Implement budgetary allocation for women
Urge two rights bodies
Two women's rights organisations yesterday urged the government to properly implement the budgetary allocation for women to turn them into skilled human resources in the science, technology and mass communication sectors.
Addressing a press conference, they also demanded an increase in the budgetary allocation for these sectors in the 2012-13 fiscal.
Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) and UN Women jointly organised the press conference, “We want substantial allocation to ensure participation of women in science, information and technology”, at the capital's Jatiya Press Club.
BNPS Director Omar Tarek Chowdhury read out a 19-point recommendation at the conference, where its Executive Director Rokeya Kabir also spoke.
Quoting the finance ministry's “Gender Budgeting Report, 2011-12”, he said around 20 per cent of the budgetary allocation for the information and communication technology ministry was meant for the benefit of women.
But according to a survey, women at the field level did not benefit from the ministry's gender sensitive projects, he said.
Tarek Chowdhury called upon the government to widen opportunities for women so that they can avail education and training to benefit from the budgetary allocation.
He also urged the government to formulate provisions making it mandatory for media houses to keep a 50 percent job quota for women.
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