Jamshedpur, May 5: Women at Tata Steel will now be better informed about their legal rights.

Tata Steel is to start a women?s empowerment cell from next week.

The decision to start the cell comes after the company took a series of initiatives to give women employees an equal footing in the organisation.

The cell will be an independent entity within the organisation under the aegis of Tata Steel.

Avinash Prasad, vice-president of industrial relations, said that the company was involved in empowering women and that setting up a women?s empowerment cell would be a more efficient way to equip them with their legal rights.

Tata Steel aims to do this by creating several working committees within the organisation to educate women about their legal rights.

Prasad said that these working committees could also be set up in rural and mining areas in which Tata Steel operates in.

Fringe areas where the committee could come up include Dhanbad and Noamundi. Women?s cells would work towards creating legal awareness and legal literacy among the workers and miners in these rural areas.

But it?s not only legal awareness that the company is looking at right now.

?Any step that can help these woman gain a sense of empowerment will come under the fold of activities of the women?s cell,? said Prasad.

The women?s cell would, however, make sure that a woman could get information from the right place and people within the organisation.

Company sources revealed that the company has appointed about 15 women, who will be trained to take up higher skilled jobs.