Digital technology empowering women in India: Ficci Ladies
New Delhi, Sep 2 : Digital technology and several government policies are playing a significant role in empowering women in India, the women's wing of industry chamber Ficci said here on Sunday at a conclave of global Chief Information Officers on the theme of "Digital leadership and Inclusive Culture".
A Ficci Ladies Organisation statement said that the all-women panel of tech corporates for the seminar, organised jointly with Dell EMC on Saturday, consisted of the Department of Electronics arm ERNET India Director General Neena Pahuja, Airtel Head of Digital Harmeen Mehta, IFFCO Tokio GIC Executive Vice-President Seema Gaur and Bank of America Vice-President (Digital Technology) Anupreet Lamba.
"Digital technology and several recent government policies are playing a significant role in empowering women in a big way. Technology is also helping women feel secure at the work place as well as on the street," the statement cited panellist Pahuja as saying.
According to Mehta, being digital means not being afraid of using emerging technologies to solve business problems.
"Digitisation has helped women to be more safe with the help of various apps and mobile," she said.
"Encouraging and empowering women in the workforce is something the country needs to take up on a war footing. Most corporates nowadays want more women in the workforce because they are really dedicated and committed to completing work," said Gaur.
The statement said that according to Lamba, women are more productive compared to their male counterparts owing to the immense responsibility they bear.
"Subconsciously, a working mother feels that because she has left her child at home, she should be doing a meaningful job to justify her being away from home," she said.
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Eight fruit vendors killed, ten injured as truck fell into valley in Karnataka's Yellapura
Yellapura (PTI): At least eight persons were killed and 10 others sustained injuries when the truck in which they were travelling fell into a 50-metre-deep Valley near here in the wee hours of Wednesday, a police officer said.
The victims, all fruit vendors, started from Savanur and were heading towards the Yellapura fair to sell fruits. They were traveling on the Savanur - Hubballi road when the accident occurred in a forested section, the Uttara Kannada Superintendent of Police M Narayana said.
"Around 5:30 am, the truck driver in a bid to give side to another vehicle went to the extreme left and fell into an about 50 metre deep valley," Narayana told PTI.
He added that there was no protection wall in the road in the valley.
"Eight persons were killed on the spot and two got critical injuries. The injured have been shifted to the KIMS Hospital in Hubballi," the officer said.
