 Very welcome and good evening everyone. Thank you for coming today. This is the fourth edition of exchange for media PR and cocom women achievers summit and we will have throughout the day a series of awards that we would like to give up to the honorable you know deserving woman from the fields of media communication and PR and when we started this I mean each year we are adding on new initiative we have seen commendable results and woman plays a very pivotal role but I don't want to go because since we already have our honourable esteemed guest I'm very honored and delighted to announce that we have Shri Menaka Gandhi our honourable member of parliament Lok Sabha and also an animal activist who has been crusader she paid a very pivotal loan and instrument in passing the woman reservation bill in the honorable parliament who's here with us as a chief guest I would request everyone to give a standing ovation to us so that we can proceed with the event and it's an honor to have such a you know respected revered leaders to be amongst who is actually glorifying our stage so ma'am I'd like you to say a few words I would request your honor to come on stage just say a few words and then we can quickly start off with the award thank you for inviting me to give away the awards I'm honored I'm not going to speak for more than one minute because I have a bad throat and I can hardly get something out women are make very very good communicators they are sharp they see angles of compassion that men don't see they see different ways of looking and dressing up an item to make it more interesting the industry needs women and they've always done extremely well here long before I was married I took a course in journalism and then after I was married I ran a magazine called Surya and which was very important at a time because it represented the congress party for three years and we had a lot of fun and we learned a lot of how to communicate in a way to persuade people thank you very much for being here and I congratulate each one of you a prominent Indian politician who has played a pivotal role as women's leader in championing the cause of women's rights and environment she has served in various ministerial roles and has timelessly advocated for policies addressing women's issues from healthcare to education it is an absolute delight for us to be here with you tonight honorable member of parliament look sabha shreemati milika gandhi ji thank you very much