Madhya Pradesh State Women’s Commission has recommended chalking out a state-level plan for women’s security. Effective implementation of this action plan will create fear-free atmosphere for women.
This was informed by Madhya Pradesh Women’s Commission’s Chairperson Upma Rai at a policy-related meeting of the commission here on Tuesday.
The meeting discussed a number of important issues and decided to send recommendations thereon. Members Vandana Mandawi, Kavita Patidar, Shashi Sinho, Jyoti Yewatikar and Member-Secretary Rama Chauhan and senior officers of various departments attended the meeting.
Under Women’s Security Plan, code of conduct will be chalked out to ensure action against highly-placed persons who pass indecent comments against women, strict implementation of cyber laws for indecent portrayal of women on internet, gender sensitization of government’s future programmes and policies, prevention of violence, formation of women’s team under community policing, enquiry into cases of domestic violence and sexual harassment, effective security and legal assistance to victim women and ensuring multi-institutional participation in women’s judicial literacy mission code programme and efforts to prevent violence against women.
In another recommendation, the commission recommended for zero tolerance in cases of violence against women, cancellation of liquor shop licence if 10 per cent women of an area complain, distance of minimum 300 metres of liquor shops from hospitals, schools, hostels and religious places, registration of name, address, mobile number of contractor hiring tribal women for labour by local police and Gram Panchayat, minimum 2 posts of delivery experts at every community health centre, action against police station in-charge if he does not act on complaints by a women to stop second marriage of her husband and inscribing dates of birth of groom and bride grooms on wedding invitation cards to check child marriage.
The commission also recommended to accord status of government employee to Anganwadi workers, fix suitable honorarium for them. It also recommended that if a girl belonging to reserved classes is married off to a groom of other state, then the state should be asked to issue caste certificate to the wife as per cast of her husband.