Krishna Tirath
| Krishna Tirath | |
|---|---|
| Minister of State for Women and Child Development | |
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In office May,2009 – May,2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Maneka Gandhi (BJP) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 March 1955 Karol Bagh, New Delhi |
| Political party |
BJP (January,2015 - present) INC |
| Spouse(s) | Vijay Kumar |
| Children | 3 daughters |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| As of 20 January 2015 | |
Krishna Tirath (born 3 March 1955) was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. She represented the North West Delhi constituency of Delhi and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. On 19 January 2015 she joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
She began her political career as a M.L.A in Delhi and was a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly between 1984–2004. In 1998, she became the Minister for Social Welfare, SC & ST and Labour & Employment in the Sheila Dikshit led Delhi government. The Chief Minister saw her as a part of the dissident group and forced to resign from her post by dissolving her entire Cabinet. On her resignation in 2003, she became Deputy Speaker of the Delhi Assembly.
In the 2004 elections she beat Anita Arya of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected to parliament. In 2009 elections, She again elected from North West Delhi by defeating Meera Kanwaria of BJP.
She has been inducted into Manmohan Singh's cabinet as the Minister for Women and Child Development.
As Minister for Women and Child Development, Tirath stated that the government's priorities would be to "support holistic empowerment of women, ensure adequate and universal availability of supplementary nutrition for children, adolescent girls and expectant mothers and build a protective environment for children where they can develop and flourish as responsible and happy citizens of the society."
Tirath has proposed that working Indian husbands pay a portion of their income to their wives. The goal is to calculate the value of housework, and to socially empower women for the work they do at home.
In a 2012 meeting with United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Tirath stated her concern for malnutrition among children in India. She emphasized the importance of agencies like Integrated Child Development Services for implementing improvements in education, immunization and supplementary nutrition, to alleviate child mortality.
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