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March 6, 2019
India's Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, felicitates 'Web Wonder Women'
Photo: The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, felicitated the winners of the ‘Web Wonder Women’ contest organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in New Delhi on March 06, 2019.
New Delhi, 06 March 2019 — The Ministry of Women and Child Development hosted a felicitation event for Web Wonder Women, a campaign organized to celebrate the exceptional achievements of women, who have been driving social reforms via social media. As many as 30 women, who were selected after an extensive research process, were honored by the Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, in New Delhi, today.
Organized in collaboration with Twitter India and Breakthrough India, the event aimed to recognize the courage of Indian women stalwarts from across the globe who have used the power of social media to run positive campaigns to steer a change in society.
“Women online, though niche, are a compelling voice. #WebWonderWomen was a campaign to recognize, honor and encourage such voices that have in their capacity driven a positive impact on social media platforms,” said Maneka Gandhi.
The WCD Minister, along with a panel of 10 judges, finalized the names of 30 women who have impacted and influenced society through social media. The women were selected from over 240 nominations received under the categories media, awareness, legal, health, governmental, food, environment, development, business and art.
WEB WONDER WOMEN AWARDEES
- Adhunika Prakash
- Afreen Siddiqui Sherwani
- Ankita Anand
- Archana KR
- Chavi Vohra
- Dr. Angela Chaudhuri
- Dr. Saundarya Rajesh
- Dr Anubhuti Yadav
- Dr. Debarati Halder
- Dr Laxmi Gautam
- Japleen Pasricha
- Madhulika Choudhary
- Nmami Agarwal
- Paromita Bardoloi
- Parul Mathur
- Sagina Walyat
- Dr Shruti Kapoor
- Shweta Pathak
- Smt. Sonal Goel
- Sonal Kapoor
- Srilekha Chakraborty
- Supreet K. Singh
- Vinita Deshmukh
- Ritu Maheshwari
- Kirthi Jayakumar
- Urvashi Sarkar
- Sohini Chattopadhyay
- Manu Khajuria
- Rishika Sharma
- Rakshita Dwivedi
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“Eat Today for Tomorrow”
— Ministry of WCD (@MinistryWCD) March 6, 2019
This is the motto that our #WebWonderWomen awardee Ms. Nmami Agarwal @NmamiAgarwal uses to influence netizens about the therapeutic benefits & holistic healing powers of food in its most natural or unprocessed form. pic.twitter.com/xn454vhxDi
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