Dr. U.D. Choubey, Director General, SCOPE, has exhorted public sector women executives to accept complex and challenging roles and continuously upgrade their skills and competencies so that there is no dearth of women candidates at Board level positions in public sector enterprises. Delivering the keynote address at the Forum of Women in Public Sector (WIPS), he listed out SCOPE's efforts in preparing  women for leadership roles in PSEs. The Forum had organized its  27th National Meet in Nagpur on Saturday. It was attended by over 700 women employees of public sector enterprises from all over the country. Expressing concern over the conditions of women living in villages, Dr. Choubey advised WIPS to play a larger role for the upliftment of women living in nearby villages of their organizations.  While affirming his full support to WIPS, DG, SCOPE asked them to organize programs in each zone of WIPS on Capacity Building, CSR, Health and Wellness and Gender related issues for development of women. Smt. Justice Vasanti A. Naik of High Court of Bombay, Nagpur Bench, Dr. Aarti Singh, SP, CID, Nagpur and Mrs. Kirti Tiwari, President Apex, WIPS, among others, also addressed the meeting.