Senior Citizen Day Service Centers to be establish in 50 local levels: Minister Badi

Kathmandu: Minister for Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security, Sita Badi, has expressed her commitment to make the Senior Citizen Day Service Centres more effective in the days to come.

Responding to questions raised during the discussion on the appropriation related to her ministry in today’s meeting of the National Assembly, she said that new centres will be established in partnership at 50 local levels.

“The location for the establishment of the service centre will be decided based on the needs and recommendations of the local level. The ministry will prepare the necessary procedures and facilitate it.” She mentioned that the ‘Special Protection Directive-2082’ has been approved to make Nepal a country free of street children within the upcoming fiscal year.

Minister Badi said that programs such as skills development, entrepreneurship, self-employment, access to technology, and skills testing have been launched for the economic empowerment of women.

“The government is taking incidents of violence against women very seriously and sensitively,” she said, and clarified that the economic empowerment program for women and girls affected by and vulnerable to violence has been included in the budget for the new fiscal year.

An integrated law against gender-based violence will be formulated to prevent sexual exploitation against women in the name of religious, social, cultural, traditional and customary practices.

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