{"id":49123,"date":"2024-10-19T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/19\/vijaya-kishore-rahatkar-appointed-chairperson-of-national-commission-for-women-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T11:03:02","slug":"vijaya-kishore-rahatkar-appointed-chairperson-of-national-commission-for-women-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/19\/vijaya-kishore-rahatkar-appointed-chairperson-of-national-commission-for-women-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar Appointed Chairperson of National Commission for Women &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW). She will be the 9th Chairperson of NCW.<\/p>\n<p>Smt. Rahatkar has demonstrated leadership skills across various political and social responsibilities. During her tenure as Chairperson of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women (2016-2021), she spearheaded initiatives like \u201cSakshama\u201d (support for acid attack survivors), \u201cPrajwala\u201d (linking self-help groups to central government schemes), and \u201cSuhita\u201d (24\u00d77 helpline service for women). She also worked on legal reforms focusing on issues like POCSO, anti-triple talaq cells, and anti-human trafficking units. She introduced digital literacy programs and launched a publication named \u201cSaad\u201d dedicated to women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p>As the Mayor of Chatrapati Sambhajinagar from 2007 to 2010, Smt. Rahatkar implemented significant developmental projects related to healthcare and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Smt. Rahatkar holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Physics and a master\u2019s degree in History from the University of Pune. She has authored several books, including \u2018Vidhilikhit\u2019 (on women\u2019s legal issues) and \u2018Aurangabad: Leading to Wide Roads\u2019. Her contributions to women\u2019s empowerment have earned her recognition, including the National Law Award and the Savitribai Phule Award from a national literary council.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Archana Majumdar has also been appointed as a Member of the National Commission for Women.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-118324006-331224-67138fbb45db7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=13.9.1#blog_id=118324006&amp;post_id=331224&amp;origin=pragativadi.com&amp;obj_id=118324006-331224-67138fbb45db7&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-118324006-331224-67138fbb45db7\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW). She will be the 9th Chairperson of NCW. Smt. Rahatkar has demonstrated leadership skills across various political and social responsibilities. During her tenure as Chairperson of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women (2016-2021), she spearheaded initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image001S071.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49125,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49123\/revisions\/49125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}