Lok Sabha Question No. 984 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-22
Subject: Women Journalists Workshop
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SRIRAM MALYADRI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 984 TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.07.2016

## WOMEN JOURNALISTS WORKSHOP

## 984. SHRI MALYADRI SRIRAM:

Will the Minister of WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state :

- a)    whether the Government has recently organized All India  Women Journalists Workshop in the country;
- b)    if  so,  the  details  thereof  indicating  the  participants  therein from across the country, State/UT-wise therein;
- c)     the funds allocated and spent in this regard; and
- d)      the  details  of  discussions  held  therein  along  with  the  benefits  accrued thereby?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI MANEKA SANJAY GANDHI)

- a) & b) Yes, All India  Women  Journalists  Workshop  was  organized on 07.06.2016  at  Vigyan  Bhavan,  New  Delhi.  List  of  Participants,  State/UT-wise  is enclosed at Annexure - I.
- c) A sum of Rs. 1 crore was allocated by the Ministry of Finance for the said workshop. Details of expenditure incurred in this regard are enclosed at Annexure-II.
- d) During the Workshop, a comprehensive presentation was made on schemes/programme/activities/interventions  undertaken  by  the  Ministry  in  the  last two years. It was explained how for the first time the Ministry has been examining the issue of safety of women in a holistic manner and providing care and protection to the children in a comprehensive manner. It was highlighted during the workshop about the  numerous  'firsts'  of  the  Ministry  including  Beti  Bachao  Beti  Padhao  scheme, setting up of One Stop Centres for women in distress, Mahila e-Haat, panic button on mobiles,  guidelines  for  matrimonial  websites,  33%  reservation  for  women  in  police force, gender champion scheme, unique initiative with railways for missing children, comprehensive adoption reforms, junk food guidelines, construction of shelter homes for widows and many more such initiatives.

An exhibition  was  also  organized  outside  the  venue  showcasing  the  live  monitoring system  of  Childline-Child  Helpline  1098,  and  district  level  initiatives  of  Beti  Bachao  Beti Padhao. The  Ministry  of  Commerce  &  Industry  also  made  a  presentation  covering  the achievements and new initiatives of the government during the last two years. The women journalists highlighted various issues affecting  the  common man during their interaction with the Minister of Women and Child Development and the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry. Women  journalists  were  invited  for  an  in-depth  discussion  about  the  Ministry's interventions for women and children. It is expected that after the workshop the journalists would  definitely  be  well  equipped  to  spread  messages  amongst  target  people  about  the policy/programme/interventions of the Ministry in empowering women and nurturing children. With the help of these journalists, the Ministry would able to reach out in the remote area as well.

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## Annexure - 1

## List of Participants of Journalist in All India Women Journalist Workshop held on 07.06.2016

|   S. No. | Name               | State/UTs        |
|----------|--------------------|------------------|
|        1 | Shuchismita S      | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        2 | Neelima Srivastava | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        3 | Farzana Syed       | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        4 | Zehru Nissa        | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        5 | Zennat Zeeshan     | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        6 | Sumaiya`Yusuf      | Jammu &Kashmir   |
|        7 | Shalini Rai        | Himachal Pradesh |
|        8 | Neena Gautam       | Himachal Pradesh |
|        9 | Kamlesh Verma      | Himachal Pradesh |
|       10 | Renuka Gautam      | Himachal Pradesh |
|       11 | Archana Phull      | Himachal Pradesh |
|       12 | Bhawani Negi       | Himachal Pradesh |
|       13 | Kusum Arora        | Punjab           |
|       14 | Kusum Agnihotri    | Punjab           |
|       15 | Rashmi Talwar      | Punjab           |
|       16 | Meenu Halhiki      | Punjab           |
|       17 | Gagan Kaur Teja    | Punjab           |
|       18 | Pushpinder Kaur    | Punjab           |
|       19 | Usha Kaur Jashan   | Punjab           |
|       20 | Usha Pawar         | Punjab           |
|       21 | Madhu Walia        | Haryana          |
|       22 | Komal Rohilla      | Haryana          |
|       23 | Nidhi              | Haryana          |
|       24 | Arti Dalal         | Haryana          |
|       25 | Rita Sharma        | Haryana          |
|       26 | Shashi Sharma      | Uttarakhand      |
|       27 | Jyotsana           | Uttarakhand      |

