By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: National Commission for Women (NCW) has decided to set up a North East Cell soon. A decision to this effect was taken in an interactive meeting of NCW with Chairperson of North East Region (NER) recently at Imphal. This meeting was organized by Manipur State Commission for Women in collaboration with NCW.
Chairperson of NCW, Mamta Sharma stated that people of North East, particularly women, would be benefited from the Cell as they could directly contact it for to lodge their grievances.
Chairpersons and Member Secretaries of different State Commissions like Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur etc. also presented their activities before NCW. Member Secretary Monidipa Borkotoki and Member, Bokul Ghosh of Assam State Commission for Women represented from the State.
In addition, NCW also held a public hearing with the women traders of Ima Keithel (Mother Market) wherein their problems and issues were discussed during the interaction.