A Critical Analysis of Policy Initiatives for Empowering the Other Gender Alam, Sohaib Ahmad, Farhan Khalid, Sadaf Other Gender Initiatives and measures Empowerment Growth & Development of Women Laws & Act of Women Empowerment Govt. Policies& Schemes Women account for almost 50 % of the populace of any nation; therefore, their contribution to growth cannot be overlooked. Females are unquestionably the foundation of every civilization, performing numerous tasks every day. They have, nevertheless, been a marginalized section of the community in many areas of the globe. Female’s roles in India have always been much larger than their social definitions, which reflect the overall gender prejudice. A country cannot achieve its long-term goals without trained women since women are the moms who write a generation’s destiny. Chetan Sanghi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, once said: “We would like to change the paradigm to women-led development”. In India, female rights have improved dramatically in the past several years. In India, a significant number of females are leaving their homes to pursue education. To restore their rightful and dignified status, governments, NGO’s, various agencies have initiated empowerment programmes that deliver a powerful basis to raising the internal solid point in addition to self-worth for the rural females. The Indian government has proclaimed 2001 to be the year of female liberation. The Rajya Sabha approved the Female’s Quota Bill on March 9, 2010, one day after International Women’s Day, guaranteeing 33 % seats for women in parliament and state parliaments. Now is the moment to recognize the importance of women’s empowerment via knowledge and leadership advancement in a fast-growing nation like India. This article aims to examine problems connected to female liberation and to provide solutions in the form of different government policies to achieve this goal. 2023-07-06T07:56:28Z 2023-07-06T07:56:28Z 2023-05-15 journal article Sohaib Alam, Farhan Ahmad, Sadaf Khalid (2023). A Critical Analysis of Policy Initiatives for Empowering the Other Gender. Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers, Vol. 14(3). 460-468[DOI: 10.47750/jett.2023.14.03.055] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/83288 10.47750/jett.2023.14.03.055 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Granada