‘Train women panchayat members for better results’

Tribune News Service

Mohali, January 14 

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi stressed the need for training of elected women panchayat members to ensure that fruit of development could reach to the grassroots level. 

Maneka Gnadhi was in the town to attend the inauguration of the 5th Regional Centre of the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD). 

The NIPCCD is a premier organisation devoted for the promotion of voluntary action, research, training, and documentation in the domain of women and children development. There are four such regional centres in Bengaluru, Guwahati, Indore and Lucknow besides its headquarter in New Delhi.  

 Earlier, the minister took a round of the newly built centre at Mohali. She visited the child guidance centre, wherein many playing tools/ materials, exclusively prepared by the NIPCCD for pre-school children, were on the display. She suggested that the NIPCCD should start patenting the play materials and provide these to anganwadis.