Award for Savitri Jindal

Hisar: Former Haryana cabinet minister Savitri Jindal, who is emeritus chairperson of OP Jindal Group, received an international award for women’s empowerment on Saturday. She took the AsiaOne magazine’s award online at the 14th edition of its Pride of the Nation honours series and Asia-Africa Business and Social Forum summit. She dedicated the honour to the efforts for women’s education and empowerment, and said her dream was to provide daughters with equal opportunity to serve the country. She said she was happy to see women in combat roles in the armed forces. TNN