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PANAJI
The women’s wing of the Congress on Saturday launched the “Shakti Project” for Goan women Congress workers. The Shakti Project has been launched nationwide on June 29 and 30 to aid women Congress workers throughout the country.
Speaking at the launch, Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress (GPMC) President Pratima Coutinho said that the biggest strength of the Congress party was its workers, and the Shakti Project would empower the Party’s women workers in every nook and corner of the country.
“It is the dream of our President Rahul Gandhi that the voice of every single woman working for the Congress be heard,” said Coutinho, explaining that all 25,000 women Congress workers in the state would be able to register themselves on an app with the help of their voting IDs. In this manner, they would be able to send their opinions, suggestions, and grievances to Party workers in Delhi, and the Party would be able to better communicate in this manner.
Coutinho elaborated, “Formerly, the problem we used to face was that workers in each state always felt like the Center doesn’t understand the problems faced by us. The launching of the Shakti project takes care of that.” She explained that now, every woman worker from every booth, block, village, town and district across the country would be able to register on the app and thus connect with other workers. Furthermore, they would be updated on what programmes were being undertaken by Mahila Congress in other states, and also be able to directly receive important messages from the Congress leaders in Delhi.
Coutinho informed that right after the launch, 100 women from the GPMC would be registering right away, and that through the Shakti project, the Party hoped to increase the number of women workers in the state by at least ten times.
The Shakti Project hopes to ensure that women workers not only register their complaints, but that the matter is followed up, which was difficult before this. The benefit of the Shakti Project is that women can lodge their complaints from the comfort of their homes through their smartphones.
