kohima nagaland minister for social welfare kiyaniliepeseyie on thursday formally launched the state resource centre for women srcw under the aegis of the nagaland state social welfare board with the theme strengthening lives through her addressing the gathering on thursday kiyanilie said the state resource centre for women was the implementing agency of national mission for empowerment of women while nagaland state social welfare board was one of the essential departments of the government in providing services to the weaker sections of the society he observed that one must play a vital role to facilitate the process and contribute to economic and social empowerment of women with emphasis on health and education and to eliminate violence against women gender mainstreaming of policies programmes and institutional arrangements he said even today women did not have access to the basic rights of education healthcare nutritious food safe drinking water and sanitation the peoples mindset he added needed to be changed to facilitate skill development of women credit must be made accessible to women so that women can start their own venture and state resource centre will address the problems the minister said he also unveiled the logo of srcw the centres will be established in future at the district and village level in a pilot project mode additional secretary social welfare delirose m sakhrie said women constitute 48 of the countrys population yet they still suffered from various gender disparities and stood as the most vulnerable section of the society there are also gender specific barriers which prevent women from getting their rightful share of public goods and services even though many programmes and schemes have been launched by the centre to reach out to women and to provide specific benefits gender gap continues to surface she said