Rekha Sharma with WOW team and officials of Nagaland State Commission for Women and social welfare department in Kohima on February 7. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 7
National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma today said that there should not be a single crime against women and human being.
Talking to media persons, she said that more women are coming up and speaking about the problem they are having.
“That is a positive sign,” Sharma said while joining WOW team with a symbolic ride till Medziphema this morning from 2nd World War II Cemetery, Kohima.
In the past, she said, women were not talking about complaint they were facing at the work place. “Come and speak,” she challenged the women.
Sharma said that unless they speak, the society will not come to know what problem they are facing.
Sharma said she visited Nagaland seven years back and now there has been a huge change in the status of women in the North-East and India as a whole.
In the North-East, women were empowered earlier also, and they are now more empowered because of the positive changes around them.
'Women are now the change-makers'
Women are now the change-makers, she said adding “We are changing for better. We are change- maker in the society be it entrepreneurship, start- up, having own business, being in army, being CEO of company etc.”
More women are now working in the government sector; she said and expressed happiness over many women starting their own business. In her message to women in Nagaland, she said “Women are doing wonderful things here. Again, they should think about something which is new, which is not there.”
Stating that the prospect of tourism is increasing in North-East, she urged upon the women in Nagaland to take a lead in tourism sector. “They should think business around tourism,” she added.
Sharma was in Kohima for flagging in of 'Amazing NAMASTE' Foundation sponsored organized second edition WoW expedition to Assam and Nagaland.
WoW comprises 27 women participating in an expedition which covers Diphu in Assam to Kohima, Nagaland to Kaziranga-Dibrugarh-Guwahati in Assam. The expedition left for Dimapur for onward journey to Assam on Wednesday.
