Minister for Industries and Commerce, Chander Parkash Ganga on Saturday said women empowerment is a key to social development and the need is to provide quality education to girl child from the brining. Speaking at Human Rights Day function jointly organized by All Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh Teacher Federation and Government Girl Higher Secondary School Bishnah, the Minister said that education is not only to impart information and to teach skills to the students but also to inculcate the values of humanism, democracy, socialism, secularism and national integration.“For this purpose, various flagship programmes have been launched by State and Centre government,” Mr Ganga. The Minister stressed upon the teachers to make maximum impact on the personality of an individual in the formative years of life which remains all through the life. He said that important need is to inculcate the core values like truth, righteousness, peace, love and non violence among the people to make them good human beings in true sense. “Women empowerment is a key to social development and the need is to provide quality education, vocational training and health services to women and girls,” he said.