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NCW CHAIRPERSON MAMTA SHARMA DEMITTED OFFICE:
Mamta Sharma, Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) demitted office on 1 August 2014. She served the Commission for three years. Ms. Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, Member, NCW would act as Chairperson, NCW with effect from 1 August 2014.
Mamta Sharma took over charge as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women on 2 August 2011.
About Mamta Sharma:
- She was born to ardent patriot Dharlal Devta who took active part in the freedom struggle and laid down his life in the fight for freedom of India
- Sharma joined active politics in 1985 and was nominated as the Executive member of Rajasthan Red Cross Society in 1986
- Later she became the General Secretary of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee
- She contested the Assembly Elections of the Rajasthan from Bundi Constituency and won by a great margin defeating her nearest rival.
- In the year 2002, she was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary during the Cabinet expansion of Atal Bihari Vajpayee government
- She was re-elected for the State Assembly from Bundi Constituency in the year 2003, defeating her nearest rival by a landslide margin again and was the only lone woman candidate to have won the 2003 Assembly Elections out of 18 women contested.
About National Commission for Women:
The National Commission for Women was set up as statutory body in January 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 to:
- review the Constitutional and Legal safeguards for women ;
- recommend remedial legislative measures ;
- facilitate redressal of grievances and
- advise the Government on all policy matters affecting women.
Dr.Girija Vyas was the only Chairperson who served for two terms of three years each.