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Inviting Comments on the Draft National Policy for Women 2016

Inviting Comments on the Draft National Policy for Women 2016
Start Date :
May 17, 2016
Last Date :
Jun 21, 2016
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Nearly a decade and half has passed since the National Policy for Empowerment of Women, 2001 was formulated. Since then significant strides in global technology and information ...

Nearly a decade and half has passed since the National Policy for Empowerment of Women, 2001 was formulated. Since then significant strides in global technology and information systems have placed the Indian economy on a trajectory of higher growth impacting the general populace and women, in particular in unique and different ways. The discourse on women’s empowerment has been gradually evolving over the last few decades, wherein paradigm shifts have occurred –from seeing women as mere recipients of welfare benefits to mainstreaming gender concerns and engaging them in the development process of the country. These changes have brought forth fresh opportunities and possibilities for women’s empowerment while at the same time presenting new and emerging challenges which along with persisting socio-economic problems continue to hinder gender equality and holistic empowerment of women.

The policy envisions a society in which, women attain their full potential and are able to participate as equal partners in all spheres of life. It also emphasises the role of an effective framework to enable the process of developing policies, programmes and practices which will ensure equal rights and opportunities for women.

The broad objective of the policy is to create a conducive socio-cultural, economic and political environment to enable women enjoy de jure and de facto fundamental rights and realize their full potential.

Priority Areas

1. Health including food security and nutrition
2. Education
3. Economy
4. Governance and Decision Making
5. Violence Against Women
6. Enabling Environment
7. Environment and Climate Change

Emerging Areas

1. Making cyber space safe place for women
2. Review constitutional provisions to enable equitable and uniform entitlements for women irrespective of caste, community or religion.
3. Protection of surrogates mothers, commissioning mother along with children born
4. Redistribution of gender roles for reducing unpaid care work to maintain balance between work and family roles
5. A comprehensive social protection to address vulnerabilities of single women

Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI invites your inputs on the National Policy for Women 2016 so that a comprehensive policy document may be created which would address all the objectives of this policy.

Download the Draft National Policy for Women 2016 here.

You can share your suggestions till 20th June, 2016.

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SUCHITRA RAGHAVACHARI 8 years 5 months ago

Sir, all educational institutions & work places should have group monitors for regular counselling - discussion & if needed professional counsellors. Peer supervision, community care - surveillance, at least one policewoman at all police stations - not necessarily all women stations, mediation centres - counselling centres, toll free help lines with informer protection, will help. Mutual respect amongst people marks a cultured & evolved civilization, which is what we should strive for.

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Saurabh Banerjee 8 years 5 months ago

Our society still puts all responsibility on men. Giving undue advantage to women will be detrimental.Women still does not accept low earning/no earning men for marriage and looks for men earning higher than them. Thus, snatching education and jobs from men will increase crime in society. Secondly, men are more prone to most diseases than women, men die earlier then women at average and due to responsibilities men ignore their health. Thus, it's men who need better health care than women.

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Vikas Madan 8 years 5 months ago

This policy is against basics of Constitution, which gives equal right to everyone irrespective of caste creed and sex.
However, there are many biased laws , already in favour of women, on the name of women empowerment. This new policy is totally biased and one sided. Already men r being harrased bcoz of the existing laws like 498a, domestic voilence etc. This new law promoting surrogate mother n single mother policy will ruin the indian family system. Kindly do not let it pass.

Ajay Verma_62
Ajay Verma_62 8 years 5 months ago

All women are making false claims of dowry laws and creating problems for men and husbands family members.

Please stop such practices in laws and punish all women those are filing fake allegations against husbands and their family members.

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Rohan_254 8 years 5 months ago

This draft seems to have been drafted without adequate though process going into it with a sole purpose of female appeasement. The draft lacks clarity as it has not addressed the issues related to misuse of processessystems laws. The bias is clear as the draft has failed to address the needs of even the male infacts male child.The draft has failed to address the burning issue of misuse of various matrimonial laws. We urge the government to re-look the entire draft inline with attached

Legal Matters
Legal Matters 8 years 5 months ago

Also, kindly walk into pubs, bars, fashion shows to understand that the 'abla naari' in many case is even more forward thinking than many men. Happy to take and post pics over time if u suggest. Also, kindly walk into pubs, bars, fashion shows to understand that the 'abla naari' in many case is even more forward thinking than many men. Happy to take and post pics over time if u suggest.

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Legal Matters 8 years 5 months ago

Surprising that on one hand you desire equality for women and on the other you bring down their self respect by having gender specific laws. You have failed to address issue of misuse and abuse of law by women which has been on the rise. Such women need to be punished strongly. And guess what - many judges are already favor women and totally disregard laws and evidences and even fail to follow SC judgments as they believe she is 'abla naari'. Against Article 14, 15(1), 20, 21 of Constitution

Chirag Mehta_9
Chirag Mehta_9 8 years 5 months ago

Please make/ modify laws towards gender equality. To save families and tradition of Bharat. Otherwise it's cruising to become a western photocopy.

Er Saurabh Laroia
Er Saurabh Laroia 8 years 5 months ago

The law is already highly biased towards women.The need of hour is to make the law gender neutral. The guilty irrespective of gender should be punished for doing anything that put the future of the relationship at stake.