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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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Ajay Verma_62
Ajay Verma_62 8 years 5 months ago

CISF data reveals 95% of pickpockets caught on Delhi Metro are women

http://www.news18.com/news/india/cisf-data-reveals-95-of-pickpockets-caught-on-delhi-metro-are-women-1013339.html

Deepak Kumar_1399
Deepak Kumar_1399 8 years 5 months ago

Mr Modi..Policies can't be made without knowing ground reality. Go to courts & talk to boys there who r struck up in false 498a, DV cases, rape cases. Law treats husband just like ATM machines. Even court says that 498a is legal terrorism and today youth belief in institution of marriage has destroyed due to biased gender laws. Check reality and ur women centric policies will further ruin our lives. Number of false 498a, DV & rape cases r growing day by day. Please make gender neutral policies

Ajay Verma_62
Ajay Verma_62 8 years 5 months ago

Men are in Danger because of cunning women are killing men for taking insurance claim by makijg fake and false death certificates of their husbands to claim insurance value of the life of the husbands.

Please stop such practices in India and kindly start giving values to Men also.

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Amit Arora_30
Amit Arora_30 8 years 5 months ago

Respected Goverment india is already suffering many kind of gender bais laws which is favour only Bhau and against husbands and their familes in which that women also comes whose relate to husband . Why law obey women only bhahu . Husbands is doing sucice because there is many gender bais laws which favour wife . Husband have no entitle for their children and childrens are growing without their father. If our government want to make law they should be gender nuterly law. plz dont favr only women

Chirag Mehta_9
Chirag Mehta_9 8 years 5 months ago

Congress government was bias towards a particular caste and neglected others so this NDA government is bias towards a particular gender and neglecting others I feel they are following Congress so eventually they'll meet the same fate if they do not correct their mindset. No gender discrimination should be there.

Ajay Verma_62
Ajay Verma_62 8 years 5 months ago

Respected Prime Minister and Law Makers..

I strongly oppose the one sided laws and policies made by governments that is destroying the roots of family system of India and even killing males in India..

Please don't neglect your responsibility for Mens also..

We men have also voted for making the government of India and contributed in building the nation of India more than each woman born in India.

We work for nation and we save the nation without getting any benifits from Govt.

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SUCHITRA RAGHAVACHARI 8 years 5 months ago

Sir, all our history books & manuals praise many brave hearted women- almost all would have had an enabling childhood with parents who inculcated in them belief in the self, self respect, patience, respect & trust in peers & the sagacity to accept their limitations. We should first strengthen our grass roots system where basic health & education is provided to all girls, a committed village health worker to monitor the families. Similar protocol of child monitors should be assigned in cities too

Hussein Ali Abbaszadeh
Hussein Ali Abbaszadeh 8 years 5 months ago

Entire policy is nothing but discriminatory to the entire Male/Boy Gender. Which progressive nations talks about selective breeding, sterilization, all benefits for the growth, education and development of girls, females and women only. Are we conducting official Genocide amongst our very own people. Is this selective development not unlike Nazism of Germany. Are try to propagate that only Females/Women are the Supreme Gender who needs all the possible care, attention and resources to develop

Ajay Verma_62
Ajay Verma_62 8 years 5 months ago

Why men are always neglected by the Government and Bureaucracy for empowering them jointly with women?

Why men are becoming a forgotten gender in the eyes of all law makers and policy makers for humans?

Men are human too please dont neglect the presence of men...