Vijaya Rahatkar, the chairperson for the National Commission for Women (NCW), was honoured with the ‘Acharya Tulsi Kartritva Award’ at a special ceremony organised by the All India Terapanth Mahila Mandal during the weekend. The award was presented to her for outstanding work and contribution to women's upliftment and empowerment. The NCW chief said that she was elated to receive the prestigious award and termed it “a new call of action for her”. Notably, the ‘Acharya Tulsi Kartritva Award’ is a humble tribute from the women's community to Acharya Tulsi, the promoter of women's awakening. Acharya Tulsi worked tirelessly for moral upliftment and ignited the flame of women's empowerment by blowing the trumpet of revolution.