By ensuring women's safety, NDA has set 'very high' benchmark for next govt: Maneka

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said the current National Democratic Alliance government had set a very high benchmark for the next dispensation to live up to by ensuring safety of women through its policies.

Greeting women on the occasion of International Women's Day, Gandhi noted that women of today are much more aware than they were previously.

"The present government has set a very high benchmark for the next government by ensuring women safety through its policies and the work done in the last five years by this government has not been done by any government in the last 70 years," the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.

"Right from ensuring women safety to their empowerment, the government has ensured gender equality and equal opportunities for them," the Union minister told PTI.

Right from the first week, she said, the BJP-led government showed "zero tolerance" towards brutalities against women. "I am confident that a time of gender equality would come. We ensured women gets the basic necessities of toilets, electricity and gas cylinders to make their lives easy."