Pokhara, Apr. 27: A national report will be prepared in line with the topics adopted by the world women conference held in Beijing five years ago by covering the activities performed, problems encountered, ways of resolving the problems, future commitments, etc in Nepal.

The national report is to be prepared with the objective of presenting it at the UN special general assembly to be held in New York in June to assess the activities after the world women conference in Beijing.

The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare held a western regional consultative meeting here recently in the context of collecting necessary suggestions for preparing an outstanding report.

One hundred persons including political figures, women leaders, employees concerned with the development of region and districts, employees of the NGOs and INGOs, people’s representatives, women development officer, girl students, journalists, professors and intellectuals attended the meeting.

Minister of State for Women, Children and Social Welfare Mrs Kamala Pant, inaugurating the consultative meeting, said that the present constitution of Nepal can be considered to be a progressive document in favour of the womenfolk.

Traditional originality and structure should be improved and not demolished, Mrs Pant said, adding that as the problem of Nepal is different from the 181 countries that attended the conference, the regional meeting had been organised expecting specific suggestions.

Shedding light on the programmes of women awareness and income generation, she said that the government was making effort to set up juvenile court and formulate laws for checking violence against women.

MP Shukra Raj Sharma said that all should be alert to work for the dignity of women.

DDC chairman Punya Prasad Paudel, Dr. Balgopal Baidya, Dr. Prabha Basnet, Mrs Ishwari Bhattarai, Bandana Rana and a host of other speakers expressed their views at the meeting chaired by Pokhara Mayor Krishna Thapa.