Roshni Sen

Roshni Sen

Roshni Sen joined the Indian administrative service in 1993 and worked in several districts of West Bengal. At present, she is working as secretary to the government of West Bengal looking after all round development of women and children, senior citizens and the disabled. She has designed and implemented the Kanyashree Prakalpa, a CCT scheme for girls. She has been awarded the CM’s award for her services for empowerment of adolescent girls in 2014 and national e-governance award twice, once in 2011 for e-auction in tea and in 2015 for Kanyashree online.

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How land rights can help end child marriage

How land rights can help end child marriage

over 10 years ago // Focus On: Land Matters

Eradicating child marriage needs solutions that address the immediate needs and vulnerabilities of girls and also have the potential of influencing their lives in the long term. Strengthening women's right to land is one such solution, Roshni Sen, secretary of West Bengal's Department of Women Development and Social Welfare and Child Development, writes in this guest commentary.