|   28 | Uma Sharma           | Chandigarh     |
|------|----------------------|----------------|
|   29 | Ruby Singh           | Chandigarh     |
|   30 | Nisha Sharma         | Chandigarh     |
|   31 | Sonika Bhatia        | Chandigarh     |
|   32 | Kamlesh Rathore      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   33 | Shikha Singh         | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   34 | Suman Gupta          | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   35 | Ira Awasthy          | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   36 | Anita Verma          | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   37 | Manisha Upadhyay     | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   38 | Sangita Srivastava   | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   39 | Shrinkhla Pandey     | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   40 | Ditti Vajpayee       | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   41 | Swati Shukla         | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   42 | Meera Jataw          | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   43 | Kavita               | Uttar Pradesh  |
|   44 | Amrita Murya         | Rajasthan      |
|   45 | Usha Joshi           | Rajasthan      |
|   46 | Hansa Vaishnav       | Madhya Pradesh |
|   47 | Ranjana Dubey        | Madhya Pradesh |
|   48 | Shruti Jain          | Madhya Pradesh |
|   49 | Savita Tiwari        | Madhya Pradesh |
|   50 | Rumni Ghosh          | Madhya Pradesh |
|   51 | Ruby Sarkar          | Madhya Pradesh |
|   52 | Naaz Patel           | Madhya Pradesh |
|   53 | Reena Sharma         | Madhya Pradesh |
|   54 | Aarti Sharma         | Madhya Pradesh |
|   55 | Kavita Mandhare      | Madhya Pradesh |
|   56 | Indira Rajesh Mangal | Madhya Pradesh |
|   57 | Rajani Khaitan       | Madhya Pradesh |
|   58 | Sadia Javed          | Madhya Pradesh |
|   59 | Priyanka Gupta       | Chhattisgarh   |
|   60 | Neha Srivastava      | Chhattisgarh   |

|   61 | Jyoti Singh             | Chhattisgarh   |
|------|-------------------------|----------------|
|   62 | Shagufta Sheereen       | Chhattisgarh   |
|   63 | Kusum Lata              | Chhattisgarh   |
|   64 | Singh Lata              | Chhattisgarh   |
|   65 | Ankita Sharma           | Chhattisgarh   |
|   66 | Shweta Shukla           | Chhattisgarh   |
|   67 | Mamta Langewar          | Chhattisgarh   |
|   68 | Leena                   | Bihar          |
|   69 | Rajani Sharma           | Bihar          |
|   70 | Sayanti Chowdhary       | Bihar          |
|   71 | Aarti Kumari            | Bihar          |
|   72 | Pragya Kumari           | Bihar          |
|   73 | Jyotsna Sheela Dang     | Jharkhand      |
|   74 | Sushma Dixit            | Jharkhand      |
|   75 | Simmi Gupta             | Jharkhand      |
|   76 | Binita Parikh           | Gujarat        |
|   77 | Sonal Anandkat          | Gujarat        |
|   78 | Asmita Dave             | Gujarat        |
|   79 | Hiral Vilas Jamindar    | Gujarat        |
|   80 | Dipna Kirpalani         | Gujarat        |
|   81 | Darshana Jamindar       | Gujarat        |
|   82 | Aparna Khunt            | Gujarat        |
|   83 | Khyati Joshi            | Gujarat        |
|   84 | Dipal Vyas              | Gujarat        |
|   85 | Sweta Singh             | Gujarat        |
|   86 | Lopa Darbar             | Gujarat        |
|   87 | Masuma Bharmal Jariwala | Gujarat        |
|   88 | Nazrin Mansuri          | Gujarat        |
|   89 | Shamim Mansuri          | Gujarat        |
|   90 | Vaishali Patel          | Gujarat        |
|   91 | Pooja Patil             | Gujarat        |
|   92 | Manisha Sharma          | Gujarat        |
|   93 | Sheela Umbare           | Maharashtra    |

