-PTI
The United Nations Population Fund will participate in women empowerment schemes in Madhya Pradesh, fund’s country head Fredrica Major has said.
Terming them as wonderful, Major lauded the women welfare programmes being conducted in the state, during a meeting with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here last evening, an official release said today.
Chouhan informed her about the ‘Beti Bachao Abhiyan’ (save the girl child campaign) and various women empowerment schemes going on in the state.
He expressed happiness over the participation of United Nations Population Fund for women’s welfare and assured cooperation to the fund’s programme for the welfare of young girls in tribal areas, the release said.