Women Empowerment  

The survey for 2019-20, released on Thursday, showed that during the five-year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20, there has been a 11.4% growth in student enrolment

Vishal Dilip Bhujbal has devoted his life for the cause of social work. The inspiration in his life to venture into social service is Bhayyuji Maharaj. Vishal works day and night to finding solutions to problems faced by people from local to national level, Galli to Delhi.
 

A 25-year-old tribal lady from Madhya Pradesh has featured in Vogue Italia – the Italian edition of the world’s premier fashion magazine -Vogue 
 

A 24-year-old Muslim girl is being trained in Uttar Pradesh to take up driving as a formal profession  

The number of girl cadets in National Cadets Corps has increased to 33 per cent in an effort to moving forward towards women empowerment, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. Earlier, there were only 28 per cent girl cadets in the NCC
 

A baker in Gujarat gifts cakes to girls who are 5 years old or less on his birthday. Here is more on his endeavour 
 

 28-year-old Nishita Rajput from Vadodara, Gujarat has been funding girls’ education for a long time  

Giving more importance to the women head of marginalised families, the Assam government has started Orunodoi scheme in which Rs 830 per month, would be given to the female head of the family, keeping in mind food security, among other things 
 

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is giving great stress on value system
 

 Shinderpal Kaur, hailing from Punjab, is a true example of women empowerment
 

Handloom sector is a symbol of the country’s glorious cultural heritage and an important source of livelihood in the country. The sector is key to women empowerment as over 70 per cent of handloom weavers and allied workers are women. To mark the 6thNational Handloom Day on 7th August and to instil pride of workmanship of handloom weaving amongst citizens, a social media campaign has been planned for the handloom weaving community

The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to grant permanent commission to all women officers in the Army within three months, terming the Centre's argument of physiological limitations and social norms for denying them command posts "disturbing". Let’s find out more about this watershed moment in Indian Army, in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

India celebrates Sarojini Naidu's birthday as National Women's Day of India every year on February 13. Sarojini Naidu was India's first women governor and also famous as 'Bharat Kokila'.She actively participated in the Indian National Movement for the independence of the country. She was famous for her nickname 'Nightingale of India' because of her poems. Here's are some rare photos of Sarojini Naidu along with a few must-know facts about this great woman.

Forbes India has released its annual 30 under 30 list that comprises India's young changemakers and brightest stars under the age of 30. The 30 member list released on February 4, 2020, includes five women namely Actor Sai Pallavi, Ikea designer Akanksha Deo Sharma, entrepreneurs Palak Shah, Priya Prakash and Sai Gole. Let’s find out more about these young women changemakers of India in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

In this episode of Not For Women Only, we take a look at how Swami Vivekanada ushered in a strong belief that women must be put in a position of power to solve their own problem in their own way and this was possible only through education.