|   94 | Neelima Paka             | Maharashtra    |
|------|--------------------------|----------------|
|   95 | Ruby Agraal              | Daman          |
|   96 | Pradnya Manerikar        | Goa            |
|   97 | Tejashree Vishnu Kumbhar | Goa            |
|   98 | Reji R Nair              | Kerala         |
|   99 | Radhika Oliyil           | Kerala         |
|  100 | Asha Mohan               | Kerala         |
|  101 | Ashwathi C,              | Kerala         |
|  102 | V.P Rejeena              | Kerala         |
|  103 | Sreeja Neettiyath        | Kerala         |
|  104 | Jisha K Raj              | Kerala         |
|  105 | Remya                    | Kerala         |
|  106 | Sreemol T C              | Kerala         |
|  107 | V. Sheena Satish         | Kerala         |
|  108 | Remya TR                 | Kerala         |
|  109 | Sadhana Sudhakaran       | Kerala         |
|  110 | Parvathy Nair            | Kerala         |
|  111 | PR Deepthy               | Kerala         |
|  112 | Jaseela P Naseerbabu     | Kerala         |
|  113 | Remya Harikumar          | Kerala         |
|  114 | Ms Shruti Suresh         | Tamil Nadu     |
|  115 | R.VAIDEHI                | Tamil Nadu     |
|  116 | Anitha Kumari            | Tamil Nadu     |
|  117 | Meenakshi Somasunder     | Tamil Nadu     |
|  118 | Soma Basu                | Tamil Nadu     |
|  119 | Padmini Sivarajah        | Tamil Nadu     |
|  120 | Jeyalakshmi Sasikumar    | Tamil Nadu     |
|  121 | M.M.Jeyalakshmi          | Tamil Nadu     |
|  122 | Priya Kannan             | Tamil Nadu     |
|  123 | Susitra Maheswaran       | Tamil Nadu     |
|  124 | Brindha Srinivasan       | Tamil Nadu     |
|  125 | Ms Lasya Reddy           | Tamil Nadu     |
|  126 | G Madhavi                | Andhra Pradesh |

|   127 | Nivedita Ganguly     | Andhra Pradesh   |
|-------|----------------------|------------------|
|   128 | Kiranmayi Tutika     | Andhra Pradesh   |
|   129 | Y Vasantha           | Andhra Pradesh   |
|   130 | Durbha Aruna         | Hyderabad        |
|   131 | Rehana               | Hyderabad        |
|   132 | N. Aravinda          | Hyderabad        |
|   133 | C. Thulasamma        | Hyderabad        |
|   134 | D.V.L. Savithri      | Hyderabad        |
|   135 | Ratna Chotrani       | Hyderabad        |
|   136 | Ms Pavani Putluru    | Hyderabad        |
|   137 | Padma Vadlamudi      | Hyderabad        |
|   138 | Soumya Nagapuri      | Hyderabad        |
|   139 | Rachana Mudumbi      | Hyderabad        |
|   140 | Bhavani Devineni     | Hyderabad        |
|   141 | KB Lakshmi           | Hyderabad        |
|   142 | Nikhila Henry        | Hyderabad        |
|   143 | Aruna Athaluri       | Hyderabad        |
|   144 | S. Rama              | Hyderabad        |
|   145 | T. Suryakumari       | Hyderabad        |
|   146 | K. Manjari           | Hyderabad        |
|   147 | Chaitanya Gangineni  | Hyderabad        |
|   148 | V. Manjula           | Hyderabad        |
|   149 | A. Jayasree          | Hyderabad        |
|   150 | Jayanthi Kuchimanchi | Hyderabad        |
|   151 | Revalli Sushma Reddy | Telangana        |
|   152 | Sarita Yadav         | Telangana        |
|   153 | MMelly Maitreyi      | Telangana        |
|   154 | Asha Bharathi        | Telangana        |
|   155 | Lalitha Kanchi       | Telangana        |
|   156 | Malliswari Bandi     | Telangana        |
|   157 | Vijaya Peddireddy    | Telangana        |
|   158 | Yashoda Vanga        | Telangana        |
|   159 | Anitha Adavala       | Telangana        |

