Naari sakti abhiyan essay in English
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Nari shakti’ drew focused attention in 2018, largely thanks to efforts by the Government of India and Hindi speakers nationwide to realize aims for inclusive development.
2. This has led to new initiatives being established, existing laws being revised, and the championing of the #MeToo campaign which has helped facilitate women’s rights and empowerment across all areas of Indian society.
3.March 2018 recorded a large spike in the use of nari shakti’ as discussion arose around the Government of India’s Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women Power Award) held on the International Women’s Day.
Recognizing exceptional achievement by women who have broken stereotypes and chartered new paths in their contributions to society, the awards sent the tone for the rest of the year with the use of 'nari shakti’ gaining greater momentum.
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5. Supreme Court decisions boosting the use of 'nari shakti’: Two major decisions taken by the Supreme Court also significantly contributed to the prominence of 'nari shakti’ in 2018 a ban on 'triple-talaq’, the controversial Islamic practice of instant divorce’, and the taking down of a rule that disallowed girls and women entry to the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
6. Other impactful changes empowering women included:
the lifting of the ban on women going to Haj without a Mehram or male companion
women being accepted into inter-combat roles in the armed forces
the expansion of the hugely successful government sponsored Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save the girl child, Educate girl child) campaign
the opening of 200 one-stop centres to help women facing violence across the country
and the opening of a universal helpline dedicated to forming international alliances to tackle cybercrime and the online harassment of women head-on
Who were involved in selecting the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2018?
The Word of the Year was formally announced on Saturday, January 26, at the Jaipur Literature Festival where it was subject of a panel discussion with Saurabh Dwivedi, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of thelallantop.com and former Associate Editor at AajTak, Neelesh Misra, founder of Gaon Connection and former Deputy Executive Editor of the Hindustan Times, Geetanjali Sree, author and playwright, Rakshanda Jalil, award-winning translator, critic, and literary historian, Pravin Kumar, assistant professor of Hindi at the University of Delhi, and Akhil Katyal, teacher in creative writing at Ambedkar University, Delhi.
The Hindi Word of the Year was chosen by the Oxford Dictionaries team in India with the help of an advisory panel of language experts:
Ashok Kumar Sharma is a Hindi Language Champion and Advisor at the Public Relation Society of India
Kritika Agrawal is a Hindi Language Champion, Lawyer (Oxford), polyglot, and Indian language expert
Namita Gokhale is writer, publisher and festival director. She is the author of 16 works of fiction and non-fiction, and co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and Mountain Echoes, the Bhutan Literature Festival
Randhir Thakur is Associate Commissioning Editor, Hindi, Oxford University Press India
Saurabh Dwivedi is a Journalist, Editor in Chief of thelallantop.com and former Associate Editor AajTak
Vijay Nandan is a Hindi Language Champion, freelancer, writer and translator
’Nari Shakti’ or women power is reflective of the renewed power of women that came to the fore in 2018, said Oxford Dictionaries Language Champion, Kritika Agrawal
It is representative of the courage that women derived and the feeling of sisterhood which was stronger than ever before. It is a sentiment, and that sentiment is being carried forward in 2019. Nari Shakti is a movement involving both men and women, and a reminder that we need to keep fighting the good fight, she added.
Word selection panellist, Namita Gokhale said: Nari Shakti’ encapsulates the spirit of our times, with all its struggles, challenges, and trium