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J&K: Kashmir University holds workshop on Women Empowerment
Asia

J&K: Kashmir University holds workshop on Women Empowerment

With an aim to make women feel more empowered, University of Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar organized a two-day workshop through community participation.Registrar Dr Nisar A Mir inaugurated the workshop, organized jointly by the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) and Kashmir University’s Department of Social Works, to impart counseling skills to the staff of Mahila Shakti Kendras (MSKs), a centrally-sponsored scheme for empowerment of rural women through community participation.Asserting that women counselors could be enablers of great social transformation, Dr Mir said that it was important to continuously evaluate whether the benefits envisaged in various women empowerment schemes reach the intended beneficiaries at grassroots.“Women counselors can play a lead role in this r
A new ray of hope in North Kashmir’s Kupwara border
Asia

A new ray of hope in North Kashmir’s Kupwara border

Taking advantage of Kashmir’s extraordinary climatic conditions, apt for growing different mushroom varieties, women in the border area of North Kashmir in Kupwara are cultivating mushrooms and gaining profits under the Mushroom cultivation programs.From their homes in the Kupwara district, these women cultivate mushrooms, including gucchi (Morchella), an exotic species of the mushroom family, to sell at the local market. It is profitable, and people purchase with utmost sincerity.Mushrooms are creating a substantial profit for the valley’s women, who have not had much financial freedom but can now contribute to their families.Women here say that strict gender roles hinder their economic opportunities and the region’s economic development. The female work participation rate is just 25.6 pe
Abrogation of Article 370: Dawn of a new era for Jammu and Kashmir
Opinion

Abrogation of Article 370: Dawn of a new era for Jammu and Kashmir

It is almost a year since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. It was this ‘special status’ that barred the Indian mainland as well as any foreigner from investing in the former state. Not only that, a cluster of privileged families freely ran the roost and created hereditary political lineage that was no different than the pre-Partition hereditary monarchy practiced in the state since the signing of the Amritsar Treaty between Maharaja of Jammu Gulab Singh and the East India Company at the end of the First Anglo-Sikh war in March 1846.The Amritsar Treaty signed on March 16, 1846, was the basis on which the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was established and which existed as an independent state for 101 years before Pakistan launched an unprovoked attack on the fa