-reliant in trade & industry by providing them all possible facilities. In the event 16 women from various parts of the country were honored for their outstanding achievements in their respective fields.

Speaking at the function, Smt. Irani further added that technology is the future and women across the country should be encouraged to do technology-related business and set up small & big industries. We should not forget that women have shown commendable abilities in almost all the verticals of socio-economic fabric of the Country. Therefore every effort should be made to empower women and bring them into main stream of trade & commerce. She continued that women in every corner of the country are making new and innovative products with their immense skill and art but sadly they are not getting right market for their products and at various levels, these women are exploited in terms of the right value of their products. The trade associations all over the Country led by CAIT should evolve a working strategy to extend their helping hand in making available the right market and right value of products of such women. Not only, the traders should also handhold various startup’s especially of the women. She emphasised that festivals in particular are the best occasion when art & skills of down trodden women are most visible and it’s easy to identify the products and the women entrepreneurs to encourage them to do more & big business.She said that women empowerment is one of the prime vision of PM Shri Narendra Modi and if it happens with the wide structure of trade associations in all parts of the Country, the whole gamut of trade and commerce of the Country will have positive radical changes.

CAIT National President Shri BC Bhartia and Secretary General Shri Praveen Khandelwal said that CAIT has taken the women empowerment program of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi prominently in its agenda and for past many years, CAIT is connecting women with business and is helping in setting up domestic industries. The campaign is underway. The women’s wing of CAIT provides various types of support including finance to women working in small towns by motivating them to take up business and industry and enable them to make optimum usage of their skills. CAIT has played a big role especially in connecting women from business families to business, while under its flagship program Healthy Lady – Wealthy Family” campaign launched recently, the CAIT is making immense efforts for women to stay healthy all over the Country. Women are fifty percent human resource in every family, and therefore CAIT is working tirelessly to handover back office of businesses to the family women and which has shown better results. They should take care of the back office of every business.

16 Women honored by CAIT yesterday include Ms. Arna Srivastava, Ms. Shilpi Jain, Ms. Bindiya Bedi Charan Noronha, Ms. Gunjan Khanna Bansal, Ms. Juhi Rajput, Ms. Meghali Das, Ms. Neeti Seth, Ms. Rita Mitra, Ms. Sangeeta Patil,Ms. Sanya Goyal, Ms. Sunita Dhawan, Ms. Vandana Seth, Ms. Sukhneet Wadhwa Gujral, Ms. Namrata Dutta, Dr. Nohera Shaik,Ms. Aparajita Kulshrestha and Ms. Kamya Jain were honored for their exceptional work in various fields.