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1. To create an environment through positive economic and social policies for full development of women to enable them to realize their full potential.

2. To ensure de-jure and de-facto enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedom by women on equal basis with men in all spheres - political, economic, social, cultural and civil.

3. To allow equal access to participation and decision making of women in social, political and economic life of the nation.

4. To provide equal access to women to health care, quality education at all levels, career and vocational guidance, employment, equal remuneration, occupational health and safety, social security and public office etc.

5. To strengthen legal systems aimed at elimination of all forms and types of discrimination against women.

6. To change the societal attitudes and community practices by active participation and involvement of both men and women.

7. To mainstream a gender perspective in the development process.
   
   5 June 1990  : Ms. Tripat Tuteja, Ms. Hema Prabhakaran  and Ms. Amrita Nair registering the delegates on the occasion of the
   inauguration of the Women's Agency for Generating Employment (WAGE) at New Delhi.

8. To eliminate the discrimination and all forms of violence against women and the girl child.

9. To build and strengthen partnerships with civil society, particularly women's organizations.

10. To develop gender development indices, by networking with specialized agencies.

11. To undertake gender auditing and development of evaluation mechanisms.

12. To undertake the collection of gender-disaggregated data by all primary data collecting agencies of the Central and State Governments as well as research and academic institutions in the Public and Private Sectors.

13. To design an alternative strategy of development comprising a frontal attack on poverty, unemployment and malnutrition.

14. To provide access to, and to take benefits from, the public health system that have been very uneven between the better-endowed and the more vulnerable sections of society.

15. To endorse the policy that a diverse developing society such as ours provides numerous challenges in the economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental arenas. All of these coalesce in the dominant imperative of alleviation of mass poverty, reckoned in the multiple dimensions of livelihood security, health care, education, empowerment of the disadvantaged, and elimination of gender disparities.
    5 June 1990  : The Union Deputy Minister in charge of Women and Child Development, Government of India,
    Hon'ble Smt. Usha Sinha, felicitating the girl student delegate in the presence of  Prof. Priya Ranjan Trivedi, Patron, WAGE
    at India International  Centre, New Delhi on the occasion of the inauguration of "Women's Agency for Generating Employment (WAGE)".

16. To provide universal access and enrolment of the girl child.

17. To provide universal retention of the girl children up to14 years of age.

18. To ensure a substantial improvement in the quality of girl education to enable all the girl children to achieve essential levels of learning.

19. To advise all nations to understand that they should be judged by the well-being of their female population and through the levels of health, nutrition and education; by the civil and political liberties enjoyed by their female citizens; by the protection guaranteed to female children and by provisions made for the vulnerable and the disadvantaged.

20. To have an understanding that the women in India constitute about 595 million representing 48 percent of the total population.

21. To ensure that such a high percent of valuable human resource do not face disparities in access to and control over resources and constitute as one the most vulnerable and marginalized.

22. To ensure that women's risk of premature death and disability do not take place as it is highest during their reproductive years. Maternal mortality is not merely a health disadvantage, it is a matter of social injustice

5 June 1990  : The Union Deputy Minister in charge of Women and Child Development, Government of India, Hon'ble Smt. Usha Sinha,
felicitating the girl student delegate at  India International  Centre, New Delhi on the  occasion of the inauguration of "Women's Agency
for Generating Employment (WAGE)".

23. To improve the status of female as low social and economic status of girls and women limits their access to education, good nutrition, as well as money to pay for health care and family planning services.

24. To empower women and enhance their employment opportunities through the participation of women in the paid work force.

25. To promote a gender sensitive, multi-sectoral agenda for population stabilisation, that will think, plan and act locally, and support nationally.

26. To ensure under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiency do not take place as it goes beyond mere food entitlements to woman's well-being. To the extent that women are over-represented among the poor, interventions for improving women's health and nutrition are critical for poverty reduction.

27. To remove the poor female literacy rate, and gender based inequality, social discrimination and economic exploitation, occupation of girl child in domestic chores, and improve low enrolment of girls in schools, and low retention rate and high dropout rate etc.

28. Therefore, the main strategies should be for increasing female literacy in the country including providing and imparting functional literacy, universalization for elementary education and non-formal education.

5 June 1990  : The Union Deputy Minister in charge of Women and Child Development, Government of India,
Hon'ble Smt. Usha Sinha, felicitating the girl student delegate at  India International  Centre, New Delhi on
the  occasion of the inauguration of "Women's Agency for Generating Employment (WAGE)".

29. To strengthen the cause of National Literacy Mission or Sakshar Bharat Mission, with its objective of extending educational options to those adults who have no access to formal education, targeted female literacy as a critical instrument for women's empowerment.

30. And to generally do all that is required and is conducive to the overall development of women.

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