President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a National conference on ‘Women Legislators: Building Resurgent India’ in New Delhi
The conference intends to hone the skills of legislators to perform their legislative and non-legislative roles with greater effectiveness.
Key facts

• The two-day conference will provide women legislators a platform to interact with their counterparts from across the country.
• It will also bring together women union ministers, chief ministers, MPs and eminent women from the judiciary and the bureaucracy.
• It will equip women legislators with latest knowledge in relevant areas and motivate, guide them in their twin roles as agents of socio-economic progress and as legislators.

It will be attended by more than 300 women MPs and state legislatures and legislative council members, Union Ministers and Chief Ministers.