KATHMANDU, JANUARY 1
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has claimed that women's rights have been guaranteed in every apparatus and structure of the State.
Launching a book 'Nepalika Sapana Adhurai authored by Nepali Congress central member Dila Sangraula today, PM Deuba noted that Nepal was a special and unique country in bestowing reservation rights to women. He said Nepal had established women as the head of the state, speaker, deputy speaker and mayor and deputy mayor.
"Nepal is the only country where women have been granted 33 per cent representation in every sector. There is arrangement of reservation for women in every state organ. My own party NC has secured 37 per cent reservation for women," added PM Deuba.
He said the government and political parties were equally serious about women's rights and participation.
He said Nepal had provisioned proportional representation of Dalit, indigenous nationalities and backward groups, and pledged to increase women's representation and participation in the structures of the party and the state in the future.
PM Deuba lauded Sangraula as a very diligent personality who always pitches for women's rights.
He also congratulated Sangraula for bringing out the book incorporating the contemporary context of the country.
A version of this article appears in the print on January 2, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