|   160 | Saleema SK              | Telangana   |
|-------|-------------------------|-------------|
|   161 | Manimala Tallabatta     | Telangana   |
|   162 | Kavitha Katta           | Telangana   |
|   163 | Rajakumari Gundabattula | Telangana   |
|   164 | Shobha.H.G              | Karnataka   |
|   165 | Reshma g.Ullal          | Karnataka   |
|   166 | Malini Shankar          | Karnataka   |
|   167 | Sumana S. Angadi        | Karnataka   |
|   168 | Aparajita Ray           | Karnataka   |
|   169 | Sewali Kalita           | Assam       |
|   170 | Maumita Roy Chowdhury   | Assam       |
|   171 | Maina Goswami           | Assam       |
|   172 | Madhurima Sen Deka      | Assam       |
|   173 | Samim Sultana Ahmed     | Assam       |
|   174 | Nongmaithem Reena       | Manipur     |
|   175 | Sinam Pinky Devi        | Manipur     |
|   176 | K. Nirmala              | Manipur     |
|   177 | Sapam Aruna             | Manipur     |
|   178 | Longjam Arishrona       | Manipur     |
|   179 | Ph. Sheityamala Devi    | Manipur     |
|   180 | Lalitha Chhetry         | Meghalaya   |
|   181 | Ibankyntiew Mawrie      | Meghalaya   |
|   182 | Nancy Lalramthangi      | Mizoram     |
|   183 | Ms. C. Lalthansangi     | Mizoram     |
|   184 | Suvalaxmi Bal           | Odisha      |
|   185 | Subhadarsini Mishra     | Odisha      |
|   186 | Supriya Dash            | Odisha      |
|   187 | Prabhati Bissoi         | Odisha      |
|   188 | Sarita Mishra           | Odisha      |
|   189 | Soumya Tripathy         | Odisha      |
|   190 | Mamata Bisoi            | Odisha      |
|   191 | Jayasmita Mohanty       | Odisha      |
|   192 | Binita Kumari Jaiswal   | Odisha      |

|   193 | Amrita Kundu          | Odisha           |
|-------|-----------------------|------------------|
|   194 | Prangya Parimita Jena | Odisha           |
|   195 | Shabnam Adeni         | Odisha           |
|   196 | Minati Singha         | Odisha           |
|   197 | Monalisha Mishra      | Odisha           |
|   198 | Sipra Mohanty         | Odisha           |
|   199 | Nina Sahoo            | Odisha           |
|   200 | Namo Dixit            | Sikkim           |
|   201 | Dichen Ongmu Bhutia   | Sikkim           |
|   202 | Priyanka Deb Burman   | Tripura          |
|   203 | Moupia Nandy          | West Bengal      |
|   204 | Shakuntala Mondal     | West Bengal      |
|   205 | Kanak Radha           | Andaman &Nicobar |
|   206 | Romila Edupuganti     | Andhara Pradesh  |
|   207 | Shaistha Khanam       | Andhara Pradesh  |
|   208 | Vijaya Lakshmi        | Andhara Pradesh  |
|   209 | Asha Patel            | Rajasthan        |
|   210 | Upmita Vajpayie       | Madhya Pradesh   |
|   211 | Kiran Jha             | Delhi            |
|   212 | Ms. Ananya Sengupta   | Delhi            |
|   213 | Mansi Mishra          | Delhi            |
|   214 | Sarvesh               | Delhi            |
|   215 | Preethanair           | Delhi            |

Statement  of  Expenditure  incurred  for  organization  of  'All  India  Women Journalists Workshop' held on 07.06.2016 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

| S.No.   | Item description                                      | Expenses    |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| 1       | Accommodation and meals for outside participants      | Rs. 1717798 |
| 2       | Booking of Conference hall/room at Vigyan Bhawan      | Rs. 21000   |
| 3       | Catering Service on 7th June, 2016                    | Rs. 242070  |
| 4       | Event Management Services                             | Rs. 454351  |
| 5       | Floral Decoration                                     | Rs. 17514   |
| 6       | Reimbursement of TA Expenses for outside participants | Rs. 2219202 |
| 8       | Welcome kit                                           | Rs. 668857  |
| 7       | Transportation for participants and officials         | Rs. 53475   |
|         | Total                                                 | Rs. 5394267 |