The Centre on Saturday appointed Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar because the ninth chairperson of the Nationwide Fee for Ladies (NCW) succeeding Rekha Sharma.
A authorities notification issued on Saturday acknowledged that the appointment made underneath Part three of the Nationwide Fee for Ladies Act, 1990, might be for 3 years or till the appointee reaches the age of 65.
Moreover, Archana Majumdar has been formally named a member of the NCW for a tenure of three years, as per the Ministry of Ladies and Little one Improvement.
Who Is Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar?
Vijaya Rahatkar is presently the Nationwide Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Celebration and Co-Incharge of the celebration’s Rajasthan unit. She can be a former chairperson of the Maharashtra Ladies’s Fee.
Rahatkar labored on authorized reforms specializing in points just like the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO), anti-triple talaq cells, and anti-human trafficking models. She additionally launched digital literacy packages and launched a publication titled “Saad,” devoted to girls’s points.
She earned a number of recognitions for ladies’s empowerment, together with the Nationwide Regulation Award and the Savitribai Phule Award from a nationwide literary council. Because the mayor of Chatrapati Sambhajinagar from 2007 to 2010, Rahatkar additionally applied vital developmental tasks associated to healthcare and infrastructure.
She accomplished her bachelor’s diploma in physics and a grasp’s diploma in historical past from the College of Pune.
