Minister reviews women packages

Lahore: Provincial Minister for Women Development Department (WDD) Hameeda Waheed-ud-Din chaired a meeting regarding implementation on women packages at CM Secretariat, here on Monday.

Provincial Secretary WDD Bushra Aman, Additional Secretary Nadir Khalique, Deputy Secretary Amna Rafique, and representatives of concerned departments attended the meeting.

Various initiatives of women empowerment packages including women protection laws, institutional mechanism for prevention of violence against women, women crisis and rehabilitation help desks, domestic workers policy, the right of equal wages, the establishment of cottage villages for women in labour colonies, private sector to be encouraged to adopt employment policies, inclusion of women in the executive body as office bearers in trade unions, technical training of workers’ wives, free of cost vocational training to women belonging to minority communities, skill development of female students with the stipend of Rs1000 per month, day care centre, working women hostels, training of women domestic workers, IT training by WDD through PITB, Fatima Jinnah Awards and existing mobile units to be provided with all basic facilities of screening of breast cancer in rural areas, training of women councilors and property rights to women were reviewed in detail.