(a) whether National Commission for Women (NCW) has launched any new programme with a focus on various issues relating to women in rural India especially the girl child; and
(b) if so, the details thereof?
(a) whether National Commission for Women (NCW) has launched any new programme with a focus on various issues relating to women in rural India especially the girl child; and
(b) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI RENUKA CHOWDHURY)
(a)&(b) The NCW has launched a programme ‘Chalo Gaon Ki Ore’ in
Febraury, 2006 to make the rural women aware of their rights,
health problems, violence and ill-treatment meted out to them,
Government schemes for their upliftment, availability of free
legal aid, their rights in various Acts like the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act, the Right to Information Act, the Dowry
Prohibition Act and the Child Marriage Restraint Act etc.
With regard to the girl child, the NCW has informed that it
had launched a campaign ‘Bal Vivah Virodhi Abhiyan’ in 2005 with
focus on the States of Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The NCW urged the said
State Governments to take various steps to prevent child
marriages, such as: constitution of village/panchayat level
committees, civil registration of marriages where possible,
monetary incentive to parents to send their daughters to schools
instead of getting them married early. The representatives of
NCW visited these States and held discussions with Chief
Secretaries and Directors General of Police about the strategies
to be adopted to stop the menace of child marriage.